Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Umbran]

With respect, please don't tell me what to post or not post

With respect, this thread isn't about real-gaming discussion. We should not have been carrying on like that. So, their frustration is understandable, and their request warranted.

 

[Umbran]

Rude.

Well, it wasn't exactly polite to be carrying on in what is, for this thread, and off-topic discussion.

 

[Umbran]

All threads are for memes. Nuanced discourse has no place on the Net anymore.

Every language is, itself, a set of memes.

 

[Umbran]

Fencing has drifted so far from its origins. In reality both would be dead, several times over. It's now a hopped-up game of tag.

Darn them for wanting competitors to actually survive the match! Why can't they just allow real bloodsport as the Ancients intended!?!

 

[Ryujin]

Darn them for wanting competitors to actually survive the match! Why can't they just allow real bloodsport as the Ancients intended!?!

Not a lot of people die in HEMA competition and they usually have rules about double hits. Even ACS doesn't generally end with injuries, though more than a few bells get rung.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Darn them for wanting competitors to actually survive the match! Why can't they just allow real bloodsport as the Ancients intended!?!

Yeah, I don't think anyone wants to see people getting stabbed at the olympics

 

[Umbran]

Not a lot of people die in HEMA competition and they usually have rules about double hits.

And blunted weapons...

A bit of searching finds the injury rates are quite high in HEMA competition - in a 2015 international HEMA tournament, over 5% of the participants suffered injuries that knocked them out of competition.

On the Olympic level, losing that much of the field in each round of qualifiers would be unacceptable.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Gaming story:

Sometimes I hate players.

I'd tell you to remind me to tell ya about the time a drunk lying in an alley (who was actually supposed to have been a week-old corpse) ended up becoming the Queen's Consort...

Except we don't talk about that one.

Ever.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Not a lot of people die in HEMA competition and they usually have rules about double hits. Even ACS doesn't generally end with injuries, though more than a few bells get rung.

I have zero interest in seeing that as a sport. It looks like it would quickly become dangerous if it were done on a large scale for competition. I like watching boxing but it is awful when you see someone die a fight (and it makes you not want to watch for months sometimes)

 

[Scribe]

I like watching boxing but it is awful when you see someone die a fight (and it makes you not want to watch for months sometimes)

Boxing is a weird one. Despite the potential for even greater violence in say Muay Thai, the ongoing concussive nature of Boxing, the 3 knockdown rule, the larger gloves, all combine to make for a sport that is even worse for the brain. I love all the 'combat' sports, but I think Boxing is actually the hardest to watch.