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Mixed on football, but what really pisses me off is when I’m being critical of it and I get a bunch of “🤓 ummm football is actually one of the most complex sports in existence and you’re showing your ignorance. There’s nothing that comes close to such intellectual prowess”
Godamn I really need to move to China, maybe AI will make the language barrier easier to work through
It's so complicated that a four hour long game broadcast only features ~ ten minutes of actual play.
Hey its literaly exactly like chess realy, you're just big dumb for not realizing it yet, it only takes about 1s to move a piece, if each player does 40 moves that is just barely 2 minutes of action in a 3 hour match, perfectly normal cool and good, the real battle happens in their minds not on the board.
That's why I only watch chess-boxing, which to my knowledge has only ended in checkmate a handful of times because it's usually resolved in the ring.
They also like sports in China. You're gonna find weird superiority-compexed nerds everywhere frankly.
It’ll probably never happen tbh and sports are good, American pro sports are not
Fair. You should try to go. It's a good place.
I really want to but I’m kinda worried about how I’ll be judged by the people in my life. Pretty sure they see China on the same level as North Korea 😵💫
Subtlety hint to them that they need to pretend China is amazing or else they'll lower your social credit score
Just say it's intrepid investigation
What's wrong with baseball and basketball?
It’s the institutional aspect imo
Would be a lot better if billionaires didn’t own the teams and players
It's the most boing football code in the world.
Boing
Boeing
And then football itself is just "bunch of big guys do a running hug so hard they all get brain damage, this goes on for 15 seconds and then there's a half hour commercial break. This continues off and on for 5 hours."
I've been watching for 25yrs. The rules are crazy complex and more complex than chess or any other sport. Complex rules don't make for a smarter game though. Now the rules are getting more complex in the name of player safety.
Smartest sport is definitely Chess Boxing