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Dude's got a point though. Y'all do make a super big deal about grown-ass adults playing a children's game.
You sure you have an issue with adults playing childrens games?
touché
Would you like to make a big deal out of me playing children's games? Perhaps you'd like to place a bet on the Maximals winning this week. Lord help you if you're wrong and have to show your face at work tomorrow. Don't forget to wear your Maximals t-shirt while my play session is televised. I've sunk billions of dollars into my toys. I only hire the most competent friends to come over and play with me. I apologize if I make a mistake and ruin your entire day.
I have no problem with adults playing with toys or kids games. In my opinion do what makes you happy and be happy as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
I'm just pointing out that you are an unserious hypocrite.
No idea what a maximal is and frankly don't care.
Cutting all the snarkiness: I also have zero issue with adults playing kids games. My point was about the insane proportions to which professional sports are blown.
I also want to add that when you disagree with someone, going into their post history to find some personal attack to make against them is both lousy strategy and douchey. Even if I am a hypocrite, your goal should be to attack my opinion, not me.
And yes, I am also a douche for criticizing how people spend their spare time.
Using someone's past to show they’re a hypocrite isn't wrong—it's just called accountability, which clearly you aren't used to. It’s kinda hilarious you actually typed that out, looked at it, and still hit send. 🤣 At least we can agree on one thing: you are definitely a douche.
Roll out now Hypocriticus Prime, you ain't worth typing any further 🫳🎤
It is neither lousy nor douchey to use someone's public words against them.
Right. But if you use someone's public words against them to try to win an argument, they should be somehow related to the subject at hand.
I know y'all think I said adults shouldn't play children's games, but I super, duper did not.
As much of a point as the US president ordering FIFA to overturn a red card?
~~With how popular US high school sports are (literally kids playing games), I don't think that's as good of an argument as you think it is.~~
I've got the reading comprehension of a twelve year old, lol. I think that was the point you were making too.....
Uhh, adults playing sports in the US are pretty popular too! (totally saved it)
Before world cup:
"We don't even care about soccer"
During:
"USA is the best soccer playing nation. Look at how scared everyone is. LMAO"
After losing despite cheating:
"We don't even care about soccer and look at our orphan crushing machine, do you even have one?"
What sore loser mentality.
I think you misinterpret the tweet then. Such childish behaviour as "We hAvE aIrCraft CarrIEr nUhUh" doesn't exactly say "we don't care." It just screams "I am a sore loser." I absolutely agree with the rest of your statement, though. It is wild to me how many people care about a bunch of millionaires running after a ball. Or running circles. Or driving cars. Or hitting balls across a net. Or throwing a ball. Etc. It is absolutely fine to enjoy doing those things, but the whole show and dance around it is just ridiculous.
I take it back. I did misinterpret the tweet a little bit. Dude CLEARLY makes a big deal out of grown-ups playing children's games.
No problem fam, we all mess up from time to time!
I interpreted it just fine. And you interpreted me just fine. Apparently a rare skill indeed.
What even is a children's game? A game that can be played by children? That's almost every game, even games with pointy or heavy things have child-safe versions
Its just a cultural thing. In the US, children play just about every sport, but once kids get to high school, soccer falls off the map and everyone migrates over to American football and basketball. I think they just mean that generally speaking only children play soccer in the US. It's of course not true, there are high school teams and lots of tech leagues, but it is true that hardly anyone who is not a child plays in the US.
Oooooh, it's an american chauvinism thing
No, it's an, Americans don't like soccer all that much thing.
I don't like cricket either, but you won't catch me getting all of India upset by shitting on it.
I really have no idea who Ed K is in the post but he doesn't speak for all americans, and he is probably MAG so he probably shits on everything.
For the record I think it's fun to play. I dont particularly like watching it but then again I find watching most sports boring.
It's only a children's game in the US.
I think its that all sports are ultimately inconsequential entertainment people get way too serious about.
Unlike war profiteering, which is a very important contribution.
People should be proud of how many children the can kill directly and indirectly through military action, proxy wars, and allocation of lifesaving funds to the military industrial complex.
Wow, talk about non sequitur. Yes, war profiteering is far more consequential than sports. No shit.
They're not children's games, because we have entire professional leagues of adults being paid to play.
I'm not even a sports fan, I just don't purposely avoid trying to understand things so I can feel superior to people who do.
Phil gets it.
All games are children's games. People use "growing up" as a reason to quit when in reality we get too old to play to win.
Dude would have a point if they would not "counteract" grown-ass adults playing a children's game with an even worse case of it.