Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

Post by pfortuny » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 10:55 AM UTC

eckesicle wrote: post #271

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People have been doing that in football in Europe forever. I remember a number of old world cup games completely ruined by people running the clock.

In the Euro 2004, Denmark and Sweden would both go on to qualify at Italy's expense if the result of the game was 2-2. Of course, the score ended up being just that towards the end of the game, and then the players on both teams just stood still and passed the ball between themselves running down the last 8 minutes or so of the clock. https://youtu.be/9kgJNL_uuHI

Post by ekianjo » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 11:04 AM UTC

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> Of all the forms of immortality, my favorite is participating in a competition in such a brilliant, incorrect way that a rule is permanently added just for you. That's precisely why car races are boring these days. Everything is forbidden and over-regulated so there's no space for innovation anymore. Look at F1 and its bloat of regulations.

But in F1 it's exciting because you never know what rules they are gonna enforce this time and for whom. /s Edit: on a more serious note: The regulations are so tight to keep it exciting. Frustratingly, if the regulations are more open, one of the better funded teams will just run away with the best car. That already happened in some seasons, but would be even worse without tight regulations.

Post by temphypercube » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 11:08 AM UTC

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I can agree that multiplayer isn't forever but all of the longest lasting games are multiplayer and thriving, most because of the competition. WoW, CSGO (very competitive, ~1 million players daily), LoL (competitive).

That has little to do with fun, and everything to do with recurring revenue . Multiplayer aligns itself nicely with subscriptions, in a way singleplayer doesn't. Don't know about current state of WoW, but the other two games you mention, and games like Overwatch or even StarCraft 2, are hollowed out and devoid of substance, because the competitive multiplayer makes everyone focused on meta.

Post by anonymous_sorry » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 11:28 AM UTC

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> Of all the forms of immortality, my favorite is participating in a competition in such a brilliant, incorrect way that a rule is permanently added just for you. That's precisely why car races are boring these days. Everything is forbidden and over-regulated so there's no space for innovation anymore. Look at F1 and its bloat of regulations.

Motorsports are different than other sports because the drivers' lives are under very real risk. A lot of the regulation is to keep the drivers alive. It comes at the expense of excitement but we would all agree it's necessary.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 01, 2022, 11:33 AM UTC

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Reminds me of another example of video-game inspired tactics: Just before he reached the end zone, with 17 seconds remaining, Stokley cut right at 90 degrees and ran across the field. Six seconds drained off the clock before, at last, he meandered across the goal line to score the winning touchdown. For certain football fans, the excitement of a last-minute comeback now commingled with the shock of the familiar: It's…

This is really interesting. The incentive to pull off this kind of move, running the clock down a bit, that was already present. But there's a certain social expectation that you won't game the rules so blatantly, so that's a disincentive. What the existence of video games does, is allow people to do things like this in an environment where social expectations and pressure don't really exist. It's like a psychologica…