Well, I guess, but… you could argue that Zionists are mostly seen to be purely Jewish due to the nature of the movement.

You’re entirely right.

But see if the political view is only held by members or a certain religious group (even if not all members of said religion accept said political thought), it’s easy to conflate it, so that you can ban anyone opposing said political thought based on “they’re discriminating against me because of my religion”.

Fuck twitch.

I’d assume there’d be at least someone there who’s job it is to “research” things to see if they’re to be banned or not.

Like the person who would’ve had to read the Harry Potters.

Was his username Fireheart?

capitalism <3

I kinda get that they’ll do whatever than can to shut down an emulator for a console still selling

If I hadn’t downloaded Yuzu and BOTW, Nintendo would’ve probably missed out on several hundreds euros my brother spent on buying a Switch, several games, controllers and supplies, albeit some of the supplies are 3rd party so Nintendo probably didn’t make profit off them.

Piracy definitely increases sales. I would have never bought a Switch in the situation I was in some years back, but having downloaded it and gotten very into it, my brother wanted to as well and he didn’t care to pirate, and had actual uses for Switch’s properties that you don’t get on emulators, like online play and the portability of the console itself.

Okay there is a place for political jokes, and this one just really didn’t land in the right one, I think.

Well yeah, they are. Some more exerting than others. They vary from drag races to endurance ones, and some go really fast.

My point is rather that in driving, the physical exertion mostly comes from having to keep up mental focus and a static position — much like when gaming.

Oh. Well pardon my ignorance. I’m over thirty if that helps with my excuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Esports_World_Cup

You’re totally right, it’s just “Esports World Cup”

This makes me even more annoyed I didn’t get funding for an esports bar back like almost 10 years ago due to some bullshit credit thing that I had actually paid for. After that and my depression I kinda evaded the whole esports thing out of depression for a couple of years, for this exact reason. It’s one of the fastest growing industries and I couldn’t get a loan of a few thousand. Sorry for digressing.

Anyway, I apologise, you were 100% in the right. Thanks for informing me. And not even being a dick about it.

My point is that late-summer to late fall is pretty much the seasons for worlds in most esports. I don’t follow literally all of them to know which one is going on currently, so my point is that mentioning which game would probably be helpful, as not everyone is as immersed in the esports scene to outright know which game has Worlds on which weeks.

Which one? There’s pretty much world cups on most esports back-to-back from now to November, lol.

Hundreds of years ago, society was so bored

I think “thousands” would be more accurate. We only have written records going back a few thousand years, and what we’ve gathered from what went on in Göbekli Tepe and other such places, they pretty much did something just for fun as well. I think trying to chase away the feeling of being bored is a quintessential human trait. In other words, our need for novel things is what actually elevated our species to be unlike any other.

So now it’s about heartrate? Playing Mario Kart and Dark Souls can get your heartrate into the 120+ range. And that’s casual videogamers, playing simple games.

https://www.esportwissen.de/en/performance-in-esport/

During professional competitive play, heartrates go up to 180+ bpm. That’s on the level of racing car drivers. Way more than chess, archery, or shooting of any sort would ever have.

So guess the Turkish shooter doesn’t qualify for you either? Archers? Magnus Carlsen isn’t a chess professional, he’s just a really lucky dude with a lot of money for some random reason?

So it’s about the amount of physical exertion, not about it being a game?

So you can’t wrap your head around the concept of professional chess players? Professional poker players? Darts? Curling?

Hell, in rally, you just literally sit in a car. Such physical exertion! (And I’m Finnish and have been in an actual rally car, before you’re going to try and make a point about how physically demanding you think it is.)

So guess you can’t fathom professional chess players, professional race car drivers, professional footballers, professional boxers, or professional athletes of any sort for that matter?

They’re all games.

Hmm. Fair enough, fair enough.

See but the question isn’t “originated”.

It’s “popularised”.

Which Mario clearly did, outpassing both “Galaxian” and Crash in terms of popularity.

I know that Crash is bigger for you, but in the big picture, comparing Mario to Crash is like comparing Pokemon to Digimon.

https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Mario

The main core series, Super Mario, began with the platformer game Super Mario Bros. (1985) on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The main games consist of Mario trying to rescue Princess Peach from the villain Bowser and saving the Mushroom Kingdom.

As of June 2024, the Mario video game franchise has sold more than 900 million units worldwide, making it the best-selling video game franchise of all time. The main Super Mario series alone has sold more than 495 million copies worldwide.

Super Mario Bros. 1985 NES, estimated revenue $1,652,300,000

Have to scroll quite far down this list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises to find Crash.

Fair enough.

My point is that the reason you played this game so much is that it existed because of Super Mario.

Thus the answer to OP’s question in relation to this would be Super Mario Bro’s, from which Crash is derived.

So like the other person said, specific camera things in the genre, not the genre itself.

Which would be more accurate, since the genre existed for years pre-RE4