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(Fak)e-sports are not sports, and should not be treated as such. (But then, I don't consider real life NASCAR to be a sport either, so... *shrug*)
That said, dude was getting paid to play a video game (as asinine as that is), and then he stopped playing that video game, therefore he shouldn't be paid anymore. Though I guess it was more the fact that he was continuing to be an asshole after the fact that lost him his sponsor?
Story found via Penny Arcade.
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Outside of maybe Gran Turismo (and that only because it came with my PS2), the only racing games I've played have been stuff like Burnout or Mario Kart or RC Pro AM (or Outrun and Hang-on in Yakuza 0).
Oh, wait, no, I did play a "real" NASCAR game at one point in my youth. The vast majority of the time spent playing this game was used to turn around and drive in the wrong direction, because the game had "realistic" (i.e. not at all realistic, in any way shape or form) car damage, and it was fun to watch parts fly when I'd intentionally have head-on collisions with the on-coming NPC racers. This guy here knows what I'm talking about.
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Hard Drivin' was pretty fun in the arcade for its time, too.
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And this whole thing is yet another example of why I think some schmo running a company's Twitter account pretending like they are THE disembodied personification of that company as a whole is pretty damned asinine, as well. It's just some asshole on Twitter, little different than every other asshole on Twitter.
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Also, this reminds me once again why I avoid the <can't think of anything bad enough that isn't more of an insult to that thing to compare it to Twitter than it is an insult to Twitter> that is Twitter.
Wait, wait I got one: Also, this reminds me once again why I avoid the Donald Trump that is Twitter.
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That said, dude was getting paid to play a video game (as asinine as that is), and then he stopped playing that video game, therefore he shouldn't be paid anymore. Though I guess it was more the fact that he was continuing to be an asshole after the fact that lost him his sponsor?
Story found via Penny Arcade.
(EDIT)
Outside of maybe Gran Turismo (and that only because it came with my PS2), the only racing games I've played have been stuff like Burnout or Mario Kart or RC Pro AM (or Outrun and Hang-on in Yakuza 0).
Oh, wait, no, I did play a "real" NASCAR game at one point in my youth. The vast majority of the time spent playing this game was used to turn around and drive in the wrong direction, because the game had "realistic" (i.e. not at all realistic, in any way shape or form) car damage, and it was fun to watch parts fly when I'd intentionally have head-on collisions with the on-coming NPC racers. This guy here knows what I'm talking about.
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Hard Drivin' was pretty fun in the arcade for its time, too.
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And this whole thing is yet another example of why I think some schmo running a company's Twitter account pretending like they are THE disembodied personification of that company as a whole is pretty damned asinine, as well. It's just some asshole on Twitter, little different than every other asshole on Twitter.
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Also, this reminds me once again why I avoid the <can't think of anything bad enough that isn't more of an insult to that thing to compare it to Twitter than it is an insult to Twitter> that is Twitter.
Wait, wait I got one: Also, this reminds me once again why I avoid the Donald Trump that is Twitter.
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