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Penny Arcade - Comic - NFL DLC
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Penny Arcade - Comic - NFL DLC
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Also all the stoppages for reviews and penalties and shit really make it harder to keep my attention
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The NFL itself has been on a downward ratings trajectory for the last several years. There are many contributing factors, including but not limited to:
The injury/CTE factor. When players suffer horrendous injuries every year (including Ryan Shazier paralyzing himself a few weeks ago), and former players dying young (suicide, or other health complications), it makes it far more uncomfortable to watch.
Lowered Pop Warner/child engagement in the sport stemming from parents concerned about the above.
The dominance of one particular team for nearly 20 years (New England Patriots).
Overly long games with shitty rules and officiating.
Too many games spread throughout the week (Sunday, Monday, and Thursday), often with bad/boring matchups.
People upset at the league because of stupid racist shit.
Other forms of far less violent on-demand entertainment at our fingertips (which is where video games and Twitch comes in).
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The advent of Twitch, and the decline of traditional sports, is really just another symptom of living in an always connected society. We don't need to literally beat each other over the heads for sport, or watch it for entertainment, just like we don't need to set aside a specific datetime to consume particular media, or need to buy disposable papers for news.
And, really, video games - and their viewership - make a ton of sense as the next big thing because they're accessible. You don't need to be 6'4, 225 lbs. of muscle to partake (or, shit, even not-disabled (see: halfcoordinated, me, a bunch of other disabled gamers)), and there's no subjective officiating (was that a catch? or a penalty?). Games are innately egalitarian and understandable, with rules that are largely defined by the game design itself.
But here's my theory. This is what a sport is to me: let's have the ten adult men from our village race each other so we can find out who is the fastest. If we already knew the fastest there'd be no point. But as was discussed in the last comic's thread, NFL is not about two towns seeing who has the better football players in them, since the players are handpicked from across the country to be the best.
Football games start with us knowing all the stats of the players involved, stats which essentially determine the outcome of the game. Of course there's variation, but when you get enough players to choose from and enough games played that variation levels out. Any Fantasy player will tell you that player stats essentially tell you what will happen, and most major shakeups come from misplays--like forgetting to shoot with a squad in a table game. A team's strength is basically decided at the draft.
Of course none of what I just said is really true, but I can't get that thinking out of my brain. It looks to me like playing Warhammer with each side having a different points value (the amount that club can afford to spend on salaries) and less variation in unit types since each team has to field the same positions.
I guess I just feel like grabbing together the best of the best from around the country defeats the actual competitive side since everyone already knows exactly (to a number) how good every player is at every thing, knowledge gathered by a huge dataset that removes any real surprises.
Also maybe if they didn't stop playing every two minutes it would help.
For me ... I see people get depressed when their team loses. Almost got into it myself ... then I thought, "WTF am I doing?". Why create this unnecessary emotional attachment (to something that's completely out of my control at that) to get bumped out about?
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Seems legit.
I would buy this in a heartbeat.
Hopefully the new Mutant League Football is good... or maybe someone will revive the Blitz: The League IP. Been far too long since we've had any good arcadey football games.
My first thought is that whoever has Tidus has a serious advantage, but then there's Jecht.