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It really shook me. I started watching his videos and streams when I was 14. Gaming content as we know it was just getting started, and I’m pretty sure he started streaming on justin.tv before it became twitch. It felt like I was part of some new and exciting world, right on the cutting edge.

8 years later, I was 22 and he was dead at 34. There had been a couple kids in my grade that died growing up, but I had never truly been confronted by human mortality and how unfair it could be. It would only be a slight exaggeration to say I listened to him talk every day for over a third of my life. I knew it was coming eventually, but when I saw the news I was truly devastated.

Parasocial relationships are crazy. I was so young (and therefore broke) that I never got to meet him, but his death hit me harder than not only that of a couple pets, but also my great grandmother. In a way it makes sense, I literally “spent more time” with him than almost anyone else in the world. That may still be true even today. I don’t regret a minute.

I see, I do agree that players are overpaid relative to people who do more useful things for society, but I don’t think the situation is really any worse than other big entertainment industries. I have no issue with anyone that pirates anything, the people at the top of any industry already make more money than they need.

What is the point of this comment? What “cause” do you think I have? My point is simply that sports are a form of entertainment like any other. There is expression, there is drama, there is tension, etc. Those who look down on people who enjoy watching sports are at best immature, and likely to be hypocrites as well.

Edit: To address #3, I have been watching sports for 25 years and the growing focus on drama is actually part of why I watch sports much less now than I used to. You can see it when discussion about a game starts on the topic of x participant wanting to get revenge on y participant rather than anything involving strategy. You can see it when every Chiefs broadcast mentions Taylor Swift multiple times. You can see it when guys like Pat McAfee and Stephen A Smith get paid the big bucks to talk about sports rather than people with a deeper understanding of the game. As this shift has happened, sports have only gotten more popular and more profitable. I don’t think less of anyone who enjoys the above things, it is just not for me.

Forgive me for not having a source for my comment on an internet forum, the growing focus on drama is a common gripe of sports fans on reddit so from my perspective it is more of a fact of life than a contested claim.

I get that, but shouldn’t it be possible then to target that kind of behavior specifically rather than all smoking? Rather than banning smoking on x beach or in y park, they could ban smoking within x meters of a minor or non consenting adult. It would be more complicated but also more fair.

Ultimately I don’t know what all of the problems with that approach would be, but it would make more sense to me.

I guess, but at the highest level it is a well paying job. You wouldn’t say that actors show up to work to prove that they’re the best. They’re doing something they are good at and getting paid for their time, and so are high level athletes. They’re both part of productions that entertain people. Yes, sports are a competition, but by and large people are watching for the drama.

Yes, secondhand smoke is bad. But we are talking about outdoor environments where it should usually be possible for smokers to keep their distance.

As for vaping, it hasn’t really been around long enough yet to know for sure what the health risks are regarding the secondhand aerosol exposure, but there is reason to be concerned. It is almost certainly not as bad as secondhand smoke, but there are still risks.

This comment section is a disaster, just as bad as reddit. Comments of no substance on the side of popular opinion get upvotes, and waves of downvotes come for anyone who disagrees even a little, and even if they do it in a reasonable way.

I’m mildly asthmatic so I don’t smoke, vape, etc. I have tried a few times and it is simply too much for my lungs to cope with. I still think banning people from smoking in public parks or on beaches is a bit much, and not doing the same with vaping seems like a strange double standard. I had a college roommate who both vaped and smoked, and the vaping bothered me more. I still put up with it.

Hopefully enforcement is reasonable - respectful smokers who deliberately try to keep their distance should be allowed to enjoy themselves, but I understand prosecuting(?) those who show no care and smoke right next to nonsmokers.

Ling tosite sigure, Asian Kung Fu Generation, Kendrick Lamar, and Kid Cudi.

Would love to get some electronic music represented in there but I can’t think of any one artist whose music I really love. Maybe Blue Sky Black Death or M83.

Absolutely, just saying they are still important to work on for people who can, even if you are more likely to be complimented on arms, abs, etc.

Strengthen your legs for yourself, not anyone else

You mean the onions I bought aren’t actually onions??

A. Dead within a day unless helped by a stranger

B. Probably still dead soon but at least I have clothes, I normally carry nothing of use

C. There is a chance I live long enough to learn how to survive with knives, a handgun, and some amount of food and drink. If I get the tools from my garage I guess I can build a makeshift shelter. Probably still a betting favorite to die within a week unless I can find and somehow ingratiate myself to some locals by giving them cool stuff.