This could belong in Cafe Society or The Game Room (it’s an online writing/post/article/story mixing sports and science fiction and general weirdness); I guessed MPSIMS since I wasn’t sure. Wherever it belongs, it’s pure gold. From the creator of Breaking Madden.
Never mind, didn’t notice chapters 2+
Sorry you didn’t enjoy it… hopefully others with some time to kill will read through at least the first episode. It’s one of those weird, long meta-sort-of humor pieces that some people (including me) absolutely adore, but I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
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Are you sure that link is safe? My computer just went whack! :eek:
It’s safe for me, at least – sbnation.com is a pretty big sports website.
wow
Is that a good wow?
Even scarier, it looks like the future of mindfuck internet shit.
Well, yeah. A weird-good wow.
That was freaky. Satellites and tornado football, whuuuut?
Guess I better get back to work now.
My iPad went crazy with that link.
The website article could be more annoying with the spinning text and calendar entry bullshit, but I’m not sure how.
Is there a Cliff’s, or preferably, a raw text version of whatever it is the author was trying to convey?
Grunch: The future of American football is a poor one, as soon as a good in vivo test exists for documenting the start of CTE in Pop Warner and High School Football participants.
I think it’ll be at the college level that will be the decline , which will then affect the pros. Yes, football is a huge cash cow for a few universities. But, there’s a chance for massive lawsuits. Not only do you have the usual risk of lawsuits due to concussions and injuries, there’s also a risk of future lawsuits from NFL prospects who get injured in college.
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You know, it’s about fucking time.
We’ve had the Internet for, depending on how you count and what you count, going on a half-century now. We’ve had email and various discussion fora for four decades or so. And we’ve had the Web in specific for a quarter-century It’s about time we had more fiction take advantage of the form of software and the Internet in specific. I’ve seen other formal experiments something like this, but not very many. Mostly, “taking advantage of the Web” means creating some collection of hypertext, or a bunch of static or mostly-static web pages which link to each other. Not really hugely novel.
(Rant: Even webcomics are mostly still just traditional comics on the web, things which could appear in print but don’t, even to the point of aping conventions originally forced on comic creators by impecunious newspaper publishers, such as having special Sunday strips outside of the main continuity, as if their webcomic were being run by papers which may or may not run the Sunday strips, and damn if I don’t see Sunday webcomics with throw-away panels in the top row, as if they were being run by newspapers which might behead them to save space. I can think of a few exceptions, such as “Argon Zark” and “Kid Radd”, which do take advantage of the freedom and technology, but they’re few and far between.)
This integration of video and images and long, infinite scrolls to help pace the experience spatially and not just chronologically is something you physically cannot do in any other medium. It’s novel, like how aldines were novel when Aldus Manutius invented the portable, personal book in 1494 Venice. New technology leading to new art.
Well, see, I have this problem in that the first time I went to the link, I got a bizarre animated graphic that morphed into the 1776 menu, eventually. I cannot reproduce that, now I just get the 1776 page, which doesn’t look any more exciting than any other clickbait. So I don’t really know what the fuck Im talking about, because I don;t know what anybody else is seeing when they approach the link. And therein lies the foundation of my original comment. The internet has ceased to be something you can “go to” with an expectation of a predictable result. Like going to a hardware store and buying a box with with the word “tool” on it, and taking it home, and walking around the house looking for something you can use it for.
Back to football, yes we are seeing a decline especially at the youth levels. My sons league actually folded in 2 years ago. Many high schools are not seeing as many kids going out.
I think the thing is, whats the point? Being a “jock” just isnt as big a thing anymore in high schools. At my sons school I’d bet maybe only 25% of the kids go to football games. Also whats the point of putting so much effort into a sport that you mind wind up injured with little hope of a college scholarship. So with that whats the point of a high school putting so much effort and money into the football team?
Plus add in high school sports in general are changing so the top kids in sports like baseball, basketball, and soccer dont play for their schools anymore - they play just on club and travel teams.
I predict in about 20 years high schools will drop football as a school sport. It will only be played in clubs.
It was supposed to. (I read it fine on my iPad, but I thought something had gone wrong with the beginning, as the link was not at all what I was expecting.) Pretty neat method of storytelling. I like this kind of stuff.
I think I liked it better when “storytelling” occurred only when you started out with the intention of being told a story. Like fiction all being on library shelves marked “Fiction”. But we’ve had several decades of that old stuff, its time for a change.
Not a change. Just another medium.