The rules are quite loose? Why else would they have eagle eyed officials watching closely to disqualify athletes for infractions.

Games can absolutely be played asynchronously. Games can have scoring systems instead of head-to-head.

Would you say pinball is not a game?

I didn’t think I needed to get out the dictionary definition of game, but I hope this clears it up… Definitions from Oxford Languages: “noun, a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.”

Why track and field events not games? They have rules, can be won or lost, and can be played casually if you think that is a requirment.

Take shot put, hammer throw, and javelin, for example. The game is who can throw the object in a certain way the furtherest. I could play a shot put game with some friends at a river bank by drawing a line in the sand and seeing who can huck the heaviest rock on the shore the furthest.

There’s a reason they call them Olympic Games.

Really any activity with some structure is a game if it is play and not “real”, even better if it can help practice a skill useful in life. There is a difference between a running race (a game) and running for your life from a bear (not a game). Between MMA and a street fight. Between war games and a shooting war.

I wish I read this comment before wasting my two minutes as well…

If your game doesn’t involve traveling above 100mph and pulling more than 2g it’s not a sport 😤

What athletic competition would not be a game if all sports are games? I mean, honestly, what is the difference you see between “sport” and “athletic competition”?

You can extend or contract “game” as much as you want, but I can’t think of a definition of game that would encompass all sports but not all athletic competitions (if there really is a difference).

I had scanned through it, and it looked like the exact same stuff that Google and Microsoft say. Paraphrasing: “we value your privacy” “we’re de-identifying your data” “the processing occurs on-device”…

Apple probably is better on privacy than other big tech corpos, but it’s a race to the bottom, and they’re definitely participating in the race.

Apple is the best on privacy though right?

James Webb didn’t do shit. The man is dead.

That link is just awful. Very difficult to tell where events are or how big they will be.

It’s definitely highly edited. It probably isn’t AI, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the editing was heavily AI assisted. I found the original source on reddit itookapicture 1 year ago, which isn’t 100% evidence, but AI was way worse then and it doesn’t have any of the telltale AI signs.

back during covid

Few people mean this literally. We all know covid is still around and will be quite possibly forever. What it means, depending on context is “during covid lockdowns” or “during covid restrictions” or really just 2020.

It’s not a pandemic anymore, it’s endemic now. Get both your shots every year now. Covid isn’t the new flu, it’s flu’s new buddy.

It seems like they’re planning to have it effective for 1-2 years and it takes about 30 days to become effective. That’s not great if you need an annual injection of this stuff or if you don’t know exactly when it stops being effective.

I think it would need to be more in line with IUD timeliness, which I think range from 5-10 years depending on the type.

Same with Deftones.

I see drake: I downvote. Simple as.

The failing was decades and centuries ago that led to this. Power has been consolidating in the presidency since the constitution was signed as the legislature and courts are happy to give more and more of their power over to the executive.

We’ve only been protected by being lucky having presidents and their staff with genuine care for the intent of the constitution.

This was only a matter of time. It wasn’t our fault. This is America.

Thanks for braving the cesspool. It’s like those heros who bring back the gold flakes from shit pile that is 4chan.

Why would an optional feature be a deal breaker?

It also seems like an issue that could be easily solved by whitelisting.

The man wants to make deals, right, so make a deal. (warning I’m an American and know just enough about Canadian government to be dangerous)

“Join” the United States of America under these conditions:

• Mexico can join too if they want
• Each Province or State of joining countries becomes a State
• The Constitutions of all countries apply only to the States it previously applied to while a new Constitution is written
• The rules of the Constitutional Convention must be agreed to by both a majority of the joining States and 2/3 of all States

Please make this deal. Our governments are all too old to work great in this age but maybe we can forge a new design fit for the 2000s if we erase most of it and start fresh.