Professional Gaming And The NEET Problem - How to improve Pro Gaming

Do you watch pro gaming?

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@MrTroll did I touch a nerve?
I'm only stating what many others state here and wanted to give my personal opinion on fixing the problem.
If it wasn't a problem there wouldn't be threads on the speedrunning/pro gaming community.
Most agree that pro gaming is full of NEETs so to improve the situation, pro gaming needs to get rid of the NEETs.
 
Call me a neet to my face nigger
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Chocolate Wombat said:
The NEETs would still be unemployed, in a basement somewhere obsessing over Smash Bros and fapping to their OC Sonic character regardless of whether or not they participated in gaming professionally. That's kind of what they do. If you really want to clean up pro gaming then make a shower/clean clothes requirement as the most autistic ones will run screaming from the idea that they have to stop fapping or playing games long enough to at least bathe themselves.
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Yes they would. But I'd prefer that then them participating.
You have some nice well adjusted people, and then you have these lot.
Brings them all down, as shown on this site.

So to improve the image of pro gaming, we get rid of the NEETs and the lolcows.
Maybe then it could have a bit of respectability.
 
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PrimoVitorio said:
Yes they would. But I'd prefer that then them participating.
You have some nice well adjusted people, and then you have these lot.
Brings them all down, as shown on this site.

So to improve the image of pro gaming, we get rid of the NEETs and the lolcows.
Maybe then it could have a bit of respectability.
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The only thing about esports that is even remotely interesting to me are the lolcows it attracts but I get that's not the same for everyone. Regulations to try and encourage people to have a real life outside the game won't solve anything and would be incredibly unpopular. Like others have said, people who can make a sustainable living playing video games professionally can't really be called NEETs even if they possess other characteristics normally seen in the more autistic community members.

Tabletop games have had the same problem forever, every game/comic shop I've frequented has the requisite number of spergs who are generally just a chore to be around. Eventually you learn to just kind of tune them out and have fun with people you actually like spending time with.
 
Chocolate Wombat said:
The only thing about esports that is even remotely interesting to me are the lolcows it attracts but I get that's not the same for everyone. Regulations to try and encourage people to have a real life outside the game won't solve anything and would be incredibly unpopular. Like others have said, people who can make a sustainable living playing video games professionally can't really be called NEETs even if they possess other characteristics normally seen in the more autistic community members.

Tabletop games have had the same problem forever, every game/comic shop I've frequented has the requisite number of spergs who are generally just a chore to be around. Eventually you learn to just kind of tune them out and have fun with people you actually like spending time with.
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I mean, most of the site agrees pro gaming is dumb and full of loser NEETs, I'm rather trying to ask what people would improve so pro gaming spheres get less lolcows.
It isn't fun for the people who are interested when you have NEETs or lolcows going at it having autistic meltdowns.
 
GHTD said:
He sounds like Chris if the IQ was dialed down 40 points.
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I'm pretty sure that having an IQ score that low will render him unable to articulate his thoughts... Or play competitively in Smash, for that matter.
 
PrimoVitorio said:
I mean, most of the site agrees pro gaming is dumb and full of loser NEETs, I'm rather trying to ask what people would improve so pro gaming spheres get less lolcows.
It isn't fun for the people who are interested when you have NEETs or lolcows going at it having autistic meltdowns.
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If you're genuinely interested in trying to weed out the lolcows then you'd probably want to take a look at the code of conduct rules for each tournament, coordinate with other like-minded participants and give feedback to the event organizers. If you could get a large enough group of e-sports people to basically say they won't play with autists (without actually saying that) then you might be able to leverage them into changing stuff. This would be especially effective if any female competitors are being creeped on, or even just creeped out, by the weirdos you're wanting removed.

The problem is getting a disparate group of people to all agree that this is something that needs to be done and that they need to work together to force the change. More than likely this will backfire and turn into some kind of witch hunt where no one ends up happy and everyone is pissed at someone. That's the risk you take when you take a more or less open contest and start adding even more arbitrary rules designed just to exclude a group of people who otherwise have just as much of a right to be there as you do (even if they are maladjusted and smelly).
 
PrimoVitorio said:
So to fix the problem, you need to make sure regulations stop NEETs.
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and how exactly are you going to "stop NEETs" lol
the defining characteristic of a NEET is that he isn't doing anything, so there's nothing for you to stop.
if you want to end their NEET status you'd either have to fix the underlying social problems that drove them to become NEET in the first place (basically impossible) or you'd have to conscript them into some kind of forced labor program (not feasible within the framework of modern society)
 
DumbDude42 said:
and how exactly are you going to "stop NEETs" lol
the defining characteristic of a NEET is that he isn't doing anything, so there's nothing for you to stop.
if you want to end their NEET status you'd either have to fix the underlying social problems that drove them to become NEET in the first place (basically impossible) or you'd have to conscript them into some kind of forced labor program by force (not feasible within the framework of modern society)
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By bringing this back.

PrimoVitorio said:
There's a difference?
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One is charismatic enough to rake in the views and is skilled enough to master any online game that comes out.

The other is content to skipping showers to perfect their craft on an old game that's on the verge of being shut down.
 
DumbDude42 said:
>intentionally conscripting low iq retards as cannon fodder

this would mainly result in a bunch of nigs and spics being taken off the streets and into the army. it wouldn't much impact the population of basement dwellers playing video games all day.
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The military is already designing some of their hardware to look like a video game controller.

 
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