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I don't want to sound overly critical of your explanations but you seem to ignore the most important difference: We play soccer with our entire bodies, muscles
by glofish 7y ago
I don't want to sound overly critical of your explanations but you seem to ignore the most important difference:
We play soccer with our entire bodies, muscles, heart, legs, lungs get a workout. Not to insult the players but mind and thought processes are somewhat secondary, it is about the "lizard brain": attack and defend with instincts and reflexes.
When you play checkers it is your mind that gets a workout. It is the intellect that gets a workout. The exact opposite of the soccer.
There are almost no similarities between the two! Making it into a physics simulator does not make it a physical excercise...
- abj 7y agoThat's a great point! There's no workout/lizard brain attack defense component. It's also missing a physical exercise component. You're right that does seem like a huge part of the appeal. I'm wondering what I could do to add that appeal. Beat Saber seems to handle the workout component slightly. What about a VR version where cards come flying at you and you have to dodge them/block them? That might wake up the lizard/attack/defense part of the brain. That actually sounds pretty fun. I don't think it was overly critical at all and appreciate the response!
- robocat 7y ago> It is the intellect that gets a workout. The exact opposite of the soccer. I think you deeply underestimate how much thought and intellect go into playing soccer. It is a game, and applying intelligence to it is necessary to be good at it. Disclaimer: I don't like football (US: soccer), but I know very smart people that play.
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