yeah, there is a lot going on for sure, everyone is bringing their own preconceived notions and hangups to it. I only really replied because 1) the comment you replied to said nothing about sports or physical activity, let alone mounting a defense of “jock culture”, so I felt it merited a reply, and 2) I felt like most people in the thread weren’t actually agreeing with “we should force kids to join sports teams” and were just going on vibes. Some are, but not everyone

idk how I feel about it. technology kinda sucks ass but you’re not wrong, there’s plenty of valuable uses for it and tons of artistic value to digital mediums.

I wish sports were less notoriously stupid, injurious, bro-y affairs when I was in school. I needed that physical activity, but everyone involved in promoting it and half the other kids who really liked sports were like the worst humans I’d ever interacted with. I don’t think that’s inherent or at all universal, but it was my experience.

edit: and yeah, mood, I’m terminally online like real bad these days, just playing through disco elysium would feel productive compared to this shit