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@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick Dangerous yes, but I hope he see the merit that it has in certain situations. God bless him for how he approached the Uraraka fight. That match was a crowning moment for both characters.
elrapido5150 Oh yeah. It’s honestly very noble of him to recognize the capabilities of all his opponents regardless of prior assumptions, and Eraserhead even points out that it’s the rest of the crowd who’s being disrespectful for chastising him for doing so. I’m actually referring to how his perspectives on heroism are revealed to be regressive, and problematic in nature. For instance, how he perceives combative superiority as a hero’s greatest priority, or how he believes that some people have inherent greatness and that it’s impossible for people to rise above their lot in life in terms of quirks.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick Yup, I'm glad he's learning what it means to be a hero. And I just finished reading the latest chapter, and am happy to see that his views on victory have definitely not changed.
In Goblet of Fire, the Qudditch World Cup at the beginning of the story, Ireland faced Bulgaria. Ireland beasted on Bulgaria so freakin' hard, that Bulgaria getting the Golden Snitch meant nothing, because Ireland had more points.
The implication seemed to be that at the pro level the snitch didn't matter as much, and the games we see these high school kids play actually kind of suck. Of course, it's really a narrative device to make the games all about Harry and Draco and avoid describing what ten other characters are doing all the time.
The concept of the snitch makes every player that’s not the seeker almost worthless. Team 1 can just get off their brooms and fucking take a nap on the pitch while Team 2 scores over and over and STILL win if Team 1’s Seeker gets the snitch before Team 2 scores 15 or more goals. It’s fucking nonsense.
@@DoctaDaKing you realize that you're answering to someone saying that the in fourth match you get getting the snitch actually made that team lose, right?
Es lo que hay Of course I do. I did say the that the regular players were “almost” worthless. Like the World Cup, there’s gonna be some abnormalities, but most of the time the snitch is the only thing that decides anything.
I think the rule with the Golden Snitch is to make the game a test of endurance. If I remember correctly, there was one game that went on for several days. At that point, most people would probably get the Snitch just to make the game end.
Pat's last comment... I agree with that whole-heartedly. "Taking them seriously means crushing them into dirt." This is exactly how most of us played NBA Jam and Blitz back in the day.
Flood, the, Stadium! Flood, the, Stadium! I want my naval battle re-enactments, dammit! We can solve boring sports, grab the historical crowd, and satisfy the psychopaths of the world!
Nobody Special then how about the kids that got their degrees but barely passed have to defend their degrees from kids from other districts who can steel them by winning the fight
I actually audibly cheered when i saw this title. That says so much about me. I remember there was one game in particular at my highschool that people would get injured so consistently in the kids started calling it a bloodsport unironically. It's called Gaga Ball for anyone interested.
You're talking about a guy who said he'd transplant his consciousness into a toilet so he could be immortal and thought that if he air dried dishes, they would get infected with AIDS.
Quidditch is basically a Game where; take any kind of sporting match in your brain and have that going on, and while it’s going on, there are 2 Drunk Guys fighting, each representing a different team, and who ever wins that fight; their team also wins.
Baseball needs to take a page out of the Blernsball rule book, where there's a tiny hole in the outfield wall that will make you instantly win if you can bat a ball into it
Instant win is going to far. It just locks multiballs that are later shot out simultaneously while someone does a home run on a motorcycle. And then of course they release the giant spider from the bullpen.
And Tyson Fury is a fucking inspiration. Coming back from drugs and alcohol abuse, being over 300 pounds and got up from one of the most devastating knockdown I have ever seen. And they declare the fight a draw despite him outboxing wilder 10 out of 12 rounds
Nate Tuimaseve I don't know what it is in MK. But in real life it consists of like 15 minutes boxing, then 15 minutes of playing chess, then boxing again etc. Whoever gets K.O.ed or Checkmated first looses.
Boxing is also super corrupt so not only can the matches suck, they can be rigged from the start. That's what I've been hearing about the Tyson Fury match.
I think in one of my history classes, I learned that ancient wars often had assholes just stand far enough away to not get involved, but close enough to watch it. Bring back that sport. It seemed like it could be fun and have plenty of room for promotional events to get people drinking Mountain Dew and eating Doritos.
Officers in the British army would bring their wives and friends to the battlefield, and they would just sit and drink champagne as they watched hundreds of men die through their binoculars.
@@ShieldedToad That sounds fucked up, but also sounds realistic. I dunno. Maybe it's just me, but I'd want advertisements for battles and see if people get unironically hyped. "SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Watch these soldiers try their best to survive. Come for the dismemberment, stay for the hot dogs."
At pat I think the game you are considering is the game where a high school coach had his special needs team bull rush an opposing special needs team. It was apperantly very hard to watch a group of kids who just wanted to be active and play absolutely destroy each other. It was so bad that both teams players where crying and the winning teams coach got boo'd off the court and forced to resign as coach for that team.
Rules should serve to maintain to the spirit of the sport. If a rule is allowing someone in a combat sport avoid combat then the rule needs to be changed because they're diminishing what the sport represents.
Top 5 sports that should be updated: -Soccer (for the americans, the rest of the world call it for what it is god damn it!) -MMA -American football. -Baseball (make the game go faster for fuck´s sake) -Basketball (but this one instead is about backing down many pussy rules, we want 90's basketball back) There is no point to put box on this list because is corrupt to the core and there is no hope.
They should bring in that Italian blood sport. It's like soccer but you can kick and punch the shit out of people. Also has random boxing matches in the field!
I've had one unsanctioned boxing match that went super well and I'm going to start fighting as an amateur soon. it's so cool to see Woolie shares my love for the sport.
"You know what'd be fuckin' -pshshh- awesome? You remember in Mutant League Hockey where you could kill the other team and then the game would just end?" - Pat, 2018
The worst part about Quidditch is that the Snitch mechanic is there just so Harry Potter can excel in that stupid sport without having any training or experience with it. No matter if everyone else have trained hard for years to give their best in the game, Potter will trip on his own dick, eat shit and somehow have the Snitch on his hand when he gets up. What a hero.
this is why I love Go(baduk), the only thing we argue is KO and Komi rulings which vary from country and really doesn't take away from the game either way it swings. The game has pretty much been played in its original state since its inception.
The Snitch is the end game condition for Quidditch. You can't end the game without catching the Snitch. So the answer is technically no. On the other hand, there was one game shown in the seven books (The Quidditch World Cup) where the team that caught the Snitch didn't win. The logic behind that was apparently, "My team is losing so fucking badly that not ending the game right now is just going to further embarrass us. I'm putting my team out of our misery." I haven't read any of the side materials to know any more about the subject.
@@TactlessC >what are you the exact expected age to have school age children That's the weirdest way to complain about the exact demographic who would have kids that get Participation trophies
My idea was in football ("soccer") that the ball explodes randomly when touched- once per game. Not only does this encourage people to watch for the violence, like Nascar, but also justifies the abhorrent and ridiculous salaries the players receive.
So the moral of the story is that Pat loves to see real murder, as long as he wasn't involved. Man, don't get robbed around him, cause he'll just take a video of you getting stabbed, so he can enjoy it later!
17776, (or What Football Will Look Like in the Future) is a great little read/watch/etc. that has a lot of fun, goofy stuff about wild changes to american football. you don't even have to like football. you don't have to like it, hate it, or feel nothing about football, because this is the perfect future of football.
So, in this episode the Best Friends WILDLY misunderstand Quidditch. Quidditch is a lot like baseball in that it can go on for fucking ever. The golden snitch being caught is how the game ends. It's also worth 150 points. So let's say your team has 0 and your opposing team has 160. They still win, even if you catch the Snitch. The reason Harry always wins by catching the Snitch is because he has good hand-eye coordination and is good at focusing on small moving objects. And because literal school children are so bad at the game that it becomes 'your team wins if you catch the snitch'.
I remember reading in one of the Harry Potter books that catching the snitch ends the match and some pro quiditch game lasted like 2 days or something like that because they just couldn't catch it.
There's actually an extended universe book written by Rowling about Quidditch that says before the timer was added to the game the games would last for days regularly because the only way for it to end was to catch the Snitch. The official world record for longest Quidditch match was multiple months long. Quidditch was Mutant League for wizards and that's why the Snitch makes no sense in modern games.
@@aatired7307 you're right it was months! But yeah the closest we have to snitch rules is baseball. I decided to watch what I thought was the last inning with my mother and the game ended up being 18 innings long. It was midnight when the game ended but I felt bad for east coast viewers. The bars and stuff were closing while the game was still on. It was like 3 am for them when the game ended.
@@Bigbrawler72 Yeah I can see that. Although, I like to think of Quidditch as keep away plus hockey as opposed to soccer plus keep away as many people compare it to. It seems that the keep away is the main component to the game and it's more like hockey because it seems more like a blood sport. When people get horribly injured in quidditch it feels like that is a feature of the game rather than an externality.
@@LilAnonomus the snitch doesn't actually determine the winner. You get 150 points for catching it. If you're team is styling on the opponents and 160 to 0, suddenly they get the snitch and games over. You still win because the games 160 to 150 because you're team kept getting regular goals the whole time.
Woolie: Clinching is effective. Pat: It's boring though. Woolie: But it's effective. Pat: But it's boring. Woolie: Maybe if I tell you how effective and strategic and [Insert unrelated positive trait] it is you'll forget that it's boring. Pat: Nope God I hate it when people argue like this
This argument will be taking place in anything competitive until the end of time, and it will get no less asinine. The guy who knows next to nothing who just wants to be entertained, and the actual player who's just "Fuck you, pay me."
@@XxNin10dohgamerxX Woolie. Pat says it's boring. Woolie never actually says it's not boring. They aren't actually having an argument, because they agree. They're just shouting random shit. It's annoying and it's mostly stupid, defensive Woolie's fault.
@@GuyUWishUWere Well I think thats the point, Woolie isn't trying to agrue Pat, just give context why things are the way they are...kinda like what I'm doing now. Huh.
On the Quidditch thing Catching the Snitch Always ends the game and is the only way to end the game, but it doesn't guarantee the win as we see in book 4. You score 15 goals and the snitch is basically a come back mechanics
I can't believe they know K-1! such a shame what happened to them...loved seeing masato inexplicably getting a draw despite getting FUCKIN WRECKED by buakaw! Fuck, I need to read those Seanbaby articles again!
Only caring for “crowd pleasing” styles is what caused so many boxers to have cte. Look at Floyd’s uncle roger and Floyd’s dad for that matter and then wonder why he fights with a “boring” style.
While these are all good ideas, it's important to note: This is pointless, because even they were legitimate bloodsports, none of them would watch them anyway, on account of them being sports.
@pat if you wanna watch entertaining clinchers in boxing look no further than Roberto Duran. For anyone on this platform look up the "modern martial artist" breakdown of Roberto Duran.
How nice of them of glorifying boxing when Adonis Stevenson (who is from their town btw) just suffered from a traumatic brain injury from a boxing knockout and will most likely never be able to live a normal life ever again without the help of mechanical respiratory assistance.
Okay so I still think Pat makes a great point because blood sports are great, would be so fun to watch, and here's how you can make them work. Since people will probably only be able to last 5 years without getting injured past the point of no return everyone should paid 5 times as much as they usually get paid so that they can at least get 25 years worth of pay in exchange for getting super injured and killed. Not only that, but as long as they keep playing past 5 years they'll still keep getting paid this way as an incentive. Will most athletes die; yes, but they'll want to because of the fame, glory, and fortune that they can earn for them and their families; just like in the good old times of Rome.
but the fighters already try do that, but they sometimes dosen't have the abilities to do good inversions, something that is exploited by everyone in the sport except for the fighter's familiy
