When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by 27182818284 on Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:17PM (#17536559)

I haven't skateboarded in more than a decade, but I've noticed that if I walk by a good looking handrail or concrete ledge, my brain still automatically starts picturing 50/50 grinds, different tail-slide combinations, and more. I didn't play football in high school, but I have to imagine it is something similar that continues on.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by Bradenski on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:31PM (#17537463)

I skated for most of my youth and have the same thing going on. I was very happy when someone from my area won SOTY also. I don't really see the same magnitude of fandom during SLS ever occuring. Sometimes people really hate Nyjah or really fan boy for Joslin. Maybe we'll see regional skateboarding teams in the future, but for now we can enjoy skateboarding purely being about the talent. The Olympics will definitely test the waters for this.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by slow_donkey on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:02PM (#17537586)

? It's mostly coherent. Maybe this is what technical talk sounds like to non-technical people.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by FuckOffNeemo on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:31PM (#17537905)

Considering their comment history, I don't think the person we're responding to is none technical.

But if AlphaGo and Google Duplex have had a ML/AI child and they're being tested on HN I'm pretty excited about it!

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by eckza on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:35PM (#17537921)

No, you just don’t understand skateboarding.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by lagadu on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:07AM (#17539777)

I suspect the comment was because the post had a lot of single sentences; the way it's written definitely has some uncanny valley properties going on.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by tomjakubowski on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:21PM (#17537151)

There was a time when I was downright obsessed with co-op armed robbery video game Payday 2, and even months after I stopped playing, I could hardly enter a bank lobby or art gallery without starting to "case the joint".

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by Wingman4l7 on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:40PM (#17537941)

What did your brain do whenever you saw an armored car? :P

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by extralego on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:41PM (#17537945)

Be glad you didn’t end up working in that industry. Whenever I walk by a staircase or handrail, I’m just reminded of my poor career planning.

I got some unbelievable memories though. I honestly do not believe some of them.

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