Re:Models are sucking the fun out of fun
by username223 on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:02AM
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Good point, but you kind of miss the point. Some sports, like road cycling, have been all but reduced to one variable (how many W/kg can you produce?). Turning yourself into the world’s best road cyclist is a grim slog at the border of overtraining and starvation. Even more complex ones require serious dedication and sacrifice.
But at that point they’re jobs or obsessions. They’re something you do because you must, not because you enjoy it.
because mastery and min maxing like this is at the basis of every form of competition.
even all the traditional physical sports are min maxed to the same extents. in fact the strategy and novelty aspect there is typically so small compared to video games (due to the inherent lower complexity of the sports) that in most sports you just start having a big focus on min maxing your physical capabilities much earlier than you would for example start to grind out and improve your macro speed and capabilities in a game like Starcraft 2.