I do find it tiring that tech oriented people still feel the need to denigrate people who are in the arts or athletes (tbh lumping them in with podcast grifters may be the greatest insult). Children can and should have a variety of role models.

Especially when we have seen over and over again that some youtubers (not pointing at any at this even specifically) have shown themselves to be of quite low character.

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leptons 3 days ago | parent [-]

There are plenty of pro sports icons that have low character. Good character is not a qualification to put a ball through a goal, hole, hoop or elsewhere, in pro sports or on youtube.

I don't know any "tech oriented" people that put down anyone "in the arts", but most of them have no interest in sports. That doesn't mean they denigrate anyone in sports, but as for myself I do find humanity's fascination with putting balls into goals, holes, hoops and elsewhere a bit tiring, and I think it's a bit of a waste of humanity to put so much importance on putting balls into goals, holes, hoops or elsewhere, but we are all free to have our own opinions.

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musicale 3 days ago | parent [-]

> I think it's a bit of a waste of humanity to put so much importance on putting balls into goals, holes, hoops or elsewhere

Sports can be seen as something of an improvement over more lethal forms of inter-group conflict.

Fortunately tech oriented folks have invented "e-sports", which are competitions based on pressing keys on a keyboard or buttons on a game controller, and possibly moving and clicking a mouse in order to affect pixels on a screen.

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leptons 3 days ago | parent [-]

Video games are even more pointless than sports.

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amelius 3 days ago | parent [-]

What is your opinion on chess?

	▲	leptons 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Pushing pieces around a board is not all that interesting to me, no board game is. YMMV. What does interest me is solving real problems, not manufactured problems.