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  • OT: Facts matter

    From hermanhum@hotmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 22 15:30:52 2015
    Saw a pretty decent flick with Will Smith, today. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364

    It just goes to show that even the NFL, back by billions of dollars, cannot compete against a single man, armed with integrity and facts. The truth always comes out.
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  • From Andy@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 22 17:53:22 2015
    And your point is ...?

    Copy and paste from your link of a review which seems to address the movie's message far better than I can:

    "And what is less amusing is the manner in which the film hopes to make the NFL - and, by extension, every fan of the game - a villain for perpetuating the deadly act of contact sports; surely no one forced professional football players into
    participating in such a barbaric ritual, with little more than fame and adoration and millions of dollars in compensation. It's not like football is equivalent to gladiatorial fights to the death between slaves. Finding sympathy for any side of this
    entertainment entity (is it any different than boxing or rugby or hockey when it comes to its level of violence?) is a major struggle, chiefly when the only effective resolution is to cease the sport of football altogether - or to pay ungodly sums of
    money to players who feign shock at the potential for repetitive blows to the head to have negative long-term consequences. After all, does anyone stop mountain climbing or skydiving or base jumping (or any extreme or even non-extreme sport) after they'
    ve been warned of the dangers? Isn't the brutality part of the fun?"
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  • From hermanhum@hotmail.com@21:1/5 to Andy on Tue Dec 22 18:57:28 2015
    On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 6:53:24 PM UTC-7, Andy wrote:
    And your point is ...?

    And your point is ...?

    ... that facts matter in _all_ aspects of life and the real world. Whether a game is played upon a football pitch or a computer is irrelevant. Facts matter.

    Despite all manner of invective and racial attacks on the protagonist, Dr. Omalu, the NFL could not hide or distort the science or the facts. If all the high-priced lawyers of the NFL could not hide the problems within their game, there is no chance
    whatsoever that any computer game publisher could ever hope to pull off such a feat. Facts matter.
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  • From Vincenzo Beretta@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 23 10:55:02 2015
    Well, he made you an obsessed jerk :0)
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  • From smr@21:1/5 to hermanhum@hotmail.com on Wed Dec 23 11:21:44 2015
    On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:57:28 -0800 (PST), hermanhum@hotmail.com wrote:

    On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 6:53:24 PM UTC-7, Andy wrote:
    And your point is ...?

    And your point is ...?

    ... that facts matter in _all_ aspects of life and the real world. Whether a game is played upon a football pitch or a computer is irrelevant. Facts matter.

    Despite all manner of invective and racial attacks on the protagonist, Dr. Omalu, the NFL could not hide or distort the science or the facts. If all the high-priced lawyers of the NFL could not hide the problems within their game, there is no chance
    whatsoever that any computer game publisher could ever hope to pull off such a feat. Facts matter.

    Your sense of self-importance is matched only by your lack of impact on the world.

    --
    smr
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