Topic: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game

[Stratos]

I see water, I see board. Water boarding.

Also, Hand Egg.

Looks more like Elbow Egg to me. He holds the egg in the corner of his elbow.

[TJ Spyke]

Is Shyguy trying to call surfing "waterboarding"?

[ShyGuy]

I'm just Saying Ubisoft needs to make a game called "Shaun White Waterboarding"

[vudu]

I'm starting to think TJ Spyke is a spambot with extremely sophisticated AI.

He almost seems like an actual person, but when he gets tripped up on "Gameboy" vs. "Game Boy" (and "water-boarding" vs. "wake boarding") or refusing to recognize Sony's motion controller as "Arc" you can see the programming start to fall apart.

[TJ Spyke]

Haha, very funny vudu. 

[Ian Sane]

Rumour has it "football" was originally a term for games "played on foot".  Some people liked to played a kicking variation while others liked a carrying variation.  Both soccer and rugby were called "football".

Makes you wonder what sort of world people lived in where games played on foot were enough of a minority to require a specific term.  What sports aren't played on foot?  Polo, auto racing, ice hockey, wheelchair sports.  That's all I can think of.  Isn't cricket played "on foot"?  Didn't it already exist when football was invented?

Though the best argument to make is simple.  American football gets to be "football" because America runs the world and Europe doesn't.  I'm not even an American but I know that's how it works.  So kick/dive-ball is "soccer" because America says it is.

[ShyGuy]

Listen to this Candian. He knows what's up. Shaun White just went up there and took a bunch of their gold medals. That's why he gets to make a skateboarding game.

[KDR_11k]

Back in the feudal era sports played by the high society were usually on horseback. I can't imagine that cricket is older than football, at least in their respective proto forms. Cricket is a fairly advanced game with tons of rules and tools, football just requires a ball and some posts to delimit the goal. It probably didn't have an offside rule back in the day but since it's so easy to grab a ball and say "try to kick it into this area" proto football should've been around for as long as balls are.

Though the best argument to make is simple.  American football gets to be "football" because America runs the world and Europe doesn't.

No but we leave the Americans in their belief that "football" means their sport to anybody but them (well, okay, it's also used in foreign languages where the local term for association football differs, e.g. in German association football is called "Fußball" while American rugby goes by the name "Football" and nobody watches it or knows the rules). Just as we don't give a crap about their stone age measurement units we don't give a crap about their "football".