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Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2 (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Valve has moved quickly to outlaw automated keyboard features.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So it's about the amount of physical exertion, not about it being a game?

So you can't wrap your head around the concept of professional chess players? Professional poker players? Darts? Curling?

Hell, in rally, you just literally sit in a car. Such physical exertion! (And I'm Finnish and have been in an actual rally car, before you're going to try and make a point about how physically demanding you think it is.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Hey hey, you leave curling out of this. You go sweep a rock until it barely crosses the hog line a few times and check your heart rate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

So now it's about heartrate? Playing Mario Kart and Dark Souls can get your heartrate into the 120+ range. And that's casual videogamers, playing simple games.

https://www.esportwissen.de/en/performance-in-esport/

During professional competitive play, heartrates go up to 180+ bpm. That's on the level of racing car drivers. Way more than chess, archery, or shooting of any sort would ever have.

So guess the Turkish shooter doesn't qualify for you either? Archers? Magnus Carlsen isn't a chess professional, he's just a really lucky dude with a lot of money for some random reason?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Curling is at least a legitimate sport.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

actually professional motor sports are quite an exertion in a lot of professional contexts because they drive for hours with no rest and they’re doing a lot of movement of the wheel and pedals - it’s not just driving down an interstate for a couple of hours

… i did upvote you, so i mostly agree, but… yknow

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well yeah, they are. Some more exerting than others. They vary from drag races to endurance ones, and some go really fast.

My point is rather that in driving, the physical exertion mostly comes from having to keep up mental focus and a static position — much like when gaming.