jcd

roguelike developer, poet

I write poetry and code in a cold place.

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in reply to @spiders's post:

This is my favorite part of watching the Olympics, and doubly-so the Winter Olympics. People have dedicated their life to... sliding a rock on smooth ice? Shooting guns while out of breath from skiing? Getting lost in the woods with a chest-mounted compass?

I have never heard of these things in my life and will immediately forget about them as soon as their gone and while it's going on I am so fucking into it. Show me what you got. Show me your best. I am prepared to be blown away.

I also appreciate bobsledding a lot more after having seen an actual practice track. TV does not give you the proper sense of speed. People are going at literal racecar speed, downhill head-first on a sled with steering apparatus whose operation seems fictional.

The other thing I love is that the announcers explain shit about those sports, unlike the Big American TV Sports that you are expected to have somehow already learned all about so they can just mumble jargon and never explain any of it.

in reply to @iliana's post:

Remember Skysurfing? They'd jump out of airplanes with more-or-less a snowboard attached to their feet? It was hilarious to watch because all the stunts had hilariously goofy names ("Henhouse Surprise" is a real example) and the announcer's narration had to go really fast because the event took place in the time between jumping out of an airplane and opening the parachute before impacting the ground so pretty fast-paced sport.