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Old 11-22-2005, 10:34 PM     Post subject: Profession Poker is kinda like Competitive Eating #1 (permalink)  
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In social status terms, some may consider video gaming to be in a class with professional poker or competitive eating.
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Old 11-22-2005, 11:42 PM #2 (permalink)  
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What's this I foresee?

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Old 11-23-2005, 12:44 AM #3 (permalink)  
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it's like a hot dog swallowing contest in here every day

yeah you know what i mean

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Old 11-23-2005, 01:39 AM #4 (permalink)  
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Games are easy. Poker is easy. But some of those guys who eat... boy can they eat!
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Old 11-24-2005, 10:19 AM #5 (permalink)  
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I load up CNN.com today and look what is on the front page. Is this really NEWS?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.gam....ap/index.html
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Old 11-24-2005, 10:22 AM #6 (permalink)  
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Yep. That's news.
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Old 11-24-2005, 03:29 PM #7 (permalink)  
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It doesn't say what game they were playing.
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Old 11-24-2005, 03:50 PM #8 (permalink)  
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It doesn't say what game they were playing.
Yeah i thought that, so I went to www.fatal1ty.com (no shit - and its a pretty trick website) and found out that they were playing "Painkiller"

never heard of it. wish i'd never bothered.

except now i get to tell you.

and my post count goes up by 1

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Old 11-25-2005, 04:51 AM #9 (permalink)  
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it actually does say that in the first link, but not in the second link.
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Old 11-25-2005, 05:45 AM #10 (permalink)  
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 MTV had a show about professional gamers. I remember that name, he was in it. There was also some guy who plays that golf game and goes to bars to play people for cash. He made like $40 after being there all night...
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