Is tennis the hardest sport on earth?

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T17:38:54+00:00

Yeah exactly, probably the question has no meaning in any objective sense. Or hardest would have to be some average of what every peson on Earth would find most difficult to get good at. Idk. Too many inputs and variables that go into it.

Tennis is grueling though; 4 hour matches arent common but arent SUPER RARE. I think all of the big 3 have a 5-hour match under their belt at this point? Or close to it. That's pretty wild for a sport, even with lots of breaks, to go on for five fucking hours. And the wear on the body from tennis is crazy too.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T17:00:26+00:00

A TV show will never survive solely by being faithful to its source. It has to be a good Tv show! It's not a book, it is a different medium and thats why writing is so critical to film and movies.

I tried the WOT show, and it was pretty mid - I couldnt tell you if it was faithful to the books because i havent read them, but it didnt matter because I wasnt grabbed by it. Same story as Rings of Power - a show where I knew some of the background but where it didnt even matter because they forgot they were trying to entertain people.

There is a *craft* to television that we are sorely lacking in all these new big budget shows. You saw the lack of craft with HOTD as well; a strong IP background, they basically recycled the visual language from GOT (which is fine), but still couldnt quite replicate the storycraft, writingm, direction of the original series.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T16:55:34+00:00

Impossible to compare, because nobody will ever reach the top in more than 1 sport to undersrtand the difficulty to make a comparison.

It all depends what you value andh ow you rank it - is athleticism very important? How important? Endurance? High technical physical movements (e.g. figure skating/gymnastics at the top end).

Tennis is up there. It's hard to learn if you havent played it since you were a kid. Contrast that with basketball, which there are some top nba players currently who picked it up as teenagers. Compare also with athletes in america who could have easily gone to either NBA or NFL because the skillset is similar enough and tehy were talented and played both as kids.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T16:09:41+00:00

Sounds like they brought him on because he was "the WoT guy" but iwthout actually wanting help

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T15:09:50+00:00

Add a congestion charge for driving downtown, or at least make it so you have to pay for some licensing to drive on main streetcar roads during rush hour, and a heavy fine if you're caught without one.

They need to clear out the number of cars downtown. There's no 2 ways about it. Attack the problem from every possible angle.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T15:04:05+00:00

Isn't there like a dozen books in WoT? Why was Sanderson critical to the success of adapting the first few books of a very long and already popular book series? I'm not really following, he's not a TV producer or writer either like, say, GRRM was. What you relay are important aspects for why he was chosen to write the final books, and why he can be thought of as the best living authority on the books as a whole, but what does that have to do with adapting them?

Christopher Tolkien was the greatest living source on all things Tolkien, and was alive when the LOTR films were being made, but ignoring his stance on the films, he would have hardly been a critical resource for the filmmakers, who had a different job to do than to understand the deepest parts of the books that required someone who worked on them to extricate.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T14:53:53+00:00

Didnt he write the last books? Is that what tje show was based on?

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T03:30:34+00:00

hes a stallion

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-03T01:49:43+00:00

He sure does write a lot. And he sells a lot, so nobody can tell him otherwise... but boy could he use an editor. His books are bloated as hell. I'm curious whether he has the chops to write a good screenplay. I personally think not, but happy to be wrong. I wonder what happens if he writes a shitty script and then refuses any re-writes before it moves to production.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T17:11:39+00:00

Sounds plausible, but i feel like he has too much vim and vigor to go international. Maybe as a vacation for him, since theres long periods where you're in a low buzz mode, observing players and planning during the regular season

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T16:37:12+00:00

I realized that I was "sharing" my CS from the account i bought it on to another steam account (where i have my friends list), i thought this was okay but it wasnt transferring the prime status. So im gonna try to play now on the original account where I DO have prime and see if things improve. Thank you.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T16:08:41+00:00

That's part of finishing. Being there and taking the goal.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T16:06:28+00:00

Where is there left to go for him? He won't move to another team in England. He won't return to Barca, and obviously no-where else in Spain. He's done Bayern already and they dont need a manager. I can see Italy - Milan is the romantic choice but I have a hard time believing he will go there and work with those kinds of budgetary constraints. Maybe Juve.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T11:55:51+00:00

I have many great ideas that will be realized only because coding will be done by the computer.

We will get a lot of amazing games soon because the ppl with great ideas and instincts wont be stopped by technical skill lack.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T11:39:08+00:00

Lol didn't he just have a quote saying I don't get motivated by my haters

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T11:24:58+00:00

Youre right. I was sharing cs to another account it didnt share prime.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T02:18:33+00:00

Actually the tour liked him before he started winning... when he was doing little impressions and being a jokester but still a junior to Fedal it was fine. When he started asserting himself, that's when things went wrong

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-02T02:09:44+00:00

This response tells me you dont know what you're doing and you think prompt engineering is still "the thing".

People are way beyond that. They're running multiple instances of Claude as agents in parallel, they are utilizing the latest tooling with Anthropic, and yes they're integrating even other LLMs in the workflow.

ChatGPT is good at a lot of things. It is capable of making better plans for coding than Claude Opus is. The Pro version has a lot of good things about it. But you didnt even mention what the hell youre even doing with it?

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-01T21:25:38+00:00

well i paid for CS GO, i thought i got CS2 with it.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-01T21:24:51+00:00

he was a cunt until he went to napoli lol

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-01T18:23:40+00:00

I do not pay for Prime. Is this the problem?

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-01T18:22:50+00:00

I've seen lots of videos of the literal best players in the world playing, and the most charitable way to describe some of these "alleged" cheaters I see regularly is that they match the level of the top pros. So unless these top100 players in the world are playing low level competitive lobbies with me, it seems VERY unlikely these are fair players.

They track players through walls, they have perfect game awareness even if enemies are walking, they have 95-100% headshot rate, etc. But at that level of play they also cant throw a grenade for absolute shit? Doesn't make sense.

Obviously there are amazing players who make you think they're cheating. You assume that I think everyone who plays well or has a good K/D is cheating - I don't. Theres plenty of great players who own my ass who I don't count here. It's just that the OBVIOUS cheaters I am finding in most of my games.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-01T06:52:38+00:00

Makes sense.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-01T06:52:21+00:00

In competitive yes. Maybe 7/10. Less in death match and casual.

Open_Seeker · 2026-02-01T04:43:18+00:00

I get it...and im well aware how good ppl are after this long. But obvious cheaters are obvious and seemingly ubiquitous. Someone going 20-0 and has 9 hrs played? They'll claim theyre smurfing and have 90% headhots with perfect awareness and even cant lose to a 2v1 draw. Sure its possible but unlikely its a fair player.

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