{"id":20503,"date":"2013-04-10T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=20503"},"modified":"2013-04-10T08:11:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T15:11:12","slug":"enjoy-netrunner-as-a-spectator-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/10\/enjoy-netrunner-as-a-spectator-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Netrunner as a spectator sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Android Netrunner Commentary #8: HB Stronger Together (kam) vs. Criminal (sojo2600)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5GzWtpF3to?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get sports.  I just don&#8217;t.  Why do people care so much about teams of dudes who aren&#8217;t even from the city they&#8217;re representing engaging in excessively formalized, heavily regulated, and ridiculously overpaid contests of athleticism?  And why do people who watch sports care so much when most of them certainly don&#8217;t play the game they&#8217;re watching?  Is it just for the cheerleaders?  That I could understand.  <\/p>\n<p>I do, however, get e-sports because I actually play the games I&#8217;m watching.  I know the rules, I understand completely how the players feel and the dilemmas they face, and I enjoy the tension and drama of a game without necessarily being inside it.  But I feel like a prerequisite for enjoying e-sports is knowing the game at hand.  <\/p>\n<p>For instance, Netrunner, a masterfully designed card game of bluffing and asymmetry, with a superlative sense of theming.  Listening to a cast of the game really plays up the theming.  Experiential Data, Datasuckers, Account Siphons, and Heimdall ICE!  &#8220;That is a rather mighty server!&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen this before, the old &#8216;don&#8217;t care about tags&#8217; strategy&#8221;, and &#8220;He has not been lucky running the centrals!&#8221; are all proclamations in the above Netrunner cast.<\/p>\n<p>These casts for Netrunner&#8217;s clunky but serviceable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octgn.net\/\">OCTGN<\/a> module are narrated by a friend of mine with an actual British accent.  He goes by the name Mr. Skinny as he Britishly commentates on the cyberpunk proceedings.  A generically bitchin&#8217; techno soundtrack plays discreetly in the background.  I don&#8217;t know if folks who aren&#8217;t hip to Netrunner would get these, but if you&#8217;re going to watch a bunch of dudes kick a pigskin around, wouldn&#8217;t you just as easily enjoy this weird cocktail of Hugh Grant-a-like, William Gibsonism, and faux Daft Punk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get sports. I just don&#8217;t. Why do people care so much about teams of dudes who aren&#8217;t even from the city they&#8217;re representing engaging in excessively formalized, heavily regulated, and ridiculously overpaid contests of athleticism? 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