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Gaming In Sweden Bigger Than Football and Hockey
An anonymous reader writes "SIFO (a major Swedish survey company) has conducted a gaming survey right before the launch of Dreamhack Winter. One of the results is that gaming is bigger than football and hockey combined."
Nice to see we have some friendly competition for the coveted "Most Hours Spent Sitting on Our Arse" award. *looks around* Hmm. Why are all these people looking at me like I just ran over their dog? And at least four of them have pitchforks.
Well, I'm going for a walk!
*backs away slowly*
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
It's easy to understand why. Have you ever tried kicking a football on skates?
-=Bang Bang=-
Is the day far when nerds and geeks will rule the high schools, bullying and terrorizing the jocks and athletes?
Who wants to be outside in cold wet weather physically exerting themselves when you can be toasty and lazy sitting on the couch?
Live forever, or die trying.
Thank god...at first I thought those values in those columns were percent. double-digits suicide rates would be sick...
What about triple-digits?
You should watch the Lions. The ball gets touched by a foot approximately every 3 plays.
Working out why this is so requires only a rudimentary knowledge of the rules of American football and the Lions record: 0-11.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Does this mean when Starcraft 2 comes out I will start seeing borkborkborks instead of just kekekes?
Slang abbreviation of the word "association".
There is no -1 Disagree mod. Slashdot.org/faq defines mod options. USE IT.
Rugby gets its name because it is as entertaining as receiving a rugburn.
Well, you know, a lot of the common ways one might receive a rug burn are well worth it...
Bow-ties are cool.
The gaming jock is the prom queen, you insensitive clod!
75% of the fish I eat are Swedish. They declined to comment.
They will be punished.
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I played a MUD called MUME in the early 90s. Swedes were also the largest chunk of non-americans playing way back then. :) That's how I learned the phrase, "tala engelska eller do!"
Those are the countries with a lot of failed attempts.