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Anybody who played Doom, or Quake, or Counterstrike knows: if you are not moving, you are dead. And if you try to show a counterexample, and say: "Look, I'm not moving, and I'm alive all right", it's an illusion, because the rockets, grenades, nails, and plasma charges that will slay you are already in flight, you are just failing to see them.




> sits for hours playing a video game

> if you are not moving, you are dead.

I understand the point you're trying to make, but there is some irony here.


Dying in your chair so your game character can live!

The metaphor still works, it's just the timeline changes.

Rats don't sit down to play.

Camping is a viable strategy in many Quake levels, and it is problematic to the point that many servers will kill you if you stay in one place for too long.

Camping is like.. regulatory capture? Stretching the analogy thin here.

Regulatory capture or sitting on an immovable network effect.

Antitrust is like anti camping mods for the server.


First mover advantage.

Can we not do the computer game analogy? it breaks down quickly

Some of the sharks will also do just fine sitting still: https://www.britannica.com/story/do-sharks-really-die-if-the...

Seconded. Something was lost want camping was banned.

Hey! I'm a camper, and I do fine

Beautiful spawn point you have there. I think I'll set up camp.



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