I have more beef with the sport than the fans. It's hella dangerous for people involved, and people rarely come out of it without permanent injuries or health problems. But the average fan is distanced from that part and don't think about it as much.

Nah, CTEball is easily worse than all those lmao. It's honestly worse than most blood sports like boxing because most people go into blood sports knowing that being punch drunk is a thing while CTEball could become relatively safe as a form of no-tackle gridiron football but purposely chooses to expose their predominately POC players to permanent brain damage so their predominately white audience can enjoy the spectacle.

How many people have died or had brain injuries or other injuries for the rest of their life from DnD? How many jingoistic military displays of propaganda precede Magic The Gathering shows? Is there a major culture and industry of gambling around TTRPGs? How many DnD groups are owned by billionaire zionists that own stadiums and control municipal politics? This is just idealist flattening without any accounting for the horror that is real world American sport culture, the torture chamber and exploitation they put children and young adults through and all of the resources stolen from education for sportsball (i'll say it)

I singled this out because it was the topic of the conversation. And I haven't personally met the people who do that with Magic or D&D, though I know they exist. Also Magic and D&D don't come with as many concussions or long-term health issues for the players.

You're having a whole ass debate in your head with someone, fabricating arguments they never actually said that you can refute, and then telling them to shut up.

Also the degree to which most hobbies, including DnD are made into a religion is nothing in comparison to Amurikkkan football, which is on an entirely different social level in the US, especially among CHUDS. It's an absurd comparison.

You think fans of Magic or DnD or whatever nerd shit people here prefer don’t demonstrate absolutely bizarre anti-social behaviour over their hobby

Fewer and farther between than football by a long shot