Metasoccer

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Scott Alexander on the complexities of the World Cup. I can relate to someone who says:

I’ve been following the World Cup lately. Not watching it, of course. I wouldn’t enjoy that at all. But following it has just the right combination of overly complicated procedures and total lack of physical action to appeal to the sort of person who has read like half a dozen LARP rulebooks but never gotten around to actually LARPing.

Thanx to Slate Star Codex