{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Just had a WEIRD experience playing Rocket League online where I very much suspect I was automatched on the team of two Arab...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164157422703/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://rocketverliden.tumblr.com/post/164152940272/kontextmaschine-just-had-a-weird-experience\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">rocketverliden</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"/post/164125870428/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>Just had a WEIRD experience playing Rocket League online where I very much suspect I was automatched on the team of two Arab nobles against three sequentially numbered servant accounts (only one manned)</p></blockquote>\n<p>This is a thing? How many aristocratic-gentry-esports-things are there in the world? I know states putting a lot of stock into esports is one thing, but to have heads of state and the like treat video games as another avenue of play much like a king would treat something like croquet or polo feels odd and interesting.</p></blockquote>\n\nwell the nobility goes pretty deep away from matters of state towards Versailles superfluity in some Arab countries; from context one was Bahraini and one Jordanian\n<p>\nAbdullah II of Jordan <em>is</em> mocked as &ldquo;King Playstation&rdquo; sometimes tho. </p>"}