Watching a surfer avoid hitting dozens of other surfers looks like a videogame

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Escape from L.A.: The Video Game. It just needs more guns.

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Surfing can be deceptively dangerous. If it isn’t other surfers it is the waves trying to bash you onto rocks/coral.

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Until seeing this, I had completely forgotten about this game from my youth:

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It always struck me as odd how aggressive surfers are about protecting their private breaks, given the mellow vibe surfers have off the water.

Now I understand them a bit more.

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Damn…perfect pipeline waves one after another after another. No wonder there are so many surfers to dodge.

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Reminds me of paperboy where your random breakdancer becomes a full on sidewalk menace!

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This is why, in Australia, we separate the surfing and swimming sections of patrolled beaches. Zig when you should zag and suddenly there’s brains in the water.

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a video game?!

why that sure looks like a board game to me…

( surfboard, boardgame. okay, okay. i’ll see myself out )

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you know honestly, i think i surfing board game might be kind of fun. Maybe more fun than as a video game.

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