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I still don't get Twitch or watching people play games. It's just hours of unedited content to me
Unedited gaming videos are so terrible. "Oh sorry guys... give me a minute... oh I'm stuck".
Old guy here. I've come to enjoy watching leftist twitch on my second monitor while I work/slack off. While I've long been an advocate for Palestine, I've learned a lot more about both Israel and Palestine from watching Hasan Piker. Sometimes the streamer drama can get pretty annoying though.
Same. My kid introduced me to Hasan, it was a step in my path out of my lifelong liberal brainworms. I owe the younger generation a lot.
I've seen some of Hasans stuff but it was only clips on YouTube, I haven't watched his stream yet. He's enjoyable and bearable
When I was young, we had to go to our friends' houses to watch someone else play video game.
I miss playing video games locally. Now we all have to buy a copy and play in different places. I loves the split screen and taking turns
They don't do DVD commentary anymore either 😭. Now the kids watch cinosins or therapist reacts or whatever they're watching
i'm an old fart but you are watching it for the gameplay, the streamer or both, maybe even the chat has a certain vibe you are a fan of
I can watch Twitch only for competition of E-Sports. I love watching a Tekken or Street Fighter tournament but that’s about it. It’s like watching just regular sports game, most of them are will produced.
I can’t watch a person just play a game, it’s an infinitely worse version of going to a friends house and watching them play a game.
I honestly didn't even know esport were on twitch haha. I do like watching League for some reason eventhough I've never played and don't know how. I've only watches the tournaments and finals though
I watch classic doom play throughs on youtube. I love watching channels like decino play hard doom wads. I also love people like civvie who like old shooters.
Here's decino playing a hard doom wad with a nice midi
I've watched a bunch of people play dark souls 1 for the first time to go to bed. I don't understand why I do it either.
watching people play games for the first time just stresses me out, especially when they're very unwilling to receive hints (perfectly understandable to not want to get backseated but it does undoubtably result in a lot of time spent doing things that I know are a waste of time and so I'm just anxiously waiting there like "ok, when are they gonna figure it out so we can move on?")
I should've clarified I watch the edited versions on YouTube, so I'm not watching someone fail a jump they're convinced they should do 60 times.
Some things aren't deep and that's okay. I like watching street food being made but only if they don't talk to me, no clue why but it holds my attention.
Idk best twitch experience for me was hanging out with actual people while they play games. Capitalism just exploited that feeling
I do miss lan parties. The last one I hosted was probably 2018, playing Artemis Bridge Simulator. We filled my basement with folding tables, routers, and every kind of electronic device you can imagine. Artemis will run on damn near anything so we had PCs, laptops, tablets, and phones going. I think we might have actually had two ships going in multiplayer. It's a really fun experience.
I loved net cafes the dorks basketball court
Older millenial. I'll watch twitch streams of niche games that my buddies don't play to get a sense of community and see how others are playing the game. The niche games often have very small viewerships so I can often talk to the streamer directly about the game and their experience.
That's a good point, they dont really do demos anymore so the biggest way to see a playthrough is twitch
my biggest guilty pleasure is those 4 hour long videos of a guy building things in Minecraft