/v/ - Video Games

>watching games

nah mate, it's just softcore porn. Games are merely an excuse

The real question you should be asking is, why watch twitch thots when you can just look at actual porn

>>16508353

Humans are social creatures

>>16508353

I dont know. It baffles me. I honestly cannot comprehend how someone would watch someone else playing video games instead of playing them yourself.

>>16508364

I would guess that most of them are failed normalfags that are in desperate need of "kinship,friends". Its pretty sad.

>(if you're a faggot and don't want to pirate) you can just watch someone play a game you always had mild interest in, but didn't want to play it

>if whoever's playing it doesn't sound or act like an immense retard, it can make for some ok background noise

>lonely people get off with it

Critikal became a complete faggot because of it but he still explains it a little better.

>>16508357

One's halal and the other's haram, infidel.

>invalid webm uploaded

What the fuck now?

>>16508353

>It's difficult to understand the popularity of twitch

It really isn't if you aren't completely retarded or don't have legitimately crippling autism.

>it seems like watching someone else play a game would be fundamentally unsatisfying - immersive moments are talked over, you don't get to make gameplay decisions, and the streamer (probably) doesn't give a fuck about you.

>immersive moments

Name one immersive game released in the last decade

>gameplay decisions

What if someone makes better decisions than you and you're watching to learn something?

>probably doesn't give a fuck

top retard, why would you care about some dipshit who pays you money so your TTS of choice reads your message?

>So why is it so damn popular?

Big streamers are a product serving as a replacement for friends, you pay him money to read your messages.

In this age of rampant feminism killing male camaraderie and causing many men to feel like unwanted outsiders, they turn to escapism. Video games, anime, comics, manga, books, films etc. are their avenues to escape the hell of modern life but we are all human and so even these broken men still desire kinship. This is where streamers come into play, a lot of them are the broken men who want to stream to keep busy, to show off their skills or to keep a dull game a bit more lively due to having to provide a stream people will watch. Further consider that socializing is an abomination of what it once was, people meet up and hang out only to spend a good deal of that time on their phones texting others. Its very impersonal now and people are social creatures.

On one hand yes, and I do not watch twitch nor let's plays at all.

On the other, I remember spending countless hours 'playing' single-player games with a friend back in primary school. I'd come over and we'd do dumb shit in the game, and even though he was the one actually playing, it was still fun. That's pretty much what Twitch is, except instead of being sure your friend listens to you and your ideas, you just hope the streamer sees your message or maybe you even pay so you're sure that he does.

Also, how is watching video games different from watching sports? Unless you're knowledgable about the mechanics, training, tricks etc. that the sportsmen do, it's essentially the same on the surface.

>>16508467

>it's essentially the same on the surface.

No,its definetly not. You are watching someone playing a video game. Not a sport. Video games is not a sport. Its ```pathetic```. Its literally just watching someone playing a video game.

>>16508364

>someone else playing video games instead of playing them yourself.

I used to watch chuggaconroy, because he was playing Nintendo games, and I didn't have a Nintendo console, nor did I have a PC powerful enough to emulate them. Plus, when I was a kid, I found him entertaining, but watching one of his videos now, he seems dull and boring.

Here are some reasons why, I think, someone would watch a LP

>he is entertaining, and funny

>he plays shit games and makes fun of them(why would I waste my time playing shit games?)

>they provide background noise, for when you do other stuff, such as playing vidya, cokking, cleaning, doing other shit(tough this is more listening than watching)

>he is a developer/someone extremely knowledgeable about the game, and the LP has all sorts of facts and trivia about the game

Examples of the last one, would include Hideki Kamyia let's play of Bayonetta 1, or Research Indicates let's play of Jurasic Park Trespasser

>>16508477

Sure, but your visual experience of the game itself is similar.

>>16508353

Okay this is like the 5th thread with strange reddit spacing and journo tier question. What the hell is happening?

>>16508482

>Here are some reasons why, I think, someone would watch a LP

No,just no… You should never become an eceleb worshipper. No matter what.

I'll sometimes have a twitch stream running in the background that I'll alt-tab to in the slower sections of some games, City builders, crafting in FF14, etc.

It's to fill the audio silence or drone out the repetitive in game music when I'm not feeling like putting an actual album on.

Some 'video games' are fucking awful but are interesting for reasons other than being video games. Hence why we get uncommon time streams here, that way only one person needs to suffer through actually 'playing' them. To a lesser degree a lot of the content that the main vinesauve guy displays fits this, but fortunately most of it is recorded so you're capable of skimming through to the interesting things without having to rely on twitch and the rest of the associated autism. Other than that I can't really fathom it. Normalfags that are too pathetic to make friends and pretend that the streamer is a friend of theirs is an explanation I hear a lot.

>>16508491

>What the hell is happening?

how new are you? it's fucking summer.

>>16508353

You are 5 years behind the question, Twitch is no longer relevant.

>>16508482

Why are you rationalizing the fact that you watched let's plays when you were younger?

>>16508467

>Also, how is watching video games different from watching sports? Unless you're knowledgable about the mechanics, training, tricks etc. that the sportsmen do, it's essentially the same on the surface.

Most streamers are variety streamers and are actually shit at the games, its not like watching professional sportsmen

>>16508353

>muh IRL streams

>muh Just Chatting streams

>muh Fortnite

>muh GTAV

>muh PUBG

>muh League

>muh flavor of the month

Yeah Twitch is a cancer but it's not like it's Twitch's fault per se, this is just a product of the popularity of video games in general.

>It's difficult to understand the popularity of twitch

A bunch of children and lonely fucks want to gravitate around their favorite personality and feel like they have a real friend or the affections of a member of the opposite sex. It was never about the games.

>>16508497

>eceleb worshipper.

I am not worshiping anyone.

>>16508522

I enjoy trying to see other people's point of view, whether it'd be a schizophrenic, a normalfag, a feminist, an incel, a thot, a faggot, whatever, I want to understand how they think. This does not mean, I agree with them, nor that I sympathize with them, nor that I want to join them, I just want knowledge.

>>16508487

Are they trying to be noticed or is that the equivalent of cheering?

>>16508542

Your post was what literal eceleb worshipping looks like.

>>16508554

>cringe

>>16508364

>instead of playing them yourself

Don't forget: a lot of people a lot of time only have a smartphone, and no PC, and definitely not a powerful-enough PC.

Also, watching while working.

Also, feeling less alone.

>>16508569

wow,thats even more pathetic

>>16508353

>Is watching games more enjoyable than playing them?

If by that you mean the traditional 'go to your buds place with all the bros, hit that ps1, force the most scaredy-cat of a bro to play RE/SH without any lights and all other bros trying to spook him and watch the hilarities that ensue' then yes.

>>16508558

>>16508549

Where is the video? if not fake.

There are certain rare people who play games you'd never play/in ways you'd never play them.

Typically these people have strong personalities that carry the show, and it's not really just about the video game but also the person playing it. That is to say, you wouldn't expect a comparable experience to anything else.

Here's the best example I know of:

Although I listed the reason I watch this dude, I have no clue why people watch e-sports besides wanting to pick up new tactics from supposedly better players.

>>16508602

No,he is obviously talking about watching people on the internet playing video games. Not playing video games with your "buds"

>>16508600

>I even payed 400 dollars for a pixel art gif

Fucking subhumans

I've seen one or two streamers, not very popular ones, who are legitimately good entertainers. Funny and creative enough to be capable of creating situations that make a bad or mediocre game hilarious.

>>16508534

>Yeah Twitch is a cancer but it's not like it's Twitch's fault per se,

There are games that are partnered with twitch. The games would reward you for watching streamers instead of actually playing the game.

>>16508353

>>>/autism/

>>16508636

Wait, modern games do this?

>>16508353

Have you never sat with a friend or family member and watched them play a video game, probably as a kid, or the reverse where you play and they watch? I don't want to say it's more enjoyable than playing the game, but it IS more enjoyable than watching TV (even together with that same friend). That twitch streamer isn't your friend of course and probably isn't going to listen to a thing you say in chat, but it's easy for normalfags to project that they are.

>>16508644

Yeah, it's somewhat more tied to independent projects that have surface and visible twitch integration, other games (Fortnite, PUBG, games like that) have levels of twitch integration which will target people that target people streaming.

>>16508644

First you have games that reward you for paying for twitch prime, then you have twitch drops.

help.twitch.tv/s/article/how-to-earn-drops?language=en_US

tomclancy-thedivision.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/news-updates/349869/dark-hours-twitch-drops-incoming

www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/56199

duelyst.gamepedia.com/Twitch_Drops

>>16508662

I know that Warframe does this, too. You watch the devstream on twitch and you can get various in-game items varying from boosters and sigils to weapons and warframes. Is it sleazy to offer incentives to use the service?

I am a long time stream watcher. Never watched any girls, mainly just doods who are super good at games (mario, iwbtg, spelunky, etc), or are genuinely entertaining to watch (i.e. not forcing entertainment but rather just playing in such a way it happens naturally - gaming shitposters so to say). I confess I still watch witwix, yes I know he's a degenerate, I still find him funny, and entertaining

With new twitch rules it became harder and harder to shitpost at games, mainly because of language police, and also because most of those streamers are generating butthurt for overly sensitive twitch soyboys and sluts (one just used to draw bad political cartoons in mspaint shitting over a certain community a good deal - not a very famous streamer, 500 viewers average, 2k tops - but well known so much, the regional office of the game he mained knew him very well, and hated a lot)

For some of us it was a kind of kinship feeling, as most viewers had similar opinions on certain topics inb4 circlejerk, yes, there is always a circlejerk where there is a certain consensus on a certain opinion. I haven't developed any lasting friendships from there, but some people did, and they are still good friends by this day.

Now I only watch it when I have absolutely nothing else to do and don't feel like doing anything (so, not very often, maybe 1 hour a week), so I kind of concur that watching twitch regularly in 2019 is an act of enormous faggotry.

t. watched twitch since justin

The only time I watched twitch was the same time I was dealing with crippling depression as a side effect of other medical problems. Once that was resolved it lost all appeal and I stopped watching it at all at around the time I regained enough motivation to eat more than once per day. This made me wonder if regular viewers are under similar, chronic circumstances, where seeing the streamer chuckle after reading something they posted in chat is the highlight of their social lives for that week.

>>16508615

Vinny/Joel and Pete Dorr are the only tolerable streamers to me, nothing can match the absurdity of sunday streams. Pete's pretty autistic and has a room filled with vidya garbage but overall he's likeable and knowledgeable about obscure games

>>16508353

>Is watching games more enjoyable than playing them?

If you're asking this question, you're missing the point of streaming. The vast majority of people watching a stream are not doing it as a substitute for playing the game, but for more casual entertainment when they can't or don't want to actually play it. They might be partially busy or they may simply have played the game a lot already: watching someone play a game for the first time can be enjoyable in a way you can no longer get by playing it. Some other reasons people watch streams:

>to git gud (by watching someone who is really good)

>to hang out/play multiplayer when you have no friends who like [Game]

>to see real gameplay for an honest preview of a game you're considering downloading

>to get ideas for new games to play (from someone who plays variety and has similar taste)

Twitch may be cancerous, but there are plenty of understandable reasons people like it.

>>16508700

You're here aren't you? :^)

>>16508551

Cheering/reacting. You can't see them without 2 extensions, but Twitch users use emotes to react to shit happening, Pog and PagChomp is something cool that the streamer pulled off, LULW and OMEGALUL is laughing at his failure. I'm watching that very same stream right now, it's entertaining enough to keep in the background while playing something and the chat is basically ultra fast memey shitposting. That streamer in specific is one of the good ones because he's relatively varied in the stuff he plays and even if he's playing the most boring shit imaginable the chat makes it tolerable. I've watched him on and off for about a year, maybe a year and a half now.

>>16508667

It's just another way to advertise. The more viewers you have on Twitch, the higher up people will see your channel and the higher your game will show up, leading to more interest in your game. I don't really think it's too negative of a way to have extra community engagement.

>>16508674

consider suicide. Cringe.

>>16508667

It's shitty to like video games and have video games tell you to watch someone else play to earn shit. Twitch prime shit is basically having a video game give you shit for buying a television subscription or license except the only channels you get are non-nude whores and fags playing video games. Why can't I get video game shit for playing the fucking game?

The only reason you'd ever watch somebody else play a video game is if they're better than you, and you want to see something impressive, or see how they do it. The latter only applies if you're a visual learner. I imagine the former is why people like speedrunning, but as far as speedruns go I prefer TAS because it's theoretically the best and also I fucking hate other people. So basically there's no good reason to watch a stream. Somebody post a webm of the Family Feud TAS.

>>16508729

What's stopping her now?

Sure she might not get the same money the biggest whores earn online, but it's more dignified than chaturbate.

>>16508353

>twitch

It can be nice for backgroud noice when you're programming. And when you're low on energy or want to relax before going to bed, listening to a good streamer is a million times more enjoyable than (((tv))).

>>16508487

I meant that I couldn't post my webm.

>>16508353

>Is watching games more enjoyable than playing them?

It's an entirely different experience that doesn't fill the same role at all so it's not that comparable objectively, subjectively though I'd say playing them is more enjoyable in general with a few minor exceptions.

>It's difficult to understand the popularity of twitch

Findom

Pretend internet friends

Background noise

Witnessing autism

That will cover 90% of viewers on here.

>>16508353

>Is watching games more enjoyable than playing them?

I'd much rather watch people play shitty/awful/bullshit games blind than play them myself.

>>16508751

>cuteprogram.png

>that shit

>cute

How are you able to watch Twitch when you are clearly blind?

>>16508671

Don’t you have a thread to ruin on /k/?

>>16508353

Most of the good streamers have low populations. They have played a game 500+ times and can explain parts of it better than any guide or forum post. Generally, if you watch them for more than 10 sessions, you will notice that most of their content is repeated. I'm not sure about faggots who only play video games, but for those who also make them, it can be useful in understanding what parts of a game create tension or frustration. Understanding how to create tension but minimize frustration can allow you to create a game that is better than it deserves to be.

>>16508808

please back 4chan

>>16508808

surrogate friends

>>16508357

surrogate gf

It's mostly just fun to shitpost with chat based on what the streamer is saying/doing. For example during AGDQ in trihex's chat, when a runner says the word "transition", and you want to post something about trannies but know you can't so people just use a nervous Pepe emote and say something like "i'm thinking it, chat" instead. This, too: >>16508742

>>16508828

But you're posting here to feel less lonely

>>16508782

>java

>for vidya

Isn't Java a bloated piece of shit or something?

>>16508808

I told you: >>16508742.

>>16508828

It's just the modern version of leaving the TV on all the time for background noise.

>>16508844

That's just a user interface. Java isn't useless for games, though. Minecraft was made with it, I've heard.

>>16508828

First day on /v/? Also very ironic you say that while posting an anime image

>>16508828

>having friends

>not lonely every day

Are you some kind of normalfaggot?

>>16508858

>Twitch is just pretending while you give reverence to a central figure in this strange quasi-cult scenario.

Sort of true, but people also get interaction with the chat in channels where it's not all "le black person" spam

>>16508353

cause streamers are my only friends

they always say hi to me and talk about stuff

giving them money makes me and them happy so it's a win win

>>16508834

Do you honestly get anything out of participating in that? Every twitch chatroom I've seen has been obnoxiously fast with a flood of single emoticon messages.

Even for shitposting it seems pointless since you're essentially shitting in a torrential shit filled ocean.

>>16508408

This is the correct answer. People are stupid, lonely faggots and throwing money at streamers is the only way many of them have any form of human interaction, or anything that resembles it.

Have any of you ever found social interaction with normalfags to be draining? Have you ever felt like everyone around you was dishonest and superficial? You know, typical /doomer/ stuff.

Everyone feels that because it's everywhere, especially in large cities. Normalfags just don't react to it the same way we do because they think that kind of crippling, paranoia-induced isolation is normal. Instead of detaching from normalfag society and finding image boards/religion/a hobby, they simply double down and seek surrogate friends like twitch streamers or LPers.

It's similar to the effect porn has on a man's brain, or that social media has on a woman's: you seek it out repeatedly because it's an instantly gratifying dopamine rush, and it asks nothing of you like a normal friendship does.

Many people who live this lifestyle (city-dwellers, leftists, etc.) are also complete basket cases when they aren't stapling their masks to their faces. If you go onto any social media profile for one of them, you're guaranteed to find hundreds of posts saying:

>shoutouts to the recent donors!

>great going, you are my favourite person!

>i just got a ncie commission from xxxx and i literally cant???? even???? say now nice it was?????

But every now and again there will be a few different posts, either to different subreddits or using different accounts.

<does anyone else feel really lonely all the time?

<i know that the family is a patriarchal heteronormative social construct, but i feel like i would want to have kids, even if it did cost me money

<i dunno, guys, i go to such lengths not to be an asshole to people, but i feel really stressed when i meet new people

>>16508477

>Its ```pathetic```.

This is an English language image board. Come back when you can read.

>>16508674

>I confess I still watch witwix, yes I know he's a degenerate

Why would anyone here know who that is?

>justin.tv

The history of the entire website is degenerate. I still feel dirty whenever I think of the word "lifecasting."

>>16508676

>seeing the streamer chuckle after reading something they posted in chat is the highlight of their social lives for that week

Probably. The streamer is close enough to appear genuine, but still far away enough for the viewer not to have to suffer any consequences as a result of his actions.

>>16508739

I'm not sure she would go for it, and there's too many twitch thots now, the well of normalfags i drying up and the initial rush is over. Big publishers and corps are now stepping in anyways.

>>16508828

Its just underage faggots.

>>16508880

Grow up.

>>16508889

It's fun for a little while, better if chat's not moving so fast. After a while I feel like I'm wasting my time and end up doing something else, though.

>>16508914

It's funny how high up some girls have their cams compared to guys. They don't even try to hide it. But like you said, if you point it out then you get called an incel, a term that never made sense to me. I could rape women, but choose not to, which makes me not an incel. And if I were someone who does rape women, then I wouldn't be an incel in that case, either.

>>16508859

It's not about whether it's possible, it's about whether it's a good idea or not. The fact that it was later rewritten in c++ as the "Bedrock Edition" implies otherwise.

>>16509028

kill yourself normalfag

>>16508685

Hi Mark

It's really not hard to understand at all if you've ever checked it out, it's basically a bunch of normalfags constantly trying to get the attention of their favorite streamer and get some sort of popularity going in the chat to feel their cool and funny. Pretty sad really.

>>16509028

>people seek out alternative ways to socialize around games

By watching streams? I can't see it ever being a good idea to treat streamers as your friends or social buddies. It's a one sided conversation at best, and a service where you pay to have someone react to your messages at worst. It's not socialization at all.

>>16509028

hurr durr kill yourself normalfag

LobosJr is the posterboy for what's so fucking obnoxious about "regular" Twitch (i.e., excluding the whores).

1. His commentary couldn't be more uninteresting. Most streamers don't seem to actually commentate and react to what is happening like you would expect from a Let's Player. It pisses me off. They zone in and out of reading chat, and reactions are often staged or exaggerated. If there isn't anything interesting in chat for a brief pause, some streamers will say next to nothing until they have something to read. And usually that thing they read is a non-sequitur question or comment.

2. His "jokes" are fucking annoying. 90% of it is just mispronouncing stuff, sometimes mispronouncing the same damn word over and over.

3. Constantly having to thank donations, subs and all that annoying shit that no one fucking cares about. Yes, you pay your rent by essentially going "hey, you could be sending me money!" every 60 seconds, but this just makes me think about all the psychological manipulation going on.

4. Despite being really good at the game, he doesn't play it normally and he barely understands how to play it normally should he want to. Not the biggest problem since watching someone struggle can be fun too, but it can also be fucking embarrassing since you come off as disconnected from your average viewer. In this case, since the streamer has played Dark Souls a bazillion times, being wrong about two handing or showing that he doesn't know how to actually fight a normal fucking encounter (because he always runs past it) is stupid.

5. He has to repeat the same stuff over and over. In a normal Let's Play, you can explain any special mods or goals at the start of the first video and you don't have to explain unusual tricks or events every. single. fucking. time. (and then explain it twice if someone missed it 10 seconds ago)

6. Twitch chat is an ad nausem loop of the same retarded questions and the most retarded attempts at cracking "reaction jokes".

copying some youtube comments mocking Twitch:

> Did he kill Kalameet?

> Did he kill Kalameet?

> Did he kill Kalameet?

> Did he kill Kalameet?

> Did he kill Kalameet?

>

> What's the eye of sauron above his head?

> What's the eye of sauron above his head?

> What's the eye of sauron above his head?

>

> Are you wearing the calamity ring?

> Are you wearing the calamity ring?

> Are you wearing the calamity ring?

>

> RIP RUN

> RIP RUN

> RIP RUN

> RIP RUN

>

> how did he get cursed?

> how did he get cursed?

> how did he get cursed?

> how did he get cursed?

> how did he get cursed?

>

> Game: "The curse will be lifted once you warp from this place"

> Chat: "THE EYE'S STILL THERE" "IT DIDN'T WORK!" "HE STILL HAS THE CALAMITY EFFECT!"

>

> DID WE RESTART? WHAT HAPPEND TO THE LAST RUN? DID WE RESTART YOU GUYS? WHERES HIS ESTUS?

>>16509091

This.

You guys see how fast that fucking chat is going, all posting shitty emotes and other reddit-level one liners. This is not socializing, the streamer doesn't even have time to read their fucking line.

>>16509095

You forgot to spam totally dead from asscancer.

>>16508551

Basically what >>16508703 said except that it's important to note that most of the emotes they're using are part of popular browser extensions, so the reason so much of the chat just looks like walls of text is because the person recording doesn't have those extensions and the emotes don't show up. To the users, it would look like a wall of emoticons.

>>16509197

Fapping to shemale porn mostly.

>>16508357

The illusion of "helping".

You see twitch allows for hundreds of thursty nerds to play out their fantasy of showing off to a gurrrl game on a video game and "helping" them.

They do this at a fee of donation.

With camgirls (actual whore sites) and porn. It's mostly a boxed system that your there for only one single reason. To jerk it. Theres no real attachment to be made with such indivisuals. They're whores, what kind of attachment would there be anyway? But with twitch thots theres an illusion that they aren't complete whores but just innocent "gurrl gamers" who are just shit at games and need YOU to help them with your amazing god like skill!

It's the same concept with play mates, however with twitch thots instead of showing them ingame your actual skill, you can just pretend to be skilled and throw money at the screen. Living out the fantasy but not actually having any in the first place.

>>16509213

Browsing sadpanda.

>>16509197

I dindu nuffin, officer

>>16508953

>Why would anyone here know who that is?

It's 8/v/, but it's still /v/. I've seen worse eceleb namedrops here.

A gigantic (literally a fucking gorilla beast) /b/tard streamer who was famous for taking donations to play a game and not playing it, smoking weed on stream, partying with JoshOG and his buttbuddies, and Cryaotic and his buttbuddies, also destroying I Wanna Be The Boshy, and subtly shitting on a GDQ event where he was invited to play Boshy; and also possible viewbotting, but I neither have proohs, nor do I give a shit

>>16509220

God I fucking hate this bitch but she is so fucking hot. I want to hate fuck so bad.

>>16508600

I wish I had that much money to throw around. damn.

>>16509031

>The fact that it was later rewritten in c++ as the "Bedrock Edition" implies otherwise.

Probably because Microsoft bought it, genius.

>>16509225

>>16509233

>this 3DPD whore

>attractive in any way

Holy fuck you people have shit taste.

>>16508636

>The games would reward you for watching streamers instead of actually playing the game.

>le watching meme

why would you even need the drops if you don't play the game?

especially since most people have that shit running in the background or it's a dev-stream about new shit etc.

>>16509095

He's played Souls so much he is probably long bored of it, but because its his gimmick and his fanbase are all Fromdrones, he has to keep it up.

>>16509233

I'm not getting the 2nd webm. Is that her voice or what?

>>16509283

Back the fuck off?!

>Watch someone play a game I greatly enjoy to see how they experience it

>Watch someone play utter trash and see them suffer and trash talk the game

>Watch a short snippet of a game I'm interested in to judge if I should give it a try or not

All of this assumes they have a good personality and are competent entertainers. Most fail at both aspects.

>>16509367

That is not her without makeup.

>>16509325 this is her with no makeup

It is an imitation of social interaction, but I don't understand how it holds up in the bigger streams. If you're watching someone with thousands or even just hundreds of viewers on at once your post is just going to get drowned in the torrential flood of shit in the chatbox and donating is the only way to get noticed. What is really annoying is that it's started the trend of every bit of game footage having some obnoxious, utterly banal commentary. If you just want to find some footage of a game you have to specifically search "no commentary" in the string or you get one of the billions of failed streamers or youtubers putting out some shitty footage with their annoying mug overlaying it. I can understand if someone has some insightful commentary to add, or if they're just a good entertainer and videogame streaming is the medium they choose to use, but for a lot of these streamers who endlessly blab to fill dead air but really have nothing to add it's just… what are they even providing?

>>16509367

Underneath the cutesy persona, twitch thots have a ruthless pragmatism to them. You can tell they're in it for the money and retards like the leddit screencaps above buy right into it.

>>16509364

We already know you'd make a shitty parent anyway so why bother projecting?

>>16509439

Really, the writing was on the wall when he decided to quit looking for a job and used youtubebux and the money he was donating to charity to live off of.

Now he's playing fortnite, with a facecam and a twitch stream instead of just doing funny videos, for fun.

It's for the best if you learn to recognize the signs and just unsubscribe, I can only hope more people do so.

>>16509509

No. Me and your waifu, cucklord.

>>16508353

I'd agree that playing is better than watching, with a few exceptions such as StarCraft 2. It's not really playable for casuals.

>>16509367

> so most women look pretty good at that age so long as they're not like obese and take basic care of their skin and hair.

Out of 17-18 year old girls, and even 17-18 white and asian girls, that one's clearly a 10 out of 10. That's just obvious. She's very far above the average. Here in Europe, most girls that age have unfortunate faces, are fat and/or mannish.

>>16509536

>He typed all this shit out

Face, anon.

Your waifu a slut.

>>16509536

>sceptical

>>16508549

>soy boy audibly angered by a woman's tits

>>16509560

Well yeah, he could get banned and have his entire livelihood destroyed by some dumb bitch who'll probably get away with a slap on the wrist. This is what Twitch streaming does to you.

>>16508600

>$400 for a pixel gif

I suddenly don't feel so bad spending 1k over a year long period for a full color fully shaded 4 page comic.

>>16509606

>1k over a year long period for a full color fully shaded 4 page comic

It is still pretty bad bro. On Star Citenzen pledge level.

>>16509613

Nah it's bad, arguably the worst financial decision I've made but sometimes you have to be a retard to understand that you're being retarded.

>>16509663

I don't watch sports very often, but when I do it's never about "power fantasy" or anything like that. I just appreciate strategy and skill.

>>16509702

I doubt that, Freud LARPer.

>>16508357

>why watch twitch thots when you can just look at actual porn

That's the real question right there. I assume it's mostly beta fags who get joy having some retarded roastie acknowledge their existence

So is Mixer just Microsofts cheap ripoff/chasin of Twitch?

>>16509339

>walks too fast

>compulsively needs to pass everyone walking slower than him

Is this an autism thing? Describes me well but I don't think I've met anybody else who does this

>>16509719

>Won't even PROUDLY say who's your waifu

<But i did

<your brain is stuck in a 0/1 paradigm that will never know what it is like to truly love

You wrote all of this shit just to be a pretentious faggot on the internet who's butthurt that his waifu's a slut.

How pathetic.

>>16509753

The joke is that most of those things are typical, but virgins are so self-conscious that they out themselves by thinking it's a visible sign of their virginity.

Twitch viewers are the same as the npcs that watch “unboxing reveal videos”.

Emotional leeches

>>16508364

>>16508353

Twitch is popular because streamers are like virtual buddies, boyfriends, or girlfriends. People pay for friendships in a world where everything is complete shit.

>>16509837

t. npc

>>16509853

t. npc

>using (((twitch)))

>>16509989

I never got this background noise shit, it seems so distracting. Can't you just focus on what you are doing? I guess it might make sense if you are doing some really monotonous grinding, but otherwise it just seems like it would lessen the enjoyment you could get from full investment in the game you're playing.

People watch game streaming for the personality behind the player or softcore porn. Any other explanation is wrong and should be laughed at.

>>16510128

I do it when playing anything that I am not invested in the story. It acttually helps me to focus on the game since it drowns out outtside noise.

>>16508600

This is too painful to read.

>>16510588

Because (((Vaccinations))) and (((ADD))) drugs have destroyed attention spans. Most can't pay attention for longer than a few minutes, let alone an entire 25 minute game of some variety.

>>16510643

everything's wrong with that

>>16510588

Would anyone really want to play League of Legends with the e-sportsfags? They'd rally to ban you for not playing a character right in an unranked match.

>>16510635

>Because (((Vaccinations)))

May as well just say heavy metal poisoning or even mercury poisoning.

>>16508353

it's nice background noise for social autists

like me

Unless you're watching competitive gaming/speedruns, or a preview of a game watching somebody play a game for their personality sounds pathetic.

>>16509233

>>16509325

Wasn't there a picture that proved (((she))) also has herpes as well?

Since this is the twitch thread I might as well drop this here: Artifact is so dead that dozens of people are using its twitch page to dream shows, movies, anime, and hentai for fun. It's pretty funny to see.

>>16510797

There were also people trying to stream the Christchurch event and Terry Davis videos were also there. It's weird how it blew because how it came to be, also do not be surprised if twitch finds a way to integrate movie watching in their platform. Although, it is better here than Twitch just because of the people and the movies we watch.

>>16510831

You mean the image or the general post?

If it's about the image my hard drive failed but I found out I had it laying on an sd card in my desk

>>16509766

>maximum entertainment

you wish, its mostly matchfixing so (((certain people))) can bet and scam retards addicted to gambling.

>>16510635

Actually adhd is a dopamine defficency in your brain, and that causes your attention span to be super short unless you do something thats a lot of fun (aka something that showers your brain in dopamine)

Not saying that pumping (((dr.schlomos))) amphetamines into you is doing you any good, but if you actually have add then thats the reason why your brain is fucked.

>>16510797

Its also probably the most entertainment that anybody ever got out of artifact.

>>16510914

Genuine question, where else would I be?

Twitch is fine, would recommend. Sure there's plenty of cancer like e-begging and streamer thots, but same could be said about other sites like youtube yet there's plenty of good stuff on youtube. Focusing too much on the cancer is a bit silly.

Twitch is good for two things. One is the community. A streamer with just 100-200 viewers can easily get a room full of players very quickly. Pretty neat for semi-dead games. Join the same game with the streamer and have fun instantly instead of having to wait for hours just to get a game going. Other thing twitch is good for is the e-sport and the whole competitive scene. Watching better players play is a good way to learn to get good and learn new strategies. Then there's the whole pro-scene with tournaments and stuff which can be fun to watch if you're into that kind of stuff. The worst thing about twitch is how aggressively monetized it is which can be quite off-putting for some but if you can ignore that then it's quite nice website. I've never given a single cent to a streamer.

Other than that, Twitch is literally IRC+stream. You can even join the channels with your IRC client. If you can get the appeal of IRC then you should be able to get the appeal of Twitch.

>>16510993

go to redit boomer

>>16509663

Video games are not a sport.

>>16511005

The pimp analogy is both hilarious and sad in a way. I don't hate Amazon or the whores for what they do, since every fuckwit that donates to them deserves to have all his money stolen.

>>16511012

thanks for telling us what we already know guy who pretends to be a japanese mom on the internet

>>16511012

>when the bar for your profession is set so low some 5/10 whore on the internet can do a better job

Why don't game journalists just kill themselves? What reason do they even have to keep living?

>>16508353

Assuming you are watching someone worth a damn* it is just extra shitposting hours.

Spending any money on it makes you a retard,likewise if you are wasting time hoping to potentially see some thot make a pose that gets you going.

*Mainly people who used to/still do good non-live content.Starting as a streamer sets you up for e-celeb faggotry as analysed by >>16509095

>>16511005

i mean consider how fucking mindless most normalfag entertainment was before twitch, the e celeb stuff is just the logical extension of what already existed in reality tv and celebrity worship

>fotm popular game + 'famous' person + titties

>>16511016

writing about games was never meant to be a large field, back in the heyday of gaming mags there were maybe a couple hundred of them at best & all they had to do was be mildly funny sometimes and tell you what cool shit was coming out we never used to call these wastoids journalists either, they were just writers

>>16511046

I remember a Croatian magazine giving Kings of Dragon Pass a 1% (IIRC it was PC Play) when it was launched, and there were also many other dubious scores given that I only really noticed when I reread a few issues from my collection once I was older.

Hell, there's that scan from an Amiga magazine with the author mocking his colleagues for being sellouts, so it's not even a new phenomenon. It does make me wonder when the whole of journalism became a field of worthless traitors only fit for a firing squad.

>>16508615

>>16508694

vinny is a greasy weedsmoking nigger that threw his viewerbase that he built up on shilling his stream on cuckchan under the bus by flooding his stream with tumblr hordes instead, which "forced" them to ditch the chatango and use the twitch chat instead

joel is the definition of a homosexual swedecuck retard who becomes disgusted at the sight of womens breasts and keeps zooming in on mens asses at every chance he gets.

by shilling them, you associate yourself with homosexuals, furfags, otherkin, and any other degenerate activities that tumblr engages in.

>>16511049

koreans have been streaming on afreeca since god knows how long; possibly as long as justin.tv was around,

also, koreans are the ones that started the shitty "mukbang" thing.

>>16508521

>Twitch is no longer relevant.

>>16508353

It's like watching sports on TV. You could go outside and kick a ball around yourself, but that's completely different from the level of skill pro players display.

>>16511382

that would imply that twitch streamers are good at playing games, which they are not

>>16511383

Right, no idea why anyone would watch anything except pro's.

>>16508569

>a lot of people a lot of time only have a smartphone

>Also, watching while working.

I sometimes watch full playthroughs / let's plays in these situations. But I prefer no commentary videos or at least videos where the person only speaks if it's relevant. I don't understand how people can even tolerate videos where the player acts like an hyperactive cocaine-fueled sperglord who won't shut up for a second.

>>16511817

who knows, man. I've always assumed those people just appeal to similarly hyperactive 11 year olds.

>>16508615

I tried watching Joel's streams a couple of times when eating and it was painful, it felt like watching a mentally handicapped person hurt themself. I don't think he has the mental capacity to play anything but bing bing wahoo.

One of the streams was S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and he was making obviously bad decisions all the time and walking right over all the shiny artifacts without noticing them.

He's also the very definition of a swedecuck, as >>16511316 said. There's never even a slightly edgy joke, but he's always ready to joke about gay shit, and I remember him joking about drumpf as if that's somehow related to him.

>>16511846

>there was a better version all along

Huh.

Thanks.

>>16511823

you are correct. might want to add autism to the equation while youre at it

>>16511835

>and I remember him joking about drumpf as if that's somehow related to him.

joel has a fetish for the united states, but he only manifests this by spamming shitty bald eagle/Hulk Hogan/"cheeseburger freedom man" jokes, with a funny voice so as to get a laugh out of his sperg viewers.

he is probably too mentally deficient to comprehend actual american values.

add to that the usual swedecucked "global citizen" mentality further fueled by his global viewerbase and his geoguessr streams

>>16511852

try iqdb'ing your images sometime, chocolate lover

>>16511794

Literally no actual pro streams, that's why you have to put up with such God awful horrendous music if you want to learn anything, like so:

>>16511914

i dont understand why people are allergic to in game audio and music.

this isnt just limited to "pro streamers/players" or whatever, but also twitch streamers in general. they all love to play absolute garbage music over the game audio; sometimes going so far as to MUTE the game audio.

>>16511927

The most likely explanation is that they've heard all of the game music ten thousand times already, as it takes a lot of practice to become good enough to make a living from playing a video game. So now they're bored with the game music.

It's thanks to the Artifact section.

>>16509211

WTF are you talking about, with camsluts you control the vibrator with your tips

>handrubbing intensifies

>>16508353

It's like having your very own TV show except people can actually interact with it.

Watching people play games only works when the commentary is genuinely knowledgeable about the game and isn't annoying. Outside of a few dev commentaries and TAS commentaries (which isn't really someone playing it), this is the only time I've ever seen it.

>>16511014

>guy who pretends to be a japanese mom on the internet

>>>/somethingawful/

>>16511927

Streamers can end up getting dosh from having donators vote for music.

>>16511016

>What reason do they even have to keep living?

SSRI's.

>>16512682

so the viewers are not only paypigs, but they have shit taste in music as well.

>>16512719

I mean you could claim that playing moonman on stream is a super cool thing but that's completely glossing over the fact that you're still paying some dumb fuck who plays shit games just so you can hear the first few seconds of moonman before it gets cut off.

It's the DSP/LTG paradox, except instead of wasting time you're wasting time AND money.

What I really want to know is why 99% of streamers and Jewtube personalities are absolute dogshit at everything they play. Outside of speedrunners, almost all of them play games like they have literally never interacted with any electronic device before ever.

No idea

I like watching youtube videos of games to see what to buy

But ive used twitch like twice when i used to play runescape and i hated it

>>16512749

Cuz like all " famous" people theyre probably hand selected by youtube googlw or the elite

>>16512858

Just wanted to say that your spoiler is a very reasonable view. Nothing wrong with liking things y'know.

Also dohohohoh, when it comes to paypigs there's people who've spent THOUSANDS on streamers. I cannot even imagine their warped minds.

>>16513079

>Nothing wrong with liking things y'know.

My counterargument is NTR.

TWITCH TV IS VIDYA CUCKOLDRY

I have 8TB of downloaded twitch girl clips, thumbnails, and some entire streams for a few girls

>>16513205

why?

>>16513205

post the best bits you liar

I watch various speedruns and MTG on twitch. Speedruns can be neat to watch, since runners often have to do many difficult to perform tricks in short succession, but can get boring when they repeatedly reset. Mtg (and card games in general) is good to watch since you can basically play the game vicariously (imagine what you would do), and learn from the ultimate outcomes of the game.

Also both are nice to put on in the background sometimes.

I don't really bother with chat, and do think it is pathetic to burn fuck tons of money so the streamer will say your name once or twice.

>>16510993

Early Twitch/Justin TV and current twitch are so vastly different it's hard to compare them. On Early twitch you would find nerds and could find obscure games. Now Twitch is a popularity contest full of sponsored content who don't even mention it's sponsored.

It's like speed running used to just be autistic quake players trying to find ways to break the engine. Now it's kids reading wikis to play mario 64 1 second faster. They repeat motions they don't understand themselves because they think it will get them attention and a temporary escape from their self imposed misery.

Twitch today is little more than corporate background noise. Which sponsors a lot of the poz in gaming. Amazon owns it and they give money to roasties, queers and freaks to get more attention. Twitches only real "perk" is that it's easier to raise cash on it than on other video platforms. A kid giving you 50 bucks on his mothers credit card is a whole lot easier than youtube.

>>16511005

Most of the money isn't brought in trough cam whores. Women can't hit the top 5% of Twitch, they simply don't have the skill or the stamina to invest that much into their channels. The top streamers are all men. So While women have an easy time getting into the top 70-90%, the very peak of Twitch is all men.

>>16512673

>Actually believing that's a woman

He's a top tier shitposter. He's still a dude. Stop playing pretend.

I'll watch my friend's stream just to see how he's doing in a game I already beat or vice versa when I'm doing something that partially occupies my focus. Neither of us are "community streamers".

>>16508364

I enjoy watching videos of unexpected shit happening in said game, like griefing and DSP. Otherwise I only would watch a gameplay video to help me decide what I should think about a game (and I try to find one with no commentary). Very occasionally, if I like a game a lot and it has a lot of options, I'll watch a bit of other people playing it simply because I'm curious of what strategies other people come up with. I also occasionally design games in my spare time though so that might be related.

>it's more fun to watch the game instead of play it myself

>it's more fun to watch my wife get nailed by tyrone

Watching others play games instead of playing the games yourself is psychologically rooted in cuckoldry.

benis

>>16512729

the joke is on the paypig; the streamer laughs all the way to the bank

>>16514402

thats fine

>>16512749

talentless faggots without video game experience that think of jewtube/twitch as a "career path"

>>16514548

bagina

>>16512749

I was actually wondering about that myself.

They know how to speedrun, but playing the game normally is impossible for them.

>>16508353

>OMEGALUL

>LULW

>OMEGALUL

>LULW

>LULW

>LULW

It's like sheeps baaing in choir.

>>16513189

this

>>16511835

if I was shilling him I would've said his name in my post

he's just a good example of someone who plays games others can't/won't, that's pretty much who a streamer should be

>>16512749

It may be because having to interact with the chat and play a game at the same time can be kind of hard.

>>16515079

<if I was shilling him I would've said his name in my post

>posts one of his streams in his post

yeah right

<he's just a good example of someone who plays games others can't/won't

>geoguessr

>minecraft

>gmod

>undertale

>deltarune

>bing wahoo 64

>oblivion

>earthbound

>reacting to E3 2018

>tekken 7

>many other examples

no. you are a colossal faggot with extremely shitty taste. please kill yourself.

>>16515139

really nigger

>>16514952

he said the 99%, not the top 3% streamers

>>16515161

Have you ever tried talking to someone while trying to play something difficult? It's not that easy.

>>16514413

Does this happen a lot on twitch? Why don't the streamers tell them to fuck off?

>>16515185

nobody cares

>>16515193

all i did was correct an illiterate anon. calm down you autists

>>16514952

That's only for a competitive game that is no longer in the limelight, such as the one you posted. Any time a game is new the view counts are much higher, and those high viewcounts are driven by unbearable faggots like Destiny failing at the game and getting mad at stream chat when they try to correct him. Your anecdotal screenshot is also countered by my anecdote of seeing a Brazillian former porn star make salad in the League of Legends category. That was one of the top 5 popular streams that day.

>>16515219

stop shitting up /pol/ more than it already is you whinny retard

Since I was small I liked watching people play shit as much as I liked playing it, maybe there's some need for lonely people to have some talking head/podcast on at all times but I've watched non-commentary playhroughs for years before live streaming was a thing. Now I only watch one single Twitch streamer either live or on YT afterwards because he has really interesting mods and playthroughs, like a modded BB run. Personally I think if you enjoy playing games, why wouldn't you enjoy watching games?

>>16508364

Have you guys never watched your older sibling playing games in awe ?

>>16515257

you're a kike, mossad shill

>>16515184

No one is making them talk when they can't. They could easily find the mental capacity to do commentary on what's happening in the game, but they choose to entertain the retarded audience instead.

>>16515284

Can you even talk without saying "kike" or "goy" in every reply? Settle down.

>>16515231

>the pleasures of the flesh and putting pussy on a pedestal.

So are people who jerk off to hentai

>>16510815

The Terry Davis channel doesn't go down because Artifact is played in the corner.

>>16508417

Ted Kaczynski was right.

>>16508600

What is it about Twitch tiddy that drives men to the point of madness? Why would you give thousands upon thousands of dollars to a woman you will never physically meet?

>>16515580

>gif

that one frame where her skirt changes colour is anoying me.

>>16512617

>>16509211

I think you may be on to something, actually. It's a male instinct to help attractive women, not only because if you do it in the right way she might like you, but even if not it's always better to help preserve the "good genes" (supposed to be reflected in appearance, but this is too easy to spoof with modern technology) for the good of the community. In other words, a cuck tipping his fedora for milady technically helps out by preventing miladys feet from getting sore or whatever even though he isn't banging her. In a way, it could be said that adding sex as a direct reward to this equation makes it less appealing, because it would make the woman a whore in the literal sense, debasing her. But as long as she doesn't have sex where anyone can see or do raunchy things that suggests she has sex all the time (standards for this have fallen very rapidly), it preserves her value and makes her more attractive to more men. This is probably common sense to most on this board, but I never thought about the direct application in Twitch stream income.

It's the difference between "I'm going to give that slut ten bucks to take her shirt off" and "I'm just giving ten bucks to help out this lovely princess, oh look she accidentally bent over on camera while wearing yoga pants, silly princess haha!"

>>16508353

The only reason I ever watch anyone else playing games is that I'm unsure how good a certain game is and want to check out some gameplay before I buy/pirate. I'd guess normalfags do it because they can't do anything without social validation, and games are too nerdy and take too much effort to actually play.

Other than that, like other anons have said, the game might be interesting for reasons not at all related to gameplay, the streamer might be agreeable, and the mindless shitposting/memeing might be enjoyable to tasteless normalfags.

>>16515606

I like when the seal eats the snow.

>>16508834

>shitpost the same cancer over and over again because the chat's too fast for anything else

I've been in quite a few anon streams for shit like BMNight or mania and all of them have been at least slow enough to actually discuss something while you're there. If you're just posting the same few beyond-stale memes again and again, and even worse, on a heavily censored chat that doesn't allow you to make tranny jokes because muh feels, I can't imagine how anybody would find that entertaining.

Daily reminder that they are slowing moving the platform to be subscription based. You will need amazon prime to watch streams in the future. Unfortunate reality

>but muh dlive/p2p streaming

People are sheep. Streaming is absolutely going to become the new TV, people don't want funny streams with 5 viewers, they want to type meaningless garbage in a room with 20k viewers.

Twitch is specifically designed to foster this mindset. Everything is set up to funnel viewers into "big" streams who toe the party line because a solid 90% of their income comes directly from the whole Twitch Prime scam

>>16515831

Bingo, anon. More than anything this is a message of how centralization always topples the will of the individual. Everything will soon be centralized to the favor of the powers that be and there's nothing we can do about it.

Now do you see what niggerpill was getting at?

>>16515831

We never burned right.

>>16515845

Indeed. Glad that /v/ is realizing the futility of the fight against (((them))) and admitting defeat today. There is nothing that can be done anymore.

Kikes always get what they want, nothing can ever change that. Kikes will always fucking win.

>>16509220

>2. Don't have any friends but wish they did

What the fuck, why don't they just make imaginary friends? It's easier, cheaper, and healthier too.

>>16515857

That reference flew right over you dumb niggerpilled head, didn't it?

Laughing at Dlive/Bitchute (((cumpill))) retards who think they can topple Amazon's eternal dominance of streaming rn

>>16514546

Explain watching people play shitty games then.

>>16515873

Fuck right off.

>>16515166

Yeah but 99% of streamers are objective failures with <100 viewer counts who pull in maybe $5 a month from their "hobby." He's right that that top 1% of streamers is where 99% of the money and viewers are.

That's definitely part of twitch, possibly a larger part than the sad sacks who use streamers as friend emulators. Even for new or niche games, the most popular streamers are *usually* showing high level gameplay. There are exceptions, like DSP, who get popular because they are dumpster fires, twitch thots, and people like pewdiepie who absolutely are aiming for the friend simulator audience.

>>16511846

Sauce?

>>16511316

>threw his viewerbase that he built up on shilling his stream on cuckchan

Do you have the full story? I'd be curious to know as I only found him a few years back. I've also heard he used to shill on cuckchan

Twitch was fun, but then I either grew up or things got real stale and depressing. Emotes also became stupidly uncreative. Last I remember people were using what was basically the same stuff BUT NOW ITS ZOOMED IN DUDE HAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOOK ITS FUNNY BECUASE ITS THE SAME EXACT EMOTE BUT NOW ITS CROPPED AND ZOOMED IN OOHHHHHOHOHOHOHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA. It's fucking gay.

I like it for watching tournaments obviously, but as far as the individual streamers go I tend to gravitate towards only watching really skilled and experienced players that I can learn from and thus play the game better later.

>>16516033

Japan was years ahead of the west with streaming video conventions. I remember watching Japanese streams of television and there was a shitload of text scrolling across the screen, and I thought "who the hell would want to watch this? It's so distracting. Now the exact same thing has become prevalent in the west and I see how it works pretty well now, but we did sort of clean up the presentation of the text a but to make it less intrusive.

>>16510792

I'm actually curious as to this is true or not.

>>16510902

Holes a hole lad, I wouldn't mind pumping a load in this bitch and letting some poor willing beta raise the kid after. But since the previously referenced anon mentioned herpes, I probably wouldn't. You know now that the other anon mentioned it, I'm actually wondering which twitch/snap/general social medias whores are actually just attention whores or actual ones and which have STD's. We all know that cosplaying thot Jessica Nigri is fake as fuck, tits, hair and god knows what else.

>>16516097

>he actually got to know some random fag by name and even "knew" of his exploits

Are you sure that it isn't you that's the degenerate? Sure as hell sounds like it.

It only makes sense for watching competitive multiplayer games at a high skill level. Otherwise, just play that shit yourself. Unless it's to make fun of somebody that sucks shit at playing.

>>16516098

>Brave

Old brave was so much better. Multi session and incognito mode being in same windows was great, better UI too.

>>16508844

Java is slower because it has garbage collection and runs on a virtual machine instead of on your machine.

>>16516098

>>16516120

Not enough for twitch to care really. Most of twitch staff are busy jerking off to livestreamers. But it'll be rich to see if the /pol/ boi's somehow fill up the top 10 twitch channel spots by streaming nothing but edgy shit.

>>16516127

Garbage collection isn't really that bad, tons of games nowadays are written in managed environments like C#.