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Penny Arcade - Comic - Beaking
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Beaking
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Squirrely Dan: Oh I've hoovered schneef off the tummy of an exotic parrot while livestreaming on Twitch.
Plus, streamers are so obnoxious with their constant "thanks for the coins!" "thanks for the sub" "thanks for the support you guys." Like, they call that community engagement, but what they are doing, reading a name on a screen and parroting it back, that is not engagement. But oh well. I don't need to understand it. I'll just continuing living my life without it cause I don't need it or want it.
Panel 3 cracks me up. Dat face.
Because a lot of people including me like to watch a certain game, usually their favorite streamer but do not particularly play that game. For example, I hate playing Horror games but I love watching people play them, that way I can still appriciate the game without the stress of playing it. Or people like to watch people stream because they like to see what their favorite streamer thinks of the game and see their reaction of certain moments, a lot of people play the game and afterward watch a stream. That's also me.
Or people don't have the current system in question and want to watch a playthrough.
It's also nice to have in the back ground and hang out with a community.
Sure there are a bunch of obnoxious streamers and the big channels with big streamers don't really allow for community chat or interacting because the chat moves at lightning speed but the medium sized channels with good moderation with a good person as a streamer that doesn't put up a persona is where you need to be for that.
Astral Chain on the Switch is a perfect example right now.
I don't necessarily care about who I'm viewing that's playing the game, but I'll definitely steer away from obnoxious persona caricature streamer types, and try to find someone who reacts a bit more normal to what they're playing. I don't mind a channel with a few bells and whistles like those overlays when someone subs or donates, either. That's just part of the Twitch culture, and I can deal with that.
To the point of the comic, I am just as baffled why anyone would watch a streamer play WoW. Classic WoW was monotonous for quest grinding, so unless it's a culmination of people watching 40-man raids (and the viewership probably peaked watching the raid guilds get world firsts), I don't think Classic WoW viewership is going to remain as high until BWL drops.
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I'm going to #NotAllStreamers this, but I have to say I really like watching a lot of the PA streams. For the same reason I like watching PA TV back when that was a thing. I feel like the PA people are my friends, at this point. I like hanging out with them. Like you would if you were sitting next to a friend watching them play a game. And not like looking in the window watching them, either, because generally the PA chat doesn't scroll and you can actually have authentic conversations both with the hosts and the other chat folks. People in chat are actually recognized by the host, and recognize each other.
But yeah, I totally get what you're talking about with streamers liked by the masses. But I don't understand why people watch sports, either. It's the same kind of deal.
"I don't understand why someone would play video games instead of go outside"
"I don't understand why someone would watch sports instead of just play them"
"I don't understand why some would *insert anything* instead of *insert anything else*"
All these statements show is an inability to look at something from a perspective outside your own.
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It's just shorthand for "these things don't appeal to me", for the most part. Like I can say "I don't get why people like durian". But it's not because I can't understand the concept that other people like things I don't. No need to make it into a personal failing.
Yea but words have meanings. And just using different words(like you just did there) it conveys the actual thing you intend.
And when the person follows up with more explanation about how they seem to actually mean this thing and not something else, it doesn't seem to make sense to assume they mean anything else.
We all know how words work, yeah. But wait, you didn't actually mean that we didn't know that words have meaning? You were just trying to make a point?
Point made.
There are funny, entertaining people out there.
Honestly there's a pretty huge variety of 'watch person/people play games' content out there with many different personalities involved.
I'm not really sure what you are trying to do here. It really feels like you are just arguing for the sake of arguing. Both your posts have seemingly picked 1 random part and ignored the rest in order to have something to disagree with. I want to try to give you the benefit of the doubt again so I'll respond to this one.
This post doesn't even make sense with what I said. Had I said "Don't you know words have meaning?" or something along those lines then it would make more sense but.. I didn't. So even at that base level this response doesn't make any point at all.
And even further I specifically went on to explain that in this case the person further adds details that they seemed to really mean this thing and that's why I said what I said. So even if your initial response did make sense on it's own, it still wouldn't apply here.
I'm not entirely sure what point you are even trying to make at this time.
This. Plus, I like watching speedrunning channels. I'll never be a speedrunner, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy watching runs or, even better, races.
There's also things like Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team and Critical Role on Twitch.
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In general watching a skilled player in a game with a learning curve to see what someone else does instead of me fumbling around lost can be a worthwhile experience.
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We need to go deeper.
One of these days, I’m going to stream myself watching someone else streaming themselves playing WOW.
Edit: Oh I spoke too soon, thank you and I love you and your taste in TV shows, Steel Angel.
Not sure how it is on Twitch, but on the rare occassion I watch a recording of a stream, they only do the community engagement in lulls in play, like between rounds or something like that.
But from my experience there's two types of streamer audiences: The ones that watch because of the personalities/reactions, and the ones who play to watch how pro-level players play to try to pick up on strategies.
Or in my case, it's because they're streaming Trivia Murder Party and I'd never get to actually play it otherwise.
Perhaps it's a 4, and he's simply expressing his enthusiasm for international relations.
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WoW isn't even that fast paced and I have a hard time understanding how people watch it.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
You playing a game where everything goes horribly wrong, and you honestly have no idea why... That could actually make for an interesting stream.
If I were good enough at the game to actually understand, sure. Its a great game to watch spiral out of control. But when it spirals out of control because I'm trying to even figure out how to do something basic properly and oh wow my wife stabbed me in my sleep while I was lost in a menu I didn't know how to use... Nobody has fun.
But I 100% guarantee it's because I'm really, really bad at it. 90% of the viewers would be screaming at their monitors like armchair quarterbacks as I make depressingly rookie mistakes.