YouTube Gamers Are Mad At Jimmy Kimmel

I don't watch his show.... but still I agree. Watching other people play video games - as you would watch a sports game - is boring as hell. Yeah, it's dumb! It's 5 steps beyond dumb.
And the buffoons who get riled up over this clearly make too much love to their controllers. They need a girlfriend. Pets and virtual girlfriends don't count!

I can play for hours on end, but I'd be damned if I were to sit on my ass and watch other people play a game.
 
aShrubbery! said:
I don't watch his show.... but still I agree. Watching other people play video games - as you would watch a sports game - is boring as hell. Yeah, it's dumb! It's 5 steps beyond dumb.
And the buffoons who get riled up over this clearly make too much love to their controllers. They need a girlfriend. Pets and virtual girlfriends don't count!

I can play for hours on end, but I'd be damned if I were to sit on my ass and watch other people play a game.
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I'll watch friends play Dota and rocket league because they are fun to watch. Videogames donkey is also some one to watch.
 
twonunpackmule said:
I honestly don't understand why people watch people play games over the internet. I don't get it. I'm 30 and I just don't get it. I rather be playing them.
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Well I watch it rarely but mostly to see what new games to play. But you really only watch people like Game Grumps or PewDiePie. Really for the personality people have when playing games. Also sometimes if I'm stuck and need a hint then another reason to watch people play. Competative PvP is another reason to watch videos to pick up hints.

Here's a good example of why watching people play games is great.
 
Never seen anything from Kimmel till now, but I lol'd at the performance. And agreed with him on the subject of watching others play games, but there's no accounting for taste I guess.
 
I've been gaming on PC's since I can remember. Watching someone else on Youtube play games though, I don't get the fascination. I agree with Jimmy Kimmel.
 
To be honest, if it wasn't for me watching others play games on YouTube, I wouldn't have bought the majority of my Steam library.

Most of the time I get a more neutral review or feel of the game when compared to big name places like IGN or GameSpot.

To add to that, there are some games that are enjoyable to watch, specifically for me Kerbal Space Program. That game I have sat and watched a good player for a few hours at a time.

Sometimes you just get engrossed with their creativity and how they come up and explain the way they play the game.
 
aShrubbery! said:
I don't watch his show.... but still I agree. Watching other people play video games - as you would watch a sports game - is boring as hell. Yeah, it's dumb! It's 5 steps beyond dumb.
And the buffoons who get riled up over this clearly make too much love to their controllers. They need a girlfriend. Pets and virtual girlfriends don't count!

I can play for hours on end, but I'd be damned if I were to sit on my ass and watch other people play a game.
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It's posts like this that get us riled up. I would be perfectly content to enjoy my hobby and ignore those that dislike it just like I ignore those who are heavily into sports. However idiotic posts like this making sweeping and extremely ignorant generalizations tends to irritate me. My wife and I both enjoy esports, we don't particularly care that some don't as we understand that everyone has different taste. What we don't do however is go around insulting everyone who doesn't like what we like.
 
twonunpackmule said:
I honestly don't understand why people watch people play games over the internet. I don't get it. I'm 30 and I just don't get it. I rather be playing them.
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Me neither, but it might be that they just have so much time on their hands that they are bored enough that choosing to watch someone else play a game seems like its worthwhile. I don't know.

Between work and chores, I get so little time to do what I want, that there is no way in hell I'm going to waste it on watching other people have fun :p
 
Well, at least the raging nerds of the Internet didn't threaten to rape him.

They didn't threaten to rape him, did they?
 
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he is just a big business entertainment shill for movies, tv, music, books etc. of course he will belittle people who do something that does not profit his sponsors.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041832888 said:
Me neither, but it might be that they just have so much time on their hands that they are bored enough that choosing to watch someone else play a game seems like its worthwhile. I don't know.

Between work and chores, I get so little time to do what I want, that there is no way in hell I'm going to waste it on watching other people have fun :p
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Same here, I work full time, watching someone else play games on my time off, not my ideal of fun either. Perhaps that is why I don't enjoy it, I don't have the time to sit around.
 
Leave it to gamers to do the whole faceless threat thing over something they don't like. The good news is that the VAST majority of them would never do that in real life and are very, very likely to hurt themselves if they go outside (seriously, try to take one out jogging with you and see what happens...so sad). IDK who Jimmy Kribble is, but whatever, he's entitled to his opinion and the stupid, insane responses all gamers make just further validates they very often don't live in reality like the rest of us.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
Leave it to gamers to do the whole faceless threat thing over something they don't like. The good news is that the VAST majority of them would never do that in real life and are very, very likely to hurt themselves if they go outside (seriously, try to take one out jogging with you and see what happens...so sad). IDK who Jimmy Kribble is, but whatever, he's entitled to his opinion and the stupid, insane responses all gamers make just further validates they very often don't live in reality like the rest of us.
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You're slipping, CreepyUncle, the trolling is getting too obvious. We know you can do better.
 
twonunpackmule said:
I honestly don't understand why people watch people play games over the internet. I don't get it. I'm 30 and I just don't get it. I rather be playing them.
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This. I have no desire to watch other people do things I can do myself.
 
Jimmy Kimmel is kind of an asshat (see what he did to Jay Leno) but no one deserves to have such hate thrown at them
 
I think he's pretty funny. I'm in my 30's though. Maybe it's the "youngins" that are getting so offended. I get why people watch gaming videos to learn new tricks/mechanics, but watching people just stream their play through seems kind of pointless to me.

He should do a segment on the stupid prize box or whatever openings they have on youtube. I catch my daughter watching those sometimes and I'm like "WTF..." .
 
Exavior said:
The problem with people like this, is that they help make things worse.

Yes it is ok to be upset with something that somebody says or does, but when you turn around and act in ways like this you are only proving anything bad said about you. Just like any minority group that is be bad and they turn around and respond with violence. That isn't helping anything.

When people say that gamers or "internet people" are bad and we turn around and pick up our pitch forks and start burning down houses... we aren't doing anything but proving them right. And in this case it is giving him ammo for his show.
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This is what I don't get.

Your group has a negative stereotype associated with it, rightfully or not.

Someone angers that group.

The group proceeds to turn into a walking example of the negative stereotype. The group then complains about being stereotyped.

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I love mountain biking. I live, eat, breathe mountain biking. But I've never sat and watched a video of someone else riding for more than 10-15 seconds. I don't even watch races. I'd rather be outside riding than watching someone else ride.

This new "watching other people play video games" puzzles me.
 
DeFex said:
he is just a big business entertainment shill for movies, tv, music, books etc. of course he will belittle people who do something that does not profit his sponsors.
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The most amusing part of the "neckbeard" stereotype is that the ones who tend to push it, are often the same (women) who criticise everyone else for body shaming, and want to be accepted and found attractive despite their curves*

(*and by curves, we of course mean rolls of fat...)

The hypocrisy is delicious.
 
pothb said:
... Not death threats, unless he gets other ones. They all just seem to tell him to die, not saying they're gonna kill him.

Not a particular fan of Jimmy Kimmel, myself.
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This ^

"Go die" or just "die" is NOT a death threat, it's simply a version of "I hope you die" or tyhe historically more popular "drop dead".

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I guess we are lucky Jimmy Kimmel isn't a modern hyper-sensitive fundamentalist feminist. :p
 
I watch people play video games online once in a while. I have a debilitating DOTA2 addiction so I'll watch videos on the game mechanics and such. I'll watch reviews of games, and occasionally I'll watch some gameplay videos to get an idea of what a game is actually like since 99% of the marketing for them these days is just cinematic trailers that don't tell you anything about the GAME aspect of it.

That said, I can't stand most of the people streaming their playthrough of random game X. It's pretty much all the same - scream loudly and say something stupid in a silly voice. It's just a step above Fred, and that kind of comes off like an insult, but it's simply the most accurate way I can describe these videos.

If you don't know who the YouTube celebrity Fred is, I'm sorry for bringing him up. Please don't hate me.
 
Sovereign said:
This is what I don't get.

Your group has a negative stereotype associated with it, rightfully or not.

Someone angers that group.

The group proceeds to turn into a walking example of the negative stereotype. The group then complains about being stereotyped.

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Because a very small minority of asshats who fit the stereotype obviously represent the millions of us who don't..... right?
 
the-one1 said:
I love mountain biking. I live, eat, breathe mountain biking. But I've never sat and watched a video of someone else riding for more than 10-15 seconds. I don't even watch races. I'd rather be outside riding than watching someone else ride.

This new "watching other people play video games" puzzles me.
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You REALLY need to watch Rampage.
 
Those were some pretty good flames typical internet trolls those people usually don't have jobs or a life and going stuff like trying to finish Dark souls on twitch is all they got. I found working with Millennials to be a totally different breed then with Gen X or Baby boomers.
 
Don't like Kimmel, don't watch him. No one watches, he goes away. All this sort of stupid stunt does is give him publicity. I've never been a fan of his, but I also don't want him dead. There is plenty of space between "I love someone" and "I want someone dead", people need to chill out.
 
id watch esports if it was more like professional wrestling (and i drank a good amount of vodka).

during the championship, some guy is in the middle of a big combo in killer instinct? bam, gets hit with a chair in real life by a masked opponent from the crowd. oh no! the no one is at the controller! beardneck the neckbeard is going to take the championship!

... lights go out, crappy dubstep plays... only the tv is on, the characters onscreen have stopped moving...

30 seconds pass, the lights come on again, you for you to see beardneck the neckbeard stuck in a grapple with the millennial falcon. the guy who was previous knocked out from a chair slow regains consciousness, stumbles over to the controller, and ultra combos his way to victory.

itd be a dumb show. itd be embarrassing to admit you watch it. but id watch it drunk. better than vanilla esports at least.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Kimmel is an idiot... "I can't comprehend people watching other people play video games"

He's probably around my age (give or take some time) you telling me he never went over to a friends house, or some family member with older cousins, and people were playing nintendo and you just watch them play? Sometimes because they were so good they could play a while, sometimes because they were dicks and never gave you a turn.
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But you weren't sitting there with the intent of watching the other person play. You were sitting there watching to bide your time until you got a chance to play.
 
twonunpackmule said:
I honestly don't understand why people watch people play games over the internet. I don't get it. I'm 30 and I just don't get it. I rather be playing them.
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For me it's more of a learning experience, I don't play fast paced online games (SC2,etc) because I don't have the reflexes (or desire) to do everything lightning quick. However I absolutely watch people play Hearthstone online, because it shows me how good players play the game, and since they often narrate it I get a peek into their thought process. Now I'm still not that good at Hearthstone, and I don't have terribly many cards, but I will say I can pretty much crush anyone who has similar cards and is new(ish) like me because I understand the game quite a bit more.

That said, watching some Street Fighter Eleventy-Seven Yoga Edition championships can be fun, I don't play those games much anymore, but I used to, and again, this is like the good old days at arcades where people would crowd around a person just to watch them play a game if they're doing so particularly well.
 
Parja said:
But you weren't sitting there with the intent of watching the other person play. You were sitting there watching to bide your time until you got a chance to play.
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Not always, especially when it was a particularly difficult game, or some 2 player shannigans where you playing would last all of about 30 seconds. Which in the case of some of these online streams and what not is exactly the case.
 
twonunpackmule said:
Right. However, you can play a video. It isn't exactly easy to setup to play a sport. Requires a bunch of people and physical conditions.

Watching some random person play something you could very well be doing is odd to me. And, before someone mentions "well, do you watch friends play?" No. that's boring too...but, at least, I know the actual person.

My friend livestreams games and it's the stupidest fucking thing.
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It is a good thing that many have a different view of this 'thing' that is starting to generate new sponsors new cash flows and new means for a living and entertainment.

Believe me, if I had a good enough personality to entertain people while they watch me play games and it would produce enough income I could stay home, I would.

I am glad they do it though, makes it easy to take a look at new games.
 
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