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Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of YouTube Gaming

Fucking loser nerds. I just don't get the appeal of this at all.

Watching someone else play videogames is like going to a 90'000 seater stadium and watching someone else play sports while you sit there stuffing your face with beer and pretzels.


..oh wait.
 
Loved both the kek I got from the bit, and the kek I got from reading all the salt in this thread. Keep raging gamers :)
 
I thought it was funny when South Park made fun of LPs. This guy didn't make me laugh though, he just sounded like someone yelling that he doesn't get it.
 
dream said:
For me, the difference is that following sports generally entails having an emotional investment in the team, fighter, or athlete. I'm not sure how much someone could care about how fast a person can mash a button in Super Smash Brothers 3.
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You think people don't have emotional investment with pewdiepie? Angry Joe? Etc.

I mean streamers interact a lot more with their audience than sport players.
 
Why would you watch someone tell jokes? Who would do such a thing?

dream said:
For me, the difference is that following sports generally entails having an emotional investment in the team, fighter, or athlete. I'm not sure how much someone could care about how fast a person can mash a button in Super Smash Brothers 3.
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As my earlier comment implies, if someone is funny or interesting then it's worth it because it's basically a commentary track. If they're playing the game in a super impressive way then that's obvious. Game Grumps talks a lot about how they see their letsplay as comedy routines and purposefully try to explore/push those characterizations and "bits". There's definitely an entertainment factor at work on letsplay.

Watching people watch also happens on sites like giant bomb and on two best friends channel where 4 dudes sit on a couch and comment on someone playing a videogame on stage for comedic or insightful values.

Sometimes I just want to watch a game I don't have time to play, or put something on while I'm working, or put on a letsplay of a game I'm playing to see how someone else does it differently. Some of it's just ASMR though...
 
I don't know if this has been said yet, but a popular french talkshow did more or less the same thing about twitch, and the reactions were merciless, so much so they had to publicly apologize to viewers on the next day.

So yeah, bad move i think. Shows like jimmy kimmel have a rather young audience, don't mess with your audience...
 
IdreamofHIME said:
Fucking loser nerds. I just don't get the appeal of this at all.

Watching someone else play videogames is like going to a 90'000 seater stadium and watching someone else play sports while you sit there stuffing your face with beer and pretzels.


..oh wait.
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And that's bingo ladies and gentlemen.
 
IdreamofHIME said:
Fucking loser nerds. I just don't get the appeal of this at all.

Watching someone else play videogames is like going to a 90'000 seater stadium and watching someone else play sports while you sit there stuffing your face with beer and pretzels.


..oh wait.
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Yeah according to that logic, sports watching shouldn't exist.
 
Yeah, I kind of agree. I can see the appeal of maybe checking out a game you plan to buy, but otherwise I think it's silly. Sorry if that offends folks. Whenever I see streams with 1000s of people acting like clowns watching someone else play a game, I just shake my head. That being said, this is just my opinion and folks are free to do what they like.

And before anyone compares sports or anything else, I can't stand watching that either. I've always preferred playing football and basketball to watching a game.
 
He probably feels like it doesn't apply to him. I spend quite a lot of energy, time, and money and YouTube gaming makes me want to throw my PC against the wall. Twitch does too and I couldn't explain it to someone.

It just feels like a bunch of people cashing in the moment to play a game. Not like how we felt when we saw other people at the arcade. I enjoyed that. This is like up in front, right in your face, let's joke around while someone else plays a game. I can see there being this new opposition to it. I'm not exactly thrilled with being older and this new buzz of gaming is just a bunch of random group of people gaming it up.

That sounds selfish, but it just takes a lot away from the experience. I don't mind the channels on YouTube, but it's like these personalized streamers are just carrying on and you're not even there. I don't mind talking about it with a handle, but it has to apply to whoever is on there or whatever they want to show you.

RichiRamjag said:
Yeah, I kind of agree. I can see the appeal of maybe checking out a game you plan to buy, but otherwise I think it's silly. Sorry if that offends folks. Whenever I see streams with 1000s of people acting like clowns watching someone else play a game, I just shake my head. That being said, this is just my opinion and folks are free to do what they like.
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Their own little world, I agree. It's like you have to relive some years you matured out of. Gaming isn't that all the time to me now. I want a little more maturity and something I can do.

I hate paying someone on Twitch when I'm just a lost sheep with no real input besides. "OMG USER AWESOME!" or "YOU'RE THE BEST USER AT THIS GAME". I pay money for my games and it's much more independent for me. I don't need to follow someone who caters one game and their own jokes. It feels like I'm stuck in the wrong hobby at times when that's all there is. I don't need to associate gaming to another gamer. I may have had those thoughts when I was a teen, but it doesn't have to be that way. I just unsubbed to my last Twitch stream. I want something more than this type of content. I want more individualized gaming content.

I have to agree with the joke and his comments. I was an arcade gamer too.
 
I thought it was funny. I sometimes wish I could get into watching others play games because it'd be good background noise but it has yet to click with me.
 
Rain City Gamer said:
it made me chuckle a little, but I don't really see what is wrong with the skit to warrant some of the negative comments in here.
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This is where I sit. I've seen so many comedians make similar observational humour, but when it's videogames, the dislike bar skyrockets and everyone has to point out why he's wrong. It's not a serious observation, it's a joke.
 
Oh no!, a joke about how some activity looks to people not really familiar with it.
Let's take offense and make a big deal out of it!

Joke wasn't really funny. But some people seem to have taken it way too seriously.
 
There was no need to be offensive but I agree with him.

I don't see the fun in watching other people play games, I'd rather spend my time playing those games myself.

But that's me, my 10yo cousins LOVE to watch random dudes playing Minecraft.

It's a new generation.
 
"There is something called ESPN where people watch other people play sports. There is even a guy called M. X who's making four millions because people watch him. I don't understand. I'd rather play sports myself".
 
Kifimbo said:
"There is something called ESPN where people watch other people play sports. There is even a guy called M. X who's making four millions because people watch him. I don't understand. I'd rather play sports myself".
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ESPN should also be made fun of. It's goddamn awful.
 
As somebody who plays video games and watches some gaming-related video content, I'm not offended in any way.

As somebody who expects late night talk show hosts to be funny, I'm EXTREMELY offended because my god that was weak.
 
John Kowalski said:
Those are really easy jokes. He could have put some effort into it.
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I went to the arcade a lot growing up. I know the feeling of watching someone else play. It's probably something that a lot of people remember, but the bulk of who the service caters to doesn't understand.

I was dropped off at the arcade with $3 to $5 at times. My folks were gone for maybe an hour or two hours. I'd play all the games and then have nothing else to do. You'd see someone who knew how to combo in a fighting game come or you'd watch someone play on a large machine. You just watched them.

I don't think a lot of us went to the arcade with nothing in our pockets to watch someone play unless they were with friends.

It's a good solid joke. None of my family members played video games, but I was the one with consoles, arcade trips, and electronic store visits. I was also a kid. I don't think a lot of it applies to people who knew how gaming was versus how it is. Now you see a young person (in their 20's) on there, joking around, with music, and etc. They might have played a game from 10 years ago, but their mindset isn't for you. You feel like this huge guest with nothing more to enjoy. As a middle aged male or even someone just starting out, this type of joke is pretty good. It doesn't make fun of video games, but it pokes fun at how everyone enjoys them in 2015. It's kinda sad, but true.
 
I like his segment of celebrity reading mean tweets, aside from that I always felt like he had a face I wanted to punch for some reason. Fallon is just a lot more endearing.
 
Watching people play games is cool. I just don't like it when people talk about how a game feels gameplay-wise after watching someone play it.

Jimmy is alright. That skit wasn't really funny at all.
 
Kenzodielocke said:
The gaming community is so defensive holy shit. Get some humor internet.

Edit: I like his beard.
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Yea I can agree that gamers can get pretty defensive about there hobby.. But I think any group with a hobby would defend it:)

But the skit wasn't wherry funny so don't know what humor has got to do with it :P
 
I agree... I don't get the appeal either. I'm the same way with a lot of popular things, though. I do agree that the actual skit part was terrible, but that's true for a lot of those segments on late-night talk shows.
 
IdreamofHIME said:
Fucking loser nerds. I just don't get the appeal of this at all.

Watching someone else play videogames is like going to a 90'000 seater stadium and watching someone else play sports while you sit there stuffing your face with beer and pretzels.


..oh wait.
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Shhhh. Stop calling attention to logical points that causes others vexation.

Pls.
 
Wow, those dislikes and comments. I understand the appeal of watching wacky and zany internet personalities suck at video games, but i'll still knock it until i'm dead. Jimmy's right, though, and i'm surprised I share his opinion of all people. At least he's not making fun of gamers, though. That's the safest joke to make, and I don't hear many people make fun of the let's play craze nowadays.
 
To me Kimmel's always been that guy that used to be on KROQ. Well, one of them anyway.

Anyway it was just a bit. No need to get all hot and bothered.
 
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