Jimmy Kimmel vs. Gamer Community

I never understood the appeal of watching people play video games.
 
I never understood the appeal of watching people play video games.

Not only that, but people pay money and sometimes donate hundreds of dollars. I'm not one to knock on people, but anyone that pays someone to play games needs to go outside.
 
Is this some sort of instinctual response to whenever something is made fun of? To instantly wish death on someone?

Idiots.
 
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Welcome to the internet?
 
What is nuts is that so many people on the second video are justifying the hate. I love video games, always have, always will.. but they eat up enough of my life as it is. I am careful about how much time I put aside for them, to waste more time watching people play is absurd and I will never understand it. Nice job at giving people who do watch it an even worse name. This just makes me like Kimmel more because he has the balls to stand up against such idiocy.
 
Ya, I really don't get why people love watching people play video games, but I guess that's what kids are into these days? There was a hilairous South Park episode about it.

Like they point out in the episode, people used to play video games with their friends if they wanted witty banter about the game. Now they just watch other people's banter, without the enjoyment of actually playing the game, or the enjoyment of the company of an actual human being. Social media is making humans bizarrely disconnected.

The best part of the second Kimmel video is him addressing somebody saying that watching video games was like watching people play football. "No, it's like watching people play fantasy football - it's one more step removed from human activity."
 
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And don't let it be a hot girl playing it, boy. She gets bombarded by horny mother****ers.
 
And don't let it be a hot girl playing it, boy. She gets bombarded by horny mother****ers.

Yup, its messed up.

I personally like watching others play video games, when they are really entertaining.
People who dont try to act funny, tough or all knowing.

Sometimes that is really entertaining when you are bored...but 90% of those youtube gamers are just annoying.

The Worst thing is that nerds, geeks and stuff have a problem when they are called creeps...yet they act like creeps.

So kimmel made fun of it...big deal...there are worst things in the world then having a guy doing a couple of jokes about something you like.

Its so annoying that people get so attached to all kinds of stuff, that they seem to lose the grip on reality.

I dont like the new 52 comics, nolans batman and some other stuff...yet i never even thought about sending death threats or something to anybody.
So whats my solution? I simply ignore the things i dont like.
 
Nerds wont do s***

Exactly, whenever this **** happens. It's just a internet tough guy dick measuring competition.

Threatening his wife? His child? ****in hell, bunch of disturbed ****s.
 
It's certainly not cool to receive death threats, but one of my favorite channels on youtube is kyrsp33dy and the crew whether it's them playing GTAV or CS:GO, there's a lot of funny moments when a bunch of guys are just messing around in game.
 
I guess it's no different than watching football when you could be outside actually playing it yourself.

Though...I just don't get the appeal of watching someone else play. That's precious free time I could be using to actually PLAY the game myself. :)
 
That's exactly why gamers gaming culture will never be taken seriously.
 
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I guess it's no different than watching football when you could be outside actually playing it yourself.

No, it's like Kimmel said, it's not like watching football, it's like watching someone else play Fantasy football. You're even further removed from human activity
 
That's exactly why gamers and the gaming culture will never be taken seriously.

This

EDIT: Although, sports fans have been known to get way too riled up as well. How many fights are started in a bar because "Your team beat my team, but I bet you can't beat me". Or how many people have rioted because their sports team won or lossed

I guess it's no different than watching football when you could be outside actually playing it yourself.

Though...I just don't get the appeal of watching someone else play. That's precious free time I could be using to actually PLAY the game myself. :)

Nah I think it's a bit different to watch NFL, NBA, etc. then watching MLG or whatever. I cant explain why but it just is to me.

That being said, I always thought tit was stupid to buy Madden, FIFA, etc. as opposed to going outside and playing it yourself.
 
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I guess it's no different than watching football when you could be outside actually playing it yourself.

Though...I just don't get the appeal of watching someone else play. That's precious free time I could be using to actually PLAY the game myself. :)

I don't get that. Watching someone play a video game is not the same thing as watching someone play football. Football requires actual athletic skill. Like Jimmy Kimmel said in one of his videos, the better analogy would be watching someone play fantasy football.
 
Being good at a video game requires skill as well.
 
I don't get that. Watching someone play a video game is not the same thing as watching someone play football. Football requires actual athletic skill. Like Jimmy Kimmel said in one of his videos, the better analogy would be watching someone play fantasy football.

I havent watched the actual video because Im at work but that's a really good analogy.

Or even watching someone play Chess. I never got why people do that either.
 
That being said, I always thought tit was stupid to buy Madden, FIFA, etc. as opposed to going outside and playing it yourself.

You can't just go play professional sports. There's a reason those people are paid to play. Now if u were playing a game called "backyard flag football with neighbor kids" sure you'd have an argument.
 
I never understood the appeal of watching people play video games.

I think it's a great way to determine if the game is something u might like. But I don't think that's the type of viewing Kimmel was talking about. U jump into a random twitch stream and a lot of the ppl there aren't there to see if the game is something they'll enjoy. Their either hurling insults or telling the streamer what they would do.
 
You can't just go play professional sports. There's a reason those people are paid to play. Now if u were playing a game called "backyard flag football with neighbor kids" sure you'd have an argument.

I get that you cant play pro sports, but you can still go an play sports in general. And to me that's good enough.

It's like I cant go shoot aliens or do the stuff I do in GTA (without repercussions), not even a little bit. So I feel entertained by doing something that there is no way in hell I can do.

But I dont feel any personal joy about pretending to play pro sports by tapping a button and using the joystick.

The thrill of playing actual football and running on a sucky-low level>>>>>>pretending to play pro sports on a TV screen. At least for me.
 
I sometimes like to watch Let's Plays/Playthroughs.

To me it's similar to the likes of Mystery Science Theater.
I sometimes feel like demos aren't enough to justify trying out or buying a full game, and watching some LP's help me decide in that regard.
Plus, since I don't really use cable tv anymore, I don't really see video game ads or commercials or anything, so I appreciate youtuber's promoting current games, or even lesser known games.
 
So Kimmel mocks others for their entertainment interests and has been called out on it. I really don't see what the problem is here. No, he doesn't deserve death threats but they are few and far between. Just looking into the comment sections of his videos show some of the top rated comments are well thought-out and insightful comments. The only reason why people would ignore those comments and focus on the trolls is when they don't want to admit they've done something wrong, like Kimmel has in this situation.
 
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Kimmel read 'cryptic and menacing' death threats from the gaming community on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jimmy Kimmel is attempting to call a truce in the war that has pitted the host against the gaming community. On Tuesday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel read comments that have flooded in from gamers who are now reacting to Kimmel’s reaction to YouTube and Twitter comments. Yes, it’s getting meta.

One commenter wished AIDS upon the late-night host and threatened his family as well as the cat he doesn’t have.

“I don’t know why everyone thinks I have a cat. For the record I am allergic to cats,” Kimmel joked.

The comments ranged from telling Kimmel to “go f— a pigeon” to subtle death threats, warning Kimmel that he’s “playing a dangerous game.” One frighteningly cryptic comment read: “I dare you to start your car in the morning”

“You’d think I insulted Justin Bieber with these kind of tweets,” Kimmel joked.

Kimmel said he’s willing to put an end to the feud between himself and the gamers.

“I’ll give these gamers an opportunity to show me what is fun about watching other people play video games and then I will make a decision on whether this can continue or not,” Kimmel said. “One more word out of you little rats and no one will ever watch people play video games again.”

Kimmel ended with a realization: “I’m fighting with a group made up mostly of 12-year-old boys.”

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/02/jimmy-kimmel-war-video-game-watchers-continued

Do you guys agree with Kimmel? Or is he wrong about game streams?
 

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