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Forums - Gaming - TV Host Jimmy Kimmel shows comedy sketch making fun of people who watch other people play videogames on the internet, receives backlash, then responds

 

Do you think the comedy sketch was out of place?

Yes 23 12.50%
 
No 35 19.02%
 
No, but it wasn't funny,... 29 15.76%
 
People again making a fuss over nothing. 42 22.83%
 
Jimmy Kimmel who? 13 7.07%
 
Watching people's live s... 30 16.30%
 
Nothing justifies the out... 12 6.52%
 
Total:184
RadiantDanceMachine on 03 September 2015
Dusk said:
RadiantDanceMachine said:
Why watch other people play sports?

/thread

I'll agree when it's something like golf, but even then it's about cheering on the player as opposed to the team. That's generally what watching sports is about. Living vicariously through someone or many others. Often the reasonings for this is because it's where they grew up, or they have a tie to it in one way or another. With gaming, it's not. For the most part the ability to play the game is a real thing, they are quite accessable and generally cost the same as the cost for the internet that it is being watched with.

Very few have the ability to be a professional athlete, however the vast majority have the ability to play a game.

I do understand the idea of watching a video to find out a part you are having trouble with, but I find that walkthroughs generally work better and are easier to find those specific sections.

Your analogy is not correct.

You can't just say the analogy is incorrect. You need to demonstrate why it fails. I can use the same arguments in the video in regard to sports, while defending neither. 



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RadiantDanceMachine on 03 September 2015
vivster said:
RadiantDanceMachine said:
Why watch other people play sports?

/thread

Because for sports you need actual skill and manly men. In video games you're just pressing buttons.

/thread

What is "actual" skill? If the qualifier is meaningless (which I fully expect) then you've made no points at all. If the qualifier has meaning, then its meaning is entirely subjective and again you've made no points as opinions are not arguments. As a matter of fact you're guilty of reductionism and ignoratio elenchi.

Please...next time bring valid points.



binary solo on 03 September 2015
Blag79 said:
i'd rather have sex then watch porn think about it

What are you talking about? When you watch porn you're still having sex, it's just solo instead of duo (or more). Either that or it's blue balls for you. Poor comparison.



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Ruler on 03 September 2015

On the one hand i dont like the Hollywood media trashing gaming culture in general but on the other hand i think watching Lets Plays is a loser culture.



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Wyrdness on 03 September 2015
Arminillo said:

Professional sports involve physical parameters that very few are born with, and even then STILL cant make it to the big leagues despite that. Pro gamers are skilled, but they are not exceptional in mind or body. I even find it kind of insulting that some people want to compare someone who pushes keys for untold hours a day to someone who is literally the strongest iteration of physicality humanity can offer.


Try playing Starcraft at a high level, the game taxes you mentally, more so then most sports. The insult is not from the people comparing it's from the people who want to take issue with the comparison.



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gabzjmm23 on 03 September 2015

just be composed and don't be bothered with what others generalize on certain group, its their opinion, sometimes good sometimes bad. i'm not harming them and i'm having fun, so the hell with them.

but i've watched game videos like if I'm lost at a certain level for sometime (like some have posted). eSports mostly DOTA 2 and a few SC 2, haven't watched CS:Go, and i don't like LOL even I've tried to check why it is more popular than DOTA 2.

and watching older people and their reaction on playing video games is awesome, check out those parent's day or something like that, they've played SMM, SMB3, MK8, and non-Nintendo games as well.

watching SMM videos on youtube is also good entertainment for me. those troll levels and getting a bit here and there ideas while I'm waiting for that game. :)

so just be mature, and don't take it seriously, if you react into it, it is a view to their videos. anyway, i like Jimmy Kimmel show too. check out those celebrities reading mean tweets. LMAO.



Dusk on 03 September 2015
mysteryman said:
Dusk said:
RadiantDanceMachine said:
Why watch other people play sports?

/thread

I'll agree when it's something like golf, but even then it's about cheering on the player as opposed to the team. That's generally what watching sports is about. Living vicariously through someone or many others. Often the reasonings for this is because it's where they grew up, or they have a tie to it in one way or another. With gaming, it's not. For the most part the ability to play the game is a real thing, they are quite accessable and generally cost the same as the cost for the internet that it is being watched with.

Very few have the ability to be a professional athlete, however the vast majority have the ability to play a game.

I do understand the idea of watching a video to find out a part you are having trouble with, but I find that walkthroughs generally work better and are easier to find those specific sections.

Your analogy is not correct.

The analogy would be more akin to watching people play backyard sports.

Which doesn't really happen so it still doesn't stick. The only time I can think of when people without motives would watch backyard sports is generally parents.



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Samus Aran on 03 September 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Blag79 said:
i'd rather have sex then watch porn think about it

Why would you want to watch porn after sex? Wouldn't it make more sense to do that first?

Not everyone knows the difference between then and than. ;)

Porn is to be watched in front of your GF to see her reaction.



mysteryman on 04 September 2015
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
vivster said:
RadiantDanceMachine said:
Why watch other people play sports?

/thread

Because for sports you need actual skill and manly men. In video games you're just pressing buttons.

/thread

And eSports pros have no skill at what they do right?

There's a difference between watching esports and watching let's plays, similar to the difference between pro sports and backyard sports.

Dusk said:
mysteryman said:
Dusk said:
RadiantDanceMachine said:
Why watch other people play sports?

/thread

I'll agree when it's something like golf, but even then it's about cheering on the player as opposed to the team. That's generally what watching sports is about. Living vicariously through someone or many others. Often the reasonings for this is because it's where they grew up, or they have a tie to it in one way or another. With gaming, it's not. For the most part the ability to play the game is a real thing, they are quite accessable and generally cost the same as the cost for the internet that it is being watched with.

Very few have the ability to be a professional athlete, however the vast majority have the ability to play a game.

I do understand the idea of watching a video to find out a part you are having trouble with, but I find that walkthroughs generally work better and are easier to find those specific sections.

Your analogy is not correct.

The analogy would be more akin to watching people play backyard sports.

Which doesn't really happen so it still doesn't stick. The only time I can think of when people without motives would watch backyard sports is generally parents.

I was agreeing with you, the analogy is false.



Smear-Gel on 04 September 2015

Everyone's whiny overreaction is funny, but also cringy.

His career is making jabs at people. Gamers are thinking this is new and specific to them.