The TWITCH Thread

[Erikkolai]

I got into Twitch when I was tryharding at competitive Gwent in 2016-2018, then it became a habit. If you're on Twitch, what are some channels you enjoy/recommend? Some of mine:

ComradeNerdy (comfy slav who mostly plays isometric RPGs like Wasteland & Fallout, feels kinda Codexian)
https://www.twitch.tv/comradenerdy/

Kitboga (guy who's all about scamming phone scammers, wasting their time & provoking them in intricate ways)
https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga/

Richard Lewis Reports (esports guy, talkshow mostly about political news & media biases)
https://www.twitch.tv/richardlewisreports/

Ironically this guy (who for some reason has removed all videos from his archive except for 1 about BG3, no fun allowed)
https://www.twitch.tv/jesawyer/

If I'm into a competitive game I often just tune in to someone who's pro at it to see if I can learn something.

Used to watch Kai Rosenkranz, especially his Gothic playthroughs, but he's no longer active.

Then of course there's dev studio channels like OwlcatGames, CDPR, etc.

 

[d1r]

None. Get some real life friends instead.

 

[Catacombs]

I got into Twitch when I was tryharding at competitive Gwent in 2016-2018, then it became a habit.

 

[GarrisonFjord]

For those of us who don't watch Twitch,
could you provide the equivalent YouTube channels?
(If they have YouTube channels, of course.)
(I'm currently adding to this thread.)

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

videogames are the second most boring form of entertainment
the first most boring form of entertainment is watching other people play videogames

 

[zaper]

Twitch is totally poggers!

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

Twitch is totally poggers!

EPIC poggers pepe meme LUL
xD
*donates $5 to millionaire manbaby*
POG POG POGGY

 

[Erikkolai]

Twitch is totally poggers!

Twitch is totally poggers!

EPIC poggers pepe meme LUL
xD
*donates $5 to millionaire manbaby*
POG POG POGGY

Maybe just stop tuning into lame adolescent channels.

 

[Great Deceiver]

The rising popularity of streaming over the past decade is part of the reason why games are made for ADHD-addled mongoloids. Most games today are made so they can be easily alt-tabbed out during gameplay (or ignored while looking at a second monitor) precisely because streamers need to engage with their audience. In my opinion, this has extremely deleterious effects on the overall quality of the medium.

There are other issues, too. Easy access to other people's strategies has always been a problem for competitive gaming (I remember being pissed off at copycat strategies in WC3 in 2002), but now that problem has been amplified a millionfold. Take any game at all played competitively, most people will just copy what streamers are doing, which leads to games becoming stale incredibly fast.

Streamers have effectively taken over gaming 'journalists' as the primary dissemination/shilling vehicle for companies, but they are nearly as bad (or perhaps just as bad). Variety streamers represent the extreme version of 'buy product, consume product, shill product, buy more product'.

Not to mention annoying thots, etc.

Fuck streaming.

 

[Mexi]

Man, that shit is lame as fuck, dude.