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lowkey13
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I think it's just that different people like different things. My brother likes heavy metal music; I don't. I like D&D; my dad has no interest in it. My other brother has never read a comic-book to my knowledge or watched Doctor Who. You don't like live-streamed games, but others do.The title pretty much says it all.
But to elaborate-
I love all the attention that TTRPGs get. Even if they aren't TTRPGs, they are just RPGs. Yeah, you heard me, CRPGs. You can just go straight to H-E-double hockey sticks, so long as you take your C with you!
So I appreciate podcasts, and shows, like Critical Role for developing more of an audience.
...but I just don't get it.
I've tried to engage with it (Critical Role, that Dan Harmon one), but it's just not for me. If I wanted to watch a show, there's approximately 5 billion shows and movies to watch; I'm literally DROWNING in content.
And, more importantly, why would I want to watch others play a game that I can play myself?
I have the same, strong, revulsion to most Twitch streams; why would I watch someone else play a videogame that I can play myself? That's, you know, weird.
Look, I get that this is the classic, Old Guy Yelling at Clouds argument ("What's with the kids these days, riding around in their funny cars and blasting their hip hop music and shooting the jerbs????"), but I don't get the appeal.
Also, I understand that people can make similar arguments about, say, sports or music (why watch football when you can do it? why go to concerts that you can play?) .... to which I have two answers: A. Shut Up. B. It's difference.
...ahem. Seriously, though, is this something I'm missing? Can someone explain the appeal to me, or how I might get to understand this?
Or am I doomed to forever not be able to waste hours of time watching other people play, and be forced to play myself instead?*
*Yeah, I did that. What are you going to do about it?
Look, I get that this is the classic, Old Guy Yelling at Clouds argument ("What's with the kids these days, riding around in their funny cars and blasting their hip hop music and shooting the jerbs????"), but I don't get the appeal.