It's all so tiresome man. My parents thought TV was mind rotting but at least it was a one-way form of communication.
People are so fucking retarded and over socialized now that a huge number of people watch others play video games instead of even playing themselves. When that became a normal thing is the day my boomerism began. I cannot understand or appreciate it
I can't even watch most streamers because I keep seeing how they can't even play the game right. I see a streamer playing a game I've played before, let alone that I've enjoyed, and they just keep making the stupidest mistakes and acting like the game is shit for it, and it doesn't help that so many of them try too hard (or even too little) when interacting with the chat. For me, I can't stand a lot of them. Vinny from Vinesauce always sounds like he'd rather be doing anything else, Joel tries
way too hard, and Jerma et al all follow suit. Panoots seemed okay, but I got turned off when I saw him play a Harry Potter game and literally streamed it with obvious technical issues instead of just googling an easily avaliable patch in five seconds beforehand. Maybe that's petty on my part, but when you keep pointing out "IT'S GOING TOO FAST GUYS WHAT DO I DO?!" over and over again, maybe it's time to look for a patch?
I think streaming peaked with the Jesus Chatline, but even
that went downhill: Richard Burnish banned one of the long time callers (the guy who did Hans Peter and Randall) because of an off color joke he made.
Read the comments - Richard literally ghosted one of the best parts of his old show. He puts out this lame PR BS to cover his ass and forgets all about it, despite the fact such jokes were what made the OG show (and himself) famous in the process. And it doesn't help that his new show started declining fast; the new characters he's brought in were downright
awful, like the stereotypical old fart who kept calling in and droning and on and on and fucking
on. Also, the whole "televangelists lol" schtick got old in itself to begin with.
And even Steven was up to some shit too, like when he got so butthurt he put all his Haulin' Ass stuff behind a paywall. I think it didn't help that most people wanted Jesus Chatline back, but still. He pulled the same shenanigans Ghost of TCR did, and
that really went downhill.
Nowadays, I don't watch any streamers. They all seem to fall into the same routine.
I can listen to stuff like this every once in a while for nostalgia's sake, though.