What in the fuck drives people to watch other people play videogames?

What in the fuck drives people to watch other people play videogames?

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boredom

it feels like having friends

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what did OP mean by this?

boredom, laziness, lack of motivation
all symptoms of depression
what's funny is i'm depressed but i'm more into playing games than watching them

2 of those are mine

Why do people watch other people play sports? Why do people watch other people play poker? Why do people watch other people play chess?

>play game
>have adblock
>watch videos on 2nd monitor at the same time
what's the problem OP? Yogscast is shit tier outside of their Civ games

>Hey I like Game
>Hey this guy here knows a lot of cool tricks about Game
>Let me check him out and see if I can pick up some tricks about Game that I didn't know

Alternatively

>Vidya looks kind of cool in the trailer but who knows it it's actually fun
>Since there's no demo available, rather than spend money on Vidya, I can check out this guy play Vidya and I can see if it's the type of game I like to play

>What in the fuck drives people to watch other people play sports?
>What in the fuck drives people to watch other people play poker?
>What in the fuck drives people to watch other people play in the movies?

And so on and so forth.Life must be beyond frightening for a retard like you, that cannot find correlation among things at all.

Most people watch other people be good at sports. Most of the people that seem to watch people play videogames seem to enjoy watching people be really bad and retarded about them.

No, people watch sports of all sorts to be entertained, if entertainment happens because the player is real good and scores an impossible goal, great. But if entertainment happens because there's a brawl or drama involved, people watch that too all the same, perhaps even more. Only a handful actually care about technical aspects and rules of the games, both in sports and videogames.

Not really. The streamers that are bad are usually watched for humor.

The same reason you refresh page zero of Sup Forums in one way or another to watch other people communicate.

Boredom.

That's the reason.

Same reason you play video games. Entertainment.

They don't think "hey I rather be watching a guy play a video game than playing myself" they go "Hey this guy is quite entertaining, I´ll watch him play video games".


God knows why they think PDP and the like are entertaining but that's the main reason.

>boredom is a sign of depression

Shut the fuck up. That means everyone is fucking depressed as shit at least 90% of their life, which is bullshit.

they are though, shut the fuck up tate or i'll kick your ass motherfucker

No, that's pretty accurate. Majority of people lead dull, unfulfilling lives and resort to entertainment to fill in that void.

I'm relaxing and eating pretzels while watching Vinny play through Hat in Time. It's fun watching someone else learn.

autism

>no consoles
>crappy laptop
>depressed with no thoughts or feelings
>something to have on in the background while you work/draw/clean

Friendship simulator.

...

I never understood it either, but I'm an old fag. I remember times when people my current age considered the simple idea of videogames retarded back when I was a kid.
So, let people do what they enjoy doing.

they try to hook lonely children on virtual friends and gambling.

that's a fantastic symbiosis of facecam people and corporations like valveblizz creating a sechuan sauce landscape we see today.

mind you, next generation is gonna make millenials look coherent.

How dare you let other people enjoy things

With age comes wisdom, the saying still holds.

ctrl + f autism

>Not coming to Sup Forums for the soul purpose of shitposting while doing what you just said on your home board
Only stupid people are bored.

They like the funny screeches and memes

I don't really watch Let's Plays these days, but I remember laughing a lot at Pokecapn's Sonic 2006 playthrough, when I first watched it around 2009 or 2010.

and the third
>I'm not able to play vidya right now, but I want to watch something vidya related

Depression involves fuckups with the mesolimbic pathway, which is what causes all three of those things. It's an important part of fun.
But so can ADHD and plain old burnout, and both of those are retard simple compared to depression because there's only one pathway that's fucked up whereas there's a shitload with depression.
The solution to "tired gamer syndrome" getting a prescription for amphetimines then manning up, fapping less, sleeping normally, avoiding skinner box shit, and dropping them, seeing how you do, and picking them back up if manning up didn't fix shit.

there, all motivation issues solved without resorting to meds that seriously fuck your brain like antidepressants