turns out hes a POS like witht he people associated with.

Unsubbed from a person that featured him recently.
Can’t support his behaviour and anyone that supports his presence in any capacity.

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His annoying face is everywhere. Fucking Influencer products everywhere

Same reason some people are into watching video games, talent shows or even actors.

There’s loads of interest to be found in spectating a skilled display of any activity if you truly engage with it IMO.

I sometimes watch sports I’ve barely got a grasp of the rules for just out of fascination. GAA hurling is the most recent one I can recall getting sucked into for an afternoon.

There are dozens of us!

My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don’t even ask whether you watch, it’s assumed you do, so they’ll ask stuff like “that match yesterday was awesome, right?” or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can’t comprehend someone doesn’t watch hockey.

I can watch sports I don’t play. Like football(both American type and what we call soccer), MMA(although I haven’t watched anything in years), basketball(but only NCAA), hockey, the occasional baseball game. I’ll make an exception for boxing and tennis, those are watchable even when I was deep into them. But golf‽ How does anyone watch that? I get walking the greens, and hitting it every few minutes yourself, but watching someone else just seems so boring.

Especially beyond the local level

I feel like this except for gymnastics, rythmic gymnastics, ice skating/dancing. Those are so entertaining.

Why do we have to have massive stadiums everywhere ?

Pay for your hobby yourself.

It’s fun seeing someone do something with Incredible skill /or great athleticism. Doesn’t need to be sport per se performance art like acrobatics or artistry e.g. Bob Ross have similar aspects.

Some sports I like to watch I have personally partaken in, in that way I can more appreciate the skill needed by the professionals.

Some sports I don’t know at all but I like to figure out the rules by watching and discovering what makes a great play (American Football is in that category for me).

Same LMAO they’re neat but I’ve always been so meh about them. And there’s not even like new ones, it’s always the same versions over and over again

Personally superhero movies aremy crowning achievement as far as willing suspension of disbelief goes.

It’s fine that superheroes have powers and/or levels of combat expertise that would be impossible to achieve at their age WITHOUT superpowers. That’s just how it is.

That they solve all major problems by punching people and acting as less murderous COPS, though? THAT’S what I have to force myself to overlook in order to enjoy the escapist silliness I’m watching 😄

Superheroes are gay.

You can do that. But certain voices carry extra weight within communities.

I followed today’s Formula 1 race on both Threads and Mastodon. Both platforms allow you to follow topics and that’s what I did. But then I follow the people I find interesting as well

Agree. When I was on Twitter I followed local bars, restaurants, and music venues for info on events and happy hours. No humans.

It still is considered that, for reasons.

I had an iPhone once, but realized I couldn’t get a torrent client and decided I’ll never use Apple again.

Also if you go to like China, you wouldn’t be able to download a VPN app, whereas with Android, at least you can tell a friend who lives in the west to email you a .apk file.

I’ve never heard that name in my life, and I’m petty sure I don’t care one way or another. My daughter gets wrapped up in internet drama and I can’t for the life of me understand why. I am not drawn to drama but were I, there is plenty to be found in my own life. It’s all so performative and pointless — the good and the bad.

I’ve been watching countless PirateSoftware drama videos since it’s the clown that keeps on giving. I never bothered with drama channels on YouTube, so I never realized how much of an industry these people made out of it now that I keep getting recommend them. It’s sickening.

And anything else in that category of blind bag collectables. Can’t do anything with it other than decorating a shelf, spend more money than it’s worth to get a whole collection and end up with too many multiples you can’t get rid of, and fake rarity.

Yogi?

Supposedly vtubers need to make very exaggerated facial expressions irl in order to make sure the software picks it up and translates it onto the model, which is sometimes unsettling to people when they get in the habit of doing that normally.

It’s 100% uncanny valley for me as well. There’s a creator a like who doesn’t like to appear on camera much (most of their main content is animated) and wanted to watch their livestreams. They used an avatar and it just weirded me out. It doesn’t help that I’m seemingly way more sensitive than usual when it comes to audio and visuals being even slightly out-of-sync.

I don’t get the uncanny valley from them, but I guess that can vary from person to person, so that’s fair.

The thing about chats being filled with too many people for any one person to matter I agree with. But that’s a big streamer thing, not exclusively a vtuber thing.

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I grew up and have put my fair share of time in the trades. They do pay well but if you don’t get out of the field, you trade your functioning body for money.

The one thing I can’t wrap my head around is why everyone wants to work so much overtime. Even unions are rocking 50-60 hour work weeks and then claiming they treat you well. It’s looked down upon if you only want to work 40.

I’m a software developer, but I spent three months chucking boxes in the back of a truck for General Motors one summer. Some days, my brain is fried after six hours at my job, but the physical labor work I could do for 12 hours and walk out feeling almost refreshed.

I sometimes wish I could go through a day of work just… doing. Not wracked with indecision or trying to figure out which tradeoff I won’t regret in three weeks. The idea of going into a framed house and wiring up electric all day and then going home — without ever having done it or experiencing the downsides of course— it sounds really nice.

Of course my back and joints couldn’t keep up at fifty like they did at twenty-two, and I met a bunch of functional addicts working that job and I wouldn’t have wanted to get swept up in that.

most of the guys in that line of work are assholes

Can confirm

I think it’s just some people have realised it pays well.

We’re doing some renovation at the moment. We have a lead contractor who’s managing all the trades 'cos I know nothing about construction.

Every trade we’ve had - electricians, bricklayers, drainage guy, plumber, carpenter, etc - come as a duo. There’s a guy in his late 30s or older who does the thinking, and a kid in the late teens / early 20s who are effectively labourers and lift, push, carry, drill, dig, etc. The life of the senior guy in the pair seems to be pretty good and you know they’re well paid. The kids are learning, and in 10 years time will have their own labourer.

it destroys the body, and i only ever seen white people work in trades, so i suspect as to something to do with how they are only hiring those people too.

Apps can collect all your data from your phone whereas a website doesn’t have access to your GPS location, etc necessarily.

The keyboard is epic though. Totally designed in 6th circle of hell

I can’t help but wonder how much the popularity of reality TV led us to where we are now. I don’t just mean how the US president used to have his own stupid show, but how many people grew up thinking that “watching people create drama” is peak entertainment.

The same era saw the decline and demise of a number of educational channels and shows. Is it a coincidence? I don’t know. All I know is there are lots of adults who grew up watching “reality” shows who now think politics are just a game to “win” and that when their opponents are upset, it’s amusing. It’s like the concept of empathy or working together don’t even enter their minds. Everything is just for entertainment, no matter how serious it is or how many innocent people get screwed over by it.

It’s cheap to make. People watch other people at their packagable worst. That’s about it.

Interdimensional cable is arguably better.

This was not a response I expected, I thought the only people who didn’t like multiple monitors were ones who never tried it lol

My peak was like 8 monitors, I’m at 6 now, but I can never go back to a single one long term. Whenever I do it temporarily for whatever reason it’s agonizing

When doing work that requires multiple apps to be open or file explorers, web pages, and reference stuff then having a second is very convenient a lot of the time. Yeah, I could stretch it out on one giant monitor if it was an option, but two just makes it easy to keep track of what is where by having physical breaks.

At home it is great for having discord or other thing off to the side for communication or reference while playing games full screen on one monitor instead of needing to alt tab or use windowed mode smaller than full screen. If I did a more immersive driving/flying set up I would have three for the wrap around effect and a fourth for the extra stuff.

Both situations are for convenience.

I do know someone at work that has three but they handle the infrastructure and they often have multiple apps and browsers open for all the things that interact when troubleshooting and having it large and readable makes it easier to see what is changing and what isn’t changing at the same time.

I didn’t get it either until one class in high school (graphic design) had second monitors installed for all work stations halfway through the year. It’s super useful being able to have reading material open on a vertical monitor! Only reason I don’t have one still is because of very limited space (can’t even fit a normal PC).

I did start using my TV as a second monitor recently though for putting Zoom meetings on it. I got tired of having to alt tab back to it every once in a while when doing stuff. TV sits behind my laptop so only like half the screen is visible but it’s good enough!

Having two has definitely helped me, because most of my job is comparing what this thing says to what that thing says, but any more than that sounds like a bit much.

they’re great if you do more than one thing at a time or need many programs open at the same time. anyone who regularly ‘alt-tabs’ to find or switch to a different window that they cannot currently see could benefit from another screen.

one wide or ultra wide display may not work as well, as some programs simply aren’t made with that aspect ratio in mind. we have one program here that insists upon being in a maximized window–always. a lot of wasted space, even on a 16:9. that user has two 5:4 instead and loves that setup.

As someone who never understood multiple monitors, one day I just got a second one and now I feel working without a second monitor is limiting.

Having said that, I can’t see a use for a third monitor at all (not to say it’s completely useless. I’m sure some people find it useful).

Two at least. I am an accountant and constantly comparing at least two things. I have never been able to work on a laptop, need the multiple screens.

Any more displays than one and its gonna fry my brain. I can only keep attention to one at a time.

I love having two monitors at work, have been working this way for ~15 years now. At home, not so much, almost all the time one screen is enough.

I love having a lot of desktop real estate. Instead of flipping through multiple desktops, I can keep everything in eve view all day long.

If I have one that’s sufficiently big I don’t need two. 24" is usually all I need. Helps to have 20/20 vision as well and use smaller fonts.

Dude either needs to streamline to two monitors, or pick up iRacing.

Only reason I’d have 3 monitors is for racing sims, but even then I usually use VR anyway.

Two is fine for most.

My boss has three two! I have two and it annoys me. I would rather have one large screen but I don’t rank enough to get one at work.

My workstation at home only limits me to two, once I get a bigger space I’m going for three.

Giant monitor >>> multiple monitors. For my internship of making 3D animations I had a really big monitor on my desk. I could fit every single viewport and UI element I ever needed on that screen!

For the viewer: Playing take a lot of energy, watching is more passive. Especially like horror games that raise your blood pressure / heartrate. Also, not everyone can afford games, some are console only, and even PC games have hardware requirements that people don’t have, because people either have a potato computer, or just have smartphone only. Also, games are hard, watching a streamer dying is kinda funny.

For the streamer: Socialization (even tho its kinda one-sided, they can still read comments / live chat), and most importantly, money.

It’s not just to watch the game, it’s to watch/listen to the streamer. It’s like a talk show.

I’m glad people stream because I can (a) watch games that I find interesting but hate the mechanics/etc. of and can’t/won’t play and (b) I can learn different techniques and other things in games I do like (such as Link to the Past Randomizer).

I do also like streaming for language practice, mostly just on the input/listening side.

I used to think this, but as I gave it a shot, I started learning new techniques in games like Overwatch. Learn from better players than me.

I also can just watch a stream of a new game and see if it’s something I’d like to play. Saves me from buying a game I might not like.

It’s not just for the game, but the narration.

I only follow a handful of streamers, I really don’t care what games they play. What’s important to me is that they’re entertaining, not too loud like 90% of U.S streamers.

I especially like streamers who play with their friends, I find solo streamers boring and compensate by being loud and shouting all the time.

Sometimes I just don’t have the time to play so I leave a streamer on in the background while I work and look at that screen every once in a while to catch s glimpse of a game that’s nostalgic and comfortable.

when i was in MS, a girl classmate said it was just picture on paper. the current hype/pandemic is due to scalping pokeinvestors trying to gouge prices over it. the pandemic just made everyone stayed home and play pokemon all day. funny thing is nobody said anything about MTG when i was playing HS, and yugioh was hot sht when i was HS, and it was too risky to play it, because people were stealing it from other people.

it got some resurgence due to people capable of plahying it online. people do criticize the prize mechanic is archaic and should be done away with, i much prefer a life point type mechanic instead.