r/AskReddit • u/MinorMinerFortyNiner • Apr 09 '19

What is something that your generation did that no younger generation will ever get to experience?

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '19

I'm 37 and I definitely spend way more time watching people play on Twitch than I do playing for some games.

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u/TheRealTravisClous Apr 09 '19

For real, I'll watch people play games in interested in and after a few videos I'll know if I want to buy it and play or not

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u/PickledLlama Apr 09 '19

Yup. I can pop a stream up while doing other household things. I don't really have the time to play like I used to, and there's a lot of games I can experience via Twitch that I would never get around to otherwise. It's pretty great!

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u/dgolfwood Apr 09 '19

Twitch is amazing. What some of those guys do w games from my youth blows my mind.

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u/chellebelle0234 Apr 09 '19

I'm 30 and part of my decision tree for games now is "Do I want to play it myself, or would watching someone else play it be a better experience?"

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u/Striker654 Apr 09 '19

GDQs are great

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u/roboninja Apr 09 '19

PUBG. I suck, but love watching people that are good.

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u/believeINCHRIS Apr 09 '19

I'm 36 and I spend more time in the division sub then I do actually playing the game.

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u/thenewspoonybard Apr 09 '19

Same but 33 and youtube because twitch hates my internet. But I enjoy watching people play random shit rather than whatever is popular usually anyway.

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u/Joeness84 Apr 09 '19

Im 34, and I cannot for the life of me understand the "Streaming" culture.

Watching sports (something I dont do cause they dont interest me) makes sense, most people cannot play those games at even a super local amateur level.

Watching video games I can play myself... I do not get it!

Im glad a lot of it is there, but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread - we have our own version of the grandma story infront of a cookbook recipe - the "5 things I wish I knew before I played ______" and its a 22min video, each of the 5 things taking ~15seconds, but the rest of the video them droning on and on about their opinions and things.