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Re: YouTube's Biggest Draw Plays Games, Earns $4 Million a Year

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Post by BESebastian » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 5:48 AM UTC

quink wrote: post #19

JoshTriplett wrote: post #12

What makes me really sad is people who think this is the height of Let's Play video quality. There are quite a few higher-quality channels out there. http://lparchive.org/ is a good place to start. A few recommendations: Frankomatic (adventure games), Bobbin Threadbare (adventures and others), SimplySimon (Mega Man games), Deceased Crab (indie and lesser-known games), retsupurae (specifically their adventure game MST…

Just a guess... you were born before 1982, right? I think most of this really is just an age gap. I don't think that PewDiePie is the height of Let's Play quality (and definitely not any of those you listed) - that honour might as well go to Scott Manley playing Kerbal Space Program - but he's not as terrible by a long, long stretch as some in here make him out to be. > "content quality black hole", "I intensely disl…

Speaking as someone who is in their 30s, I couldn't care less about the silly voices, the endless repetitive churning out of videos about the same indie games (God knows I'm still watching Bisnap do endless playthroughs of Risk of Rain and Binding of Isaac) or the clearly very young fanbase. Those things don't really bother me.

Now making jokes about rape and the holocaust? PewDiePie can go fuck himself.

Re: YouTube's Biggest Draw Plays Games, Earns $4 Million a Year

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Post by quink » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 6:26 AM UTC

BESebastian wrote: post #51

quink wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a guess... you were born before 1982, right? I think most of this really is just an age gap. I don't think that PewDiePie is the height of Let's Play quality (and definitely not any of those you listed) - that honour might as well go to Scott Manley playing Kerbal Space Program - but he's not as terrible by a long, long stretch as some in here make him out to be. > "content quality black hole", "I intensely disl…

Speaking as someone who is in their 30s, I couldn't care less about the silly voices, the endless repetitive churning out of videos about the same indie games (God knows I'm still watching Bisnap do endless playthroughs of Risk of Rain and Binding of Isaac) or the clearly very young fanbase. Those things don't really bother me. Now making jokes about rape and the holocaust? PewDiePie can go fuck himself.

> Now making jokes about rape and the holocaust? PewDiePie can go fuck himself.

OK, I can't find anything on Google on the latter, and only something on the former from three years ago. If you're saying that with 1 billion views in the past three months alone and across dozens of hours of content in that time there's a possibility that someone might interpret him something he said as making jokes about the holocaust, then yes, I believe /that/. But I'm not sure his intentions are evil or that he is a bigot or a hateful person.

Re: YouTube's Biggest Draw Plays Games, Earns $4 Million a Year

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Post by ASneakyFox » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:49 AM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #42

quink wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a guess... you were born before 1982, right? I think most of this really is just an age gap. I don't think that PewDiePie is the height of Let's Play quality (and definitely not any of those you listed) - that honour might as well go to Scott Manley playing Kerbal Space Program - but he's not as terrible by a long, long stretch as some in here make him out to be. > "content quality black hole", "I intensely disl…

> Just a guess... you were born before 1982, right? Nope; I'm in my 20s, not 30s. > And sure, 80% of his output aren't going to match your quality filter. But the remaining 20% will. Quantity has a quality all its own, but no, even 20% seems unlikely. > And, if nothing else, he's a cultural influence. Which brings me back to "What makes me really sad". > Turn off your brain No. I'm not a fan of "mindless" entertainme…

These are video games are. There are no intellectual video games. Games are cheap entertainment targeted mostly to teen boys. Kind of like all those reality dating tv shows targeted to teen girls.

Re: YouTube's Biggest Draw Plays Games, Earns $4 Million a Year

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Post by quink » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 10:20 AM UTC

ASneakyFox wrote: post #53

JoshTriplett wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Just a guess... you were born before 1982, right? Nope; I'm in my 20s, not 30s. > And sure, 80% of his output aren't going to match your quality filter. But the remaining 20% will. Quantity has a quality all its own, but no, even 20% seems unlikely. > And, if nothing else, he's a cultural influence. Which brings me back to "What makes me really sad". > Turn off your brain No. I'm not a fan of "mindless" entertainme…

These are video games are. There are no intellectual video games. Games are cheap entertainment targeted mostly to teen boys. Kind of like all those reality dating tv shows targeted to teen girls.

Please have a quick look through, I don't know, the last 100 videos and find me your typical Field of Gears of Duty War Call Battle. Even when he ventures into something in FPS land, the most recent outing was Shrubbery Simulator. And it was a funny game concept to see - it was entertaining.

And sure, The Simpsons was from the beginning targeted towards a young male audience as a cheap form of entertainment too, but how does define the potential of the work?

No intellectual video games? Please, spare us that train of thought.

Re: YouTube's Biggest Draw Plays Games, Earns $4 Million a Year

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Post by ktsmith » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 3:58 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #7

sixQuarks wrote: post #4

When I was a kid, I always promised myself I would never become one of those lame adults that said things like "kids these days, look at the junk they listen/watch etc...!". PewDiePie has single-handily made me break that promise. WTF are kids watching these days????

If you think PewDiePie is ridiculous but still popular with kids, you won't believe YouTube's Minecraft subculture.

My son and all of his friends, ages 5-7, all love evantubehd and stampylonghead and I just don't get it. The weirder part for me is then they pretend they are making youtube shows when they are playing.