You laugh, but can you actually refute him?

I'll give it a whirl.

*farts*
How's that?

>>714231014 (OP)
Difference is that playing most sports takes a lot of effort, equipment, a group of people, and the right time.
You can't decide to have a quick game of baseball at 4 AM
But anyone can play videogames whenever
It's much more comparable to people who discuss books and authors but don't actually read them

>>714231014 (OP)
Off the top of my head: nobody watches sports for hours and hours.

Wow, that was easy

>>714231014 (OP)
watching random retards play video games would be like going to a sports game with a bunch of 8 year olds

>>714231014 (OP)
What point is he trying to make? What's the context here? Yeah those are two similar things, but what's being argued here?

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with watching youtube videos about games, depending on the reasons you're doing it. Anything can become a negative thing if done with the wrong intentions, or if done at the expense of your physical or mental health.

>>714231175
>You can't decide to have a quick game of baseball at 4 AM
why not

>>714231014 (OP)
Playing a video game isn’t normally as inaccessible compared to playing a sport, depending on the situation.

>>714231179
also, usually people only keep up with one or two sports which are maybe once a week on specific days, almost always after work or during a day without

>>714231179

You laugh, but can you actually refute her?

>>714231175
>anyone can play videogames whenever
>just pay the $80 entry fee
>and the $600 entry fee if it's a console game
>or the $500 fee if your PC doesn't have a dedicated graphics card
I wonder why people watch rich kids play games instead of buying 10 games a month.

>>714231014 (OP)
One is a demonstration of skill
The other is some regard talking while he poorly plays vidya.
It'd be like not watching OR playing sports but watching an 8 hour long interview with the guy while he plays catch with his kid

>>714231384
I'll give it a whirl.

*farts*
How's that?

>>714231179
Let me introduce you to cricket.

I've watched some Rust and dead by daylight but I would never play them. They both look like anger simulators sprinkled with fun here and there.

>>714231389
you can play fortnite on like a chromebook

>>714231389
>I-I-I can't play sports unless it's in a huge staduim with thousands of spectators
>Pick up games at my local park? No! If I can't do it the same way pros do then I won't play sports at all!

>>714231014 (OP)
people watch athletes perform feats that no one else could.

people watch streamers sit on their asses and do nothing.

>>714231175
It's like not reading a book but instead having someone read it to you in an audiobook. It's just easier and some people prefer it that way and that's fine.

>>714231014 (OP)
no because I don't care and it doesn't make me mad

>>714231384
I know this guy, he gets posted in Street Fighter threads here sometimes. He's a MtF transsexual from Scotland who's obsessed with the idea of Cammy being a lesbian and constantly writes fantasies about characters from video games coming out of the television to be his friend

>>714232054
Wrong analogy m8.
Its more like someone reading you a book and pausing every once in a while to explain things.

>>714232151
chat is this sentence real?

>>714231014 (OP)
Why would I refute truth?

>>714232097
I was going to ignore this shit thread but now I'm glad I didn't.

>>714231014 (OP)
There are a lot of games I'd like to watch but would never like to play.
They're different experiences, so even if you watch someone play something, playing it yourself after is different enough to be worth it.
There's nothing wrong with watching someone play something UNLESS you try to announce you're a fan of something that you ONLY watched.

I still beer league in softball and hockey. Fuck yall.

>>714232204
'arry should have just brought a gun

>>714231014 (OP)
Kinda big difference would be a much, much, muuuuuuuuuch smaller barrier to entry for video games, so that excuse falls apart immediately.

>>714232151
>>714232054
no it's like watching someone read a book, that's how studid it is, observing someone at their hobby without paticipating or even having the same hobby.

>>714231389
you have a phone.

>>714232246
If you're going to defend it as a "different experience" then you don't get to gatekeep who's a "real fan" based on said experience.

>>714232328
you can buy a sports ball of your choice and start playing right now anon...

>soulless normalfag secondaries don't commit to anything
no way

>>714231014 (OP)
Answer, yes it's just as retarded. The sports industry got big because normalfags who don't care about the sports just want to be part of something

>>714231389
Videogames really are incredibly cheap compared to other hobbies.

>>714232689
Is this a "Huge Earthbound fan excited to play it for the first time" situation?

there is no difference and they are both bad (punishable by death kind of bad)

>>714233000
If you defend not playing earthbound as a valid experience then you will enable people to do so. Stop being the problem if you don't want problems.

>>714231014 (OP)
You watch those sports because they are played by professionals who can achieve things most people can't.
Meanwhile most streamers just play vudeogames like any other fucker would do.

>>714231014 (OP)
yeah, watching someone do a lets play isn't on the same level as watching professional sports. you'd need to be watching a tournament of a competitive game for something similar

imagine being a fat balding white sportscuck who cheers on muscular black men throwing a ball on TV while your impressionable young white daughter watches you worshipping them

>>714232235
been seeing a lot of rozen maiden reaction pics ever since I started watching it
bader-meinhof is STRONK

>>714231632
and fortnite fucking sucks
the latest flavor of the month is sometimes singleplayer and 80 dollars, looks pretty and has shit gameplay
why not watch someone play that

>>714231384
>>714232097
>>714232235

>>714231014 (OP)
i think it's the same honestly. hardly an original idea though.
i'm imagining a newspaper comic in my head right now about a dad complaining that his son is just watching a streamer play madden instead of going outside and playing it, meanwhile he's sitting on the couch watching espn

>>714232054
anyone who thinks audiobooks are the same as reading books is a certified troglodyte

>>714232054
>>714237185
Bumping this mediocre thread to say FUCK AUDIOBOOKS

I played a ton of sports growing up and into college.

>>714231179
This, and if they do, yes they should be made fun of as well.

>>714232246
>There's nothing wrong with watching someone play
Simp

>>714236941
Shit analogy.
The ESPN enjoyer isn't watching the amateur league and giving al their money to the players for a .0001% chance the team will say their name.
Watching sport is not a virtual friendship service. I don't give two shits about sport honestly and even I can make this distinction.
People that watch others play video games are all simps.

>>714231179
>Off the top of my head: nobody watches sports for hours and hours.
Tell that to >>>/sp/

>>714231389
>https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce-now/
oh no bro your argument bro? What happened?