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I view twitch and youtube as two completely different types of content. Twitch is livestreaming and youtube is prepared, scripted content. Sorta like 24/7 cable

I view twitch and youtube as two completely different types of content. Twitch is livestreaming and youtube is prepared, scripted content. Sorta like 24/7 cable news channels vs a documentary or drama series. A lot of people have a preference for one or the other and I definitely prefer the latter. Especially since the "news" that happens on twitch often seems to be twitch-specific drama.

bullen 5y ago
Twitch is not for news! It serves only two purposes: entertainment and community. Large streamers have humor, but chat is completely meaningless with them. Small streamers (mostly gamedev) are the community that is meaningful. It's surpisingly small still, only a few thousand viewers that all watch many of the same devs. Game development is really the only meaningful thing you can do today that does not involve energy (food, heat and water = electricity).
- SahAssar 5y ago
  I didn't mean it was for news, I meant that the "live-ness" of it seems to be the main selling point for it. > Game development is really the only meaningful thing you can do today that does not involve energy I don't even know what you are trying to say with this. What makes game development more or less "meaningful" than other activities? How does game development not require energy?
  - bullen 5y ago
    It requires much less energy, and we need to virtualize life completely, only food, sleep and toilet will be in meatspace, everything else will be a open (so you can modify and resell) action (think super mario galaxy) 3D MMO with 1000s of players per server!
    - SahAssar 5y ago
      If you want to live in the metaverse, fine, but don't claim that it's the only "meaningful" thing.
      - bullen 5y ago
        Well, until you give me a counter argument, I just proved it is! The physical world is shrinking in every metric possible and it's accelerating. The only way to escape it is through virtualisation, the kids are allready living there.
      - bullen 5y ago
        Also the metaverse is meaningless, what we need is action (as I said; super mario galaxy, but 1000s of players) and the current definition of metaverse talks more about virtual things and economies. And now since Zuckerberg is cybersquatting the term we need to find a new one. How about "the internet", wadda ya say?

bullen 5y ago

Twitch is not for news! It serves only two purposes: entertainment and community. Large streamers have humor, but chat is completely meaningless with them. Small streamers (mostly gamedev) are the community that is meaningful. It's surpisingly small still, only a few thousand viewers that all watch many of the same devs. Game development is really the only meaningful thing you can do today that does not involve energy (food, heat and water = electricity).

SahAssar 5y ago
I didn't mean it was for news, I meant that the "live-ness" of it seems to be the main selling point for it. > Game development is really the only meaningful thing you can do today that does not involve energy I don't even know what you are trying to say with this. What makes game development more or less "meaningful" than other activities? How does game development not require energy?
- bullen 5y ago
  It requires much less energy, and we need to virtualize life completely, only food, sleep and toilet will be in meatspace, everything else will be a open (so you can modify and resell) action (think super mario galaxy) 3D MMO with 1000s of players per server!
  - SahAssar 5y ago
    If you want to live in the metaverse, fine, but don't claim that it's the only "meaningful" thing.
    - bullen 5y ago
      Well, until you give me a counter argument, I just proved it is! The physical world is shrinking in every metric possible and it's accelerating. The only way to escape it is through virtualisation, the kids are allready living there.
    - bullen 5y ago
      Also the metaverse is meaningless, what we need is action (as I said; super mario galaxy, but 1000s of players) and the current definition of metaverse talks more about virtual things and economies. And now since Zuckerberg is cybersquatting the term we need to find a new one. How about "the internet", wadda ya say?