Current Events > Which of these video game subculturesi interests you most?

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Playing

Of the three I'd most like to get into speedrunning, and I enjoy watching it. I've tried before, but I'm not great.
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Only one of the three requires having a personality, so I guess that one

Hey, I know what inspired this topic!
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I like watching tournaments for some games, speedrunning can get too repetitive to watch, so I limit that to GDQs for the most part, rarely I may check out other speedrunning events if a game I like is featured.
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Def esports. Always cool to see what top competitive play looks like and can learn a thing or two. I think speed running is boring and streaming is aight.
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id say speedrunning b/c i couldnt give two shits about esports or streamers, but i hate how most speedrunners seem to exploit glitches. makes it less fun
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Would reactions fall under "streamers"?
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Romulox28 posted...

id say speedrunning b/c i couldnt give two shits about esports or streamers, but i hate how most speedrunners seem to exploit glitches. makes it less fun

I actually find the exploits to be the most interesting part, seeing people figure out the ways the game can be broken
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Streaming.
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many (most?) speedrunners stream to so I assume you mean those sorts of variety/chat interation sorts of streamers

definitely going with speedrunning here though, I've actually participated in an (admittedly somewhat obscure) speedrun marathon event once so the choice is obvious
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Don't care about esports at all. Not disinterested in streaming, but if someone is failing a lot, I quickly lose patience. Speedrunning is fun to watch though. I've watched some live speedrunning videos from conventions and subscribed to the channel they were on.
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Romulox28 posted...

id say speedrunning b/c i couldnt give two shits about esports or streamers, but i hate how most speedrunners seem to exploit glitches. makes it less fun

Look for Any% glitchless

When youre trying to grind down a PB youre not going to skip on a glitch if it cuts down time
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im not into streaming culture at all, but there are a couple people who stream that ill watch sometimes
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I like watching some of the speedrun stuff on old games I played a lot as a kid, especially technical breakdowns on how the exploits and things work.

Speedrunning. I have no interest in eSports whatsoever, and most of the streaming I'm interested in is stuff I watch ironically (ie: DarksydePhil).
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Most of it is absolutely insufferable, but there are a few hidden gems in each

in general, speedrunning > streaming > esports
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Oh yeah, I love no glitch and no major glitch speedruns, but glitch runs can be fun when you can still see the game being played.
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

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All of them. I watch esports the least though. My favorites, though rare, are niche streams doing weird things. There was this prerecorded voice worker, the kind that provide audio for GPS systems, narrating her run of twitch. Asponge was the name, but it's down now and I think her archives are down too. I saved a few vids, but the upload time is nuts so I won't.
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