what twitch fuels

[aspect17 2]

was watching twitch today a guy with 1000 viewers.

the streamer met this guy by the northern airfield gun on his back.

streamer did the salute. saw a fire campfire kit on the ground asked if he was cold. the guy bent down to light the fire. the streamer whipped out his mosin and shot him.

idk what disgusts me is the way it went down didnt seem like an honorable death. and in the stream you can see he hit his keyboard like he was looking for lost keys.

i understand KOS and its need in the game. but really? why do these actions make people so popular.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

The world is full of dumb and we are its benefactors.

[umm_me 77]

Some people play like that, a lot do actually... 

Twitch is just a way to broadcast your play, whether you play like a good guy, bad guy, or otherwise...

[yazar8 584]

Who's the streamer?

[Evil Minion 943]

honorable

Honor is something you tell others to meet you on your terms. In fact the whole concept of honor is actually dishonorable by changing the rules of engagement in a way that benefits a select group.

[Geckofrog7 1168]

I don't find the actual action surprising, just the fact that 1000 people think watching someone do that is entertaining. No anger towards them, just confusion.

[r.pitura@live.com.au 12]

I don't find the actual action surprising, just the fact that 1000 people think watching someone do that is entertaining. No anger towards them, just confusion.

Funny you say that ive come across a stream where there where cameras in every room of a house....

This is in real life mind you.....

You pay extra for access to bedrooms as well....

There are some way out people out there trust me...

[ChainReactor 922]

I don't find the actual action surprising, just the fact that 1000 people think watching someone do that is entertaining. No anger towards them, just confusion.

 

It's a matter of taste i guess. I often watch twitch streams, DayZ and its slow pace is quite enjoyable to watch for me personally. But it really depends on the streamer and how he interacts with his viewers. Just watching the game isn't worth it. However, that does not apply to the viewercount. Had some nice chill hours on streams with like 15 viewers and a good streamer.

 

OP: Maybe the streamer RP'd a bandit that day. What he did would be a totally normal tactic then, since it wasnt even KOS.

Edited October 24, 2014 by ChainReactor

[rybec 339]

During the mod when it was so easy to find streamer's servers I'd hop onto it and hunt down the streamer with my DMR if they were being an ass. If they were reasonable I left them alone. Was a lot of fun killing them and their posse when they'd have a group going. The game is better without them.

[Grundlesmuggler 41]

During the mod when it was so easy to find streamer's servers I'd hop onto it and hunt down the streamer with my DMR if they were being an ass. If they were reasonable I left them alone. Was a lot of fun killing them and their posse when they'd have a group going. The game is better without them.

 

So you would only just find the server right?  You would track them normally too right?  You wouldn't ghost him and then kill him and then brag about it afterwards like you accomplished the difficult task of being able to see someone's exact location without doing any actual work to find them right?

 

 

Anyway, I don't necessarily think that's "what 'twitch' does".  It's more like the internet in general.  Your online persona is just that, online.  The internet desensitizes you since what you can do has actually no bearing on or is indicative of who you are as a person.  So people go around, KoS'ing, messing with fresh spawns, cheating, doing whatever they want because it doesn't actually matter on any kind of moral scale.  You can argue that it does matter, but it's a video game, in cyberspace, and has no affect on your lives whatsoever.  If what happens to a person online affects their life offline, the issue is not with the internet, or the action, or the game....it's with the person that lets something fake and not real affect what is real.  Their problem not ours.

 

Because it's fake, and because the internet has made it easy for people to interact, be whoever they want to be and act however they want to act with no social repercussions, you get a group of people who talk shit, troll, act like bad asses.  These people without the internet would generally be not accepted socially but because the internet is a space that accepts all there really is no discouragement to acting this way.  The sooner you realize that these people have literally 0 affect on you, and you can just laugh at them, the sooner it will no longer bother you.  For all you know the guy who streams this type of behavior is actually a decent family man, with a nice job, 2 kids, and a dog in some midwestern suburb somewhere.  But the internet allows him to be something else entirely...and twitch lets him show everyone who his online persona is. 

[rybec 339]

So you would only just find the server right?  You would track them normally too right?  You wouldn't ghost him and then kill him and then brag about it afterwards like you accomplished the difficult task of being able to see someone's exact location without doing any actual work to find them right? 

At first, no. When they got smarter and started adding delays to streams it got only slightly harder. Lots of fun.

[Grundlesmuggler 41]

At first, no. When they got smarter and started adding delays to streams it got only slightly harder. Lots of fun.

 

I was spouting rhetoric, sorry man.

[a_ruttle 199]

If it makes you feel any better I killed a guy like that earlier, I tailed him around Svetlo and watched him ask a bambi to put his hands up [he did] before just shooting him, the second he fired I dropped him, felt good.

[huf757 82]

I don't find the actual action surprising, just the fact that 1000 people think watching someone do that is entertaining. No anger towards them, just confusion.

At the end of the day it is just a video game. Entertainment, no-one is ever really hurt. If you think that is bad you should really investigate what people do to other humans IRL.  Dayz has nothing and I mean nothing to compare to it.

[St. Jimmy 1631]

Hicks was that you? :rolleyes:

[Grimey Rick 3417]

Streaming helps grow the community, but at the cost of flooding the game with a bunch of halfwits that don't fully understand the point of the game. There isn't one stream I've found entertaining. I've never been able to understand why you'd watch someone else play a video game you yourself could play instead.

It's like cuckolding for video games.

[Karmaterror 982]

This guy was no bandit....and no koser.

 

KoSers have the balls to open up from distance and risk starting an actuall firefight.

 

Bandits will get creative....handcuffs and bleached fruit or something.

 

This  guy.....this guy falls under Coward...plain and simple. Had to wait for the 0 risk moment and act. Im sure this is why a lot play the game. They like the idea that they don't need skill, just to bump into the right type of player and boom...easy kill....kinda like the combat log system :)

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

This guy was no bandit....and no koser.

 

KoSers have the balls to open up from distance and risk starting an actuall firefight.

 

Bandits will get creative....handcuffs and bleached fruit or something.

 

This  guy.....this guy falls under Coward...plain and simple. Had to wait for the 0 risk moment and act. Im sure this is why a lot play the game. They like the idea that they don't need skill, just to bump into the right type of player and boom...easy kill....kinda like the combat log system :)

Would you give his chance to a deer?

[Karmaterror 982]

Would you give his chance to a deer?

 

Sorry little confused....do you mean would a hunter be a coward for sneaking up on a deer?

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

Sorry little confused....do you mean would a hunter be a coward for sneaking up on a deer?

It's more like "Does it matter?" you are going in for the kill, not to have a gentleman's duel. Same with players.

[UltimateGentleman 355]

Sorry little confused....do you mean would a hunter be a coward for sneaking up on a deer?

Which is completely different from hunting a deer because mostly you NEED to hunt a deer for food or whatever, the guy didn't need to kill that unsuspecting fool he done it to be a dick.

 

I don't see the appeal to this kind of action at all. I'd rather shoot someone dead if they look like they'd open up on me and haven't noticed me but otherwise it's sad to just get people when they're back is turned and they're not being hostile, it's extremely cowardly. No different from sitting in the corner of a room waiting for people to walk in and blowing them away. Lame and unnecessary.

But since they're tricking them I guess it's cool and intelligent huh :thumbsup:

And people say playstyles like that have no influence from CoD games etc

 

 

It's more like "Does it matter?" you are going in for the kill, not to have a gentleman's duel. Same with players.

Yeah but why? It was a cowardly action, he obviously didn't need to kill them he done it for fun don't compare it to outsmarting an animal it's just not, making a snap decision to kill someone in a game doesn't make you a badass.

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

Which is completely different from hunting a deer because mostly you NEED to hunt a deer for food or whatever, the guy didn't need to kill that unsuspecting fool he done it to be a dick.

 

I don't see the appeal to this kind of action at all. I'd rather shoot someone dead if they look like they'd open up on me and haven't noticed me but otherwise it's sad to just get people when they're back is turned and they're not being hostile, it's extremely cowardly. No different from sitting in the corner of a room waiting for people to walk in and blowing them away. Lame and unnecessary.

But since they're tricking them I guess it's cool and intelligent huh :thumbsup:

And people say playstyles like that have no influence from CoD games etc

 

 

Yeah but why? It was a cowardly action, he obviously didn't need to kill them he done it for fun don't compare it to outsmarting an animal it's just not, making a snap decision to kill someone in a game doesn't make you a badass.

All I'm saying is why would you take any risks really?

 

Also a coward's fear for his own safety override a potentially good action. What you qualified as such is really about not giving the other player a fighting chance, but why would you, this isn't an e-sport kind of game.

 

Plus he is carrying MY stuff, doesn't matter if he found it, it's mine, this also secure future items he might "steal" from me :)

Edited October 26, 2014 by Lady Kyrah

[Judopunch 523]

 met this guy by the northern airfield

I knew how this story ended after I read this. Lets try to find something with a twist. 1/10

[UltimateGentleman 355]

might

If he's bending down to light camp fires he's hardly going to be an extremely dangerous threat.

 

What sense is there to being so freaking hostile? Caution does the job, be ready to take your gun out at any time and don't fully trust people it's pretty easy. I don't get why people are so ridiculously frightened or say they are is if that makes KOS and being a douchebag legit.

 

Stupid to kill people under the presumption they have stuff you need or might kill you for your stuff anyway.

You know what they are?

Extra storage. You probably can't carry all the goods they have so they're wasted not to mention most likely ruined if you shot them.

Unless you're starving and they won't feed you it's a way better idea to befriend them, not only are they extra storage they're a lookout and half the time it takes you to search a building.

 

Nobody who lives like people play DayZ would live very long in an apocalypse like this...

Edited October 27, 2014 by UltimateGentleman

[Whyherro123 2283]

If he's bending down to light camp fires he's hardly going to be an extremely dangerous threat.

 

What sense is there to being so freaking hostile? Caution does the job, be ready to take your gun out at any time and don't fully trust people it's pretty easy. I don't get why people are so ridiculously frightened or say they are is if that makes KOS and being a douchebag legit.

 

Stupid to kill people under the presumption they have stuff you need or might kill stuff anyway.

You know what they are?

Extra storage.

Unless you're starving and they won't feed you it's a way better idea to befriend them, not only are they extra storage they're a lookout and half the time it takes you to search a building.

 

Nobody who lives like people play DayZ would live very long in an apocalypse like this...

 Damn straight.