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[primeideal]

"Hey, primeideal, try this video game, it's fun."
99% of the time: "sounds neat but my hand-eye coordination is garbage and I probably won't have time."
1% of the time: work gives us a snow day, okay, whatever, I'll try.

(this has happened in two consecutive winters now)
But! Like! If it's one of those games where you almost-require a freestanding controller and/or an actual mouse (rather than a touchpad) and/or some accumulated experience with hand-eye coordination games and/or an immense quantity of free time to get through all of it rather than just sit around and beat your head against the wall furiously. You have to tell me that.

And "oh, if you're not ever going to play it yourself, then you can watch someone else play it and they can solve the puzzles..." Like, maybe if I already knew the streamer/was a fan of their style/sense of humor, I could see this being something I would do. But. "I'm too dumb to enjoy this thing so let me get vicarious entertainment out of watching someone who is competent enough to do the thing..." ??? No, is not me.

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[ambyr]

I make my partner play video games so I can watch, sometimes, but watching strangers stream is also extremely not for me. (Also, at least when I'm watching him, it's more "I watch you do the fights because I hate reflex-based gaming and then when you hit a logic/strategy puzzle we solve it together.")