To troll or not to troll: Voting for player death in crowd-play game Dick Starr Conquers Mars

I’m about to come off old and crotchety admitting this, but I don’t enjoy watching people play single-player games on Twitch. My intolerance for playthrough videos doesn’t come from being one of those game writers who is secretly “anti-YouTuber.” I don’t find the proliferation of Internet video personalities and their content threatening to the written word (or at least my contribution to it). It’s just that my preference when absorbing a single-player title is to play it, not watch it.

In the grand scheme of things, my inability to “get it” is inconsequential. Livestreaming has enabled thousands of people to share in the frustrating experience of sitting in a living room watching a sibling or friend (or fish) playing a video game with the only controller. It’s just one small example of technological convenience gone mad.