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The real cuck energy is never actually playing the games and just watching streamers
The real real cuck energy is buying the game on Steam without waiting for a sale, and then watching the let’s play of it
The real real real cuck energy is buying the game on Steam without waiting for a sale, and then watching the let’s play of it while somebody fucks your wife
Same with movies.
It's annoying when you ask someone if they've seen a film you loved. Only for when you start talking about it, they reveal they just watched a Youtube summary and ruined the whole thing for themselves...
There are many movies I don't intend to watch, but then if they are culturally significant I read the plot on Wikipedia.
People who do this are very odd to me. I'm not sure if its a younger person thing or what. I think people can't sit still for a movie now.
It's more common with younger folks but since even my own father spends hours a day on Youtube while being "too busy" to watch movies anymore. I'm not going to say it's only a young person thing.
Yeah totally. A lot of brains were fried by corpo big tech.
I just watch summaries for two reasons
if I'm going to read anything it's going to be a book or a foreign film that's at least original and edited well.
You scare me.
I ain't gonna disagree on this point.
But I will say not knowing about whatever popular franchise isn't a crime. And I'm tired of people pretending like they have to "keep up" with everything even if they have no real interest in it.
absolutely not a way for me to keep up with the Joneses. more of a curiously scratching an itch if the movie is even worth making time for. surprise, 99% are not.
Those are two (perfectly valid) reasons for not watching full-length films, but they're not reasons to watch summaries. Watching the summary is worth it if you enjoy that experience, but even as another soul who barely watches any movies I am kind of curious myself to understand the appeal.
I eat breakfast and lunch at my desk. while I eat I watch a recap.
I actually have been watching less since most of them have been using AI to narrate and it does a shit job at it.
people who have no access to/ really shitty computers:
Depends - i do not watch let's plays for anything i am actually interested in, but i have no qualms with watching them for lower quality games just for fun. And that even lead me to some games i wouldn't ever had touched without seeing the let's play.