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36,744 People Are Watching Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan Sit Motionless With A Yule Log (kotaku.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Kotaku:
He's been this way for over an hour, and as word's gotten out the audience has swelled to over 30,000... The Twitch stream opened a couple hours ago on an empty chair. A few minutes later Kaplan walked in and sat down. He's been there ever since, sometimes crossing his legs, sometimes uncrossing them, and always looking, watching, waiting. And lest anyone think the stream is somehow a small segment of footage on loop, there have been a few weird moments sprinkled throughout, including one where Jeff gets booped by an off camera boom mic. In the other, less action filled parts, you can feel time passing as the rate of Jeff blinking changes. Three different blinking speeds, we'll call them long stare, short stare, and turbo eye lash flicking, have taken shape in the stream like the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future...
It's boring to the point of being impossible to look away. It's actually the opposite of what this time of year's supposed to be about. You should be having human interactions with other people. Catching up with family and friends. Not sitting with your phone or laptop transfixed by a motionless Jeff Kaplan...so far he's just continued to sit and stare, perhaps pondering the future of the game or that email he forgot to respond to from a few days ago or maybe just the fact the how many Christmas Eves ago he never imagined where he'd be on December 24, 2017.
It's boring to the point of being impossible to look away. It's actually the opposite of what this time of year's supposed to be about. You should be having human interactions with other people. Catching up with family and friends. Not sitting with your phone or laptop transfixed by a motionless Jeff Kaplan...so far he's just continued to sit and stare, perhaps pondering the future of the game or that email he forgot to respond to from a few days ago or maybe just the fact the how many Christmas Eves ago he never imagined where he'd be on December 24, 2017.
A bunch of idiots with too much time on their hands are wasting it by watching some guy do nothing?
I'm shocked! SHOCKED!
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Let's get together, burn an ashen faggot, dance around it singing Christmas songs, and be merry! Now there's a Christmas tradition.
So this is what a loser looks like. ..
Got it.
next
Apparently he's some video game designer who's the VP of Blizzard. Why the editors think we're all just supposed to know this is beyond me.
Also, no relation to George Kaplan
I don't understand why anyone would give this more than a few seconds of attention.
I DO understand meditation. But watching someone else meditate is not the same thing.
I also understand why people are impressed by "human statues." Holding perfectly still for an extended period is quite hard, so people watch that to be impressed by such a display of self-control. And, of course, to feel gratified if they notice a subtle movement.
But this...It's just a waste of time.
I have already spent more time typing up this post than the subject-matter justifies.
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Nick Offerman's Yule Log was far more interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They're just seeing what they can get away with.
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Slashdot becomes a magical place at Christmas.
You are welcome on my lawn.
YOU BETTER NOT SHOUT!
da-da-da--dada
Trump goinnnnnng doooooowwwwwwn!
That wacko is pathetheticmungous.
It's exactly this in-your-face Christianity that keeps so many people as far away from organized religion as possible.
Not facts right.
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What's sad is that I would rather read about this than Firefox or systemd.
'Tis the season to hang yourself with a belt in a closed door. Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Santa?
I'm tempted to open the link in a tab and walk away, just because.
Merry Christmas to all you Christians. We like the liberal version of Jesus Christ. He's the sort of guy who'd sit with the gay couple and try to befriend them to convert them away from wanting to be in a gay marriage. You know, living a righteous life and by example be a role model? Yea, that was one cool dude.
PS - I'm not actually against gay marriage. In general the big JC was against marriage anyways as he felt it distracted you from your spiritual life. As he said, you can't have two masters, so realistically having a spouse and kids really muddles things. Having said that, I have no doubt that Jesus Christ, if alive today, would simply say, "Yea, I have gay friends. Some of them are even married." He wouldn't resent them or berate them. Maybe even he'd change his mind about it being a sin.
And why should I care?
If you are in to Overwatch (I am not) your time is better spent looking at the related artwork floating around of the out-of-this-world callipygian girl characters in skintight costumes. Or sometimes no costumes except the face paint.
But maybe that's just me.
Ce n'est pas un spécial de NoÃl?
Don't the editors check anything?
There's a fireplace and cookies and milk and Jeff Kaplan.
There is no Yule Log. A Yule Log is a cake that looks like a log, decorated in a Christmassy theme.
Jesus H F Christ.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Kotaku ran a story that didn't complain about how racist sexist transphobic and white supremacist the log is.
Yeah, right.
If you believe in the divinity of Jesus then you have to take the entire New Testament, including the writings of St. Paul which explicitly say physical homosexual relations are verboten, monogamous or not. This is a carry over from the old Jewish law. Most of the strict Jewish religious laws were not required of Christians but sexual morality rules were one Gentiles were obligated to follow.
Iâ(TM)ve no idea who this is. Why would, or should, I care.
Which is my point. Most of the old Jewish laws were not carried over because they were, apparently, extraneous to the moral code that God (and hence Jesus) was all about. So, I wonder if the issue of sexual morality would be the thing he'd most focus on or even care about, at least in terms of homosexuality. It's really hard to say, of course, as it's clear at some level why you want to make homosexuality verboten: it can lead to issues of sexual discrimination. Of course, given that that's precisely what was the norm in Jesus' time, and he didn't seem to have a problem with it... *shrug* Either way, Jesus wouldn't be that guy screaming about "homos going to hell". He'd simply try to befriend and talk to them. If/when it failed for some/many, he'd move on.
Atheist here. I believe in Jesus (as in there was a carpenter's son named Jesus about 2k years ago), just not in any religions or God. Happy Holidays!
"Go to church and celebrate the birth of the Son of God."
Happy Sol Invictus to you too.
Is there a correct way ? Please enlighten us on the correct way, Your Highness.
I think we differ on the definition of "saved". Saved in most cases has involved thumbscrews, cutting off the hand, drowning, burning, beheading, racking, raping, and pillaging.
...and who really gives a rat's ass what he's doing? Are peoples' lives really that shallow now?
And why would I care?
Fuck off
I'm sure Andy Warhol would have been enthusiastic about modern webcams and streaming. Just think about his films, such as Sleep .
I had a really negative, atheist response to that but I don't want to ruin Xmas for everyone.
30,000 people aren't actively watching it, you're supposed to put it on a TV in lieu of having an actual fire.
Also Kaplan isn't live either, so I really have no idea what this person is mad about. Did someone give him coal for Christmas?
Sounds like the movie Ass
Hallowed are the Ori.
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
Who the hell is Jeff Kaplan, and why should I, or anyone else, care about his idiotic performance art?
Uh, where do I even begin? How about, it's one thing for me to not be interested in my own sex sexually. It's another to feel the need to tell other people, who aren't hitting on you, that THEY can't be interested in their own sex sexually. Take that up a not to actually wanting to beat-up, lynch, imprison, or murder them? Yea, that's just fucked up. Which is the whole issue with the point, I guess. If you view God as your own personal moral compass, that's one thing. The second you start to view God as "the State" and hence to push "God" to go around imposing your own moral compass, you're just an authoritarian asshole
Otherwise, I really don't give a fuck what you find is "clearly unnatural and wrong" because it doesn't effect me.
I think more "nerds" know who Jeff Kaplan is than who RMS is.
Not a knock against either of those individuals. Just sayin'.
Dude you can't pretend you aren't being an edgelord aka "in your face" when you say shit like "are you on the rag?" Goddamnit.
Thatâ(TM)s obviously a troll. The responses just make it sound like you are atheists because you hate religious idiots rather than by logic. Cool it.
Jeff saw Gabe Newell live streaming in front of a yule log and, well, Blizzard.
Well, he is also known for his old forum Everquest and WoW rants under the alias "Tigole Bitties".
Mr. Torvalds doesn't have anything on this dude when it comes to toxic flamewars.
I think more "nerds" know who Jeff Kaplan is than who RMS is.
Possibly. But RMS has far more articles about him posted on Slashdot than Jeff Kaplan. A simple search on both names reveals the truth. Normally articles correlates with popularity, so the data doesn't support your assertion.
I have it on good authority that St. Paul was a right bloody liar.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I always found it odd too. Like somebody went: "Right guys. From now on, you can wear poly-cotton shirts and as for the bacon, knock yourselves out! But still no fudge-nudging, got that?"
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Jeff Kaplan getting booped by a boom mic? I'd buy that for a dollar!