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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
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
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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.
Not facts right.
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I'm tempted to open the link in a tab and walk away, just because.
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?
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.
A Yule Log is both wood you burn on Christmas and a cake, a cake designed to look like a real Yule Log. Look it up. But you are correct in that there's no real Yule Log as it's a gas fireplace.
And it's not Christmas. That's tomorrow.
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"I don't understand why anyone would give this more than a few seconds of attention."
Not everybody has ADD like you.
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.
Depends on your part of the world and on which they do you celebrate christmas
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?
Are peoples' lives really that shallow now?
Yes, and they have been that shallow for a while now. Or else the Kardashians wouldn't have made all that money.
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.
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?
Jeff saw Gabe Newell live streaming in front of a yule log and, well, Blizzard.
I don't think the point of this, or Andy Warhol's movies, is to watch them for the full duration. They're a kind of tableau vivant -- something you observe for as long as you wish, then go on to something else in your life. They're something more than a photograph, but less than a movie.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Far, far, far less than.
I'm British and an atheist and it's ludicrous for a Christian to tell me I'm not allowed to engage in Christmas traditions. It's normal to celebrate Christmas in the UK on the 25th. It's a national holiday in the US and most European countries and a number of other countries. Having a secular celebration where you buy your kids presents and have a big meal is perfectly fine.
A year end, mid winter celebration is common in many cultures, especially in northern countries where there is a big difference between winter and summer, unlike equatorial countries. However having just come back from Malaysia I can report that there was a lot of Christmas paraphernalia in the stores, during the 28C/80F weather and it's a country where Islam, Buddhism and a few other religions are more prevalent than christianity.
The christian churches just adopted this time or year because it was an existing celebration, long before biblical times.
Back on topic - In the UK, I've only ever heard "Yule Log" used in the context of a cake. I now live in the US and this Slashdot story is the first time I've heard it used to refer to a log on a fire during Christmas.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
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."