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36,744 People Are Watching Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan Sit Motionless With A Yule Log (kotaku.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the roasting-on-an-open-fire dept.

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.

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  1. You don't say?! by denzacar · · Score: 4, Funny

    A bunch of idiots with too much time on their hands are wasting it by watching some guy do nothing?

    I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

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    1. Re: You don't say?! by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Informative

      A bunch of idiots with too much time on their hands are wasting it by watching some guy do nothing?

      This already has prior art . . . Andy Warhol invented this back in the 60's with his movies.

      It's still both confusing and amazing what folks will watch.

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    2. Re: You don't say?! by jwhyche · · Score: 2

      Correction. 36745.

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      I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
  2. For the 99% who don't now who Kaplan is (like me) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. Nick Offerman did it better by eSyr · · Score: 2

    Nick Offerman's Yule Log was far more interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Better things to do by AlanObject · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  5. Re:There is no Yule Log by CQDX · · Score: 2

    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.

  6. Channelling Andy Warhol by tonique · · Score: 2

    I'm sure Andy Warhol would have been enthusiastic about modern webcams and streaming. Just think about his films, such as Sleep .

  7. Re:Jesus is the reason for the season by user32.ExitWindowsEx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hallowed are the Ori.

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