CS Replacing TV?

[CSN NewsBot]

ABC News has done an article entitled (En)Counter Strike - Why Those Young Men Aren't Watching TV Anymore. It's about why television viewership has dropped for young males age 18-24.

What's causing this cultural earthquake? It's called, appropriately, Counter-Strike. It's a computer game, and even as you read this, thousands of young men (and a few hundred young women) are playing it on the Internet -- instead of watching TV.

Thanks to Steakeater for submitting this item. The interactive nature of CS means that it can certainly be a more involving experience than television, like the difference between dirty porn and dirty women. Mind you, there's still a lot to be said for sitting on the couch watching Simpson repeats. Take a read!

[thor2488]

Mind you, there's still a lot to be said for sitting on the couch watching Simpson repeats.

Darn tootin'. I'd take classic Simpsons episodes over CS any day.

[f0liage^]

ive definatly cut down my time spent watching TV since i took up cs

[RaptorRage]

Good article, and it actually doesn't digress into flaming commentary on video/computer game violence like 90% of the related mainstream articles out there.



Though I'd like to know where the CS servers with a couple hundred players each are located.

[peagle]

A little bit past the zenith for an article like this, but still a good read.

these days the most powerful clans are Scandinavian

Really? The most powerful?

[KrazyChicken]

i like sitting watching the simpsons and playing CS on my laptop....



i think this part of the article is funny..."Counter-Strike, by comparison, is purely a product of the Web, and, as such, enables large numbers of individuals (a couple hundred per server) to form teams and play against each other"



couple HUNDRED? never seen a server with more than 64..

[Shadow]

Obviously this guy doesnt know much about CS, but still, it was a nice article. And for those damn parents that say games endorse violence, i mean, what the fuck? The Columbine Kids were fucked up to begin with, they were always bullies, and its not the game's fault. And you dont have to assemble a fucking group, i mean, us CS players can create a group opposing you damn tightwads in a single forum thread, but we dont want to, for the sake of keeping the peace. Dammit, people are such assholes nowadays.

[Doodleman3]

I would have the TV on while I'm playing CS but then I can't hear everybody's footsteps, so the TV stays off until I'm done CSing.

[kSaini]

I agree with the little snippet of the article because i've noticed I don't watch as much TV as I've become more involved in competetive cs. I don't know if its a bad thing though as I still read the newspaper to get my fix Ö.

[Alienmorph]

So we became computer-chair-potatoes instead of couch potatoes.



Sweeeeet.



Ok lame.

[BBG]

If TV execs are blaming CS for falling ratings, the RIAA might blame it for falling CD sales and try and sue Valve! :-P

[Deletable_Man]

*stabs himself in the eye*

[Supersonic^]

RaptorRage wrote..

Good article, and it actually doesn't digress into flaming commentary on video/computer game violence like 90% of the related mainstream articles out there.



Though I'd like to know where the CS servers with a couple hundred players each are located.

Well it's possible that one server is running 4 or 5 hl dedicated servers. It's also possible that those 5 servers have 20 people max.

I don't watch TV that much anymore. I do like a good film though!

[wckd]

Supersonic1425 wrote..

Well it's possible that one server is running 4 or 5 hl dedicated servers. It's also possible that those 5 servers have 20 people max.



I don't watch TV that much anymore. I do like a good film though!

but the article said hundreds of people PER server, which isn't true.

gg battlefield 1942

[hitnrun]

ECOlithic lol