I've always been entranced and excited by video games, but I learned in the mid-2000s that I'm just as fascinated by watching other people play them on the internet.
A lot of the appeal of Let's Play videos or gaming streamers has to do with the personalities of those I like to watch, but it can also be pretty enlightening to see exactly how skilled those who are better at certain games than me are.
And while I only got to make a few of my own videos before my recording hardware broke down, I can tell you that it's pretty fun to record yourself playing them too.
So I was perhaps more excited than most to see that this practice had a wider appeal than I realized and that thanks to the enthusiasm of one woman in Japan, there's a let's player with an actual world record to their name now.
