After watching approximately 4 hours today, of a ten year old recording of a YouTuber/twitch streamer playing fallout: new Vegas, I realised that David Foster Wallace was wrong about one thing: The Entertainment is not simple infantalisation and mommy loves you sissy hypno, the real The Entertainment is more subtle and horrible yet. What pleasure I deprive from watching "northenlion" play new Vegas "for the first time" in 2015, a game I have played maybe 300 hours of in many many replays, is not, exactly "vicariously experiencing it for the first time myself", but instead, specifically *watching* someone *else* play it for the first time. What is being synthetically reproduced is not my own nostalgic experience of narcissistic immersion, but specifically the social dimension of sharing it: I am not watching the streamer to imagine myself in his place, I am watching him to imagine what it is like watching someone experience it. I am not substituting the childish baby narcissism experience, I am precisely substituting the PARENTAL experience. It's not about the video game at all, it's about sharing something with your "child". In dfw: I am not the baby being spoken to by the mother, I AM the mother sissy hypnoing the baby. POV meme