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I'm coming out swinging here.
Movies? Right out, between the distinct fandoms of both American Sniper Part V: Killing Children, the acolytes of Marveslop and guy who's really into french indie cinema to sexually assault women there really is nothing to save there. Get rid of it, I say, what difference does it make?
Books? Pfff, there's the door. A thousand women converted into abusal BDSM play by a badly written fanfic of twilight and you want that shit to go on? You in favour of Steel Storm and My Struggle? Thought not. Fuck books.
Paintings? While Homeland Security is waxing about Kinkade? Statues, as if that's not the #1 signifier for alt right weirdos now? Away it goes!
I think you get the point. To judge a medium by it's worst fans is inane, though. Capital G gamers suck, but so do so many different flavours or fans of other mediums. The problem is not the medium.
Sturgeon's law is pretty relevant.
For those unfamiliar, it's "90% of everything is crap". For any medium, or any genre in any medium, most of it is crap. sometimes this can lead to people thinking an older medium or genre is better, but really it's just had more time to accumulate hits.
You had me writing an angry reply to this before I finished lol
Not on this list:
Going outside and moving your body, preferably with friends
Gardening, preferably with friends
Cooking, preferably with friends
Learning, preferably with friends
Going hiking in nature, preferably with friends
Joining a leftist org and making a difference
I hope you get my point. If you read through this site and the posts and comments a deep social and political alienation is dripping but ya'all want to defend sitting inside, usually alone, staring at flashing lights. They're just treats. I'm just saying I wish they didn't exist and people found fun and meaning in physical things in the real world with real people.
what are your feelings on the industrial revolution and it's consequences for the human race?
Moralism dressed up in marxist language. Shut up, you fraud
lmao
Less than a month old account talking about what hobbies should people pursue.
Time for another struggle session I guess
I sit with my friend, who is also a communist, and I either play with him or watch him play games. We talk about them, we enjoy them in the same way someone would enjoy films or books. I also garden. I also cook (like in a big way, honestly). We both organize. Honestly you can do all of these things together?
How dare you enjoy music, novels, or board games. Go outside and appreciate a tree, nothing non physical about it, don't wax poetic or anything, just like assess the bark.
Flashing lights are no more or less stupid toys than any other pursuit. It's not like the engaging part of a poem is its ink and wood pulp
I do not get your point at all because it turns out you can do more than one thing. You can go hiking in a day and then also play videogames, with or without friends, at night. Or read a book, or watch a movie or whatever - these thing's arent exclusive by design.
We need to cancel hobbies until we can figure out just what is going on.
hard agree, the most leftist position is your life should be toiling, eating nutripaste and recreating in accordance to the 5 year plan. everything else is counterrevolutionary
"Hello you wonderful folks and welcome back to Rimworld. Today we will be recreating the Red Army-"
Love games, hate G*mers, simple as.
counterpoint: games are also bad, because they are developed by, you guessed it, gamers
(don't take this too seriously, I know there are some good games out there)
devs aren't gamers they don't have time to play games
:yea:
Good games like LoL and bad games like deltarune
Fine, correct, even!