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How fans ruin things they love
repoman wrote: I am always bemused when subject such as this come up.
First let me say, in regards to bicyclists, I don't give a shit what they wear or how much the spend on what they ride. I resent that a great majority of them feel that they need not obey the rules of the road and are entitled to do as they please in traffic. It endangers them and more importantly me. The stuff about the spandex and what not...well I just think they look rediculous.
You say that as though the dipshits in two tons of steel that also happen to greatly outnumber cyclists obey the rules of the road. I am going to take the lane whenever I need, I will signal clearly, and whoever is behind me will fucking deal with me going so ~slow~ at ~25mph until it is safe to go back on the shoulder.
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dysjunct wrote: I was reading an article about a psychological study of happiness that measured the happiness gained from an experience vs that gained from acquiring something. The latter starts fading immediately, but the former lasts for months and months before your happiness starts resetting to your base level! So it's not even rational to acquire things or collections or whatever - go do stuff!
Unlike most of my friends and fellow gamers, I spend a fair amount of time making stuff involving my hobbies instead of passively consuming stuff. Like when I run an rpg, I spend time making map tokens and prepping adventures and creating visual aids or handouts with gimpshop. When I was younger and had more time, I would dozens of pages of additional rules for rpgs to fill in grey areas and draft complex scenarios and variants for my favorite boardgames. A lot of that extra content was of dubious value, but I enjoyed doing it even if it only slightly enhanced our games. I don't usually paint minis for games, but I sometimes have pimped out games with improved components and cheatsheets. But that probably means that I am just wasting less money and more time on the same kind of fandom. Well, at least I'm not writing fanfic.
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And Repo, from the perspective of one who actually is a gold refiner, the gold makes the dross, not the other way around.
Also, I am pretty fucking ripped. Neurontin and alcohol with a Meclazine kicker is a potent combination. Add sun, and you're ready for launch,
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Legomancer wrote: "Nerd culture" thus has become a strictly passive, consumption-based entity. There are no ideas in that world. No statements to be made except the tritest, most fittable on a t-shirt ones.
While there's a lot more interesting stuff in Legomancer's original post, the more I've thought about this aspect, the more it seems to me that it's a facet of modern life, not nerd-dom.
You often hear commentators bemoan the effect that 24-hour rolling information culture has had on attention spans and analysis. Everything is becoming reduced to soundbites and there's no time to do much except consume when the pressure is always on to go look at the next thing in the queue.
Viewed this way, nerd-dom is simply a microcosm of everyday society pushed to a slightly more extreme point.
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