Hobbies ruined by other people thread - And corporations, and trends, and so forth.

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I could say that every hobby of mine was ruined by both the Left and the Right, however me and my group have long since learned you have to do a lot of gatekeeping to keep them pure. Think of it your hobby as a Christian daughter and you're an over protective father. One false move and that girl is going to be getting blacked or worse.

 

[2LtMashengo]

. Fallout. New Vegas is probably my favorite game of all time, but the fandom is chock-full of "to be fair, you have to have a really high IQ" blowhards

I could almost stand the Obsidian worshipers, but it was the sudden swarm of troons who seem to have just discovered this decade old game sometime in the past two years that really did it in for me. Especially since they seem so bent on claiming it as "their" piece of media.

 

[Overcast]

Also - pet owners. Especially rats. Sure, there are some weird individuals among cat-lovers, but rat owners are a true troonfest and they insert "queer" bullshit everywhere they can and their poor pets are no exeption. I left a few facebook pet groups due to troonery and constant LGBT+ sperging.

It's a real damn shame. Fancy Rats are genuinely sweet and intelligent creatures and people who own them already get a bad rep simply by association. Identifying yourself as part of the alphabet group only stigmatizes the little guys that much more. Because now they aren't hated simply because they're associated with the household pest, they are symbolic of a person's mental and emotional state too.

Anyway yeah, it's hard to discuss video games with pretty much anybody because of how much trannies and identity politics have infected it all. Video games were already kind of considered something exclusively either for kids or outsiders, and in a way that hasn't actually changed much. Except now said outsiders are outsiders for a damn good reason and also indirectly control everything.

Recently got back into the Halo games as they were a big part of my childhood, and I was saddened, but not surprised to find how much the community has been infected by this sort of thing. I saw someone on the Halo subreddit commenting that Master Chief might be a "bottom" simply because he isn't chatty or extroverted like Cortana is. And of course, you have the MCC having banners for stuff like BLM or whatever racial history month it is.

Plus, I think most of these people have forgotten the games were meant to be a Christian allegory as stated by early interviews by the devs. And not just because of the surface level references. Yes you had gay jokes sprinkled in via staring at your allies too long as well as with the IWHBYD skull turned on, but that's all they were, jokes. And stuff you kinda had to slightly go out of the way to find.

 

[Frogget-me-not]

Paleontology and paleoart have been completely ruined by endless internet slapfights over feathers, scales, accuracy and whatnot. Most of these "discussions" happen among manchildren, trannies, and HECKING SCIENCE LOVERS. None of these has a genuine interest in the scientific study prehistoric life, they just want to join "fandoms" for dinosaurs (lol) and have dick measuring contests about how many elementary school-level trivial facts they know or how accurate their drawings are. They're fucking kindergarteners trying to prove how smart they are by listing all the animals they know. Thankfully they're at least avoidable by simply sticking to reading actual papers instead of watching condensed slop like Trey the Explainer's on jewtube.

Only tangentially related: An interest in paleo art often intersects with speculative biology, which itself intersects with autistic kids who really fucking love dragons and want to make them scientifically feasible. There’s some spergs who get really uptight about accuracy of things that don’t actually exist. They haven’t ruined speculative biology for me, per se, but it does get exhausting to deal with day in and day out.

If I were you, I'd look at some IRL art clubs and art classes. Sometimes picking up a new medium and meeting people IRL can inspire you to be more productive and give you at least a new experience to try! There's also in person art festivals and you can meet some interesting people there, check for them as the year goes by.

Totally agree. IRL sketch clubs do have their rainbow people, but they are magnitudes less obnoxious. Picking up sculpting (clay + digital) was a blessing too, even if 3D modelling is also full of anime people and trannies. Been floating the idea of DnD with some normies I hang out with IRL as well, however I don’t think anyone would be ready for such an autistic commitment as normal people have real lives to live, lol.

If I had the option I'd have the rat with a gun as a bumper sticker, but with no caption. I don't even own rats, it's just beautiful.

Couldn’t find the exact background they used, unfortunately. But here’s some rats for y’all.

 

[Meat Target]

I could almost stand the Obsidian worshipers, but it was the sudden swarm of troons who seem to have just discovered this decade old game sometime in the past two years that really did it in for me. Especially since they seem so bent on claiming it as "their" piece of media.

I have always thought Caesar's Legion were faggots. The degenerate who made those t-shirts belongs on a cross.

I also remember some years ago, someone asked about transgender characters in-game on the New Vegas Steam forum Someone correctly replied that such First World luxuries would have no place in post-apocalyptia, where you have to fight for your next meal.

Guess it serves Obsidian and Bethesda right for being some of the first game devs to drink the Rainbow Kool-Aid.

 

[Shart Attack]

Almost all of my hobbies have always been other-people-proof by design. I'm antisocial, so I've always pursued hobbies that can be done alone and offline, like hiking, reading, target shooting, and baking. Sure, social justice zealots and troons are shitting up the literary world with propaganda, and there's always social justice drama in YA and sci-fi publishing. None of that can stop me from picking up and reading a Jane Austen book or whatever. Something like 90% of what I read has always been from before the 1950s anyway.

I guess maybe gun consoomers and panic buyers driving up the cost of ammo has made it harder to afford target shooting, but I can't really say that's ruined my hobby or anything. It's just driven me to hand reload more of my own ammo (although even that is ridiculously expensive, and good luck getting tips for the most popular handgun calibers in a timely manner).

I do feel bad for people with more social hobbies like tabletop gaming or knitting, of all things. You guys have it rough.

2. Baseball. It was my passion as a kid, but got ruined by the time I was in high school. "Baseball people" are either the nicest people you've ever met, or the most insufferable, arrogant, favoritist assholes you've ever met.

On a professional level, the soul of the game is gone. It's obsessed with pointless StatCast and Sabermetrics autism. There's also conflict between those who want to uphold the so-called "unwritten rules (that is, being classy and sportsmanlike) and those who want to showboat with batflips and taunting on the field. And every postseason is always the Yankees, Dodgers, and Astros.

I'm a Cleveland fan, so baseball has only ever meant pain to me to begin with. I agree, though, the slavish devotion to analytics takes most of the heart out of the game. The starting pitcher will be throwing a one-hit shutout, but they'll take him out in the middle of the 9th inning because he's at 112 pitches, the hitter is a lefty, and the humidity is 84.5%, so the analytics say one of the relievers is a better matchup. Fuck off with that. They have a problem where only 4-5 teams are reliably competitive in large part because of their shitty salary cap system, and they decide that what the game really needs to save it from irrelevance is a pitch clock. The fuck out of here. I can't say it's ruined, though, because watching a live game is still a fun experience.

 

[Meat Target]

I'm a Cleveland fan, so baseball has only ever meant pain to me to begin with.

I remember the exact moment in 2016 when your guys dethroned my Royals.

At least Cleveland can stay competitive for more than 3 seasons. Only KC could win 2 consecutive pennants and a World Series, then go back to the basement almost instantly. And now they wanna tear down Kauffman Stadium for a new downtown Consoom Product Park.

But yeah, you have suffered the most. You're stuck with the gayest team name change ever, and you'll never hear the end of smug Cubs fans.

That's the AL Central, fren. Misery loves company.

I've gained a sudden interest in Minor League and independent baseball. Smaller, more intimate stadiums and localized teams with clever names seem to give it more soul.

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

I have always thought Caesar's Legion were faggots

The subtext of the game states that the Legion quietly tolerates homosexuality. However, I’m sure that if Edward Sallow found out a contingent of his soldiers were cutting their dicks off and becoming a drain on society (conquest dialates for no one!), those degenerates would wind up on a cross

 

[ToroidalBoat]

But because the whole western side of the hobby has evolved from just a group of people finding as much cool media from Japan as possible and writing subs for those who were interested into this unrecognizable abomination of troonery, weird pedo shit and trying to force identity politics where it don't belong.

Since I haven't really kept up with American pop culture in Current Year, it's been kind of wat to me how there's that seemingly Pavlovian hostility towards anime and anime fans. I guess I now know why. (That and SJWs don't like the "problematic" in anime.)

So I guess some good advice may be to avoid American anime fans by default, unless it's in a non-woke place or site.

 

[Meat Target]

The subtext of the game states that the Legion quietly tolerates homosexuality. However, I’m sure that if Edward Sallow found out a contingent of his soldiers were cutting their dicks off and becoming a drain on society (conquest dialates for no one!), those degenerates would wind up on a cross

I know that, but I also mean "faggot" in the sense of "obnoxious", not just being a homo.

 

[Crex Crex]

Only tangentially related: An interest in paleo art often intersects with speculative biology, which itself intersects with autistic kids who really fucking love dragons and want to make them scientifically feasible. There’s some spergs who get really uptight about accuracy of things that don’t actually exist. They haven’t ruined speculative biology for me, per se, but it does get exhausting to deal with day in and day out.

Exactly. And many of them obsess over accuracy only when it's convenient, or they arbitrarily decide themselves what is "accurate" and what isn't. Many of them rage against the edgy shrinkwrapped dinocrocs of the 90s and 2000s, yet they have no problems with morbidly obese dinoturkeys with a colour scheme straight out of a grand mal seizure (b-but muh parrots!!!!).

 

[ATI Escapee]

I haven't actually noticed any trans people in my hobby/wannabe career. It requires a lot of safety equipment and chemistry knowledge, and working outside. Ima keep it a secret for now lol. Lots of gnc people in it though, but older ones usually older millenials and up so I don't think anyone really thinks transing is true body acceptance. Plus most people spend money on their equipment and tend to look homeless because of it lol. But if I do some of my work in like, a makerspace or adjacent to other hobbyists and tinker spaces, I do see trans people. Pretty conservative state so not many, though. Zero infiltration online for me. Oh I think I might start getting really into pinball.. and there are absolutely a disproportional amount of gender people at the arcade- idk about pinball leagues yet though. We will see

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

This thread should be subtitled "Troons ruin everything good."

 

[Flatline]

it used to be a lot more fun meeting people.

Discord has fueled a lot of this decline.

 

[Stoneheart]

I could almost stand the Obsidian worshipers, but it was the sudden swarm of troons who seem to have just discovered this decade old game sometime in the past two years that really did it in for me. Especially since they seem so bent on claiming it as "their" piece of media.

well to be honest, you do get fucked up in the head right at the start and the legion cares about as much about womans rights as the average troon.

Paleontology and paleoart have been completely ruined by endless internet slapfights over feathers, scales, accuracy and whatnot. Most of these "discussions" happen among manchildren, trannies, and HECKING SCIENCE LOVERS. None of these has a genuine interest in the scientific study prehistoric life, they just want to join "fandoms" for dinosaurs (lol) and have dick measuring contests about how many elementary school-level trivial facts they know or how accurate their drawings are. They're fucking kindergarteners trying to prove how smart they are by listing all the animals they know. Thankfully they're at least avoidable by simply sticking to reading actual papers instead of watching condensed slop like Trey the Explainer's on jewtube.

Isnt that soemthing for smaller children?

 

[Crex Crex]

Isnt that soemthing for smaller children?

Depends on wheter you take it seriously as a science that can provide valuable information on the evolution of life on earth and geology, or if your interest is limited to sperging about who would win in a T-Rex Vs. Allosaurus fight. In the latter case, then yes it is and it's precisely what I was complaining about.

 

[Stoneheart]

Depends on wheter you take it seriously as a science that can provide valuable information on the evolution of life on earth and geology, or if your interest is limited to sperging about who would win in a T-Rex Vs. Allosaurus fight. In the latter case, then yes it is and it's precisely what I was complaining about.

Well the T-rex would for sure....

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Also - pet owners. Especially rats. Sure, there are some weird individuals among cat-lovers, but rat owners are a true troonfest and they insert "queer" bullshit everywhere they can and their poor pets are no exeption. I left a few facebook pet groups due to troonery and constant LGBT+ sperging.

Don't think I've seen a lot of troons into hermit crabs. That seems to be a pet associated with children even though it's the worst pet you could give a kid. I don't associate with crabbing communities these days, but they seem to still mostly be kids and adults who ended up getting crabs as kids(PHRASING). The second group bothered to care for the crabs and didn't assume a molting crab was dead.

That's a really common reason hermit crabs "die". They weren't actually dying. They were relaxing in their shell with a molt hanging out. A completed molt looks like a dead crab to the uninformed. People will throw these live crabs in the trash under the assumption that the poor guys died.

 

[Vapewizard]

My hobbies are also anime and gaming related but my most specific niche hobby is Otome and Boys love anime/manga/visual novels/fanfics and that's one of the few female hobbies that isn't being invaded by AGPs. However, as you can probably imagine those are being ruined by the Aidens who shit up the discord and twitter communities with their ugly masectomy scar fanart and fanfics where they turn one of the dudes into an FTM so 4chan is the only real place where I can discuss this stuff without having to deal with them.

Also Omegaverse is one of the worst things that happened to the fanfic community and I swear that cancerous shit contributed to making teenage girls troon out.

 

[Slap47]

Boy Scouts was ruined by social conservatives making it political. You could have just let in girls like every other country has done without any problem whatsoever. Women means more parental involvement and that makes abuse being less likely.

Pedo paranoia is a real problem in Current Year America. But it may unfortunately be justified. For example: "transgender" grooming.

Its really tragic. Fathers are afraid to take their kids to the park and places like Chuck E. Cheese because they do not want to appear as a pedo. Men are afraid to take jobs as public school teachers and nursery workers because they are afraid of being seen as an abuser.

What is deeply ironic about all of this is that child abductions and sexual abuse have gone down and most pedo abuse comes from either your family or your public school teacher. Its an overhyped moral panic.
We literally ban parents from letting kids take public transit to go to a donut shop or play basketball infront of their parking garage.

11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents.

An interview with two parents who lost their kids... over nothing.

reason.com

Now all of these kids are trapped inside. They are rapidly getting more obese, depressed and socially anxious. Even pre-pandemic you had kids who would spend all day after school just being inside... safe on the internet. The paranoia of pedos has killed far more kids than it has saved from being abused.

I could almost stand the Obsidian worshipers, but it was the sudden swarm of troons who seem to have just discovered this decade old game sometime in the past two years that really did it in for me. Especially since they seem so bent on claiming it as "their" piece of media.

Disco Elysium and Fallout New Vegas are "trans-games" for some reason. All they say is "X Is trans" and what is worse about it is that alot of right wing people who hate transpeople literally just give it to them. " I cannot play that because it is a trans game".

Its painful.