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

[Dawdler]

That’s fucked up either way. I know it’s not exclusive to Homestuck, but something about escapism or internet-based works always attracts the worst people. On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog, but the internet can just tell you’re one and wants you to be a cat instead. The hyperrealistic nature of the internet enables a lot of delusions and doublethink, but that’s a topic for another thread.

It also erases personality. Combined with headmeds and "general" confusion it's easy to see how it affects people.

 

[Sandraker]

While all the standard troons and identity politics goes without saying, Nothing ruins my hobby more than seeing youtuber covering it only for it to gain traction and every faggot comes out the wood works for it and fucks up the place.

Any non-niche youtuber covering said topic will pretty send a bunch of new bloods in who care more about the surface level aspect of engaging with a hobby to add to their list of things that they can wrap their identity around to appear interesting cause they kept a 2 hour video essay running as background noise to spew out facts like a badly written wiki page. Nothing really wrong with doing your own research for newer interests but you're not fooling anyone who's been around long enough to tell where you got your 1 note opinions from.

It's a little of both, but lot of the weebshit games that I happen to like attract new age tranny coomers. Of course Smash is Smash, and it's what I used to play myself before traditional fighting games. It's worse off naturally.

In the same boat. Played FG in tournaments since around 2008 and the despite being young at that time, the type of people that used to go to these things were very normal people that seen this as a shared hobby that you do on the side or in the middle of college. You'd have your occasional sperg but they were kept in check at the time. Even moreso players werent so obnoxious about the frame data and it was generally less about the nerdy aspect despite people being aware of how games worked.

Fast forward to today and tournaments and locals are just glorified daycares for the socially inept who want their whole personality to be "I play grapplers" or jack off to Juri feet. Even worse off for FGs right now is that most just stick to one game anyways which is pretty isolating to some players that like the genre as a whole and dont whisper "this game sucks" every 5 mins.

From my time between Smash and FG over the years at least smash autist keep their favorite game (Melee) alive which should be praised compared to how much the FGC hype up older or alternative games only for them to never support it.

Right now I'm on weebshit dead fighters, but have some friends to explore the genre with. It's much better that way than having to stomach the "community" aspect.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Women playing vidya now mostly being troon infested. So much that I changed my Youtube avatar after realising that what I thought was cute actually looked like a "Totally me! Teehee!" avatar. I never posted my face or voice. But I had videos with glitches and minor hacking and codes and was afraid people would think I was a tranny instead of a real woman despite the channel having a feminine name. Most of my game interests are retro too.

I posted this in another thread awhile back, but I wonder how many female gamers just stay under the radar and enjoy their games. With everything being discord now and infested with troons I don't think it's a welcome place for real women.

I don't hide it. Just never mention it because it's never relevent. In most contexts, mentioning being a woman in a video game is just attention seeking. It'd be attention seeking if a man blurted out "I'M A MAN!" in a space mostly women congregate. No one cares.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I can't watch anything Disney related anymore because it was ruined by Disney adults. I associate it with vapid consumerism now, can't even enjoy The Lion King which I loved at age 10.

Disney adults and Disney themselves don't seem to care too much about Tarzan (currently) so you'd probably be safe-ish in terms of listening to phil collins music. Not 100% safe just safe-ish.

That’s fucked up either way. I know it’s not exclusive to Homestuck, but something about escapism or internet-based works always attracts the worst people. On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog, but the internet can just tell you’re one and wants you to be a cat instead. The hyperrealistic nature of the internet enables a lot of delusions and doublethink, but that’s a topic for another thread.

Cat dogs, huh...
I kind of get what you're getting at here, but I also think it kind of fits in this thread due to it being a "things ruined by other people" type of shit. Just not something to solely focus on as it's a spinoff sort of of the same kind of mentality though so yeah. Speaking of cats even though it was just an analogy there I fucking hate the shift the last few years of cats being associated with trannyshit and grooming now. The small autistic murder hungry creatures deserve much better. Dogs aren't safe from this either.
:33 < still though!!!!!!!
:33 < in terms of purrsonal histories i have always b33n associated with cats
:33 < even befur the tumorous mass of current era meowtaticised and took hold of everything
;33 < i guess it was just meownt to be! X33
:33 < kill me

I don't hide it. Just never mention it because it's never relevent. In most contexts, mentioning being a woman in a video game is just attention seeking. It'd be attention seeking if a man blurted out "I'M A MAN!" in a space mostly women congregate. No one cares.

I genuinely miss the days when people not only realized nobody gave a shit and associated that behavior with attention seeking. Now it gets framed as "validation" or some dumb nonsense like that by people with actual authority so communities devolve into identity checklist types.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

It's ok, I'm a vagina haver and I hide too.

I also enjoy the joys of a natural front hole, but i don't hide i just don't give a fuck anymore, the few online games i play most of the neck beards are pretty cool. I'm ugly as sin so that helps a lot actually.

 

[DavidS877]

It's ok, I'm a vagina haver and I hide too.

Any time someone says that I assume they're a serial killer with a collection of jars in the basement.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Any time someone says that I assume they're a serial killer with a collection of jars in the basement.

 

[One Sixth Native American]

Influencers ruined hiking for me in all but the most remote places. I hate walking up to some rock formation, waterfall, or view just to have some cunt and her cucked boyfriend yell at me for being in their pictures. I was at a popular spot once (where all these instagrammers take the exact same picture) and there was a line probably 15 people long just to go out onto some ledge overlooking a mountain range. Every girl in stretch pants wanted a photo of her ass as she looked out into the abyss.

I can't watch anything Disney related anymore because it was ruined by Disney adults. I associate it with vapid consumerism now, can't even enjoy The Lion King which I loved at age 10.

I recently binged all of the Disney animated movies from Snow White all the way to Inside Out 2. There were definitely some classics (and some absolute garbage). I think the worst from the olden days was The Black Cauldron. Fucking Gurgi was retarded. The Little Mermaid was probably my favorite although Lion King.

I have no faith in modern Disney though. A couple months back I watched episodes 1-9 of Star Wars. I don't like Star Wars but I felt like it would be interesting to see everything in quick succession. When I reached episode 8 I fell down the rabbit hole trying to figure out who it was that ruined Star Wars (Kathleen Kennedy of course). I was offended for the fans with how completely and utterly bad the writing, direction, and DEI injection was. I had to force (lol, pun) myself to watch episode 9.

 

[Turquoise]

Chess.com no longer displays a flag for Russian players. Guess which flag definitely still is available though?

 

[Monkey Shoulder]

My hobbies are really just football (soccer for you burgers), knives, and black metal.

"Football has always been gay" you cry out. No, not in the way it has been forced in to in the last 15ish years. The engl*sh are obviously the worst with this, and I think they are STILL taking a knee every once in a while.

Black Metal stopped being gatekept, and got infiltrated by faggots and commies, and it's becoming more and more mainstream, bringing more faggots, troons, and undesirables.

Pocket knives (and nerding about steel in general) thankfully hasn't been infested by those types, but in return the scales have tipped too far the other way.
Just enjoy the nice steel and cool mechanism, and stop sperging about the knife maker having been on a holiday in Japan WHICH IS BASICALLY CHINA!!1 and how big your hands are.

 

[FedPostalService]

Maybe not so much a hobby as just a social activity, but: afterwork drinks has been ruined by wokies/HR types.
I don't bother going anymore because the environment is a tension filled dystopian hellscape.
There are four acceptable topics for discussion:
Work (but not any work gossip like how Susan is a fat lazy moll), your hobbies, your children, or your pets.

This 100%! 12 months ago a union agitator joined and my team went from a hard drinking and hard working fun group to a gang of pronoun respecters I dare not drink with anymore.

I go out with other parts of the business now as they’re still fun.

I can get destroyed with a group of gays and straights of different ethnicities but my pasty white team I won’t risk drinking with just in case HR get a letter about me making them feel unsafe.

 

[🔪Cold Steel Brand Rep🔪]

Children ruined video games, it's hard to look at it any other way. I feel like even when I was a kid buying my cheap plastic crap at the store that I could find something FOR me, typically I would leave with a new series of Nerf gun or a Lego set. Now everything tries to steer you towards the things corpos actually spend time and money on, that's why you can buy Minecraft surprise toys, Minecraft action figures, fake Minecraft swords, Minecraft Legos, put them in the basket of your Minecraft bike and find a matching Minecraft helmet for it, it's just so facially insipid and I hate how parents are dumb enough to fall for it.

 

[Flagstaff AZ]

Chess.

You could say troons only ruin it as much as I let them. But really! Every time I try to talk to people online about it, it's them.

 

[FedPostalService]

"Football has always been gay" you cry out. No, not in the way it has been forced in to in the last 15ish years. The engl*sh are obviously the worst with this, and I think they are STILL taking a knee every once in a while

The gentrification of footy has been fucking horrendous.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Anti-tobacco politicians make it harder to enjoy cigars. They go after brick-and-mortar cigar stores for ticky-tack reasons, they tax the hell out of sales, and they make it impossible to smoke anywhere that is not your own backyard. Where I live, it gets below freezing in the winter. I want a place to sit down, smoke a stogie, and hang out in the winter.

 

[Revelator]

Anti-tobacco politicians make it harder to enjoy cigars. They go after brick-and-mortar cigar stores for ticky-tack reasons, they tax the hell out of sales, and they make it impossible to smoke anywhere that is not your own backyard. Where I live, it gets below freezing in the winter. I want a place to sit down, smoke a stogie, and hang out in the winter.

Yeah, the really good places to go are infested with boomers, and anywhere that seems OK are usually infested with broccoli heads clicking away on their screens and not socializing. Maybe I'll just introduce Chesterton to some of the autists at my parish, that usually gets people smoking cigars and pipes.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Yeah, the really good places to go are infested with boomers, and anywhere that seems OK are usually infested with broccoli heads clicking away on their screens and not socializing. Maybe I'll just introduce Chesterton to some of the autists at my parish, that usually gets people smoking cigars and pipes.

I do not mind the boomers. They have money to throw around and help keep places like that afloat. In my area, the broccoli heads are all addicted to weed and vapes, so they do not show up in cigar lounges.

I had to Google Chesterton. I'm getting the impression that Ohio does not suck, and that's actually a psyop to prevent people from fucking up the state.

 

[Revelator]

I do not mind the boomers. They have money to throw around and help keep places like that afloat. In my area, the broccoli heads are all addicted to weed and vapes, so they do not show up in cigar lounges.

I had to Google Chesterton. I'm getting the impression that Ohio does not suck, and that's actually a psyop to prevent people from fucking up the state.

I don't have much in common with them is all (I'm over politics and I'm not a sportsball guy). It's tough for me to get a good conversation going with them, so I usually wind up just kind of awkwardly fiddling with my cutter or freezing my ass off outside if it's winter.

Yeah, I think it was mostly lefties trying to psyop to try and save Buttigieg's ass after he f'd up the response in East Palestine.

 

[Turquoise]

Chess.
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You could say troons only ruin it as much as I let them. But really! Every time I try to talk to people online about it, it's them.

What could be more feminine than sitting in your sweat-stained computer chair for hours and hours, autistically trying to solve inconsequential 2D puzzles? tee hee

 

[Fag Albert]

I completely get that. As a bio-woman in the d+d community, I've had to deal with this in spades.

I'm lucky that my table has been good at throwing out these types.
The issue with game rooms or game shops is that they usually have a policy about "excluding" people because they want to be heckin inclusive.

It's no coincidence that these types are either reddit variety coomers or AGP types.

Edit: to finish my thoughts, don't get me started on the awful progressives, men and women, who shoehorn erotica into TTRPGs because it's "empowering". I've noticed that that's becoming more common with the rise and normalization of "YA high fantasy " smut

Anecdotal evidence of course, but having spent a few years working in a game store I genuinely think that (at least in my neck of the woods) there was a pretty healthy mix of ladies into Tabletop rpgs and would show up to pathfinder society/Adventurer's League before the concentrated push for 'diversity'. But then as the 2010's marched on I remembering thinking "I haven't seen this group in a while" and slowly seeing more and more ogres in wigs. So I definitely get that