Global degradation of gaming knowledge and respect of the hobby as a whole

[Sonic Boomer]

This is a topic that usually frustrates and angers people a great deal whenever I bring it up, but it's something I keep noticing more and more and it just makes me aware of how disrespected our hobby is.

I come from GameFAQs(before it was hell) and LUElinks, a gaming culture with very knowledgeable people, places where people who knew TRUE gaming gathered at one point.
As the years went on both places lost their passion for gaming one way or another and many who knew a lot about gaming left or got banned for political reasons, myself included.

Old gaming forums were largely abandoned and gaming as a whole grew too big and tourists whose only exposure to gaming is popular AAA gaming and some retro stuff they played as kids joined gaming circles. I'm not saying everyone needs encyclopedic knowledge on gaming, but we're now at a point where you're expected to turn a blind eye to people's constant basic mistakes and maintain toxic positivity without correcting anyone and without pointing out the wrong things they say. If you dare correct them, you are considered the bad guy. At the same time, if you go into a forum, group or community about some other form of entertainment such as sports, movies, music, books and so on and start spouting out nonsense, if you get corrected that's ok, but gaming? No let people "enjoy games however they want"

So what are some examples of this?

One thing we often see in retro gaming circles is people, IMO often tourists, who found a retro gaming system, popped the most popular gaming ever inside and are happily playing the thing at 16:9. Nobody allowed to correct or comment on it either, people will fight you if you do this. People notice nothing, they don't notice or are bothered by the stretched image, they don't care and if you dare comment on it, you are suddenly the evil gatekeeper who doesn't allow people to enjoy video games the way they want to. This gets even worse when people sell custom made arcades with 16:9 screens and ask over 1000 euros for them, if I dare correct them or point out they're asking over 1000 euros for mere pandora boxes all hell breaks loose, this is especially common in Macedonian facebook gaming groups because Macedonians, at large are willingly ignorant about gaming despite everything always being available and affordable here.(topic for another time)

Then we have genre mixing, this one is more understandable, but when you correct people, boy oh boy, you've committed the ultimate crime.

For example, often run 'n gun games are being listed as shmups by people.
what's your favorite shoot 'em up? Contra....it gets better, often even FPS games make the cut...DOOM, GoldenEye.....(someone recently said their favorite SNES Shoot em up was GoldenEye in a facebook retro gaming group...why not right?)
I correct them and invite the ire of the person who made the mistake and a bunch of others too.

As time goes on, gaming history is forgotten, gaming genres are being mixed up, people refuse to get informed and if corrected you are the problem.

Not long ago, again on a Macedonian gaming group some lady said that DOOM was the first ever PC Game. I asked "What about all the ones before it?" and a slew of moderators and white knights descended on me saying I was exceptionally aggressive and rude.
yet if I was in a soccer group, because these people are all obsessed with soccer and said something wrong about their favorite sport, I'd get corrected or made fun of.

Even the lady herself said I wasn't being rude because while joking about her lack of knowledge I did provide info too.

Something is wrong
gaming is being pushed aside, people are expected to be accepting of everyone's ignorance and never react in any way shape or form, never correct anyone either in a "gamer" way the way we've always done, but even if you're polite, even if you just point out the mistakes people get upset, angry.

And don't even get me started on the big game COLLECTORS most of whom are posers, tourists, when asked about their favorite games or what they played growing up, they'll list 5-6 popular titles and never even bother to dive deeper into retro gaming all while hoarding games left and right from people who might actually want to play them.

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I forgot to give one more example, a local "collector" recently bought a Colecovision, complete with a few games and all. Other than his usual "I play them for an hour then they're to be displayed on a shelf" his explanation to me of the Collecovision was "it's an interesting little console, it's like the ones you like, the Atari"
He had no conept, no grasp of what the ColecoVision was, had zero interest in reading anything about it, he randomly bought it on ebay because he could.

This guy has spent thousands upon thousands of euros on retro gaming and consoles in the past few months and his knowledge on gaming is no better than when he started.
Me and my friend struggled to explain what RPGs are to him a few months ago and he still stared at us blankly at the end.

 

[Viviana Santos]

Y'know, man, I do agree with you and all, but this thread is giving me the vibes that it's going to turn into one of those threads that turns into a complete shitshow, gets derailed by a bunch of trolls and contrarians, and ends up getting locked in the end.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

Y'know, man, I do agree with you and all, but this thread is giving me the vibes that it's going to turn into one of those threads that turns into a complete shitshow, gets derailed by a bunch of trolls and contrarians, and ends up getting locked in the end.

I feel this forum is one of the last bastions of true gaming on the internet, so maybe not.
And even if it does, that's normal for a gaming forum, we fight, we talk, that's how it's always been

 

[Aldia Aldia]

Global degradation of gaming knowledge and respect of the hobby as a whole

FTFY

 

[Viviana Santos]

I feel this forum is one of the last bastions of true gaming on the internet, so maybe not.
And even if it does, that's normal for a gaming forum, we fight, we talk, that's how it's always been

Yeah, fair enough (I guess...), so I'm just warning you that there are some users here who really just want to stir up conflict and use bad-faith criticism that's going to drive you crazy in the end.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

I agree..
Massive waves of tourists ruin everything, be it hobbies or IRL locations..

Make Gatekeeping great again!

 

[ct9983]

The biggest thing that annoys me is the fools playing pretend. LARPers, or however you want to say it.
For example: suddenly everyone "grew up with" an N64, even though there are more people saying this than N64 units ever sold. I wont hate on people for liking what they like, but don't lie to me.
Or even in new games. the amount of people just repeating what they heard on Tik Tok about the newest Resident Evil was eye opening for me. And when I corrected them on actual plot and gameplay details, they ganged up and told me I was wrong. And god forbid your opinion isn't "top 5 RE!" or "GOTY!" because you'll catch hell there too.
It's getting very annoying all across the board.
I was annoyed when normies stormed in and took over the hobby. Even more annoyed when CoD dude bros did it. I could even kind of tolerate the woke mob. but this latest flood is different.
They watch lets plays, they repeat AI generated social media "facts" and they act like they're somehow some kind of authority on gaming. but I can't even tell if most of them have ever even touched a video game in their lives. It's fully insane

 

[Appiplyer]

yeah this post will get 100% gets locked up.

but sadly i'm also that one guy who play but doesn't know much about the game itself lol since my memories are bad sooo most of the times i just roughly remember the stories of every single game i have ever played (except for several memorable moment).

Y'know, man, I do agree with you and all, but this thread is giving me the vibes that it's going to turn into one of those threads that turns into a complete shitshow, gets derailed by a bunch of trolls and contrarians, and ends up getting locked in the end.

btw what does this tourist means? like well tbh idk how can somone who actually play some retrogames got considered a tourist or is there any spesific characteristics? Heck the fact that there's "a wrong way of playing games" Shocked me. (Seriously i'm genuinely asking about this concept)

Since by reading the thread i think i can call myself a tourist. Well so enlighten me

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I feel that respect for the hobby died the second people jumped on the AVGN bandwagon and figured they could get rich OR famous by ripping apart old games, not even understanding that James was a very knowledgeable guy playing a character.

Before YouTube, you had to be a true, pure-blooded 'nerd' to still keep your NES around and hooked to the TV. A few years later, everyone was suddenly an 'expert' who knew all about games they couldn't even play right...

 

[Mal]

man, i would say just lets ignore those kind of people and enjoy what we have with the people we care.
its not like you can change the mind of people like that, for someone to change they need to want to change.

it could also be that, by the language of this post, you may have a very disgusted outlook on them and it has this feeling of superiority, which makes me go "hey maybe it is how they are expressing themself in those forums thats getting them flack? maybe a little of column A and B?"

regardless its not like i can fully know nor that my opinion matter when i suck at expresing myself so im not one with any authority to preach hahaha.

but the way i see this is that any hobbie has collector and people that will be dismeasive about it, you just found places where they were and they are a waste of time so, unless you think this person could get into it or would appriciate the info, i would find it emotionally wastefull and just move on to enjoy the stuff i can have control over and find people where i can feel welcomed.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

yeah this post will get 100% gets locked up.

but sadly i'm also that one guy who play but doesn't know much about the game itself lol since my memories are bad sooo most of the times i just roughly remember the stories of every single game i have ever played (except for several memorable moment).



btw what does this tourist means? like well tbh idk how can somone who actually play some retrogames got considered a tourist or is there any spesific characteristics? Heck the fact that there's "a wrong way of playing games" Shocked me. (Seriously i'm genuinely asking about this concept)

Since by reading the thread i think i can call myself a tourist. Well so enlighten me

OK so let's break this down and I will explain everything.

1. Forgetting details and plot of a game is normal, I'm like that for all media. After a while all I remember is the atmosphere and how the game made me feel. When I talk about gaming knowledge I clearly mean understanding of genres, understanding of at least the basics of gaming history. Knowing the difference between SNES and N64, PS1 and Saturn, that kinda stuff. I had a guy tell me he played Ocarina of Time on PS1 a few years ago, a gaming group admin and when corrected by me and a couple other people he lost it.

Forgetting the mechanics and details of games you've played, that's normal.

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A tourist is someone who usually says how big of a gamer they are, how much they love gaming but when you talk to them their knowledge of different games, consoles, gaming history is practically none and they REFUSE to learn.

For example, you talk to someone who tells you how big of a gamer they are, you hold what you assume is a normal conversation and after a while you see them staring at you blankly or even get upset at you.

I will give you a personal example
In 2015 around the time Ori and the Blind Forest released on PC I was attending some mobile game development course which focused on the business side of things(we thought it would be game development, it wasn't, but it was fine)

I was very enthusiastic about this, thinking I had finally met some genuinely knowledgable people. I won the course at a game jam for my art.

So I go there and I talk like I would on GameFAQs, LUElinks and the way I talk with my gamer friends and so on.
It didn't take long for people there to start getting absolutely frustrated with me, including one of Macedonia's biggest gaming personalities.

It's not so much about what I was doing but the things I was saying were apparently too obscure.....how.

They all presented themselves as huge huge gamers who loved gaming and had played just about anything, I had no reason to doubt this so I happily and naively said to myself" awesome I'm among people who'd understand me". If anything I didn't want to act as if I know more so I approached them as if they too have the same level of knowledge.

Initially we were all going to do a joined project together, I was the artist, another guy would provide the idea and then others would program.
One guy had an idea we all happily accepted and when I asked him how he envisions the main character, the Squirrel he wanted to do for his game, more like Mr. Nutz cute and or more along the lines of Conker he got angry "Where do you pull these games out of bro, nobody has heard of these games you keep bringing up"

"You don't know Conker? The N64 and Xbox platformer, you know the M rated one?" I was confused, that only invited more ire

The professor scolded him and terminated the project said we all do our own from there on out.

So when we were presenting our projects, I had come up with a shmup idea, I explained it and at this point the BIGGEST personality in Macedonia in gaming whose show I've even been on sarcastically says "next time we should all come with dictionaries here so we can understand Ollie". The professor was very upset at this comment and explained that throughout these weeks I never once used any difficult terms or mentioned games that you wouldn't see brought up on regular gaming forums all the time, he was shocked at their reaction.

I tried connecting with these people who had supposedly played everything but it was a no go, they had only played everything in name, but had next to no experiences with gaming. They knew a few popular titles and it ended there.

A girl at one point stood up and started explaining how there are NO GAMES that scroll right to left because of the way we read and what not. None, no games at all.
I was like "what about Balloon Kid on Gameboy and the Hello Kitty reskin on famicom?" Yes it's more rare but there are levels and games that scroll right to left, so you can't quite say none at all.
I was polite but...I was supposed to keep quiet :( let it go, always let it go.

That's tourists
people who claim they know a lot, but when faced with something they don't know instead of being happy they've discovered a new game they shun you, they pretend to know more than they do, that they've played and seen everything when they've only seen a fraction.

Gaming IS all about discovery but they ignore the discovery part to feed their egos.

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man, i would say just lets ignore those kind of people and enjoy what we have with the people we care.
its not like you can change the mind of people like that, for someone to change they need to want to change.

it could also be that, by the language of this post, you may have a very disgusted outlook on them and it has this feeling of superiority, which makes me go "hey maybe it is how they are expressing themself in those forums thats getting them flack? maybe a little of column A and B?"

regardless its not like i can fully know nor that my opinion matter when i suck at expresing myself so im not one with any authority to preach hahaha.

but the way i see this is that any hobbie has collector and people that will be dismeasive about it, you just found places where they were and they are a waste of time so, unless you think this person could get into it or would appriciate the info, i would find it emotionally wastefull and just move on to enjoy the stuff i can have control over and find people where i can feel welcomed.

it's painful, you know.
you love your hobby so much, it has given you so many years and times of pure joy
and when you have to defend it or speak up you're shut down and told to let it go.
I'm sorry but it's painful and hurtful, ignore the willfully ignorant, never say anything, keep your head down.

why are you saying this?

why I'm not that type of person
I'm 42, I have lived a lifetime and then some at this point, I'm exhausted, drained of people telling me to never stand up for the things I love

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The biggest thing that annoys me is the fools playing pretend. LARPers, or however you want to say it.
For example: suddenly everyone "grew up with" an N64, even though there are more people saying this than N64 units ever sold. I wont hate on people for liking what they like, but don't lie to me.
Or even in new games. the amount of people just repeating what they heard on Tik Tok about the newest Resident Evil was eye opening for me. And when I corrected them on actual plot and gameplay details, they ganged up and told me I was wrong. And god forbid your opinion isn't "top 5 RE!" or "GOTY!" because you'll catch hell there too.
It's getting very annoying all across the board.
I was annoyed when normies stormed in and took over the hobby. Even more annoyed when CoD dude bros did it. I could even kind of tolerate the woke mob. but this latest flood is different.
They watch lets plays, they repeat AI generated social media "facts" and they act like they're somehow some kind of authority on gaming. but I can't even tell if most of them have ever even touched a video game in their lives. It's fully insane

basically tourists :)

 

[JustLooking456]

@Sonic Boomer Jeez I would've eventually lost my temper in that room.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

@Sonic Boomer Jeez I would've eventually lost my temper in that room.

I was pushing back, I'm no pushover, but since I had the professor on my side I didn't want to cause drama and he'd take over as soon as it got too much.

I remember trying to talk to them about this new awesome Metroidvania "ori and the bind forest" (it was new then, right?), just to be laughed at saying how they've played so many games like that it's nothing special. We need new, original games and their new and original games were, of course, online arena games with survival elements because, Fortnite style stuff or mobas, that's when these things were starting to get popular.

I remember the guy who got upset about me mentioning Conker was very excited about No Man's Sky, so despite not caring myself about it, I asked him questions about how the planets and creatures are generated, how it all worked and he happily talked about it. I was ok with this, it's not my type of game but hearing him explain it was FUN to me despite me not being into those type of games.

 

[Mal]

it's painful, you know.
you love your hobby so much, it has given you so many years and times of pure joy
and when you have to defend it or speak up you're shut down and told to let it go.
I'm sorry but it's painful and hurtful, ignore the willfully ignorant, never say anything, keep your head down.

why are you saying this?

why I'm not that type of person
I'm 42, I have lived a lifetime and then some at this point, I'm exhausted, drained of people telling me to never stand up for the things I love

look i get it that its painfull i know, but ive also lived enough in my life trying to change people that had no intention of ever changing and wasted my life on them, focus on other people lifes when in reality i should be focusing on MINE, my enjoyment of it and finding people where i could welcome them into what i love and how i love it.

you can stand up to what you love by sharing that love with love, it may sound corny, but its a fact, you dont have to fight and defend any hobbie to let it be cherished.
look at this site the amount of people that can experience so much cool shit and its not because anyone told us, hey you have to play this and that and this way, that way but instead go "hey check them out aint them cool? ain it cool to play them with this patch? i love retroarchivment because of X things, you have to try it!"

i hope you get my point, best regards

also its 2am here, i do have to sleep sorry if i dont reply for a while hahah

 

[dkpopman]

I find myself getting massively frustrated with how this "tourist" behavior is infiltrating things on a gambling/investment level.

It's only a matter of time before Logan Paul starts "investing" in graded retro games, and completely nukes the collector market, same way he did with TCG and is doing now with Manga. The whole concept of grading games upsets me. These are, in essence, toys to be played with. Games are not bitcoins. Holy hell.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

look i get it that its painfull i know, but ive also lived enough in my life trying to change people that had no intention of ever changing and wasted my life on them, focus on other people lifes when in reality i should be focusing on MINE, my enjoyment of it and finding people where i could welcome them into what i love and how i love it.

you can stand up to what you love by sharing that love with love, it may sound corny, but its a fact, you dont have to fight and defend any hobbie to let it be cherished.
look at this site the amount of people that can experience so much cool shit and its not because anyone told us, hey you have to play this and that and this way, that way but instead go "hey check them out aint them cool? ain it cool to play them with this patch? i love retroarchivment because of X things, you have to try it!"

i hope you get my point, best regards

also its 2am here, i do have to sleep sorry if i dont reply for a while hahah

It's a forum, bud, you reply whenever.

It's not about changing people so much as not letting false information take over, why let flase info take over when you can say how things are and if people want to listen cool, if not they won't listen either way but at least I don't feel elf hate for bowing my head down and keeping to myself. Nothing suffocates me more in life than not speaking up.

Even if I change nothing, if I feel like speaking up I do so, if not I don't.
But having someone else tell me "don't get upset, keep to yourself" outright makes me want to tear the world apart, it's suffocating and draining emotionally, people trying to keep you down is the worst.

 

[Appiplyer]

OK so let's break this down and I will explain everything.

1. Forgetting details and plot of a game is normal, I'm like that for all media. After a while all I remember is the atmosphere and how the game made me feel. When I talk about gaming knowledge I clearly mean understanding of genres, understanding of at least the basics of gaming history. Knowing the difference between SNES and N64, PS1 and Saturn, that kinda stuff. I had a guy tell me he played Ocarina of Time on PS1 a few years ago, a gaming group admin and when corrected by me and a couple other people he lost it.

Forgetting the mechanics and details of games you've played, that's normal.

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A tourist is someone who usually says how big of a gamer they are, how much they love gaming but when you talk to them their knowledge of different games, consoles, gaming history is practically none and they REFUSE to learn.

For example, you talk to someone who tells you how big of a gamer they are, you hold what you assume is a normal conversation and after a while you see them staring at you blankly or even get upset at you.

I will give you a personal example
In 2015 around the time Ori and the Blind Forest released on PC I was attending some mobile game development course which focused on the business side of things(we thought it would be game development, it wasn't, but it was fine)

I was very enthusiastic about this, thinking I had finally met some genuinely knowledgable people. I won the course at a game jam for my art.

So I go there and I talk like I would on GameFAQs, LUElinks and the way I talk with my gamer friends and so on.
It didn't take long for people there to start getting absolutely frustrated with me, including one of Macedonia's biggest gaming personalities.

It's not so much about what I was doing but the things I was saying were apparently too obscure.....how.

They all presented themselves as huge huge gamers who loved gaming and had played just about anything, I had no reason to doubt this so I happily and naively said to myself" awesome I'm among people who'd understand me". If anything I didn't want to act as if I know more so I approached them as if they too have the same level of knowledge.

Initially we were all going to do a joined project together, I was the artist, another guy would provide the idea and then others would program.
One guy had an idea we all happily accepted and when I asked him how he envisions the main character, the Squirrel he wanted to do for his game, more like Mr. Nutz cute and or more along the lines of Conker he got angry "Where do you pull these games out of bro, nobody has heard of these games you keep bringing up"

"You don't know Conker? The N64 and Xbox platformer, you know the M rated one?" I was confused, that only invited more ire

The professor scolded him and terminated the project said we all do our own from there on out.

So when we were presenting our projects, I had come up with a shmup idea, I explained it and at this point the BIGGEST personality in Macedonia in gaming whose show I've even been on sarcastically says "next time we should all come with dictionaries here so we can understand Ollie". The professor was very upset at this comment and explained that throughout these weeks I never once used any difficult terms or mentioned games that you wouldn't see brought up on regular gaming forums all the time, he was shocked at their reaction.

I tried connecting with these people who had supposedly played everything but it was a no go, they had only played everything in name, but had next to no experiences with gaming. They knew a few popular titles and it ended there.

A girl at one point stood up and started explaining how there are NO GAMES that scroll right to left because of the way we read and what not. None, no games at all.
I was like "what about Balloon Kid on Gameboy and the Hello Kitty reskin on famicom?" Yes it's more rare but there are levels and games that scroll right to left, so you can't quite say none at all.
I was polite but...I was supposed to keep quiet :( let it go, always let it go.

That's tourists
people who claim they know a lot, but when faced with something they don't know instead of being happy they've discovered a new game they shun you, they pretend to know more than they do, that they've played and seen everything when they've only seen a fraction.

Gaming IS all about discovery but they ignore the discovery part to feed their egos.

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it's painful, you know.
you love your hobby so much, it has given you so many years and times of pure joy
and when you have to defend it or speak up you're shut down and told to let it go.
I'm sorry but it's painful and hurtful, ignore the willfully ignorant, never say anything, keep your head down.

why are you saying this?

why I'm not that type of person
I'm 42, I have lived a lifetime and then some at this point, I'm exhausted, drained of people telling me to never stand up for the things I love

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basically tourists :)

Ahh i understand it.

I always appreciate people telling me any fact that i don't know about something that i liked. Or atleast correct me if i said something wrong. (I mean bro that's like basic forum attitude or literally any kind of discussion).

And also about the discovering part i mean i might hate the cryptid puzzle in game but still if i somehow find any kind of easter egg myself without any kind of guide i'll be thrilled myself lol.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

Ahh i understand it.

I always appreciate people telling me any fact that i don't know about something that i liked. Or atleast correct me if i said something wrong. (I mean bro that's like basic forum attitude or literally any kind of discussion).

And also about the discovering part i mean i might hate the cryptid puzzle in game but still if i somehow find any kind of easter egg myself without any kind of guide i'll be thrilled myself lol.

I meant discovering as in discovering new games, new systems.

How you play your games is your own thing, I personally have no issues with walkthroughs or even cheats if I feel like it in my single player games.
I'm too dumb for puzzles myself so I just look 'em up if I can't find the solution myself.

Surprisingly enough I somehow went through Portal 1 and 2 without guides :)

 

[Shadowman621]

Why do you care so much about other people's lives? It's not having any impact on you so maybe just leave them be.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

Why do you care so much about other people's lives? It's not having any impact on you so maybe just leave them be.

this is definitely not a post or a topic about other people's lives. How did you come to that conclusion? I mean it's clear you're probably trolling, but still I want to hear your reasoning.

 

[Sheepy765]

Live and let live has been my motto. Does it bother me seeing someone play a game made for 4:3 in 16:9? yes. Will I lose sleep over it? no. So long as they’re enjoying themselves and not hurting anyone I don’t see a problem in it, even if they only play the "mainstream" retro games.

 

[Heidegger of Shinra]

I'd probably qualify as a "tourist".

My priorities in life don't leave a lot of time for gaming, but I like to imagine I'm quite discerning with the small amount of time I have. That's why forums like this, and knowledgeable people like @Sonic Boomer, are useful to me.

I can speak with authority on certain topics, but I'm more than happy to be corrected in areas where I'm a novice.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

Live and let live has been my motto. Does it bother me seeing someone play a game made for 4:3 in 16:9? yes. Will I lose sleep over it? no. So long as they’re enjoying themselves and not hurting anyone I don’t see a problem in it, even if they only play the "mainstream" retro games.

But it's not about losing sleep, people have been so indoctrinated by toxic positivity that you apply a rule like "live and let live" to something as simply correcting someone and telling them "hey this is a 4:3 game, you're stretching it aren't you bothered by it?".

Why do you assume you're breaking some sacred rule by correcting someone and maybe even helping them notice something they never did? "Live and let live" is such a big thing to apply to something like this. It's not like you pinned them down and frobade them from playing games on easy like some very hardcore gamers would do to me back in the day.

I find this....ignoring everything even tho it bothers you kinda attitude so weird and suffocating.

Also why do you instantly jump to extremes such as losing sleep over it? If anything I'm losing sleep over this very thing I'm witnessing here, this strange, downright creepy way the world has taken a turn for which has nothing to do with gaming and you demonstrated that perfectly just now.

I'd probably qualify as a "tourist".

My priorities in life don't leave a lot of time for gaming, but I like to imagine I'm quite discerning with the small amount of time I have. That's why forums like this, and knowledgeable people like @Sonic Boomer, are useful to me.

I can speak with authority on certain topics, but I'm more than happy to be corrected in areas where I'm a novice.

Not knowing and slowly taking the time to learn is one thing, gaming is all about discovery.
A tourist pretends they know more than they do, a person interested in a hobby and learning as they go is different.

 

[Heidegger of Shinra]

Not knowing and slowly taking the time to learn is one thing, gaming is all about discovery.
A tourist pretends they know more than they do, a person interested in a hobby and learning as they go is different.

I suppose a tourist wants to conflate opinion with knowledge, and the people defending them are anxious about seeming dictatorial.
Rather than admit degrees of insight, they would rather flatten the problem into safe banalities. It becomes a culture in which nobody can really say anything of substance.
Perhaps this critique has broader application

 

[Sheepy765]

But it's not about losing sleep, people have been so indoctrinated by toxic positivity that you apply a rule like "live and let live" to something as simply correcting someone and telling them "hey this is a 4:3 game, you're stretching it aren't you bothered by it?".

Why do you assume you're breaking some sacred rule by correcting someone and maybe even helping them notice something they never did? "Live and let live" is such a big thing to apply to something like this. It's not like you pinned them down and frobade them from playing games on easy like some very hardcore gamers would do to me back in the day.

I find this....ignoring everything even tho it bothers you kinda attitude so weird and suffocating.

Also why do you instantly jump to extremes such as losing sleep over it? If anything I'm losing sleep over this very thing I'm witnessing here, this strange, downright creepy way the world has taken a turn for which has nothing to do with gaming and you demonstrated that perfectly just now.

I just don’t think it’s that deep for me. Gaming is a fun hobby I enjoy and I don’t really give much thought to what others are up to. It’s not toxic positivity, it’s realizing that it’s not my problem. I have my own problems to deal with that are more pressing.