Ultimately we need to keep reminding ourselves that it's just that: a stigma, and that there is nothing wrong with being passionate about your hobby. It would be very easy to argue that my methods won't work, but it's the best thing I've figured out. A lot of what I do and say is aimed toward my vision of what that might look like. I don't know how we will shake off that stigma, but I think it is important that we do. He is angry because he is frustrated, but he is taking that anger and using the stigma that he feels around his hobby as a focus for that anger. He's really upset, he doesn't value his own passions, and he's projecting that onto the entire community. That dude in the video is mostly just salty and raging though. I at least know that's true for me, and I assume other people like me have walked similar paths. A lot of us don't, but I think there are some confounding factors that make a lot of us both not well adjusted and somewhat obsessive about minutia, technology, stuff like that. A lot of us have a lot of reasons to be bitter. Video games are unusually stigmatized as a hobby, and gameplay spectation is a poorly understood, stigmatized corner of that hobby, and speedrunning is a very passion-driven form of spectator gaming. Any passion-driven hobby is going to be more-or-less like this, unless it carries a lot of social capital the way music and programming do. You have to be really passionate to speedrun. They make up reasons that make sense to them, like "no lifer". People don't understand why people have hobbies that aren't theirs, and doubly so if they are really passionate about them. I'm sorry if this post doesn't belong here and I am just extremely curious to hear your guys' opinions on the matter. Personally, I love watching the GDQs and occasional other speedruns. Sure, there are always going to be some odd people in ANY community that is fairly large, but what in particular is it with speedrunning? It didn't occur to me until after finding that video I truly started wondering why that opinion exists. After watching this and reading the comments (where everyone agreed with the guy) it had me wondering: what do people have against speedrunners and speedrunning? As somebody who regularly watches Twitch I occasionally will hear streamers or people in chat make remarks on how "weird" or "lame" speedrunning is. This video gave me an uneasy feeling I haven't felt in awhile. One of the first things I came across was this video:
Hello everybody of r/speedrun! Recently I watched SGDQ and after the event was over I browsed the internet for more speedrunning content.
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