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Ron Perlman says he did the Fallout intro for $40 and a sandwich, he's never played it, and he's not interested in trying: 'The whole Fallout thing is a mystery to me' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [M] to c/fallout@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

my favorite is when people do share an interest, but not in the same way.

i like gaming and cycling... but a lot of gamers and cyclists are hyper territorial about their specific genre they like, and think other genres are stupid/wrong/bad. i play a variety of games, and it never fails that someone hones in on that I played COD (I must be a fake gamer dude bro), or a JRPG (I must be an anime nerd) and then makes a massive generalization based on that one game I played. I also have like 6 bikes and do lots of different kinds of riding and people fixate on the one they don't like or have stupid stereotypes about and then get really accusatory about it. like owning a road bikes makes me one stereotype, owning a DH bike makes me another, and then they get super double mad at you for because they often regard these as contradictory boxes, only one of which you must fit in.

Shit is so weird. they also do it with identity now. I'm so sick of being told what I have to enjoy/not enjoy because of my skin color or my sex. i love to cook and clean and keep my place neat, but most women I meet think it means I'm latently homosexual because of that because in their mind straight men can't cook or clean, only gay men can.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    I feel that, man, so very much feel that.

    rambling thoughts encapsulated

    I play a ... wide and varied amount of video game genres, and... yeah, a lot of people tend to just stick to one, or a few, and... when I make comparisons between their favorite genre, and another that is actually similar is significant ways, or like, has a fundamentally similar core mechanic, but handles it in a different way...

    ... usually this causes a freak out.

    You can very rarely get a super fan to admit that such similarities exist, and you can also rarely get them to actually define the things that they say make one kind of game better, or preferable to another kind of game.

    I almost never start those kinds of discussions, but people like that can almost never finish them, they just tie themselves in knots to preserve some undefinable way that their fav game / genre is better or truly unique.

    I got no problem with people having preferences, I hate people who make broad claims that are just objectively not true, not the case...

    And then again, also yes with the sort of 'you're not allowed to like these two kinds of things I think are mutually exclusive for inexplicable reasons' thing.

    Fucking hell. Like, I actually studied Karate for a decade, I'm not like a world champion or a great top tier fighter... but I do know a little bit of what I'm talking about when I try to describe how the basic mechanics/kinematics of say, a fighting game that is at least grounded in realism should work.

    But nope, with so many people, I'm basically just not allowed to know how to code and also know how to throw a punch, at the same time.

    Just doesn't compute for them, even though these are the same kind of people who will swoon over a more famous person with a similarly mixed set of skills.

    Oh well, normies gonna be normies.

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