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What’s worse is that it’s become increasingly more difficult for me to find people I am interested in talking to. My interests have become very niche and specific and tbh boring and weird within the last few years.
Just as I have no interest in hearing about celebrity gossip or the latest TikTok trend, most normal people have no interest in deep discussions about hypothetical moves away from global capitalism or literary analysis or nerdy space games.
I would love to have deep conversations about all kinds of things, but I have difficulty serializing my thoughts and converting them to words so even when I find someone with similar interests, it ends up being exhausting...
That’s why I appreciate discussion online. You can sit on a thought, type it out, amend it, and nobody is sitting across from you wondering why you’re touching your face so much.
The other side of the sword is that it can be hard to find communities that engage in deep and/or non-combative conversation. While Lemmy is pretty light on the hostility, it can be hard to find people to interact with sometimes.
I think I will have to start watching some sport I don't care about to have something in common to talk with other men, discussing the weather only gets you so far
Nah fuck that you could not force me to watch sports. Okay maybe some obscure ones nobody here really does like bobsled.
Bobsled is weirdly hypnotic with all the white and jingling bells.
I finally decided to start doing a sport. But to make sure I wouldn't have to discuss it, I picked archery.
I think I read somewhere that the meteoric rise in sports is inevitable in a dying culture.
They are mostly devoid of humanity, nothing more than PG battles in a seasonal PG war that contributes nothing to the betterment of humanity. That’s my take, at least.
I used to view sports fanatics with derision, but now I view them with pity. We are fortunate to have such wonderful minds and such wonderful surroundings and yet we see more and more people prefer to immerse themselves in brainless athletic conflict.
Australia seems to have always been obsessed with sport, but I guess that’s the apple not falling far from the tree with Britain’s obsession with inventing sports that we then lose at.
What nerdy space games?
Elite Dangerous is my poison of choice, although Sins of a Solar Empire II has been beckoning to me for a while.
If you're at all interested in Factory type games I highly recommend Dyson Sphere Project. You start planetside but building / flying around your Dyson Sphere as it's being constructed is amazing. Also a mention of No Man's Sky wouldn't be bad. They're still releasing content for it, which is crazy at this point.
What literature are you analyzing?
I just finished Infinite Jest for the first time. I stayed up late to finish the last 100 pages and couldn’t fall asleep afterwords because there were so many lines to connect. Really cutting-edge insight into the damaging effects of American culture and entertainment as a hobby. In my StoryGraph review, I stated that it’s “secular scripture for the modern age”. I’m pretty proud of that — I think it is the most concise way to convey what I got from the book.
I also just started reading You Sound Like a White Girl, a short book about America’s historic and current-day battle against Hispanic culture and why assimilation should be rejected. It does a great job at blasting a hole through the wall of lies erected for centuries by white Americans. If you think the selective way slavery and the civil rights movement are taught is bad ( it’s terrible), just wait till you see how much Hispanics have been fucked over and how literally none of it is taught.
Oh wow those both sound really interesting! I'm gonna go add those to my ereader. Infinite Jest sounds really interesting, and You Sound Like A White Girl reminds me of when I read The Hate U Give
For a contrasting opinion, Infinite Jest is pretentious drivel...
You should totally read Infinite Jest, just make sure you understand what you’re getting into. It’s really long and verbose.
The author kertwangs you all the time and some of the scenes will definitely give you the howling fantods.
Ooh alright!
I'm guessing these word choices have something to do with the book lol
Yeah, they’re terms invented by the author.
A kertwang is basically a prank of misdirection. The howling fantods are the spooks/dread or general bad vibrations, essentially.