[100721]

Sometimes, we just don’t “get” the appeal of something. For me, one of those things is fishing.

For someone else, it might be reading Hacker News.

For you, it’s video games.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with differences of opinion, even to the point of bewilderment, but it doesn’t feel productive to question people’s interests and reduce them to, frankly, disingenuous levels of oversimplification.

I think one of the more beautiful parts of the internet is how we can be connected and talk about our differences and understand each other better. But it does not seem like you are truly attempting to understand, instead your posts read more like “looking down one’s nose,” which isn’t fruitful or productive for anyone.

Maybe I am mistaken! If so, I’d like to encourage you to try to reach understanding of others without depicting them as “mad” or financially wasteful or simple-minded.

[bowsamic]

Well there are indeed tastes that might be harmful for society and should be questioned. Sometimes it is wrong to enjoy certain things

[PaulHoule]

I can understand how people like fishing [1] but... Fishing minigames? I like Japanese games a lot but not the finishing minigames. One of the many things I found tone deaf about Horizon Worlds was that the starter world asked you to pick a game genre you like and when I picked RPG it put me in.... a fishing minigame.

[1] though my favorite time doing it was catching smelt on the docks on the back side of the barrier island at Hampton Beach with my grandparents and bringing back enough to fill the freezer