On another note, I feel like people often stereotype participants of speedrunning communities, especially this one, to be extremely antisocial.
The stereotype stems from the apparent necessity to devote a lot of one's free time to the asocial activity that is speedrunning a game. This often indicates that the person involved either doesn't have or doesn't want social contacts to take place during this free time due to some personal real-life circumstances. And if you read some of the personal stories posted here, you'll find a degree of truth to it, so the perception is not completely wrong nor unwarranted, even if unnecessarily broad. After all, people rarely escape to videogames or other fictional worlds out of feeling of accomplishment—the opposite is way more likely to be true.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
tbh only shameless parasites like communism.
Anyway TAS is just a hobby. Your dad is right about it being a big joke and a waste of time. Maybe you should remind him that he has his useless hobbies as well.
Just do it in your free time and enjoy it while it feels interesting.
You'll eventually find more interesting things to do.
Just don't take anything in life for granted.
Most hobbies are useless but thinking too much about the future is also a guaranteed waste of the PRESENT time.
Always look for new, interesting and useful things to do and try to be the best at them.
It's fine as long as you don't become a workaholic or a pothead.
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
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Great video. People love to whine how they want minimum wages and regulations for their passion professions. As a society that's an artificial way of giving value to an unnecessary profession and it's inefficient as a whole in the grand scheme of increasing a country's wealth. Just let life take its course, the law of demand and offer is very good at that.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
tbh only shameless parasites like communism.
Anyway TAS is just a hobby. Your dad is right about it being a big joke and a waste of time. Maybe you should remind him that he has his useless hobbies as well.
Just do it in your free time and enjoy it while it feels interesting.
You'll eventually find more interesting things to do.
Just don't take anything in life for granted.
Most hobbies are useless but thinking too much about the future is also a guaranteed waste of the PRESENT time.
Always look for new, interesting and useful things to do and try to be the best at them.
It's fine as long as you don't become a workaholic or a pothead.
