Xunwael
Educated
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- Nov 16, 2006
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Video games are by definition luxury. "Self-improving" at the narcissistic enjoyment of luxury isn't only NOT admirable, it's the antithesis of admirable. To suggest otherwise is full-on freedom is slavery-levels of psychotic delusion.For me, I admire speedrunning because of the difficulty of getting good at it and the skill shown by the experts. Anything that you need to grind at over 1000s of hours so you can beat others and become the best is praiseworthy. The struggle of competition and repeated self improvement being fought against and overcome.
I dunno about the thesis of twitterguy, but it's no surprise that people who are so deranged that they think hyper-specializing what is essentially communal public masturbation is something admirable, that the same people who are this literally insane would also be prone to doing other insane things like trooning out or supporting communism.
So that's my thesis. Being into speedrunning flows directly from not being able to tell when something is degenerate, disgusting, shameful, and something for which one should feel guilty when engaging in it. And the same inability to feel any genuine shame or guilt causes speedrunners to troon out and diddle kids and cut the heads off of puppies and have sex with the severed bodypart and so on.
Not that I'm not saying speedrunning itself is insane, (although it probably is, let's be honest. Running track or whatever would probably be insane too if it didn't win you medals or give you an ass worthy of desire.) But that being proud of it definitely is.
You shouldn't be proud of degenerate self-destructive shit. I'm not proud of playing video games. I'm not proud of jacking it to [redacted]. I'm not proud of picking my nose, or taking a shit, or responding to this thread. I enjoy it, but I'm not proud of it. Anyone who would be obviously has something severely fucked with their mind and soul. So it's no wonder vidya communities all become deranged shitholes. You kind of have to be a deranged shithole to be into this kinda stuff. The rest follows naturally. Only by embracing the SHAME and the GUILT inherent to enjoying vidya can YOUR soul be saved. Self-flagellate now, before it's too late. Don't become the girl. Resist and repent.
We are all sinners in a fallen world. But we can hope, in spite of despair. To be better.
not me, tho. I'm fucked.