If a certain critical mass of people like it, it suddenly gets expensive and simultaneously the quality of parts gets worse
The tiktok-ification of fucking everything into a trend is the worst in regards to this. The last few years, it feels like any time I’m interested in picking up a hobby that seems like it would/should be cheap and simple to get into, tiktokers have already blown through, turned something into a ‘-core’ for content, and left nothing but over-inflated prices in their wake.
When things get big it’d usually because the hobby is changed in a way that makes it accessible to more people. Sometimes the things you found fun/interesting about the hobby was that thing that made it hard for others to get into. Now you’re left with a watered down shit version of your hobby and a bunch of people who talk about the watered down shit version the same way you talk about the good version.
Old school runescape is ruined and I’m sick of pretending like it’s not. We need oldschool-oldschool runescape 2 start it pre zulrah and nothing gets passed without 75% votes and boss drop-tables must be community approved.
Reminds me when Pokemon Go was the hot shit that got everybody outside and walking to play it
It felt like a true callback to 90s Pokemania… but only 90s Pokemania. PoGo at the time only had the original 151 in it, and it seemed all anyone had connecting them to the property was hazy nostalgic memories of Ash and Pikachu walking through the Kanto region on the TV twenty years ago.
Meanwhile I, with my 3DS and copy of Pokemon Omega Ruby in hand, far more fascinated with facets of this franchise that had happened long since that gilded age, didn’t really have anything new to connect over with anyone. And then the fad died and everyone stopped caring again. :/
A lot of times its great but then sometimes no. When a hobby requires something that is scarce, it sucks because price hikes and shit like that
In before the WH40k comments.
Controversial (but correct) opinion here:
If you paint your Warhammer pieces more than a utilitarian single color, you’re not a real gamer. Making art is a homoerotic activity.
Translation: “No because I wanna feel superior for having that interest.”
I don’t necessarily want to feel superior, I think I just like when my communities are small and it’s a genuine rarity to find someone that likes, for example, the same subgenre of music. Finding someone that likes techno (for example) isn’t rare anymore, so it’s not a special event, y’know?
Ah, it’s just desire to feel ah so special
And you wanting to avoid having niche interests is your desire to feel, ah so normal?
I don’t avoid niche interests though. I just pick interests that interest me. Picking one for how popular or niche it was would be equally worthy of snide remarks for sure.
Same for me though, you’re just coming at me for finding it special to meet someone that also likes those niche interests because “I want to feel special”? I’m just saying I enjoy the time when my niche interests are niche because those encounters feel more meaningful.
To my friend who leaves no air in the room for the rest of us to breathe every time one of your fandoms is mentioned? I have a new pithy retort.
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