At this point, everyone knows I'm hugely into books.
It's just so depressing how even book people are about nothing more than intentionally creating this self-perpetuating "community" of anxiety.
You can't go to any freaking book-related online space without people asking for permission to not finish a book. "Is it okay to DNF?????"
Same with doing shit to your own books. Do not write into them, do not open them too much or the spine will crack. Get a panic attack because two fucking photons touched the book and how it will be DAMAGED.
"I am having a panic attack because maybe I didn't get all the references in this book."
The same with every hobby. Cooking? You are not environmentally friendly enough, you are not authentic enough, this is wrong, that is wrong.
Hell, I am kiiinda thinking about a Switch, I looked at Animal Crossing and people are freaking the fuck out at others for not playing the game "right". Others are having depression because their islands are not aesthetic enough.
How did the internet turn everyone so fucking neurotic over the things we were supposed to do as FUN? And I am not even just talking about SJW things, but every community is about "doing it the right way" even though it doesn't matter and there doesn't exist a right way?
People pulled the same shit with elden ring.
"You're not supposed to use summons!"
Then why are they in the fucking game, asshole?
Eehh, I must admit, sometimes that thinking is cancer.
I don't look back on my Chromehounds over-the-horizon guided missile spammer with pride, for instance, for all that it was devastatingly effective.
I mean, yes, it was in the game, but no, it's not what you'd call "fair play".
In my defence, that was the first or second thing I took into multiplayer. I settled on considerably less cancerous builds after that.