No one hates star wars / Trek like star wars / Trek fans.

I actually liked the most recent star wars movie. there I said it.

Definitely this! I lost my love of the show after the 4th season due to the fans.

Meanwhile, when novels do have a relatively large fanbase, boy, better stay away from them

My experience is 50/50. Half the fandom are smart enough to see the lore is mostly satire meant to be silly exaggeration, the other half has a power fantasy from different, but overlapping backgrounds (misogynist, racist, homophobic, etc).

People that consider the Imperium the good guys.

Also perverts. I was absolutely obsessed with Sonic Archie comics and finding forums as a kid was how I learned about furry porn. Scarred and older, a decade later, saw how cool Sonic Mania was and wanted to interact with others. And there it was again... Pervert shit.

I at least like that a few pieces of Sonic media lampshade this.

In one episode of Sonic Boom (a show designed to be watched high by adults) he’s kidnapped by an aardvark that’s a rabid fan.

“Oh! N-no, I wasn’t trying to escape, I was just…reading some of this fanfiction! Ooh. Sonamy, spicy!”
“Oh. Yeah, I don’t really even care for it, but it seems requisite for the readers.”

This is kinda funny for me because "Sega" is an Italian slang to say "masturbation" which seems rather fitting to the fandom

it's a tool for a job for me.

to them, it's a religion.

skooliers heavily tend towards being right-wing, trump-loving, gun-toting, immigrant-hating wankers.

Years ago my dad bought an old school bus because he wanted to convert it into a motor home with private bathroom and a garage in the back for his motorcycle for trips to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

Apart from the fact that he never got around to doing any work on the bus and eventually gave up and unloaded it on someone, your description would have been completely accurate.

all the people i have known in metalwork or maker spacers were all far-left and kept injecting their politics and insecurity about being 'authentic' and 'cool' into everything. it's a major turn off.

i have no idea how heating up pieces of metal to merge them together or other stuff like that has anything to do with politics, but people can't help themselves. Also these spaces in my experience... were all well-off white people desperately trying to 'signal' they were not like 'white people'.

anyways, i take those kinda classes and hobby things at adult education centers and libraries and such... because no politics. a lot older crowd though but a lot less massive insecurity and injection of identity insecurity into everything. turns out the really cool people are the boring uncool ones.

I have no idea what you're talking about, but that's probably a good thing for me.

I really have a hard time reconciling the Trek fans with the shows. Like, how did a person watch [insert any Picard speech] and end up this way?

I have found another.

Did you try Phoenix Red 2.0 yet? I’m also excited for the 2 demakes of Alola that are upcoming.

Pokémon fans make the best Pokémon games and it's not even close

I have never met ADC fans outside of cons, and there they seemed very fun.

A friend of my fiancee is a fan and put an episode on when we were over once.

I'm autistic but I'm not that fucking autistic. It takes a lot to make me cringe, but that show does it every other line, and seeing the friend squee at this strange rapey clownshow was almost enough for me to ask if we were sure about including them in the wedding party.

you're not missing much.

whenever i go to a live show these days i'm like one of 5 people over the age of 30, and everyone else looks like a teenager who is still growing.

I’m interacting with you directly because I’m not the best interactor and I need the practice. Thanks for the reminder.

That’s the difference with political discourse today. You had an obligation to be nice to people in fear of getting punched. Too many people cower behind keyboards with big opinions today because they know if they acted like that in public they would be hit.

I have a group of friends who have very distant opinions on the types of things we like, and having friendly arguments over these things is one of the highlights of my week.

I daren't even enter a forum for any of those hobbies online.

I recently discovered that a band I like not only has a subreddit dedicated to hating it, there's another subreddit dedicated to making fun of the other subreddit. This is in addition to the main subreddit which, can you believe? Is filled with drama over the other two, in addition to gushing over the artist who, quite frankly, is only ok. It's kinda niche so they get a decent following just by filling in an undeserved market.

But if this artist ran over a nun after robbing a bank, it wouldn't even make front page news in LA.

I used to have this... then the woke nutbags came along and decided all that mattered about you was your minor disagreements and you were a demonic evil person. I miss those days.

in real life. but i live in a 'progressive' city full of people who have very reactionary attitudes. 10 years ago nobody cared about these things, and now it's like all they razor focus on and they are super presumptive of.

i literally went out to a place last night i used to hang out at with some friends.... and the stereotypical woke person came up to me and told me I was 'being problematic by taking up the corner' or something, and I was like 'yeah I'm trying to just do my thing here and not bother anyone' and then they proceeded to tell me how i had to move because i was making them uncomfortable by doing my own thing and it bothered them. I rolled my eyes and they went away and I just decided to leave because it's like... I get it you don't want me to be here because I'm don't look like you and it upsets you, even if I am literally just chilling and being nice. but since I take care of myself and am comfortable being quiet and chilling, i'm a 'threat' now.

and way too many of my old friends have become that person... the 'concerned' person who thinks me eating a tuna fish sandwich means I'm now a 'bad person'. It's like, why bother interacting with you at all ever? all they live for is being miserable and whiny and blaming other people for their feelings.