That's why I avoid the Star Wars threads these days ... it's too brutal and not really worth the stress.
The point that I was that having that perspective doesn't really make you any more empathetic. In practice it can often make you more selfish in being protective of your interests and feelings.
To flip the conversation, While the lack of social adeptness may spur some lack of empathy in nerdy circles, tbh I see it everywhere. And I see a lot of factions of nerds squaring off at all times on places like the twitter of the world, many of them are quite empathetic. In fact, I wonder if the toxic side of nerdery isn't really much worse than that of many other circles, and that it's mostly cultural expectations of the opposite and wide exposure on the internet that exacerbated that image.
Seems to be a lot of this.It just kinda dawned on me, looking at various video game and tech forums on the internet (including this one) that despite the majority of us being stigmatized for being nerdy and knowing what it's like to feel judged for taking an interest in something like video games, we seem to lack general empathy and tolerance towards people of differing opinions and non-traditional behaviors. Even on matters where people attempt to legitimize the video game industry as a normal and acceptable way to promote careers and make money, they are often lambasted by members of the video game community themselves.
I do not understand this. Is this kind of behavior due to the relatively nascent stages of development of video game culture compared to other industries and media? Is it due to insecurity or self-loathing? Perhaps it's due to an inability to overcome the persistence of the inherent sub-conscious judgemental inclinations that we all have as humans? Why do we make it so difficult for fellow nerds to feel welcome within their own communities?
Any insight on this issue would be greatly appreciated, because for the life of me I do not understand it at all.
When you say that do you mean foreign people living in Japan or Japanese people?
I'm don't disagree. At the same time however, it is difficult to empathize about something without being able to relate to it in some way. So while perspective doesn't automatically make you empathetic, it certainly makes it easier to empathize.
I see it other places too. Didn't mean to make this seem exclusive to nerdy communities. It was just an observation relevant to our community so I thought it would make for an interesting conversation.
I curious, what make someone on a video game forum not a nerd?
I curious, what make someone on a video game forum not a nerd?
Playing games doesn't constitute one as a nerd anymore. Quite literally everyone plays games now. There's lots of room between a person playing Candy Crush and someone with a complete Amiibo collection.
I'm asking the stuff between Candy Crush and Amiibo collection. What tips them into the derogatory category of nerd.
A deep rooted sense of Justice will lead you to see everyone around you as heinous monsters polluting the Earth.
There's a lot of people who think, "we were bullied because we liked XYZ, and now XYZ is popular, so it's time for everyone to get a dose of what we had to go through".It just kinda dawned on me, looking at various video game and tech forums on the internet (including this one) that despite the majority of us being stigmatized for being nerdy and knowing what it's like to feel judged for taking an interest in something like video games, we seem to lack general empathy and tolerance towards people of differing opinions and non-traditional behaviors. Even on matters where people attempt to legitimize the video game industry as a normal and acceptable way to promote careers and make money, they are often lambasted by members of the video game community themselves.
I do not understand this. Is this kind of behavior due to the relatively nascent stages of development of video game culture compared to other industries and media? Is it due to insecurity or self-loathing? Perhaps it's due to an inability to overcome the persistence of the inherent sub-conscious judgemental inclinations that we all have as humans? Why do we make it so difficult for fellow nerds to feel welcome within their own communities?
Any insight on this issue would be greatly appreciated, because for the life of me I do not understand it at all.
It just kinda dawned on me, looking at various video game and tech forums on the internet (including this one) that despite the majority of us being stigmatized for being nerdy and knowing what it's like to feel judged for taking an interest in something like video games, we seem to lack general empathy and tolerance towards people of differing opinions and non-traditional behaviors. Even on matters where people attempt to legitimize the video game industry as a normal and acceptable way to promote careers and make money, they are often lambasted by members of the video game community themselves.
I do not understand this. Is this kind of behavior due to the relatively nascent stages of development of video game culture compared to other industries and media? Is it due to insecurity or self-loathing? Perhaps it's due to an inability to overcome the persistence of the inherent sub-conscious judgemental inclinations that we all have as humans? Why do we make it so difficult for fellow nerds to feel welcome within their own communities?
Any insight on this issue would be greatly appreciated, because for the life of me I do not understand it at all.