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this is a hobby that requires no physical social interaction. it's going to attract people who aren't good at physical (or even any kind of) social interaction

this isn't rocket science, anon. all the well-adjusted and stable people are going to football games or getting drunk at parties or whatever it is well-adjusted and stable people do for fun

As a reasonably well-adjusted and stable person, I reject your rocket science. Football games involve sitting in the cold for two hours while men in way too much padding run around like gerbils. I went to one in high school and never again, I say!!!

that's why my face is blue now

for real though, I've begun to consider social intelligence (is that a term? it is now) as a continuum--I'm not as outgoing, witty or eloquent as some people I went to school with but the other end is like um.

how would you account for non-rpers, if I may ask? I'm a curious little george tonight, sorry

As a laughably ill-adjusted and barely stable person, I still find your reasoning sound. I just remember getting the game explained to me in 2nd grade and literally zoning out to the episode of power rangers from the day before the whole time

plus, y'know, guys running around and playing with their balls. it really just writes itself

seriously, though: my take is that not all socially maladjusted types rp, but that a good chunk of rpers are socially maladjusted, if that makes any sense? there are a lot of socially maladjusted people and not all of them find their way to our corner of the internet. some of them hole up at home and hoard newspapers. some of them become laughingstocks on the internet. some of them congregate to laugh at laughingstocks on the internet (and feel better about themselves). it's just such a bigger demographic than our relatively small population

in my older age i've caught myself wondering about the relationship between social failures and the internet, kind of a "chicken and the egg" kind of riddle. the internet being full of slobbering basement dwellers is nothing new but one wonders if there were always this many of us and we were all just hidden in our basements, or if the internet has a detrimental effect on one's ability to interact with others socially. i think i read once that china actually has academies where parents send their kids to "de-internet" them when they start shutting themselves off from their families and playing wow or whatever 24/7. maybe we ought to give the idea a closer look

it's definitely a question worth exploring. Someone below commented that social skills need as much practice as any other skillset and that without it, they'll wither away. (thanks, smartienon!) I think that's part of it--but the personal drive to be social outside of the internet also has to be there to an extent. I'm personally technologically ambivalent; I don't enjoy sitting at my computer for hours and hours (and yet am an rper look not everything needs to make sense okay) but for people who do, I could see how they could lose touch with social interaction outside the funbox. (that's your modem. i explained the joke.)

this could make a very interesting academic paper.

Not much to add to this except that I really like the cut of your jib. Thanks for the giggle!

I think I meant spectrum and not continuum.

I don't really think absurd screaming of chants and face paint, or slamming your bros through tables, really counts as "well-adusted" anon. Football fandom is still fandom. It's just a more socially acceptable form of weird.

yeah but football bros generally manages to wash off their face paint, deal with their hangovers and go to work the next morning

people in our lines of fandom are generally much more stunted in terms of everyday functioning

as someone in football fandom.... no, they don't. especially the bros.

fair enough. i'm not actually in football fandom, i just hear it's the fandom of choice for potbellied working-class types

which is who I inherited it from, since that was my dad. but yeah, as a lifelong football fan, I promise you, there are just as many people who never turn off their crazy.

like, in general, you are shamed if you can't shut up your "inner fan" in normal spaces. You can wear your merch out, but don't you dare start screaming about the play you saw in last night's game or else you're a fucking weirdo.

basically, being part of both cultures, I see them as way more alike than different.

ugh this

people around here lack the spoons to even get out of the house, and are crippled by anxiety by talking on the phone

don't cheapen the spoon analogy by letting the lazy assholes use it as an excuse.

it was dumb to begin with. let them have it

i never finished it because the condescending tone put me off, is there an actual point to that long-winded bullshit

i mean, i get it. i also have chronic pain and have to carefully manage my energy. but holy fucking shit, like you said, the tone was dumb and it was just. idk. i hate how it's praised as the best thing ever when it's just an unnecessarily complicated way of saying "i don't have the energy to do this/i am in too much physical pain", and to add insult to injury, i've never seen anyone use MUH SPOONS in a non-idiotic way

i feel like people with invisible illnesses like chronic pain need a much better "thing" to refer to that isn't something so fucking long, patronizing to both sides, and pretty clearly fake

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but then on the other hand, i know anything that isn't ridiculous will also be immediately be soiled by lazy shut-ins who think they're too disabled to work or do chores because such anxiety/their elbow feels funny sometimes, yet can jump up and go to any con or see a movie on opening night or go spit in to a bucket at a restaurant with their friends whenever they want

all the football bros i know are stoners who don't work because mom & dad don't make them or only work part-time, by choice, despite being in debt

a lot of us are definitely social rejects, but a lot of us aren't. i feel glad to have a group of rp friends who are completely, boringly normal human beings, myself.

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