Condescending is feeling sorry for someone who is doing brilliant shit because it's a waste of time, they should be bettering themselves. Like working harder at their job, or having a normal hobby like playing golf or watching football or fishing. You know, normal things like I do. It just seems so sad they what they are doing is a waste of time.
Sorry I didn't add a "I don't mean to be a dick" comment like parent did.
Who says he doesn't? Stop being so judgemental, get your nose out of others business. He may have a more fulfilling life than you even. Go find a hobby you actually enjoy instead of harassing someone whose found theirs.
The comment you’re responding to is trying to genuinely explore their beliefs and it’s kinda gross for you to shit all over it in an ostracizing way. If you disagree then engage with your perspective without being unkind. The style of your response is in general the root of many society’s problems and I would have thought someone who espouses mind expanding practices would be better aware of that
I love videogames, understanding how a speedrun is made is technically fascinating for me and I am also known to love some other things under the appropiate set and setting[1]... but I'll defend the OP because certainly don't think it follows that someone is a bad human that needs to do drugs just because they don't see the allure of Super Mario 64 and the people who are knowledge-hungry and obsess in understanding its guts.
[1]: Readers please do the research before experimenting, you are tweaking your brain's running config with extremely opaque tooling that is not fully understood. Most of the time the calamity-event chance is low, it's a high impact event if it happens. Plural of anecdotes is not data, and oh do people confuse these.
I'm not dismissing anyone, nor am I a "DARE kid", nor am I projecting my own "meaningless life." I'm simply sharing my own unprocessed genuine reaction to this kind of content, and trying to see if anyone else can relate to it. You obviously don't, which is fine, but I don't see why you seem to be taking it personally.
> Not at all. It's the reason we have literally everything we have. This is the type of person that society needs
I think this misses his point. I believe the despair is precisely that we dont need speedrunners and such. And that its not benefitting is like the mattress spring expert is.
> There is no meaning or purpose
If you believe this, then surely you can understand why he would feel despair over something that justifies itself in there being no meaning nor purpose.
