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Why can't you let people have fun? Guitar hero players (or at least, the subset of players in who are interested in very difficult tracks) are not trying to pr

Why can't you let people have fun? Guitar hero players (or at least, the subset of players in who are interested in very difficult tracks) are not trying to produce melodies or jamming harmoniously ; they're doing high speed, high precision pattern matching. This is like berating gamers playing Elden Ring where they could do HEMA instead !

thriftwy 5y ago
Speed running Guitar Hero and conflicting over its validity does not sound very fun to me. This is the embarrassing point where fun have been lost already but productivity is not there also.
- recursive 5y ago
  Sometimes other people will find things fun that you do not find fun. This is ok.
- emerged 5y ago
  Cynicism will run your life right into the ground if you aren’t careful.
thaumasiotes 5y ago
> This is like berating gamers playing Elden Ring where they could do HEMA instead! I'm going to have to say that this analogy doesn't work. The downsides of doing real HEMA are things like "you can experience what it's really like to have your head bashed in with a historically-accurate mace". The downsides of playing guitar in real life are things like "you need a guitar".