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I don't intend for this to be a public shaming, or want this user reported or harassed, I just want to talk about my feelings as an autistic person.
So the other day I posted this video (Why doesn't Minecraft have infinite render distance?). Its a deep dive into why minecraft doesn't have LODs and minecraft's renderer. The creator is the author of the Distant Horizons mod, but he talks about other LOD mods as well. He also talks about the practical issues with implementing in vanilla, how it would effect gameplay, its very thorough.
Now, I'm very interested both in minecraft specifically and detailed explanations. Youtube's algorithm is pretty bad sometimes, so I use the c/videos comm to find new stuff. I am actually sketching out a python script to add these videos to a playlist for me automatically, to have all my hexbear recs in one place on the platform. This website is a really important community for me, my favorite place on the internet ever. There's definitely things I dislike, but its still very important to me. I do not have a lot of friends offline, for a few reasons.
Anyway, so imagine how I felt waking up to this:
Just straight up telling me that not only am I wrong for being interested, no one else should be either. I understand the whole redditor, "Mojang devs bad, un-optimized game, etc etc" attitude is bad. That obviously isn't what I'm doing though, I just posted a whole video of why minecraft is the way it is. I'm not trying to scold anyone here because I don't think those people exist here.
My dad would dismiss my interests a lot. I don't have specific examples from my childhood- I just don't remember a lot of things. One thing that's been recent is my special interest in snakes, and him repeatedly either dismissing me or asking me why snakes and then telling me its just weird. I don't talk to him about things I'm interested in because he frequently just doesn't care at all.
I don't know, it just hurt to be dismissed so completely about something I find really interesting and wanted to share with the group.
This site still has a lot of redditor culture including it's hostility, for what is worth thank your for posting the video, I opened it and forgot to watch it, so I'll get to it while I eat my lunch.
Also it's the opposite of wrong to be passionate and nerd out, I think it's pretty cute and cool