this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
193 points (92.5% liked)

PC Gaming

12238 readers
433 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Many men are emotionally unable to accept things like this. I think the reasoning goes like

  • i'm a good person
  • i like my hobby
  • someone is saying bad things about my hobby
  • this makes me feel bad, so it must be false
  • furthermore, the person bringing it up is attacking me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance

Facts don't matter. There's really nothing you can do if you're not someone they like.

I also think about this comic a lot: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1151.html - Some people are too cowardly to grow.

[–] subarctic5128@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

I also think it may be just... sexism... I know people who behave like this towards women, but not other men...

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

This is the first time I've ever seen someone link an oots comic. Nice pick.