Hobbies ruined by other people thread - And corporations, and trends, and so forth.

[2mm and 99 others]

I'll say reading fanfiction has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. Some of the most heart-wrenching and genuinely funny ideas I've seen come from fanfiction, and I loved it. But holy hell I feel like I have to bring along an archaeology kit to go read fanfiction anymore. All the new stuff seems to be just fujoshit or half-assed attempts that result in "author being on hiatus" indefinitely, and it's gotten even worse because now half of every idiot writing fanfiction is just using an AI prompt or throwing it through ChatGPT. Having to dig to the back of sites repositories, having to use the wayback machine to find older non-accessible stuff on sites that went bust, needing to throw in a dozen terms into the search engine; it's goddamn tiring having to wade through a swamp of crap just to find a diamond in the rough. I know fanfiction has usually been split 90% bad fanfiction and 10% good fanfiction, but it seems like it's shrinking rapidly.

Almost nobody ever had problem with the art of illustration (now called fanart) and some fanfics made it as, say, Star Trek printed novels and comics.
Fangirls' extreme propenisity to produce cockslop is what I can never really understand and it had deterred nearly all the creators of quality content that was typed by more than one hand, and deprived them of the inspiration that comes out of thoughts shared within a group.

 

[I AM RETARDED!]

Id say mix all of these things, I really enjoy history and art, but you can't really go to far into them without running into progressive nonsense. My favorite thing that drives me up wall is how all these historical scholars take few words outta written account and make it about being gay, according to them 90% of all important historical figures where apparently boy loving faggots.

 

[Spooky Dogwood]

The worst is when he starts hitting himself in public in the middle of a game. Yes, he will littearly get so negative that he starts hitting himself. Why? No clue. I'm sure if I tried to study him then maybe I could tell you, but honestly I'm just so fucking tired of him. It's gotten so bad that store staff has had a talk with him about his shit. Honestly, I'd really press the issue and make the staff have another conversation with him but so far I seem to be at least relatively successfull in avoiding him now.

Male BPD. He's hopeless.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I'm going to complain about a more personal experience, not a hobby in general (like Magic The Gathering being ruined by SJWs etc.). I live about 3h from a mountain resort (I'm not saying where for privacy reasons) I used to love. I enjoy mountain hiking a lot, but that city is now lost to me. It's swarming with tourists, including lots of foreigners. There's only two types of establishments there: restaurants and stores with skiing/hiking gear. There's new hotels being built everywhere you look. It feels like a heartbreak and the fact that nothing can be done to roll it all back makes me sad.

 

[SandyCat]

Teamfortress 2 was ruined for me by retards. It used to have a a ton of player ran servers (community servers), at the start its all the game had. Lots of custom content, custom maps, player made game modes and an actual sense of community. You'd have servers filled with regulars you got to know and hang out with that had lots of people talking on mic and having a good time. Even lesser played official maps had servers filled with players playing on them.

Eventually retards like Uncle Dane (TF2 youtuber) and others started goading Valve into making TF2 more 'modern' and worst yet competitve. Valve eventually stuffed the community servers into a obscure location in the games start menu and shuffled the vast majority of the player base over to the new official quick match system putting people into official Valve servers along with releasing an offical competitive mode.

This caused roughly 95% of the player base to slowly bleed out of community servers over the years because most new players don't even know community servers exist after it was obscured in the start menu. From that point onward countless community servers started slowly bleeding players and shutting down with many maps and custom content lost to time.

To add insult to injury Valve's push to make TF2 competitive and more modernized failed. Competitive didn't take off and bots with aimbot began flooding the official servers for years making quick match virtually unplayable. It only recently became playable after a contractor was fed up with not being able to play the game so he asked Valve if he could update the anti-cheat to detect the bots. It took a fucking contractor in his free time to fix Valve's game for them.

The cherry on top of the shit sundae is retards pushing for it like Uncle Dane ironically retreated back into his own community servers after competitive failed to take off to the extent they wanted. Now TF2 is a shell of its former self, left abandoned by Valve after they completely killed the community servers and its modding scene to chase some of that sweet e-sports money.

Even games from 2007 are not safe from modernized enshittification.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

Speaking for my close friend but- Archiving and playing old roblox games. He grew up with it and it's left him with a very vested interest in archiving and preserving it, and every once in a while it's a lot of fun to just poke through a grab bag from the archive he's collected. But every new legacy Roblox client program that shows up that allows you to locally host these games and play them comes with new drama and retardation and these clients never last very long before being eaten by their own users because they are almost universally trannies and furries coming from the retroslop trend.

These archives also function off of packages of Roblox assets that are 'hosted' on your computer to circumvent having to use Roblox's servers to fetch these assets because they aren't loaded directly into the game itself. My friend was delighted to discover one of the asset packs he had gotten was compiled by a furry tranny that had taken it upon himself to spoil several genuine, vintage assets and textures with pawprint imagery and trans flags, while also breaking the scripting and allignment several in-game gear models and textures through sheer incompetence.

 

[PaleTay]

Sports, especially with hockey a lot of retards will argue to death that it was completely random and we can't judge any draft pick or move until 10 years later.

Some teams just get "lucky" 10 times in 5 years and other teams don't get "lucky" for a decade, it has nothing to do with scouting staff or different front offices. You also get weird narratives that players who were pretty good prospects but played in Europe (especially Russia) were scrubs because people didn't like drafting Russians, or scouts didn't think European leagues were actually good so when the players actually become good the teams got "super lucky" and no one could have possibly known that the guy playing professionally since 15 was good.

 

[Humble Architect]

Warframe. The devs refused to put the fries in the bag and constantly added useless, pointless things to the game which overtime was everything but Warframe. Open worlds that sucked, space combat, increasingly not playing as my fucking frames, ripping off whatever was trendy, mini-games, needless reworks, focus on gay quests with gay writing and gay music.

Warframe was best when it had no story, no anime kids, every two weeks you were guaranteed content and they had the old Void, that was so good, just grind, make numbers go higher.

Now? Good luck, they have a “community manager” as project lead and again are doing everything but putting the fries in the bag.

 

[Jhonson the Two]

Warframe. The devs refused to put the fries in the bag and constantly added useless, pointless things to the game which overtime was everything but Warframe. Open worlds that sucked, space combat, increasingly not playing as my fucking frames, ripping off whatever was trendy, mini-games, needless reworks, focus on gay quests with gay writing and gay music.

Warframe was best when it had no story, no anime kids, every two weeks you were guaranteed content and they had the old Void, that was so good, just grind, make numbers go higher.

Now? Good luck, they have a “community manager” as project lead and again are doing everything but putting the fries in the bag.

I remember playing on the beta back then, good time. Warframe was a beautiful & weird farming (aka grinding) game. I dropped it because catching up on all the content is too much now.
I think the perfect example is the Fortuna sub with the Orb Vallis open map: cool music and concept arts but the content & gameplay are really frustrating. I hated it.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

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I remember playing on the beta back then, good time. Warframe was a beautiful & weird farming (aka grinding) game. I dropped it because catching up on all the content is too much now.
I think the perfect example is the Fortuna sub with the Orb Vallis open map: cool music and concept arts but the content & gameplay are really frustrating. I hated it.

That was before it sold right? I remember just doing farming runs to get Nova and it wasn't easy but it was pleasure finally getting her pieces and then decimating everything.

 

[Jhonson the Two]

That was before it sold right? I remember just doing farming runs to get Nova and it wasn't easy but it was pleasure finally getting her pieces and then decimating everything.

Kinda all mixed in my head now but if I remember right they got bought around 2015 or something. Nova was already there before I think? Her manipulating anti-matter was so cool Mag is still my absolute favorite tho

 

[We Are The Witches]

It's hard for me to say, because some retards doing a similar thing wouldn't necessarily ruin a hobby of mine if I enjoy it, but one that maybe could apply would be the consequences of "speedrunning".

As in me trying to play a game casually or even efficiently, or watch a playthrough, only to find out that the game has already been dissected day-0 by autists, and there is no more secrets, everyone knows everything already. Having a hard part of the game is now widely known as skippable with some bullshit, or min-maxing/"spec-ing" abilities, so now everyone knows that in order to play the game """correctly""" you have to be a blood mage, and nothing else comes even close to it, for example.

 

[Foundinglaunderer]

Milsim

 

[Premium Gonzo]

Milsim

which part of milsiming? Or just all of it.

 

[Foundinglaunderer]

which part of milsiming? Or just all of it.

Gear flexers , Troons , Larper Tryhards, woke retards , thirst traps, Neo Nazi , Mudslimes. Doesn't matter which part of it where talk about , it probably has been ruined by the retards in its community

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Gear flexers , Troons , Larper Tryhards, woke retards , thirst traps, Neo Nazi , Mudslimes. Doesn't matter which part of it where talk about , it probably has been ruined by the retards in its community

Milsim was always fucking cringe, those aren't tourists, those are the natives and you just don't like them.

 

[Foundinglaunderer]

Milsim was always fucking cringe, those aren't tourists, those are the natives and you just don't like them.

Agreed

 

[PaleTay]

Reading and writing too.

Women want everything to be romance smut about teenagers or young adults, and insist on creating gay ships if the story doesn't focus on romance. Autists insist that "the villains being too cocky or something" is a good reason that they lost, or that the protagonist being magically super-effective against the villain is peak writing. Authors insist that the story about hearing a creepy noise in the basement at their job should involve cosmic beings and the revelation that the main character is somehow holding the fabric of the universe together by delivering pizzas.

 

[SandyCat]

So many mostly once apolitical content creators lately I've watched have been drinking the political kool-aid(s) these past several years. I don't even care what political side they're on I just want to watch my sloppa in peace but everyone and their dog is politisperging now.

Even Asmongold went full politisperg. I miss when he just played WoW

 

[Nekoi.Inukuma.00]

My friend was delighted to discover one of the asset packs he had gotten was compiled by a furry tranny that had taken it upon himself to spoil several genuine, vintage assets and textures with pawprint imagery and trans flags, while also breaking the scripting and allignment several in-game gear models and textures through sheer incompetence.

This is a problem throughout the retro and game preservation spaces. This sort of thing attracts the autistic types, who are mostly likely to catch the trans social contagion... and next thing you know your comfy archivist site is being burned to the ground by an egotistical tranny or their orbiters.

Warframe. The devs refused to put the fries in the bag and constantly added useless, pointless things to the game which overtime was everything but Warframe. Open worlds that sucked, space combat, increasingly not playing as my fucking frames, ripping off whatever was trendy, mini-games, needless reworks, focus on gay quests with gay writing and gay music.

Warframe was best when it had no story, no anime kids, every two weeks you were guaranteed content and they had the old Void, that was so good, just grind, make numbers go higher.

Now? Good luck, they have a “community manager” as project lead and again are doing everything but putting the fries in the bag.

As someone who played since beta 6, and paid for one of the founder's packs... any game running that long is going to get old.

I didn't mind the open world portions, or the archwing stuff: they were alternate level designs. Arguably the archwings are just more bots to build. I think the Railjack levels are technically impressive, but a little dry and grindy once you get the hang of it.

Initially, I didn't even really mind "spoiler mode", either.

What gets me is the dumbing down of the gameplay (e.g., movement 2.0 w/ effectively infinite bullet jump + spin-to-win combat). A lot of give me convenience or give me death.

It used to take skill to navigate maps, now it's just a retard race to the exit. Adding the archwings to the open world areas ruins them by trivializing the size of the map. It's also fucking retarded that they added a flight gimmick before an overland movement gimmick. I like the hoverboard, it's fun to use... but fucking hell it useless. Worse option compared to using an Archwing in the open world and you can't use it in any normal levels. And the toy horse from Duviri is the same, but worse.

No, what finally killed it for me was the fucking terrible gay fan-fiction writing of the last few years.

Spoiler: long sperging about Warfram plot+lore

tl;dr on the meta plot: They basically killed cosmic horror for [gay] romance.

They spent years building up the void as containing an unknowable threat to all existence, eventually personified as the "Man in the Wall", kept in check by a Warframe pilot who trapped himself in his signature frame, Harrow... who will just randomly show up in your ship to taunt you ("Hey, kiddo.") after you complete the Chains of Harrow quest.

In the New War quest, the explanation of your void powers and certain characters' seeming immortality being from a literal deals with the devil you don't remember because of the nature of the deal was a nice twist.

And then, at the end of the quest, they reveal the "Man in the Wall" is literally just a talking wall. It's not describing the barrier between worlds, or an an allegory for an entity existing outside of normal time and space... no, that's literally just how the entity physically appears.

In Kingdom of Duviri open world, they turned the void into a fantasy land based on a morality play by one of the architects of void travel acted out by action figures.

Then in the Whisper in the Walls main quest they make the climax of the story about unrequited gay romance between who is probably the most important character in the metaplot, Albrect Entrati, and his effeminate assistant, Loid. At least the talking fish, bird, and dog-thing won't die from void exposure now.

We can beat back the all consuming Indifference of the void with gay love. Great. Just fucking great, Rebecca, thanks for that excellent writing.

(A side note here, this is a similar play White Wolf did with the Aeon/Trinity + Aberrant + Adventure! table top RPG meta-plot. The Magneto expy set all the plot in motion because the Doc Savage/Professor X expy rebuffed his gay love... and you don't find this out till they release the third game and the writers confirm the subtext on RPG.net. Excellent bait and switch. Thanks for ruining it. Just a reminder that White Wolf TT RPGs has always been lame and gay, us 90's kids just didn't realize it at the time.)

No, what REALLY killed it for me, and finally made me quit, was the over-hyped dogshit Warframe 1999 expansion. Every character is unlikable. On first playthrough the story is incomprehensible. They hype villains in that story and almost immediately kill them off/disappear them. Everybody dies, but they all come back because you're in a time loop. At best, the lore makes little sense; at worst it's a series of reveals that cheapen a decade-plus of world building.

AND FINALLY, they added in dating sim elements where you can romance your Warframes. Oh, wow, I can get a New Years Eve kiss cutscene with the proto-warframe of my choice once every month. Thank you, but no, I prefer to spend New Year's Eve hugging Albrect Entrati's cat.

Oh, and apparently there's a boy band that's been turned into Infested that you can fight too. Don't know, I quit before they finished releasing that boss fight.

Some of the gameplay modes in recent years were pretty fun, but all the other tacked on shit and garbage story finished killing my interest in the game. The grind became too much for this mediocrity.