Example: As far as sports go, I’m in the 3rd mentioned category, I don’t give a shit which side wins, and I don’t even bother watching.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 day ago

    Pretty good showerthought, NGL. And yes, likewise about sports teams, what meaningful connection do I have with these people? Lol. I’d get it if your brother played for the team, or you had money on them winning, but if not the outcome is just inconsequential, right?

    But then you see all these people in love with their preferred teams, crying even, and I’m like “why?”, and if this is how you feel about some strangers good at moving a ball, did you have a heart attack from happiness when you got your first kiss? Did you have to be resuscitated when you learned your wife was pregnant? Usually, from what I’ve seen, they didn’t, but they did have all these feelings for these random groups of people. 🤷

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
      3·
      13 hours ago

      Jerry Seinfeld had a bit where he says it makes no sense to root for a sports team because the players change, the strategies change, everything changes. All you’re rooting for is the uniform. And if a guy changes teams, then you liked him on one team but suddenly don’t like him cause he’s wearing a different shirt. I don’t know how accurate that assessment is because I don’t care about sports

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      I don’t get the fascination with sports either, but I get emotional about the stories in video games. I imagine someone who loves sports but doesn’t care for video games might view my tears over pixels as pathetic. My outrage at imginary injustice from a judgemental npc as ridiculous.

      I have all these feelings for random collections of pixels on a screen. They can have their feelings for random groups of people.

      I have to stop myself from mocking my brother in law for yelling at his TV on apparently bad plays, because I definitely have yelled at my screen before over a death, or plot twist.

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 day ago

        Ehhh, I think it’s different, because whether it’s pixels or ink on paper, it’s an exploration of ideas, the representation of a situation in which you empathise with the characters and put yourself in their shoes, understanding why they reacted the way they did and going through their ups and downs together in your imagination. It has substance, something to actually feel about. Sports are more like betting, just circumstantial at its core, feeling the victories and losses strongly just for different reasons. Sports and having a favourite team and going to the stadium and feeling like you’re part of something bigger than yourself (even if it’s utterly meaningless, you’re not anti ICE vigilante patrols or socialist activists, lol) gives them more emotional value than betting though, ofc. And Persona 3 is one of those games, for instance 🥲. Play it if you haven’t!

        And I’m not saying you should bully people for being simple and having passion for things that have no depth, of course not, let them be in peace. What I am saying is that the difference is obvious, and it is a meaningless thing one shouldn’t feel too strongly about (specially because I know they don’t feel strongly for things they should!).