My goodness, 3+ hours on this topic! I truly admire the passion! Fascinating!
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#22I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners. Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion, but I still feel an instinctual sense of despair when I see someone work so hard on something like this. I'm sincerely not trying to hate on anyone.
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#23I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners. Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion, but I still feel an instinctual sense of despair when I see someone work so hard on something like this. I'm…
Not really. I wish I had:
- that much drive
and
- that much time to sink into pleasurable (useful or not) endeavor
watching people talk about something they have a passion in (whatever that topic might be) is really interesting to me
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#24I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners. Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion, but I still feel an instinctual sense of despair when I see someone work so hard on something like this. I'm…
Some people really like to know how things work and are willing to put a lot of time in to understanding the thing that interests them. I don't feel despair. I'm glad they have a passion and feel so strongly about something that they wish to dedicate their time to their passion. If anything, I'm a little jealous. To each their own.
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#25I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners. Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion, but I still feel an instinctual sense of despair when I see someone work so hard on something like this. I'm…
My despair is that you think he should have spent his effort on something you find, I assume, to be more productive than this. He’s an expert is a video game, it’s wonderful that we have the material abundance to allow that.
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#26I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners. Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion, but I still feel an instinctual sense of despair when I see someone work so hard on something like this. I'm…
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#27I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners. Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion, but I still feel an instinctual sense of despair when I see someone work so hard on something like this. I'm…
Our eternally insatiable urge to learn how things around us work and create new things from that knowledge is what makes us human.
This is a bit of an extreme case, yes, but it's still fundamentally the same thing: someone dedicating their time to understanding something and sharing that knowledge with others, even if it's not particularly useful knowledge.
Pannen's insane dedication to SM64 and the quality of his content have earned him a sort of small cult following over the years of people who watch almost every video he uploads, including me. With that in mind, it's hard for me to say the time was wasted on his part.
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#28I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners. Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion, but I still feel an instinctual sense of despair when I see someone work so hard on something like this. I'm…
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I feel very deeply that my life is full of meaning, so it can't be projection. Not interested in trying to suppress my feelings with drugs either.
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#30I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners. Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion, but I still feel an instinctual sense of despair when I see someone work so hard on something like this. I'm…
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This is probably the most condescending comment I have read on HN all year.