Inspired by a friends current vacation
Inspired by a friends current vacation
Have fun, Jon <3
Edit: I sometimes keep forgetting the meme communities on Lemmy are incapable of taking things as the joke they are. Y'all worry too much about taking shit seriously. Chill out lol
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So many fragile campers in the comments. It's ok if people don't like your hobby. They might not find it worth the time, money, and effort to "get good". You don't have to defend the things you like from people who aren't into it.
Your dozen comments suggest this is pretty important to you. I take it you've suffered in the wilderness at some point? If so, my sympathies! A rough night outdoors can be genuinely awful.
But the "fragile" campers aren't crying because they feel insulted - they're just trying to share information about their hobby and hopefully help people like you not hate their lives if/when they venture into the wilderness.
It's not like fucking sounding or taxidermy, but those were hilariously silly analogies, so thanks for that.
It's more like someone making a meme about a video game that basically boils down to "this game sucks because I skipped the tutorial" and you're out here saying "yeah but the game is torture."
You don't have to camp! It's genuinely not for everybody, and that's okay! But many people love it, so try not to be so down on others for the things they love and for trying to share their hobbies with others.
It's also entirely reasonable for people to roast you and tell you to git gud when you make a whole ass post about it though. Right?
It's like those posts about turning 30 and your body falling apart immediately. No, you're probably doing something very wrong, that's not normal. We can point you in the right direction and you can choose to ignore it, that's fine. Nobody's really being fragile here.
Right, it's just as silly when I do it as all the commenters come in to defend camping.
How dare anyone engage in conversation about the topic of the post! I might accidentally SEE an opinion I disagree with!
That is kinda what it feels like, yeah, that the pro-camp camp can't accept that some people don't like camping.
But... that's not what the discussion or post are about lmao
Not when everything OP mentioned is lack of skills. One thing is to not like camping other is doing it completely wrong..
If you don't like sounding, is it because of a lack of skill? Because it's fun actually, you're just doing it wrong. You should buy the right equipment and learn how to do it right. It's one thing to not like it, but have you even done it correctly?
Comparing camping to stuffing rods into your cock is such forever indoor Redditor shit and it's very funny that you don't get it. Stay beautiful lol.
Git gud lol
“Touch grass”
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“Dear god what is he doing with the blades of grass?”
Where are these comments?
Yeah, that's a good faith question. Blocking you.
Speaking of fragility
I would normally agree with you on the “get good” sentiment being obnoxious to deal with but…. nature doesn’t fuck around. People who go into the wilderness unprepared can and do die.
It’s not just bears and starvation that can kill you. You can get sick, get infections, get poisoned, get frostbite, hypothermia, heat stroke, and many other afflictions that will either ruin your trip, ruin your life, or kill you if you’re unlucky enough. Even just something as simple as scraping your knee on a rock can give you a staph infection that costs you your leg, a risk that can be averted just by wearing a pair of jeans when walking in the woods.
But besides all that: camping is way more enjoyable when you do some basic research, make a plan, and do the basic preparations you need for the plan to be successful. If you’re not willing to do that then you probably shouldn’t go camping in the first place!
You sound like every other comment I'm talking about. You're patting yourself on the back and saying um actually camping is fun. Again: you don't have to defend your hobby from people that don't like it.
Also, saying you gotta do everything right or die makes camping sound even worse.
The number of times I’ve been camping in 41 years of life can be counted on one hand, so I wouldn’t exactly call it my hobby. Would you care to try again?
Also what’s the big deal with reading about camping safety so that you know to bring a first aid kit, extra warm blankets, pitch your tent on high ground, and any other reasonable measures to keep yourself warm, dry, and reasonably safe from infections or illnesses?
As for “you sound like…” that’s called responding to tone or tone policing. There’s unfortunately far too much of it on Lemmy and it’s a pretty strong sign of its immaturity as a discussion community. Unfortunate!
Allow me to be serious for a moment: That is absolutely not what tone policing is. Please go read this or something a bit more in depth than the wiki article: https://blog.stetson.edu/faculty-engagement/tone-policing/
Tone policing is a much older and more common tactic than that. It’s fallacious because it’s responding to the implied tone of a person’s writing (or their emotions) rather than the specific claims of their argument.