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  • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    8 days ago

    I don’t intend for this to be a public shaming, or want this user reported or harassed, I just want to talk about my feelings as an autistic person.

    So the other day I posted this video (Why doesn’t Minecraft have infinite render distance?). Its a deep dive into why minecraft doesn’t have LODs and minecraft’s renderer. The creator is the author of the Distant Horizons mod, but he talks about other LOD mods as well. He also talks about the practical issues with implementing in vanilla, how it would effect gameplay, its very thorough.

    Now, I’m very interested both in minecraft specifically and detailed explanations. Youtube’s algorithm is pretty bad sometimes, so I use the c/videos comm to find new stuff. I am actually sketching out a python script to add these videos to a playlist for me automatically, to have all my hexbear recs in one place on the platform. This website is a really important community for me, my favorite place on the internet ever. There’s definitely things I dislike, but its still very important to me. I do not have a lot of friends offline, for a few reasons.

    Anyway, so imagine how I felt waking up to this:

    No one should care about this.

    Just straight up telling me that not only am I wrong for being interested, no one else should be either. I understand the whole redditor, “Mojang devs bad, un-optimized game, etc etc” attitude is bad. That obviously isn’t what I’m doing though, I just posted a whole video of why minecraft is the way it is. I’m not trying to scold anyone here because I don’t think those people exist here.

    My dad would dismiss my interests a lot. I don’t have specific examples from my childhood- I just don’t remember a lot of things. One thing that’s been recent is my special interest in snakes, and him repeatedly either dismissing me or asking me why snakes and then telling me its just weird. I don’t talk to him about things I’m interested in because he frequently just doesn’t care at all.

    I don’t know, it just hurt to be dismissed so completely about something I find really interesting and wanted to share with the group.

    • SnakeEyes [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      This site still has a lot of redditor culture including it’s hostility, for what is worth thank your for posting the video, I opened it and forgot to watch it, so I’ll get to it while I eat my lunch.

      Also it’s the opposite of wrong to be passionate and nerd out, I think it’s pretty cute and cool

    • gingerbrat [she/her]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      First of all, I want you to know that being dismissed like this is never okay, no matter if it’s your dad or a random person on the internet. There is no shame in not liking the same things, so I think it’s not too much to ask of people to be polite and say “I don’t like X, but I’m glad you enjoy X.” How things are communicated is essential to make everybody feel accepted and heard, especially in such a niche of the internet as hexbear is. This is supposed to be a safe place for all who come here seeking it, so receiving a comment like this is downright shameful.

      I actually saw the video you shared, and while I don’t know anything about Minecraft, I was smiling to myself thinking “I’ve been deep diving into Witcher Wild Hunt lore the last couple of weeks, trying to find anything I didn’t already know about the game, so I’m glad to see there is at least one other person on this site who loves to deep dive into games, their lore, technical aspects, or other stuff.” I felt seen just by you sharing such a niche topic video. You are not the only one who enjoys this, so please keep sharing whatever you find interesting! It’s what makes this site so much fun.

      I’m glad you are having so much fun with Minecraft and snakes, and tbh, I’d love to learn a bit more about snakes! If you can recommend anything (reading, watching, maybe even games), I’d love to hear about it.

      • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        7 days ago

        Thank you penguin-love and I’m really glad you felt seen by my post. That makes me feel really good, I will definitely keep posting.

        A lot of these youtubers are a bit more focused on keeping them as pets, so I’m not entirely sure if its what you’re looking for but I do have some to recommend:

        Clint’s Reptiles he has a phd in biology education (iirc). He has videos on specific species and very information dense videos on evolution/the history of various clades and stuff like that.

        Dāv Kaufman Has some really good videos where he goes to their native habitats. I haven’t watched much of his content but he’s well respected from what I remember.

        Reach Out Reptiles This guy is a dwarf reticulated python breeder. He has lots of very informative videos on dwarf retics, explaining localities and everything that goes into it. He has snakes from the original imports. Very much special snakes to me and I’d love to get one eventually…

        Snake Discovery has a lot of more fun videos, I haven’t watched them in a while. They’re a couple and she’s really fun. They also breed a lot so a lot of their videos are focused on that, might have to scroll through or look at most popular if you aren’t looking for that.

        NERD has kinda a mix of videos too, but they have monitors and venomous stuff too. Lots of more exotic species. Kevin is autistic too and I really like the videos of him talking about snakes. He’s very knowledgeable and has been doing this for 30+ years. Some of their content, at least at some point in time, was shot and edited kinda obnoxiously but there’s plenty of good ones too.

        Not educational but Snakebird and Snake pass are both fun snake based games :)