Quote Originally Posted by Kolaina View Post
What else is silly is not striving to become better. Being content with mediocrity.
Sincere question. Why is that bad?

I get what you mean from a personal viewpoint. I enjoy learning. I like growing. I have fun figuring stuff out, seeing how things work together, understanding synergies. But if that’s not someone’s cup of tea it doesn’t bother me. We’re different there, ok. There’s more to people than whether they are driven to excel in a videogame, and out of all the characteristics someone can have I don’t find it a particularly interesting trait either.

My personal experiences with people who lacked that particular drive have been extremely positive overall. They’d be generous with their time and help. They’d be social and kind. They had a great sense of humour and doing dungeons with them was a hoot. I felt blessed for knowing them, and spending time with them.

If anything, I’d say they excelled in humanity. And that beats parses by a thousand, a million, an infinite amount of miles for me. I don’t excuse anything. To me it’s simply the sum of a person. And there is so much more to them than this one thing. With strangers I simply assume it may be the exact same thing.

I fully understand that for you this is something that sits not well with you. We’re different there, ok. But perhaps you can see how people value things differently, and will draw different conclusions based on that.