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People who challenge themselves with the hottest peppers they can find are called chiliheads. Chiliheads openly welcome you into their hobby. First you start with something weaker like Jalapeños (4,000 to 8,500 on the Scoville scale), and work your way up until you're eating Carolina Reapers (~1,641,183). If you want to be able to withstand the heat, you need to put in the effort. If you don't like it, then stop, or stay at the level that you're comfortable at. That's fine.
Gamers also welcome you into their hobby. We have a variety of games of every taste and skill level for you. You could start with something like Mario Bros for the NES, or you could jump right in to a walking simulator like Gone Home, or start a farm in Stardew Valley. If any particular game is not to your liking, that's fine, there are plenty more games for you to choose from.
If you can't take the heat of a Carolina Reaper, would you demand that the pepper be changed until it is diluted to the heat of a Jalapeño? That would ruin the enjoyment for someone else, wouldn't it?
Likewise, if you find something you don't like in a game, would you seek to remove it? What if other people enjoy the aspect that you'd like to remove? Aren't you harming the hobby for other people?
If you don't like something, that's fine. Don't eat the pepper that is too hot for you. Don't play the game that you don't like. Don't demand that something else be changed so that you can enjoy it. The gatekeepers are the people preserving the Carolina Reapers, so that future generations can continue to enjoy them. Likewise, gatekeepers in the gaming hobby would like to preserve the things that they find fun from being changed.
Don't demand that something be changed so that you can enjoy it. Either change yourself by gradually moving out of your comfort zone and broadening your horizons, or find the things that you do enjoy and stick with that.
Gamers also welcome you into their hobby. We have a variety of games of every taste and skill level for you. You could start with something like Mario Bros for the NES, or you could jump right in to a walking simulator like Gone Home, or start a farm in Stardew Valley. If any particular game is not to your liking, that's fine, there are plenty more games for you to choose from.
If you can't take the heat of a Carolina Reaper, would you demand that the pepper be changed until it is diluted to the heat of a Jalapeño? That would ruin the enjoyment for someone else, wouldn't it?
Likewise, if you find something you don't like in a game, would you seek to remove it? What if other people enjoy the aspect that you'd like to remove? Aren't you harming the hobby for other people?
If you don't like something, that's fine. Don't eat the pepper that is too hot for you. Don't play the game that you don't like. Don't demand that something else be changed so that you can enjoy it. The gatekeepers are the people preserving the Carolina Reapers, so that future generations can continue to enjoy them. Likewise, gatekeepers in the gaming hobby would like to preserve the things that they find fun from being changed.
Don't demand that something be changed so that you can enjoy it. Either change yourself by gradually moving out of your comfort zone and broadening your horizons, or find the things that you do enjoy and stick with that.