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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
Not singling you out, but I really dislike this take.
Fanbases can suffer and be frustrated and be vocal about that and still be every bit as much of a fan as the ‘optimists’. If you can’t do that on a forum among your fellow fans then where can you?
Would it be more fun on this board if it was just homogenous, blind optimism?
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You can do whatever you want, why do you have a problem with me (or people like me) doing whatever I want? Someone asked how someone can be an optimist, I answered how. I never said you can’t be a fan of you’re not an optimist, but I honestly don’t understand why you’d be a fan if you weren’t having fun. That seems like a really silly way to waste your time. “What are you up to tonight?” “I’m going to spend 2 hours watching a team I hate watching play a sport I barely like and then sit on the internet talking about how much I dislike that team.”
Incredibly cool stuff. I can’t think of anything less rewarding.
And to be honest, yeah, it would probably be more fun if we were all just blind optimists who just had fun watching the game. It kind of sucks reading through the same repetitive complaints by the same 20 people bumping the same dumb threads, but it’s fun to make fun of at least. As long as we’re all having fun, whatever that looks like is cool.