I’m bored with being an online enthusiast.
Seriously, I am. Bored with coasters. Bored with parks. Bored with the discussion mostly. A day at the park or a lap on a coaster still sounds fun, but talking about it doesn’t.
Why is that?
And from the looks of traffic on most sites, it seems I’m not the only one. This isn’t the usual off-season slow down. Is the idea of enthusiast discussion in any quantity passe? Is quality? What is quality discussion?
I don’t care who thought a ride was neat-o. I don’t care how many coasters you’ve ridden. I don’t want to see your pathetically average snapshots from your last park visit. I have no interest in your snazzy video with quick cuts in time to whatever song you like today. I don’t need to hear again about how you love a park and are starting a petition to save it from certain doom. I don’t care that there’s a financial reality and that parks are just businesses. I don’t care to read another park-created marketing blog disguised as a transparent communication tool with the handful of dorks who care. I don’t care to read another rumor about which park is getting what in 3 years. I don’t care to see super secret blueprints of the ride either.
I feel like I’ve been there and done it a million times and doing it again is getting old fast. I’m bored.
Have I changed or has the scene?
(this is also posted in the Members section at CoasterBuzz if you’d happen to like to discuss there)
Perhaps its a combination of the industry slowing down since 2000 and the fact that we have discussed it a million times.
Maybe there are things you can do to spice things up a bit. Perhaps try role playing with coaster enthusiasm or consider doing coaster enthusiasm in a public place.
Sometimes a little risk and excitement can go a long way… ;)
That was just fucked up enough to be really funny to me, Carrie.
Aside from that site I was booted from, I’ve pretty much abandoned all but 2 coaster forums. I don’t think people have become disinterested, I think smaller niche groups took over (they’re doing well it seems).
I’m just tired of the idiots that think that being a coaster enthusiast matters one iota of anything. It doesn’t. No one outside of enthusiasts care. I got sick, for the most part, of arguing just because someone knows more than me, or at least makes them self feel better for thinking that.
When you start thinking that your coaster knowledge or prowess is actually worth something outside of your head, it’s time to spend time doing something else.
:) I do what I can.