Pushy People

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Is anyone else ever plagued with friends who sound like telemarketers?

You know, the ones who want to get you to do something, play something watch something, etc, and no matter how many times you politely say, "I'm not interested" they will NOT let it drop, until you get irritated and they act all shocked that you're annoyed?

Yeah. Consider this a rant. I'm getting so tired of certain people (and nobody on DA, for the record) trying to FORCE me into doing things that I just don't want to. If I say I'm not interested in a certain game, or modding a certain game, or watching a certain movie, et cetera,  (why the hell isn't et cetera in the spell check? Apparently the abbreviation is a word, but the WORD is not?) shouldn't that be enough? Particularly when I tend to state a good reason for not wanting it at the time?

Modding is a big one. I don't tend to run mods; I'm not good at getting them to work, I have an older computer that bogs down very easily, and generally, if I'm playing a game, it's because I like the game and enjoy it for what it is without changing it. Other people can mod. I'm sure it's very fun. But if I personally am not interested, and am having fun with what I'm doing, why is that such a big damned problem? I was called "Silly and self restricting" today because I was having fun with Starbound the way it was and didn't feel the need to mod it. So apparently, I can't play my game that I paid for the way that I want to play it without being considered "silly."

Sorry for the frustrated mood, guys. Some people in my life just tend to piss me off. I try to be open minded to trying new things, but if I say no, I don't expect to be harassed about it. For that matter, I don't want to be harassed if I change my mind about something either. This self-same conversations spawned because I posted Starbound art on Facebook, when I hadn't previously been interested in Starbound. Rather than comment anything about the art, I get a comment full of attitude about "I thought you said Starbound was just bad Terraria." Take into account that my assessment of the game was prior to recent, huge updates that have fixed many, many problems and given the game its own identity and progression. It had problems I didn't like, and they were fixed. Is that not reason enough for me to give it a fair chance?

Egh... sorry for pissing and moaning. I don't tend to vent very often, but I'm wondering if anyone out there feels the same way I do.

TLDR: I hate it when people try to pressure me into things.
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Trying to pressure someone into something is generally the best way to get them to hate it while refusing to ever try it, and people who do that are fucking morons for not realizing it.  It's one thing to be excited about something and want to share it, but quite another to just push and push and push when someone says they're not interested or that they can't get into something.

Which, actually, is why Kef knows not to even bring up Homestuck around me, as I had little interest in reading it originally, but then the fandom just made me outright hate it to the point where I don't even like hearing about it.  It's like, yeah, okay, I'm glad you're having fun and shit with it, but leave me the fuck out of it.  Incidentally, Kef feels the same way about Attack on Titan--he doesn't want to watch it because the fans are so annoying about it.

And if those sorts of people feel you're wrong for liking and disliking what you do, they can go fuck themselves.