[ SECRET POST #6070 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6070 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Baldur's Gate 3]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 56 secrets from Secret Submission Post #868.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Um.

OP's secret is 6 lines long. 3 of them are about time zones, merch availability and duty fees.

The American commenters almost exclusively focused on the other 3 lines about shorter distances and more cons (which is still true for the OP).

The 'community' ignoring 50% of the secret is not the OP's fault.

[(Anonymous)]

If no one understands what you’re saying, your communication is the problem. And if you can’t understand how the secret design influences how the secret comes across, FS probably isn’t the right place for you.

[(Anonymous)]

Or maybe the American victim complex is just really kicking hard for the local USians who just have to tell someone who literally has it worse than them how terrible THEY have it.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

?? The entire point of the secret was about how far away they are and how hard it is to travel from where they live. Everyone is trying to point out that it's actually harder to travel in the US for various factors than what OP thinks. ???

Oh noez, the people I thought were super privileged actually aren't. How mean of them to say so.

[(Anonymous)]

And no USian in the thread has attempted to understand just how remote OP has said they are, and that because of that remoteness all the difficult distances the USians are quoting still seem easy to them, if they could reliably get a con or a friend meet up out of it.

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny how everyone except the Americans can understand the secret and OP just fine.

[(Anonymous)]

People know what timezones and merch being expensive means. They just chose to clown on the OP about distances because that's a beloved pasttime of USians on the internet. They just screwed up by not actually establishing where OP was from, and looked a bit silly afterwards as a result. It's not that deep.

[(Anonymous)]

I think people don’t understand the time zone issue because OP says they are trying to make sense of the time zones rather than pointing out US-centric fandom happens at odd times for OP. There’s a lot of validity to this secret except the bit about cons and travel being easy. It may be easier but that isn’t the same at all.

[(Anonymous)]

If people in the US can't understand that timezones in other countries make things hard, then that's a general knowledge problem, not OP's problem.

The thing is, easy is relative. A lot of the US people have talked about relative distances, and how normal, easy distances for them might seem incomprehensible to someone from western Europe.

But then when OP said that the nearest city from them is 28 hours away (not the nearest city with a con or friends, the nearest CITY, full stop), so that to them any of the distances commenters were taking about travelling to cons in the US seemed easy. After that, well, suddenly relativity went out the window and OP couldn't possibly understand how hard the people in the US had it. (With, interestingly, no sympathy being given to the OP, possibly because their remoteness and isolation was just incomprehensible to the US commenters, just like distances in big countries can be incomprehensible to those in small countries).