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My old man never really understood the stuff I liked (Battletech, D&D, Magic, Star Trek) but he knew they were important to me and that I wasn't unhealthy over them, and that was good enough for him.
Actually he managed to work Star Trek into the stuff he taught me like classical physics and quantum mechanics.
This made me smile
He knew those things to teach you but didn’t like Star Trek? Was he a Star Wars fan?
I don't think Star Trek is very hard sci-fi.
Edit: to say that, I don't think an interest in physics will naturally lead you to space fiction. And I don't think "space" is the natural conclusion of "physics."
Compared to Star Wars, Star Trek is pretty fkin hard scifi.
Star Trek isn't hard hard scifi, no, there's a bunch of completely soft fantasy elements like the holodecks and whatnot, but compared to Star Wars, it's still pretty hard.
I could see a person who reads and cares about scientific non fiction content might be easily bothered by how often reversing polarity solves the problem.
Some people just don't like consuming fictional content as a passtime.
No, he was a physicist. So he used examples of warp drive and time dilation along with why there is a Heisenberg compensator in the transporter.
Honestly it makes me really sad how whenever I try to share anything I like with my family they always call it complicated and sometimes weird.
Who's Rem?
Not ram I guess
Of course not. No one can afford ram.
You can if you can make do with Dance Dance Revolution 3
If he didn't just make fun of you to your face for liking the wrong things then he's ahead of the dad curve
Relatable sadly
These kind of things really messes you up in the long term. My dad was always making fun of me for liking video games and it took me a long time to get rid of the idea that whatever I was interested into was not boring/weird/unusual by default.
Same. I used to get made fun of for my music taste, sometimes just based on the band name or album art. Developed a habit of hiding my interests from my parents and feeling ashamed when they found anything non-mainstream of mine.
Well I am about just a sad and relieved that I am not the only one who had this experience. Were you able to cope with it & heal ?
Also care to share a few artists/albums? In exchange i will namedrop bleed the future by archspire
Over time I learned to just own my weird tastes and not care what other people think, but I think that's just something that comes with age. The music I got made fun of for was actually pretty basic, my dad was just disdainful of anything that wasn't his music. The name "Racer X" just sounded "gay" to him, and I got shit for the album cover of Soul Asylum's Grave Dancer's Union because there's two naked children on it. To make things right, I never make fun of my own kids for their weird shit, and I try to teach them not to criticize other people over meaningless things either.
I hope you've also been able to heal from your experiences.
Also, I just discovered Archspire about a year ago and I agree that Bleed the Future is an absolute banger.
Like way, way ahead of the curve. How is this a thing to complain about?
Do they have any idea how most parents are?
I don't think they're complaining
My dad never made fun of my interests and I do the same with my son. I can’t imagine doing that. My dad still keeps up with my son (his grandson’s) interests and will watch YouTube streamers and play Minecraft or whatever with him. 🙂
I told my dad I was going to play board games with friends and he spelled out B-O-R-E-D and went on a rant about how much he hates board games and that they're for losers. We haven't spoken in about five years.
Sounds like you come from a line of good dads
I mean, it may be intentional because ita a dad joke thing. Like calling them Nintendos.