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I have noticed this so much today. I pretty much lived in r/hockey for the past 5 years. They had a vote and decided to black out for the 48 hour protest. Once it was clear that the vote was in favor of blacking out (and that the championship deciding game could be played during the blackout), people started pleading to move the blackout to after the championship was decided, which completely defeats the purpose of the protest.
Well, during the blackout, the championship was decided. Now that it's open again, everyone is again flipping out about how pointless the protests were, and how we ruined their experience of watching the championship game.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I generally watch hockey because I like watching hockey. I feel like you might have a social media addiction if not being able to browse reddit ruins the experience. Crazy stuff.
Yeah, I don't mind checking into match threads now and then, but I don't get the people that constantly monitor them, especially in the larger threads where you can barely discuss anything.
It reminds me of people that sit on their phones while watching a TV show/movie. Just defeats the point.
The fact that not everyone is like you doesn't mean they're addicted to something. I don't watch sports, but I play videogames, and I don't like playing solo games because without the social aspect, it's not as enjoyable. Some people don't like eating pizza with pineapple, some people don't like coffee without sugar. None of these facts imply an addiction to sugar or pineapple or anything else. It could simply be that there are people who don't enjoy the hockey alone but for the social perspective. Maybe they don't even enjoy hockey at all by itself, but "commented hockey".
And that was a crazy game, too!