Social Stigma

Humans are pretty into finding ways to say they're better than other humans they're never going to meet or have anything to do with.

>d) Modern society fetishizes the concept of maturity, an exercise in imagination is regarded as something childish and unfit for an adult

This is the big one, I think. Just think about the literary scene and how genre fiction is treated. If your story isn't some completely 100% possible and probable down-to-earth entirely relatable story set in the real world either in modern times or in the past, then it's scifi or fantasy escapist power fantasy garbage for pathetic manchildren who need to grow up. There is no in-between. Even classics like Lord of the Rings and Dune get snubbed and looked down on compared to Book About My Parents Arguing #293923 or World War 2 Novel #80,000,000,000. It's a bizarre obsession with looking and seeming like a mature adult, when what exactly is mature and adult varies from culture to culture and person to person, and changes over time.

Lets be real, we all know why. Tabletop games require nothing and are inherently isolating beyond the tiny tribe they create. You're creating a new social hierarchy based on an entertainment property with no physical, cultural, or intellectual requirement and which requires almost no learned skills. Not even imagination most of the time since most tabletop games spoon feed you their setting and art direction and you are picking from a selection of premade concepts to attach yourself too. Veeky Forums doesn't hate Tau because they figured out Tau are somehow bad, Veeky Forums hates Tau because their adopted tribe posits that Tau are bad and they uniformly adopt that ideology in order to situate themselves in the hierarchy.

Tabletop requires more, and isolates less, than vidya games.

Well, RPGs do. I have no experience with wargames.

...

Yeah no, you are full of shit

>Tabletop requires more, and isolates less, than vidya games.

Videogame are still pretty stigmatized and their community is constantly shown to be infantile and douchey, despite the fact that at this point basically everyone with a pulse plays some sort of videogame. There are also very skill oriented videogames out there, though few if any leave you with meaningful life skills in the way that, say, basketball or being in a band will.

The fact that the industry is worth hundreds of billions at this point means it has to be taken seriously, the corporations tell us its now ok to like videogames so we do. Tabletop is a lot more acceptable now than it used to be since geek culture is what drives the entertainment market, but it's still the escapism of otherwise socially unacceptable people. A lot of braindead unsociable smelly assholes fish, but you can eat the fish and people were fishing ten thousand years ago.

Tabletop is like any other hobby, if you present it as a reasonable and valid activity and not as a screeching autist then it's fine. It's like any other craft or skill, people won't care if you're chill. Which goes to say, if you're chill why do you give a fuck?

Uh-huh. Tabletop is an effortless social group you can literally buy yourself into by buying things and going to the local place tabletop occurs. This is also how basketball and skateboarding works, but those often require you lose the gut and take a shower.

Because you are a frog poster