Redneck?

My mother and brother are making fun of us because we like to watch Nascar races.

Meanwhile the two of them go online to play a computer game with 100,000 other people. Their conversation sounds something like this:

M: Have you been to the dark forest?

B: Yeah, you go there to get the axe.

M: I couldn't find the axe, the goblins kept killing me.

B: You have to go across the fence.

M: I saw the fence but couldn't find an opening.

B: I only go there when I need to. I'm scared of the dark forest.

Huh? Its okay for two adults to go online into a virtual world looking for axes but its redneck to watch drivers and their teams use math and science to figure out how to win a race on the least amount of pit stops and tire changes? Admittedly, watching Nascar is passive. However, I don't have a great inclination to go virtual fishing or virtual tree planting in order to sell what I catch or grow to buy an axe to finish some bizarre ritual to earn points. Fishing is sorta real time. You cast, you wait, you yank up the line.

More frightening is the thought of me coming across my mother while in one of these virtual reality worlds. How weird is that?