A normal friend flips out over a non-personal question.. why

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I have this bad memory of on a school walk trip hiking around when the ps3 first came out and i hadn't done any online gaming and i asked my friend who's normal and 'clever' like not that typical if you know what i mean like an original person (i'm not labelled aspie but i am a systemiser that's for sure) and who had played the online video games like metal gear solid online and cod4, 'why is call of duty so much more popular than metal gear solid online' because i was hearing how it was so popular... and the chat had been regular about video games in general up to that point and then a slight pause from him after i say that sentence in a curious rising tone of voice and then he pauses and then said 'i can't answer that' angrily and stopped looking at me and just immediately walked ahead away then i looked at the other guy who was in the convo like 'did you see that?' and he goes 'that was actually such a dumb question'...

and we walking with all the other groups in the expedition (i was in a different group to him but i was walking with his group as all the groups people were merged up on the same path - and also i was more friends with him than the people who i was in the group for walking). and there was aggression from his friend later on when we were packing our bags away and hadn't spoken since and his friend like sensing the tension that no one had tried to create quickly preemptively tells me to like hurry up putting my bag away something the piece of s**t. his friend (kind of was mine at the time ish) was definately aggressive and i think that is a neurotypical trait.

i've got good memories of him but f**k that just makes so angry thinking that he reacted that angry way and of course there was way too much weirdness from it and loads of other people interacting with him and me that there wasn't a chance to actually ask 'why' he got so suddenly angry over a stupid question. maybe i'd been asking tonnes of stupid questions about online gaming before that and he was just like f**k it. maybe he thought like i was trolling him (really well lol) with that question.

why would someone apparently get very angry over a question about how something works ie why a video game has mainstream ie general popularity? also tell me your weird things like this too.

lol if this gets seen by someone who was there as i've made it so detailed.

Some people take questions and turn them into assumptions.

I dealt with a person recently that constantly acted in the way you described...he always felt patronized and took it as an assumption.

Also, one thing I have noticed is that a lot of people are pretty dense and do not think in an in-depth way. I think to them they see it as "Its more fun, hello!" while an Aspie goes into specifics about the differences and similarities etc etc.

thanks, i think that might have been he was just like what sort of question is that, how on earth can someone know why it's more popular? but he aint stupid loud etc - i think he took it really literally like i wasn't asking what is the scientific reason for consumer choice leading to far greater popularity differences between these two games which have distinguishable differences between them. yeah so the question would have just stumped him and that would have just caused the silence then he would have reacted to that silence naturally and then blamed it on me as if i'm just so bad at conversation that it leads to a dead silence and then he'd have just wanted to walk away to other people and sort of given off as if he was angered by the question when actually he was just stumped by it. if he felt he had to give a good answer rather than just an answer then or if he wanted to because he thinks he's clever and likes to sound clever then that also would have angered him because he'd be like why's he asking me such a difficult question (when it's meant to just be a convo to pass the time walking this strenuous hike) i would have actually have to think about it on my own to understand. yeah i think possibly because it was a hard hike we'd been walking for ages etc that would have made him just f**k this mental strain this isn't a convo that'll help me walk. those three possibilites probably a mix of 1st/2nd with the 3rd.

Maybe they REALLY like Metal Gear Solid? Incidentally in this household we don't get why CoD is popular either...

I see people get into HUGE ugly debates online over Call of Duty, Metal Gear Solid, Halo, which one is better.

These people take the games WAY to seriously.

This happened to me a lot in my past and still does to this day, I sometimes think that is an NT's way of saying, "you're annoying me/I don't like you, don't effin' talk to me weirdo." Not to say that is specifically what occurred in the incident of your post, but that is the general feeling I get from such response. Sometimes it is me really saying something stupid, sometimes it's me just being scapegoated.