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Lilac Dream Song
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“Everyone is different, no two people are not on fire.”
I will say that it's remotely pleasant to see this discussion being had outside of the anonymous thread for what it's worth at least. The conversation itself is not that pleasant, but it is/was inevitable to happen, and it's better to see it more openly discussed.
Been mulling over whether or not I cared to say anything for some time. I don't personally care for the initiating issue, but instead the reaction to it.
Love Drifter(bf1e7e) and Morning Desire(a594b9) each draw parallels to how I feel about the matters. I'm somewhere in between the two.
This is an issue I brought up several months ago, when it was irritating me thoroughly. The concentrated groin energy of people and quests. It was brought up again weeks ago by Weaver and the reaction of the chat at the time was the complete opposite as it was months ago. Now we're discussing it once more, and the reaction is sort of a mixture of both discussions as well as a bunch of completely new directions!
I no longer even care about the strange sexual goal oriented mindset of a lot of people. It's to be expected on the internet. People have said some things along the lines of, “if you control it, or don't respond to it, your suggestions won't get out of hand.” This is pretty true, but isn't flawless. You're still going to get insane, creepy, and/or sexual suggestions time to time. The author does have a lot of control over it.
What I really see going on is that a lot of people don't care what is said, or what is done. Not in conversation or in the quest. People care who did it. Your best friend, or even yourself, could be doing exactly what you are complaining about. When it's your friend you usually excuse it, or justify it really quickly. When it's someone you don't like you're going to do the exact opposite. This is fairly common to human nature, but you can see it very often, I see some of it in this thread.
What the hell can you do except tell the person you have a problem with what you have a problem with. I know someone, and probably a few other people, who told Person A that they had a problem with Action B. Person A doesn't give a shit. You know what I say to that? Fuck 'em.
There's absolutely no reason to carry on about something once you've (im)politely told the person in question that shit is going bad. If they take your words and work on it, awesome. If they go, “that's just your opinion man!” or some other patronizing bullshit, then go do something or read something you enjoy more instead of putting all your time, effort, and attention on someone or something that isn't going to change.
People's love and mindsets for negativity is way out of hand. I try to take the positive even out of the negative and keep joyful. Joyful doesn't necessarily require me to be completely happy. I can be in a bad mood or way and still try to keep myself uplifted. That's what I try to do. People tell me when I do things wrong, or just “shit sux,” and that's cool with me. More so when people tell me why shit sux so I can possibly do something about it or try to improve.
I loved telling stories and working on improving my quests when I had one or two comments each update, and I still do. Nobody making a quest that makes me sick, annoys me, or that I really do not like is going to take that away from me. The community can go to hell, even if it hasn't already, and I'm still getting the enjoyment out of it that I came to experience. You know what though, the shit I hate, other people are going to love. My stuff could be (maybe is) shit, and I'm still going to have people who read it and enjoy it. I get told nice/positive things all the time and it's very nice, but I really appreciate it when someone tells me something I'm failing at so I can do something about it. In private, in a chat, in an anonymous thread. Go fucking wild.
So let's hate what we hate, we can tell people about it. It's probably a great idea to tell them about it and why. Let's love what we love, but we could easily be a little less “hugbox” about it all, as some people have been saying. Real brothers roughhouse and beat each other up sometimes. It's what makes people a little stronger and sturdier.
The whole deal with people being wrong on the internet, especially about Fantasy Races or Opinions is absolutely hilarious dumb. It just comes down to trolls trolling trolls who are trolling trolls who troll other trolls trolling trolls trolling you. It's so funny though, it must be done, who can control themselves? Self control is for suckers.
Stay positive, friends/enemies/faggots.
(LawyerDog makes more sense than a lot of you, just thought you should know.)
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