It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy
So yesterday was my first attempt at getting a large amount of people to read my article. I made posts on several of the VN boards. Then got banned for it because my article has “Bad Words”. Oh well at least I succeeded in getting people to read it. Only 2 people made comments on this page, most just went back to VN and tried to be cool with their cyber carebear friends. I read the responses but didn’t feel a need to argue with any of them. Eventually the threads got locked anyways.
Most of the posts were just personal attacks toward me. Now don’t get me wrong, they certainly don’t hurt my feelings. Maybe the ones about my gold chain stung a little, then again maybe not. Now while I don’t mind these kinds of responses because any publicity is good publicity, it doesn’t help me much. I was hoping for actual constructive responses. Guess that was too much to ask.
Some of the responses were so spun by the carebear mentality that they aren’t even worth addressing. Others accused me of being hypocritical in my gaming. Saying that I don’t want others to tell me how I want to play yet I will tell others how they can play. Now that’s funny to me because if you read the last few paragraphs in the Grumpy article then you would have seen me clearly state I will not try to force anyone else to play a certain way. While I would certainly like more people to PvP and think that those that don’t are pretty much pansies, I won’t force them to.
I anticipated a lot of the responses so I can’t say I’m heartbroken, I would hope that as I continue to write that more people make an attempt to let go their carebear mentality and possibly make a constructive comment or 2.
I did get at least one constructive email though. While I don’t agree with it entirely I can completely understand the motivation behind it.
Also I spelled Grumpys that way intentionally. I am aware that plural y turns into ie and the spell checker picked it up every time I typed it. However Grumpies just didn’t look right to me. I didn’t want to change the spelling of it since it is part of the Grumpy Bear phrase. Deal with it.(Ironically Grumpies pops up in spell checker as well.)
One last thing: Princess Tomato on the VN boards is a fucking carebear. That is all.
Shut Up And Fight
Most of the posts were just personal attacks toward me. Now don’t get me wrong, they certainly don’t hurt my feelings. Maybe the ones about my gold chain stung a little, then again maybe not. Now while I don’t mind these kinds of responses because any publicity is good publicity, it doesn’t help me much. I was hoping for actual constructive responses. Guess that was too much to ask.
Some of the responses were so spun by the carebear mentality that they aren’t even worth addressing. Others accused me of being hypocritical in my gaming. Saying that I don’t want others to tell me how I want to play yet I will tell others how they can play. Now that’s funny to me because if you read the last few paragraphs in the Grumpy article then you would have seen me clearly state I will not try to force anyone else to play a certain way. While I would certainly like more people to PvP and think that those that don’t are pretty much pansies, I won’t force them to.
I anticipated a lot of the responses so I can’t say I’m heartbroken, I would hope that as I continue to write that more people make an attempt to let go their carebear mentality and possibly make a constructive comment or 2.
I did get at least one constructive email though. While I don’t agree with it entirely I can completely understand the motivation behind it.
Also I spelled Grumpys that way intentionally. I am aware that plural y turns into ie and the spell checker picked it up every time I typed it. However Grumpies just didn’t look right to me. I didn’t want to change the spelling of it since it is part of the Grumpy Bear phrase. Deal with it.(Ironically Grumpies pops up in spell checker as well.)
One last thing: Princess Tomato on the VN boards is a fucking carebear. That is all.
Shut Up And Fight
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