Quote Originally Posted by FireBud View Post
Because it's like being bothered by that one friend that laughs at something you find really stupid. At first you don't want to hurt his feelings, but eventually you get so annoyed by that old joke that you tell him so.

But no. He doesn't stop. He just keep saying it again and again. Soon some other people start spreading the joke and laughing as if they've heard it for the first time EVERY time. So you press harder and harder till you're so filled with anger and frustration, you lock yourself into a state of cynicism. And then you're with other cynics. Commenting on how the latest instillation of your once favorite franchise will totally suck. And any time someone comes in with one of those old dumb jokes, you yell at them to get back too where they came from. Then you start making comics in MS paint for your fellow cynics about the state of things, but then the old cancer finds them, cuts the "funniest" pictures from them and starts using them for more week jokes. And at this point I'm to bitter to even laugh at something so dumb when it uses pieces of genuinely funny works. Like the lazy mans comic. And they're all laughing their worthless faces at the SO FUNNY LEL XD 'comics' made from shards of YOUR work. So you break. You just give up and you leave it all.

That's when you realize that it's not worth the drama. That people will like stupid shit and there's nothing you can do about it. You think, there's a reason why people act the way they do. And as much as it bugs me, on a cosmic scale no one is more in the right than another. So you step back and think. Why give up on XIV? Why follow the bitter backlash like before? You enjoyed it enough and you're interested to see where it goes, so why not get back on there and see if it can actually become something good and original?

...I'm sorry, what where we talking about?