09-04-2015, 03:56 AM
I'm just going to echo the post your sent me personally, since I personally don't feel I have anything to hide, and know that my friends know me better than some creepy stalker who's opinion is based on cherry picking reddit and starbound posts that fit their agenda.
If you had actually spent the time to talk to me instead of monologuing to a strawman this last week you might have noticed this; And you did notice earlier, when it finally sank in I was taking your critique to heart and tweaking the wiki. Something I have told you no less than 3 times, though apparently it only sank in now.
And yet you take a tiny irrelevant detail that I am and will always be displeased about but cannot fix without a time machine, and use it as example of my hubris
At any rate, it seems like for all this time you've been e-stalking me, the one thing you never did was to actually, you know... talk to me as a person. You already created this strawman based on out of context posts likely dating back over a whole year, and came in, guns blazing, full of presumptions and opinions.
As I said on day one of your posting, thank you for pointing out some of the flaws, it has given me some pause for thought. I am now in the process of revising the wiki and lore with the help of a writer friend of mine...
Like I said, I'm confident, not over-confident. If I'm wrong, just tell me, ideally without reverting to riddles.
SharpTeeth Wrote:Fine, here you go, but don't be ass-mad. I was looking for permission to criticize you directly and you never responded. So if you get blustered, here you go. I only say this because I don't think you pay attention to the insensitivity of your own actions.
You write like a pre-med student. This is not a good thing! Your writing (from the forums and mod!) reeks incredibly of overconfidence in your own knowledge. Half of the shit you wrote is easily the most egotistical intellectually masturbatory crud I have ever seen. You need to be able to say, "hey, maybe I'm wrong and I need to ask others for help" but you have this stunning ability to deflect criticism whenever someone challenges the points you strongly believe in, and become sullen and irate, like a little child. And I'm not talking about the forums, you were actually civil for once in your life! Seriously, I have seen you shit on so many people on the starbound forums and reddit, just because you have to reply with a testy bit of egotistical tat. Seriously, just write simply for goddamn once. Take a step back and say, hey, look pal, I disagree with what you say, but I am gonna disagree civilly with you. You are, what, thirty years old? I'm eight years younger than you and I still don't treat people like an edgy teenager. The statement you wrote alone when you discontinued your mod upset a bunch of your young fans, you do realize the reason they were begging you for an update is because you said you were working on it? You could have just said, please stop asking, I give up on starbound, but no, you had to shit on people just because they were expecting something of you. You want to write SO much goddamn tat just to show off your intelligence, and it shows! This isn't a dick measuring contest to see who is the smartest, it's a goddamn piece of fiction. Take your concept back to square one and work your way from up top. Ask some writing forums, ask some scientists. Just do something! Do your research! Or just simply say they can be whatever they goddamn want to be. But you won't. You want to spend an absurd amount of effort without bothering to make sure the "facts" you spew are correct. You know what half the people told me when I asked them why they trusted your science so much? They said you had a background in biology. To your credit, I have never seen you state such a thing, but if I honestly had found it, I would have reamed you apart. Seriously, you gave them a latin fucking taxonomic designation. You have all this trust in you and you do jack shit with it. You have become the very thing you mocked. You do realize people take whats on the wiki as word of god? Do something about it! Put up a statement that says most of the information is fanon or whatever.
ARGH. Look, dude, I'm sorry and no one deserves to have these things slung at them, but on some level you aren't truly aware of the callousness of your actions. Your ego pokes through on the descriptions of the items alone. I never wanted to say this because they are goddamn insults, ones that I have to say in private because no one deserves to have that shit flung publicly at them.
I want you for once in your life to be able to change and not be so stubborn. Make peace with what you do, and be open minded. I don't hate you. I don't even truly know you. But I want you to see that maybe you were being too proud. I guess that's one of my biggest flaws, the inability to let things go and try to improve things, even other people. Even if it's unasked for, I almost did not want to say this to you, but I think someone as creative as you deserves the opportunity at self improvement. I hate the fact I had to continuously dance around what I wanted to say and not truly say what was on my mind.
Sorry.
Quote:This is not a good thing! Your writing (from the forums and mod!) reeks incredibly of overconfidence in your own knowledge.Should I not be confident in my knowledge? - Should I always stay silent for fear I may have an incomplete picture of the facts?. I contend I have confidence, but not overconfidence, I do my research, sometimes I make mistakes and I welcome being corrected so I might learn from that.
If you had actually spent the time to talk to me instead of monologuing to a strawman this last week you might have noticed this; And you did notice earlier, when it finally sank in I was taking your critique to heart and tweaking the wiki. Something I have told you no less than 3 times, though apparently it only sank in now.
Quote:I'm eight years younger than you and I still don't treat people like an edgy teenager.I have to laugh a little at this quote because that is exactly what you've sounded like for the last couple weeks while you've been posting here
Quote:Seriously, you gave them a latin fucking taxonomic designation.Actually it's not even latin... there's a rather long, boring story behind that involving another game in which they featured in a plot, how auto uploads messed the name about and people misunderstood their interpreted name. That "taxonomic name" is a continuity nod to an accident that happened 6 years ago, in a video game, now buried as an irrelevant tidbit to please a minority of people who still even remember that incident.
And yet you take a tiny irrelevant detail that I am and will always be displeased about but cannot fix without a time machine, and use it as example of my hubris
Quote:You know what half the people told me when I asked them why they trusted your science so much? They said you had a background in biology.Yeah I dunno why people'd think that. Biology isn't an area I have ever studied beyond armchair level, you might remember, the specifics of their biology I outsourced to a self professed expert like yourself since people kept asking for more specific details like what gas they breathe (Which seems a fair question to try get a solid answer to, "What gas do they breathe" does have narrative relevance; do they need to bring their own air supply outside their native habitat?).
At any rate, it seems like for all this time you've been e-stalking me, the one thing you never did was to actually, you know... talk to me as a person. You already created this strawman based on out of context posts likely dating back over a whole year, and came in, guns blazing, full of presumptions and opinions.
As I said on day one of your posting, thank you for pointing out some of the flaws, it has given me some pause for thought. I am now in the process of revising the wiki and lore with the help of a writer friend of mine...
Quote:YES! Change at last, though it came at the price of some goading....though apparently you now attribute this to yourself, 2 weeks and a lot of entirely unnecessary harassment and drama later. So, yeah. My changes to the wiki remain ongoing, your "personal criticism" wasn't really needed or relevant in that regard.
Like I said, I'm confident, not over-confident. If I'm wrong, just tell me, ideally without reverting to riddles.