Oh don't worry, everyone is a prick in some way.
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True, however...this is the internet. You are now physically capable of hiding the fact that you're a jerk, if you are one.
Of course...people who are jerks are not likely to pay heed to this, because any and all advice directed towards then to the end of making them nicer-seeming people is promptly dissed.
Where am I going with this? Probably nowhere, but...I do sort of wonder about some of the people posting on this board. I've seen quite a few posts saying, basically, that everyone needs to get over the C&D and get on with their lives because it really isn't that important and there are better things to spend time on (Notice I didn't say 'waste' time? I do not consider the several years put into CE a waste...). To this I give a both scientific and artistic response.
If I draw a picture in five minutes and some guy walks by and spills his coffee on it, my frustration can be spent in about five seconds, and my anger dissipated in five minutes. It's no big deal because I spent only FIVE MINUTES of my life on the drawing. Have you ever heard the expression 'to build up steam?' It means to get more and more involved in a project as time goes by. It takes five minutes to blow off the steam I built up before seeing it ruined. And so then I start over. Easy.
The CE team, however, spent YEARS working on that project only to have it shut down at very nearly the last minute. Several years is a long time to build up steam, and not only that, but they can't just start over. So they have all this pent-up energy and excitement that's been turned into sadness and anger, and nowhere to put it.
Here's where the science comes in, and it's not really...real science. But whatever. THe conservation of energy. The CE team was full of the energy and excitement of the project, more so than any of us who hadn't had a hand in making it directly. Let's say they had 10,000 Joules of creative energy put together (whereas most people have, say, 10 Joules on average)--now turned to frustration energy. They've been trying to release steam, which is going to be a long process for some of them--sure, they'll get past it and go on with their lives, but forgiving and forgetting is another matter--and much of that energy is released into the fanbase. Well, if they started with 10,000 J and they've burned off 500 J (an optimistic figure), that five hundred has transferred in bits and pieces to everyone who gives to shakes about the project.
Of course, the science doesn't work because the full 10,000 J was unleashed upon the Chrono fans, and now the combined frustration energy of the fans is probably more that that of those who worked on it, just because of our sheer numbers...but whatever. It gets the point across, which is the only purpose.
So basically, if you don't like people 'whining' about losing CE, go somewhere else. We're just blowing off steam in one of the only places we can. Here on the Compendium we won't get weird looks or cause injury to ourselves or the people/items in our vicinity. NO it won't do us any good, but it feels better to discuss things, even when the end result will never change.
A teacher I once had made a distinction between guys and girls: "When a guy gets angry or sad, he'll punch a wall and feel better--mentally, since he's now got a broken hand. When a girl is angry or sad, she has good cry and lets it all out and then feels better--mentally, of course, as she's now congested and tired."
Well, the Compendium is a multi-gendered blob, so it could go either way. The CC equivalent of punching a wall would get us sued, so we opted for having a good cry. It is NOT the 'sissy' thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, so take your macho 'screw the law and FIGHT THE POWAH' and blow it out your nose. I'm not saying you can't still post that here, but it really isn't practical.
Also (and this is my last word on the subject--at least in this post), those of you who are actively insulting the Compendiumites who post their condolences/complaints/angry rants here: aren't you also angry? Just because you say you've gotten over it--and in your mind, everyone else should have, also--doesn't mean you're not still sore. A fight with your girlfriend/boyfriend, even when resolved, can ruin an entire week, an I'm sure you'd resent it if your friends all told you to stop whining and get over it--or even worse, to punch your gf/bf.
And THAT is why you should stop dissing people who post here. It doesn't make them feel better about the situation immediately, but it feels good to say
something about the project, even if it is, "FIGHT THE POWAH!!"
