I AM HERE TO DISCUSS FEELINGS??

I think he is threatening to spam the forum unless he is banned, as though the Ignore button weren't a thing.

JosephSeraph
I hope you don't think people are reading your big ass posts!

Not true! Seriously, this is better than daytime television! I don't know what's funnier: BM's narcissistic melodrama or everyone else taking the bait. STRAIGHT. THE. FUCK. UP. I am laughing so hard, I have tears in my eyes!

Eh, I honestly haven't read anything by this guy or the responses. Too much work for literally nothing. This topic just merited an ounce of effort, because there might have been a cry for help in there somewhere. Alas... Whatever.
Ignore it is.

You two are adorkable. Also it's basically impossible for me to tell you both apart already. Good luck on your forum raid! :3

i have to make a confession: I'm actually JosephSeraph

*hides ms*

yay! try greenlight!

BizarreMonkey
Ugh, I wish I could moderate myself, but it's really tiresome!

Yeah, I definitely feel you there. I have all of these creative things floating in my head, and all I ended up doing spending all day here, every day, and then hating myself because days of not getting anything done turned into weeks and weeks turned into months.

BizarreMonkey

pianotm
But there's something you're missing...that a lot of people on this thread are missing: the power of hype and promotion. For your games, you have generated interest in at least one person: me. That's more interest than there would have been had you not gone on this tirade. I'm thinking maybe you should consider keeping the BizarreMonkey name as an alternate persona and learn how to channel whatever power it is that you've demonstrated here into promoting your games.

I'm too prideful to drop the name. Like, at first I just didn't want my attitude here to be associated with the name, which is why I changed avatar and stuff, but I forgot how quickly people forget things here, too.

No such thing as bad publicity. Again, I can understand the whole reinvention thing, but I'm not sure I could do it at 35. I've been pianotm since I was 14.

Hm... maybe you're onto something. I stopped promoting my games so much because that was generating a lot of ill merit towards me.

There's a big stigma right now towards things like Spam and in general advertising, and it's actually kind of unfair. It actually started long before the internet as businesses not wanting competitors promoting on their venues. It evolved into a general notion that anyone advertising on someone else's forum was rude, and that was proper, but now, any mention of something becomes a big faux pas. Like, we can't even tell people what we've done. That's why I love the Welp forum here. As long as you aren't doing the bot thing or linking to questionable sites, you can toot your horn all you want.

And now that I've learned just how much it'll take to actually get myself banned, maybe the trump can be dumped and I'll just come back sometime and do a big promotional thing, whatever that could be.

It may feel like a curse, but it only takes a tiny shift in perspective to turn it into a blessing.

See, this is what I meant when I said the way to a happy ending was to find me an alternative way to use my powers.

author=Past me
There's ways... certainly, in which I could change for the better, I just need an endgame, and since 'getting feedback on games' hasn't exactly been one that bears fruit, recently it's been the not so highly regarded thing of 'instigating drama to watch others bicker, then claim notoriety when the air is still moist with my taint.'

Many of us are this way, I'm just really aware of it. But the upside of being so aware of my faults is I have an easy time to correct them, with proper motivation, that is!

Most were too busy arguing with me or blinded with rage that i had even more walls for them to read so they could say they hadn't read because they actually think that will get to me. But you were the first, probably because your observing as an unbiased spectator rather than battling as a futile warrior, to get that, whether because you read that and took it in, or because it just clicked.

People always think it's not worth the effort to try and find a solution since it's the kind of thing that sounds like work and they have other things to do, so the default is "ignore" or "tell them to get help". I wouldn't say I was unbiased; I'd say I felt I could identify with your quandary.

Now that I'm ignored by those who argue with me and I don't really have to worry about what I do because I've yet again achieved some kind of god mode as a regular member, I could easily be absurd as I wanted.

I'll think on this.

It's better than burning bridges. Again, I can identify with the problem because I had, and to a degree, still have the problem, but resources are valuable and cutting them off is even more wasteful. RMN is here as a game making resource. That's it's purpose. It's just a little easier to subvert than most.