As a person that often "seems to go about putting others down for the sake of a laugh" I feel like I should say this
Reading Dood's post, it seems really... silly, to me, at least, I mean, looking at it, "My Cutstuff career can just be summed up as a failure"?
I get that you're tired of wanting to do things and not going along with them, I believe I wouldn't be wrong when I say that this is something most of must've gone through at some point, but that doesn't mean anything at all, if you keep beating yourself up just because you lost motivation and couldn't do some project you wanted to do for the game, you'll unevitably end up like this every time, and it doesn't just apply to your "Cutstuff career", you can't just go around life beating yourself up because of tiny failures! If it didn't work, dang, that's a shame, move on, and that's it! Besides, you should do these things not forcing yourself to do them, like you probably do at some point, but instead, do them because you like them and have fun with them! If you spent a long time working on a project that ended up as a failure, it's alright, it doesn't matter, if you had fun then it wasn't a waste of time.
The problem
I see with you is that you're not having fun and you're not moving on after your so called "failures", and frankly, I don't think leaving or severing ties with Cutstuff will help you at all, mainly because of this
I've met plenty of great people here that I can credit with being true friends during a long, dark time a few years ago.
If you've met plenty of great people here, and as you saw in the cute posts that came before this ugly one I'm writing right now, a lot of people like you and don't think of you as badly as you think you are, at all.
If I were to stay, then I'd probably just forget about the entire reason why I'm upset in a few days or a week and continue with my normal existence here. But I don't want these ideas to resurface later when I hit a similar low point
If you don't want these ideas of yours to come back later to slap you and throw you to the ground later, then change your way of thinking! If you keep thinking that you're worthless because you couldn't do a project or anything, you won't get anywhere else other than a low point again! Think about how ridiculous it is, I mean, you're worthless or unskilled or unimportant because you couldn't do an expansion to some game? Things aren't as simple as that!
You need to stop thinking that "failing" makes you a bad, worthless, or unskilled person. Sure, at some points we all wish we were as good as Ivory when it comes to mapping or leading, or were as good as Kapus when it comes to making great sprites, or were as good as whoever you look up to, but it doesn't matter anyway because you aren't them, you're you and that's what matters, comparing yourself to others all of the time won't get you anywhere, maybe you should start comparing to yourself, and try to look up at yourself instead!
I'm a rather mediocre, middle-of-the-road person
I am too, and there's nothing wrong with that, because as long as you enjoy doing something, whether it is mapping, playing, coding, spriting, whatevering, it's okay to fail, it's alright to be "worthless" or a "failure", daijobu daijobu, it's gonna be okay.
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and now since Stonefunk seems fixated on the morbid idea of having names of people who just "troll others"
(what is this, 2009?) I can say that I'm one of those people that like teasing others for a few laughs
now deciphering your post is kind of a surreal experience but I'm trying my best here
I Would want play a game without read a lot of complains or agressive things no-stop when they can post the "problems" of a mode or others in the forum (it's made for, right?)
You can't just say what people can say and what they can't say, if
you want to play the game without reading others' commentary, then either don't pay attention to them, or mute them, F8, people, F8.
Better to bash a guy who try to have some friends (because he feel lonely and hated) than bash the people who try to make him crazy sad. But yeah, it's the rules of the groups, it's FUN.
It's so FUN to critic something when a big PART of the group HATE IT YET (even without know how was really this guy). Some people can do some miss, but remember, nobody is totaly bad, sometimes, they can have a bad period, just try to be more diplomatic.
I think that you might be just exaggerating this part, maybe Cutstuff was this way in the past, and I myself remember enjoying teasing the shit out of people like zerox daniel or that one guy named lad, but these days this kind of thing doesn't happen as much, as far as I know, and the way you've written it, you make it seem as if criticism is a bad thing, which is not in the slightest.
Better to give a warning to a guy who posted 1 word (because it was 1 word about laughing) in a post than give a warning to a guy who post some HITLER STUFF because he loves him WHEN you have (certainly) some people who can be judaist or black in this forum, but this guy is liked by some admins, so yeah, here is the problem, everything started like that.
Now this is a complaint directed to the mods, apparently? I know the moderating and rules on cutstuff aren't top notch but they certainly do their job, taking a look at the rules, 1 word unsensical posts are seen as not sane and unnecessary, but "a guy who post some HITLER STUFF because he loves him" is just a guy's personal opinion, you don't know for sure if it's just an edgy joke especially directed to insult or offend jewish or black people, or if the guy is actually a lover of adolf hitler, either way, free speech, you can't just shut that down.