sooowy, for me this is just one, big, crying thread. And I don't say "go away now kids!" I mean that this is so damn funny. And since you have "rights" to post your opinion here, I also have. 53 pages? really? I don't say that you can't and stuff but just lol. people don't cry real dead for so long
That's not true. I have family members who are still highly,
highly sensitive to the loss of a family member that died in 2008. And there are some family friends who died in a car accident that my father gets emotional over since they were like extended family. I managed to buck up and move on after their deaths but...not everyone did.
Since you're comparing a
game mechanic to a
live, human being, which makes very little sense when you think about it even though it kinda fits with how people view it, you really have to think about the fact that people do
react differently to things, no matter how pointless the subject may seem to you or others.
Like with my family members who really miss my grandma and still tear up every "death anniversary", there are people who really loved general and of course were attached to it because it gave them what they wanted: decent conversation, easy role-play finds, conversations to read to pass the time. A bunch of other things. Now that it's gone it's like a big chunk of their life is empty, because they can no longer do those things, or they can, but with the lack of General it just
isn't the same, and not everyone can get over it that way. Not everyone can "adapt"; we aren't all programmed to find the exit to a maze once it's moved. Some people will undoubtedly become lost.
Now, for those that weren't
all that interested in General or didn't really use it, it's a lot like people who didn't have as close or as meaningful a relationship with my grandmother, like me or a couple of my younger cousins. We didn't spend a lot of time visiting grandma, or talking to her, or her presence just didn't really have that big of an impact on our lives when she was around, so when she was gone it was obvious that something wasn't there, but it wasn't enough to deter us from continuing what we were doing. Users that didn't use general therefore could care less if it's gone because 'hey! they never cared about it to begin with!
If you're going to use things from real life as an example for your argument, you have to take in the human factor and acknowledge that
all people are different, and they react to things differently. Sometimes based off of association or emotional attachment.
But honestly, is it
really that much of a nuisance for people to be posting here, regardless of why they are? It's just a thread, and there are hundreds of other threads in here that people either find stupid, or pointless, or ignore them out of a lack of interest. What makes it so hard to ignore this one compared to all the others?
Nothing is going to change anything regardless if people post here or not at this point in time, so telling people "not to post" is irrelevant. If you're going to use "getting over a dead person" then you should at least acknowledge that
people in mourning can often take
years to get over that person's death.
Those that had general chat revolve around their entire FH existence can take just as much time to get over and accept that it's gone. If posting here will help them get a step closer to that...then why deny them of it?
