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Off Topic / Re: Have we made Badspot sad at his own creation?
« on: August 20, 2020, 06:04:40 PM »
I'm watching a kiwi farms archive video about this place and it got me to come back and check it out. The reality is that anything Badspot would have made would upset him, he's a tortured artist of sorts.
He may not like this place and what it's become but he also hasn't nuked the stuff out of it. Despite its imperfection, the forum is like a massive work of art. A fetid, stuff filled, seething work of art. How could an artist just destroy their own art? It's part of them, it comes from their soul. There are literally thousands of posts on this forum about eregores, tulpas, wizardry, politics, loveual drama, the balance of life and death, deep discussions about everything and anything you could ever imagine. All if this born from a game about virtual lego building blocks augmented by an impressive, unique event based pseudo-programming system. All of that wouldn't have been possible without Badspot injecting his own personality into the forum culture. Had he stepped back and been more corporate in his forum dealings the game could have been like Roblox, it could have made stufftons of money, but it didn't. It stayed his, it stayed a part of him, all because that was the path he chose for it.
In all honesty, I don't think Badspot is saddened by his own creation. I think he's probably secretly proud of it, though I doubt he'd admit it. Who would?
He may not like this place and what it's become but he also hasn't nuked the stuff out of it. Despite its imperfection, the forum is like a massive work of art. A fetid, stuff filled, seething work of art. How could an artist just destroy their own art? It's part of them, it comes from their soul. There are literally thousands of posts on this forum about eregores, tulpas, wizardry, politics, loveual drama, the balance of life and death, deep discussions about everything and anything you could ever imagine. All if this born from a game about virtual lego building blocks augmented by an impressive, unique event based pseudo-programming system. All of that wouldn't have been possible without Badspot injecting his own personality into the forum culture. Had he stepped back and been more corporate in his forum dealings the game could have been like Roblox, it could have made stufftons of money, but it didn't. It stayed his, it stayed a part of him, all because that was the path he chose for it.
In all honesty, I don't think Badspot is saddened by his own creation. I think he's probably secretly proud of it, though I doubt he'd admit it. Who would?