Faith in humanity.

[bluestarultor]

Okay, so I know I've sounded pretty cold and surly as of late with my ultra-realism/pessimism in terms of people. It's not that I don't want to have faith in humanity. Like, Obama getting elected gave me a huge boost in that, especially when I saw who he was hanging with and why and his first hundred days. That wore off eventually, of course, after the Republican side of things started flapping their yaps and I remembered there are still people who listen to them.

But here's a better case in point. Everyone's been talking about BlazBlue, and it seems well-received. Which is good, people agreeing and all, sharing tips, helping each other out. Then I go do some research and find this. If you like, you can examine the offending site, but the point is that the Guilty Gear people essentially quashed a BlazBlue site and will go so far as to delete posts referring to it and infract the posters to keep their fucking monopoly on Aksys fighters. It's a game, they're stuck on previous titles, and they're too effing uppity to let anyone try to make more out of the new one than them.

This is the kind of thing that just plain pisses me off and drags me back down when I see a glimmer of hope for the non-NPF members of the world. Something so simple as trying to expand a game, an action benefitting many, gets effectively killed by monopolistic pricks. If people can't even be half decent about games, well, hopefully, you can guess my train of logic, because I'm still in recoil from the annoyance and can't express the rest of it in coherent words. I'm actually posting this against my better judgement.



At any rate, for those of you who have better faith in humanity, post it here, or those who have outright given up, if there are any. I dunno if this belongs in Discussion or if it's just going to turn out as a place to rant. I'm gonna see about finding one of those feel-good stories the news is running less and less these days and check back in a bit once I've stopped being annoyed at people in general.