@sinisteri: well, if you read your post is pretty dramatic, since we are talking about a company that sells comic books. You were definitive in saying that people who claim that, for example, the new 52 is fine, are just letting DC skate along in their horridly low standard. You said that you stopping reading them is like a big strong message of not surrendering. I mean, do you mean to tell me that you don't think you were being a little bit overdramatic?
If you notice, I never said anything about comments like:
@fallschirmjager said:
Life is too short for hate. It consumes too much energy.
Just read what you like and don't read what you don't like. Simple :)
#17 Posted by fodigg (5191 posts) - 19 minutes, 53 seconds ago - Show Bio
Well, if you still really don't like what they're doing, don't buy it. Any of it. That's the only way to send a message because more nuanced messages aren't going to be picked up by their polling.
That said, there's a difference between walking away from something because you don't like it and staying emotionally invested in something you hate. Actively hating something is emotionally corrosive and accomplishes nothing. So kudos on getting over that.
Because they are light hearted, relativistic and don't go on in a big rant about the social injustice that is the new 52.
I don't care about differing opinions. But the way you voiced yours made it seem just like the opposite: it didn't read like a simple opinion, but a crusade that you embarked upon, while we ignorant people are left reading comics that are like a sandwich dropped on the floor.
Of course, maybe I just read your phrasing wrong. But before saying that I don't tolerate different opinions, try and read carefully what I'm saying.
Maybe I misunderstood the phrases: "My friend didn't surrender to horrible service" and "if you don't ever ask for better, then you promote the worse". They looked a little absolute and judgemental. Not once have I read the words "opinion" or "I think" in your post. Not even the words "I don't like". Just a lot of "it is".
That is the sole reason why I tried to speak up and say that maybe, the new 52 isn't so bad if people are still buying and enjoying the stories. I repeat: only because you seemd judgemental and didn't leave room for the other possibility; even more, you made it sound like you were doing some kind of big gesture that nobody else would ever dare to try.
If you are saying that you don't like the new 52, so you don't read it, but you understand that other people enjoy it... well, that's a different story. In that case I apologize and admit that I may have read too much into your post because of the way it was phrased. In that case, it's my bad. No harm done.
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