Comments on: 2254: The Irritating Trend of Gleeful Negativity https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2016/03/23/2254-the-irritating-trend-of-gleeful-negativity/ Memoirs of a nobody Sun, 06 Apr 2025 21:49:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Pete Davison https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2016/03/23/2254-the-irritating-trend-of-gleeful-negativity/#comment-271 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:40:02 +0000 https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/?p=12677#comment-271 In reply to Chris Caskie.

If that's still something on your mind, I'd be interested to be part of it.

]]> By: Chris Caskie https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2016/03/23/2254-the-irritating-trend-of-gleeful-negativity/#comment-270 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:38:43 +0000 https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/?p=12677#comment-270 I couldn't be more on board with this. When I was fresh out of grad school, and had alot of free time on my hands, I actually considered starting up my own site that I called "Positive Gamer." The overall philosophy behind the site was to create a space where writers could focus on celebrating what they like, while exercising an approach to critique of things they didn't that didn't dip into the type of negativity and nastiness that feeds the internet. I never went anywhere with it . . . but I still feel very strongly that there's a need for such an approach out there. It is fundamentally true that part of really loving something is being able to critique it, and understand ways that it can be made better, but the way you express that impulse is the difference between "critic" and "snarky asshole." The gaming community has a whole lot of the latter masquerading as the former, but not a whole lot of the former.

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