I was under the impression it was resolved. I know I'm grateful!
Since it's a quiet thread, here's what I think about it a year later: Surelle's right, and had I taken that chill pill, there'd be no lingering drama from last year.
- Be grateful for those talented people whom you admire, for their talent and the worlds they create. Despite any niggling complaint any player ever had about the game (I actually never had very many), Paragon City was a gleaming city, thanks in no small part to Matt "Positron" Miller and his cohorts.
- When meeting those you admire, never mingle a sense of familiarity with expectations of any kind, as it is almost assured to have no bearing on reality. I'm sure that at any given moment, two well-meaning people on Earth are offending each other's legitimate sensibilities in just this fashion. In fact, those times when I've made friends with people I'm also a fan of, I don't remember offering them anything in particular at the time, or asking them for anything. Coincidence?
I think not.
- Be understanding. It was graceful of Matt to eventually apologize--and I hope he accepted my apology for troubling him--but it would have been more understanding of me to just let it go before anyone felt the need to apologize, considering the stresses of Posi's job search last year, and the comparative triviality of the perceived offense, at least in retrospect. (For anyone scratching their head, it was a tweet, something like "lol wut," after I misunderstood a conversation via Steam Chat and offered to spread the news and tipped Massively about last year's impending Loregasm.)
- It's the Internet, there isn't a hill worth dying on. You'll die, everyone will be watching, all your
cooler-heads-prevail points get reset to zero, happy now? (No.)
I wasn't sure about posting this, but you know what they say, if you can't serve as a good example, at least you can serve as a horrible warning?
Anyway; sooo, how many of you diligently read
all of the previous Loregasms before submitting your question?