To N3ON
I know a lot of us give you **** in this thread, but I'd just like to say one thing:
Thank you for keeping this thread in line.
If there's one thing a thread like this needs, it's someone to shift the balance. Even if it might annoy us sometimes, steering too far in either direction is dangerous.
Oh, well, you're very welcome. Truthfully I'm surprised over the acknowledgement, and I can imagine what people probably think of my contributions over the last while, but I'm touched that my presence is still appreciated here to some degree.
It's funny, I've made every Isaac thread on the site in the past decade, but I've also sort of become the heavy. You'd think that would fall upon someone else. But really I'm just the counterweight. When the thread is slow, I post much more, to keep it active. You know how many pages there were within the first
year of this thread's existence? Ten. And I was probably a quarter of those posts, lol. When the thread is pretty regular, like now, I recede a bit. When the thread is negative, I try to bring positivity. But I believe the truth is always somewhere in the middle, so now when the thread is... very effusive, I'm here to tether people back down I guess.
A big thread that exists only as an echo chamber is a thread that can easily become unstable. Trust me, I was a mod in the Ridley thread last time around. It can get ugly. This time, there might be another big thread, the habits of which we may want to avoid. During the fall leading up to release, I'd be lying if I said this thread didn't become rather unwieldy. I just don't want people to dive in so deep that they get lost. On either side. Nor would I want to take advantage of the credence people still, somehow, lend to my opinion.
I know it might seem I'm always in here being a raincloud, I get it, but believe me, usually I'm trying to just leave well enough alone. The entire basis of Isaac support for years has been the enduring belief that he's still possible, and the popularity necessary to perpetuate that belief. And while I might disagree with some of the theories people posit, I would never try to tamper with the overall motivation. Because that's really the driving factor that's kept the fanbase going long after those of his contemporaries faded away.
So, y'know, resent me, appreciate me, scoff at me - it's all good. Ultimately we all want the same goal, we're all dreaming the same dream, and I'm just doing what I think is best to keep the fanbase, sort of like you said, on the right track forward. I certainly wouldn't be here if I didn't still care about Isaac.