by FaithfulToadd » Thu Jan 29, 2026 3:03 am 
Artist: Pietro Antonio Rotari
I realize this post is going to make me look like a 4chan / Reddit pleb, but I enjoy the format so whatever.
Don't take it too seriously, I'm not here to attack anyone. Luv y'all!
> Be Toaddy.
> Have poetry in thy bones from a young age, i.e. be a chronic and hopeless word enjoyer.
> Fancy thyself a proper lady and an intellectual.
> With tongue in cheek, write a semi-formal, two-part treatise adding a feature everyone claims since the Elder Days is impossible to add, and a terrible idea.
> Treatise offers several dozen, specific, points, utterly quashing the usual objections.
> Edit treatise until it looks polite enough to publish.
> Hit 'Submit'. Job done.
> Replies start rolling in.
> Uh oh.
> Nary a soul has read it.
> Critics say 'No one is reading allat' and 'Im not gonna learn fucking algebraic topology'.
> It dawns upon thee: treatise is not treatising due to literacy level and attention span issues.
> Nor shall it, without major revisions / an abridged proposal.
> Receive advice from user Hasta on writing suggestions for community with said literacy issues.
> Hasta seems very reasonable and polite by community standards, despite occasional flawed reasoning.
> Enter Hasta's thread to see how they do it.
> My sweet Lord.
> Hasta's thread is bananas.
> I mean holy moly.
> Every post mentions 'steaming pile of reasoning', 'towering turd' of devs' incompetence, 'you shriveled sea urchins', 'IT MIGHT BE THE WORST RATED REGIME OF ALL TIME!!!' etc. etc.
> There's a 'dingleberry' mention, even.
> Thread concludes: 'clap-ridden asshole code monkey' devs are 'like a monkey slinging it's poop into the wild yonder'.
> Realize thou art no longer among polite society.
Post whence it first dawned on thee this community was different. I, being a gracious host, shall attend to both thine ingame experiences and thy forum experiences.
/curtsy
