Respect.

WARNING: Long, probably pointless rant ahead.

Respect. It's one word with a hell of alot of impact. The dictionary defines it as to "have due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of." I believe that having respect for everyone and everything around you is a greatly admirable trait. If you are one of those people who are able to do that, wow. You're an amazing person and I wish I could be like you. However, this thread is directed towards the people who seem to lack the ability to do so.

I'm not going to go on some rant about treating PIMD as you would real life because I believe that's a bunch of bullshit. Almost everyone becomes a different person behind a computer screen. They become the person they wish they could be in real life; whether that becoming more brave, good-hearted, forceful, whatever. On the other hand, I don't reckon that y'all should be treating each other with absolutely no consideration for the other person behind that screen.

I'm sure we all know that there's another human being there. But do we all fancy that the other person, Bob per say, has a life and emotions outside of PimD? Woah, what a ridiculous idea. Well today, Bob might've been rejected by the girl he's had a crush on for ages, got an F on his Greek mythology test and lost the menu for Chinese takeout. So Bob's feeling pretty down. So Bob decides to go play PIMD! Yeah sure, there are some perverts and trolls, but there has got to be some decent people on there! So Bob messages his best buddy about the cool new Beta Wars and scrolls through the forums. And woah, so many rude people. There'll all ganging up on people for what? And all these insulting messages on his forum post. Not even one compliment on all the hard work he put into it. And his so-called best buddy goes loco on his ass in PM because he hates everything ATA. So... No PIMD. Bob decides to call his Mom and see if she picked up his brand-new imaginary friend instead.

The negative comments on ForeverAlice's war postponing thread really brought this to my head. She put in a shitload of work on this war for you guys. Organizing rosters, keeping up with upgrades and name changers, walling everybody invites and reminders, etc. And she was dealing with crap in her real life. So she postpones. She didn't cancel, she temporarily postpones. When I read the thread I see people insulting her. I see taking over her war, her war which she must've put hours of work into. They didn't even bother to ask her. What didn't I see? I didn't see anyone asking her if she was ok, what's going on? I didn't see anyone say "Can I help? I would really like to see the war go on." I didn't even see a tiny sliver of acknowledgement of the fact that her life (hopefully) doesn't revolve around y'all needs. People need to take care of their own shit before then can take care of yours. Sure, it was a disappointment. But that doesn't give you the right to treat the creator like some of you did.

My point is, treat others the way one of your nicer friends would want you them. If you don't treat then with at least a little respect and consideration, you don't deserve to be treated that way yourself. You yell, I yell. You throw a punch, I'll throw a punch right back. But if you treat me with respect, I'll do the same for you.

Rant over. Birdy out. 

Sidenote: I'm aware a sort've similar thread has been made. But I needed to get this off of me and somewhere where it might have the tiniest chance of making a difference.