I'm officially leaving the DOA community.
I won't be sharing any of the things I had planned. No tournaments, no teams, and most definitely no artwork.
I'm tired of people talking crap about me because I'm me. If the fact I have strong opinions, and am not completely passive, bothers people then that's too bad. I believe that if I truly support something, then I shouldn't just sit there and let it get trashed. People want to hate me because I always stick to what the Bible, God's word, says to me? Fine. Maybe I am stupid for wanting to leave forums because everyone on the forum disses God, but the way I see it, God is more than family to me.
If your brother, mother, sister, mother, was getting constantly getting trashed by a forum, and every time you tried to talk about them, people told you to shut up, would you want to stick around? Not if you're a good family member you wouldn't. This doesn't apply directly to this forum, more DOA World, but some of the people from that forum namely Kodachi, and LondonLust (yes, I'm naming names) have brought the same crap over to this forum.
Anyway, I'm tired of feeling like crap for just being myself. If I speak my mind, then that's just what I do. You don't have to agree, and if you're going to hate someone for their opinions, then you have serious problems. This has happened to me on all of the DOA forums I've seriously tried to fit into. And as I said before, almost every day I would come off the forums almost hating myself, for doing nothing wrong except being me. No matter how nice I was to people, no matter how much I tried to help them in their time of need, they were always ready to completely turn around and stab me in the back as soon as I said something unpopular they didn't like. Despite what people have said, are saying, and will say, when I first meet someone, I always try my very best to respect them, and their opinions. Not only this, but if a debate does happen to start, I always try to keep it light hearted, and refrain from insulting them. But people in this community get butthurt too easily. I would try this, and people still hated me. This has made me completely change now. when I first started in this community, I was open, tried to be nice to everyone, and respectful to everyone. By the end of my experience with them, I'm pretty frinked.
I'm extremely defensive now. If people even start to encroach on any subject I care about, I start getting ready to fight. I used to be able to roll off insults. Now on another forum, I just got a warning because someone criticized me for using abbreviations, in a condescending way and I immediately jumped to basically calling him stupid and ignorant. Like I said, it's changed me. Made me a worse person.
Speaking of ignorance, that's a big part of what got me to where I am. The DOA community is broken. There aren't guides, there aren't tournaments, and worst of all, a lot of the forums hate each other. Within these forums the worst thing is the ignorant people, and the arrogant people. Even worse are when the two are mashed together, in the same person. I found the majority of DOA World to be extremely ignorant. I went to DOA Central, and I found the majority of the people there to be arrogant. When people tried to cross into each other's territory, it always ended in hate and beat-downs. The there were the ignorant people, who were arrogant as well. This was/is mainly Tenshi Kasumi of DOA Wordl, Scorpion of DOA World, Kodachi (here/DOAW), and London(here/DOAW). This is probably the worst combination, because, not only are you ignorant, and constantly making yourself look stupid, but your arrogance has you convinced that what you are saying is right. End of story. People often mistake me for these things, but the only time I'll make statements on a matter without changing my mind, is if I am extremely knowledgeable on the subject. That way I'm not ignorant, even if I come off as arrogant (which I am never trying to be).
Another problem with the community is the lack of tournaments I've previously stated, but this is to be expected, as DOA still has a long way to go before being a competitive game. However even for a non competitive game, the number of tourneys, and general community activity is appalling. Not only this, but when I pointed out that if we want the game to become popular and gain some respect, we have to improve the community, people's overall response was "Do it yourself.". There are two things very wrong with this response. First off, this is a COMMUNITY. Have you ever heard of a community that develops through only one person? No. That's because the point of a community is to work together to improve your surroundings and the community itself. Secondly, how can I do it myself? There are no guides for me, so I don't know everything, how am I supposed to make a guide if I don't know anything? In case you didn't notice, this leads to a cycle. No guides, no info, no guides, no info. Furthermore, combining the two points, a community needs to work together to improve, and a big part of doing that is for the more experienced persons in the community passing down their knowledge. All of the greatest communities involved this. Without that process, all is lost. This is another huge problem. As a noob stepping into a DOA site to find info about how to improve is daunting in itself. Other fighting game communities make it easy with guides, and then you can ask more specific questions when needed. But that's not how the DOA community works. They make the task even more daunting. Instead of going to a guide and asking some questions, you have to personally go to good player and basically beg them for information. Most of the time they'll brush you off or insult you. This means you have to take time to get to know them in most cases, and a lot of those people, are not easy to get to know (to say the least).
Now I've pointed out all these flaws, and you probably think it's off topic, but it's not really. Because despite all these flaws, the DOA community still manages to try and downplay other communities. I can't tell you how many times I heard people basically spit on the smash community. They say how it's a game for casuals. And I can't tell you how many times I heard the phrase "end up like the smash community". This is just ridiculous. The smash community is literally hundreds of times more active than the DOA community. The proof is in the text.
A listing of the DOA tourneys coming up:
http://www.doaworld.com/forums/index.php?/forum/26-events-tournaments-meet-ups/http://freestepdodge.com/forums/tournaments.20/http://tkplayers.com/forum/index.php?/forum/179-tournament-event-announcements/Now the smash tourney listings. One forum with more than all three of the DOA forums added together.
http://www.smashboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=51Not only this, but they make fun of games like My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic. They say "ponies don't belong in fighters". In truth, that game is shaping up to be a LOT more technical than DOA could even begin to imagine being. In other words, they not only cultivate ignorance and arrogance within their community but show it outside of their community. This has pushed me, a dedicated brawl player, and a brony, away, and will continue to push more and more people.
Anyway, that's all I really have to say. If you have any questions, I'll be around for a day or two more to answer your questions.
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