/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5269742
>
Self improvement, and mutual understanding are always worthwhile goals. Just keep in mind that if someone is offended there's a good chance that, not only are they not seeing it from your eyes, but also that you're not predicting the response adequately and voicing your critiques or concerns to match social norms.
See, and that's exactly how I felt around the time of JOM4; I wanted to try and help other newbie mappers who were struggling, I didn't make any changes without first saying "hey, i think this is really cool, i'm wondering what this is, is this what you want, what is this, i can try and do this and show you the results to see if you like it and help you learn some of the things I wish I knew when I was starting out, and show you how to do them, after I figure out your intent. After doing edits, I'll show it off and change it again."

This is what I did with E4M1 and the current E4M2, Helping others was a detriment to my own map, but I saw that as an acceptable loss when trying to help others improve. I would have contacted the dude I put the roots in his map and edited it without his permission; but there was no way to do so; and everybody dogpiled me after I made the edit and didn't even try out extremely minor, non-intrusive edits that most outside of that discord said improved the feeling of the map.

I could have very easily called it quits when my cat died; but I felt like I had a duty to my people and to the community to keep on trucking; and I needed to do something for my deceased cat too; so I wrapped up what I had and kept working on other people's work. I was emotionally compromised and it should not of been a good indicator of what I'm actually like, when having an extremely stressful time and not properly coping, because I felt like I was letting others down and doing them a disservice, doing them wrong, by not trying to contribute and help.

>>5269780
Arguably traumatic childhood, Greif, Birth Defects, Lupus, Tetanus, etc.