Messofanego
Banned
This article shows that success and fame, being intangible, doesn't make your internal problems go away. Money can't buy happiness, etc. That there is a thing such as too much attention, even if it's positive.
And how people find it hard to relate to someone not feeling great about the success, as was shown with some of us here in the Flappy Bird thread (dat first page is brutal). I've probably done that towards some millionaire or billionaire's success at some point, too.
Game of the Year - by Davey Wreden
We should be able to accept people's feelings as true and valid to them, not to discount them with unsympathetic remarks. That whatever position they're in, rich or poor, personal feelings don't radically improve with positive recognition. It sounds like he's going through impostor syndrome a bit along with the depression. I hope he gets help and is able to work on his self-esteem by himself eventually. To have support from loved ones. Because they are real.
I admit to chuckling over this, though
Although I don't think I was as crazy as some Naughty Dog fans were over TLOU...
And how people find it hard to relate to someone not feeling great about the success, as was shown with some of us here in the Flappy Bird thread (dat first page is brutal). I've probably done that towards some millionaire or billionaire's success at some point, too.
Game of the Year - by Davey Wreden
The point of the comic was purely just to clarify that financial and critical success does not simply make your insecurities go away. If you were insecure about other peoples' opinions of you and addicted to praise in order to feel good about yourself, the dirty truth is that there is no amount of praise you can receive that will make that insecurity goes away. What fire dies when you feed it?
But if I go posting on the internet about how awful I felt receiving all these Game of the Year awards, no one is going to take that seriously. "Oh, yeah, we get it, real rough life you've got there. Sounds pretty miserable to be loved for your art. Maybe go cry about it into a pile of money?" And then of course I'm back in the problem I was trying so hard to avoid in the first place, where I'm stressing out about peoples' opinions of me and forgetting simply to feel good about myself. I want to be able to like myself and my work, but it becomes SIGNIFICANTLY harder once people on the internet start asking you to feel ashamed of yourself. It's really really hard to ignore.
So either I share this thing that is simply True, that is a representation of what I actually felt at this time, and risk being shamed for it, or I hide it away and continue to pretend that success means you never feel shitty about anything ever again in your life.
We should be able to accept people's feelings as true and valid to them, not to discount them with unsympathetic remarks. That whatever position they're in, rich or poor, personal feelings don't radically improve with positive recognition. It sounds like he's going through impostor syndrome a bit along with the depression. I hope he gets help and is able to work on his self-esteem by himself eventually. To have support from loved ones. Because they are real.
I admit to chuckling over this, though
Although I don't think I was as crazy as some Naughty Dog fans were over TLOU...