2015 #4
Written in June 2023:
When I made this comic, I thought it was funny. When I revised it, I thought it was sad.
I love to share things I love with people I care about, and at the time I really wanted to share the small weird games that I played with them. I thought it was so funny how infuriated she was by the games that I loved. Now I look back and I remember how… mean it all was, I suppose.
I really found that line when we had friends over at the beginning of this year and I got one of my friends to play it. I opened with, “listen. This is not a good game. The opening was meant to showcase the XBox’s processing capabilities,” etc etc etc. And we talked critically about it and it was fun for everyone, like watching a B-movie! And I think about how that compares with someone who just didn’t seem to enjoy what I was sharing and was busily tearing down the thing without looking at it and having any kind of fun.
For me, I share what makes me happy, but if someone isn’t having fun with the thing I enjoy, I’d rather them say, “okay, I’m done with this now, and I don’t think this is for me.” I don’t enjoy feeling bad about trying to share something that won’t make someone else happy.