Thread:LOTRMod/@comment-26149161-20170428015210/@comment-27200931-20170428050357

People always focus on the bad things, it's human nature. If you google it, I bet you can find scientific papers on that. Unfortunately that's how it is. Remember, you're human too and, no offence, but I sensed that you focused too much on the bad things with your post, and there's not a single problem with that, it's all natural!

Let me remind you of something, you didn't just create a mod, you created a community. Lots of people are part of this community, good people, and some of those I could even call them as "friends". Yes, friends, people who I never saw in my life, who I never heard the voice, but I still call them friends. Also, imagine if you had a magic wand and you could create in a blink a book with all the stories and exciting tales that happened because of this mod? All the wars, the battles, the duels, the feasts, the parties, the adventures... and that's only "inside" the mod. Outside, as I said before, I created new friends, like many other people here did, and I've also saw that video Smile posted about that meeting with you. It was an amazing experience for Smile and probably for you too. Do you see how this mod is much more than just a mod? So many emotions were invoked because of it. Remember them, you just can not see them, but they happened, they are real, real people experienced it and deep inside that made them happy.

Remind yourself on why you make this mod. I bet you do it because seeing Tolkien's world coming to life with each new line of code entertains you, the thrill of learning new things energizes you with dopamine. So, don't let other people bring you down. Believe me, people love this, even those who sometimes appear to be angry. Perhaps they didn't have a good day? Or perhaps they, being not native speakers, can't communicate well? Everyone have their own bad days, so, feel free to tell them to f*** off sometimes; don't really meant it, just unleash the fury for a bit!

Maybe as the man who makes the magic happen, it's harder for you to experience this all. Have your thought in buying a secondary Minecraft account, one where people won't go "ow my gawd, its Mevans!" at the first sight of you :)? Then join up a random server and start playing, free from the Mask of Mevans. Then start questioning people, and some will say that they like the mod and others will say that they love it, and they really do. Don't forget that, since this community is mostly made up of men (if you saw the survey), we have to look mean sometimes, and we just can't let other people shit on us and walk away unharmed without some broken teeth and a split nose, ye hear me?