Yeah, it would have been easier to pick up and be more patient if a top character was at stake. :\
Anyways, people complained, which was something that you yourselves say it was inevitable to happen, right? Yet you're taking the complaining seriously and responding to it seriously… sooooo... in the end, what exactly did you expect? I don't get it.
If you poke someone with a stick people around might laugh but the one you poked might be pretty angry. You're not actually telling us you're "hurt" about the complains, now are you? It wouldn't make any sense.
It was obvious you were going to make some people angry, it's not our fault if you didn't expect this much pressure from the other party. You reap what you sow.
You made many people laugh while hurting a few, I didn't like that, I still don't like that, and I stand for it. You're not obligated to care if you don't want to, I just hope you do.
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Just to be clear: you don't really have to take this more seriously than you have to! o_O' I don't want to hurt anyones feelings over something so minor, I just want to justify why people, myself included (perfectly normal people by the way), acted the way they did.