I did that wallpost because that's a easy negative spiral to fall into.
1 You get negativity, you react to it strongly, next time the odds are you get double
2 You help yourself with the ignore button ,but the damage is kinda already done
3 You keep alternating between doing 1 and 2 but you get increasingly frustrated
4 You start responding badly before doing 2
5 You start responding badly even to constructive criticism because at that point you're just annoyed in general (you're also a solo dev , so you do 100% of the work which is stressing on it's own)
6 Eventually you burn out, momentarily or not , and you and the actual fans of the game suffer from it.
Who knows, maybe that's what happened to your friend, maybe not, but i certainly don't want that to happen to this game .
I assume we're both adults here so it's not my place to tell you how to react to things, if shit affects you, it affects you i understand that.
But if some loser (who is not even paying you to begin with) says 'Erik is subhuman i would've impregnated both 5 times over rofl' tick you off , and you kinda can't help it , then what about this?
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If you react strongly to things and can't help it, isn't this fucking heaven?
Again,not gonna tell you how to react to things, but this is something to be proud off in my opinion and i truly mean that; considering how uncompromising you were with the themes or the characters of this game in current climate.
But even if the numbers were lower, it doesn't change the fact that you can choose to focus on the positives of the negatives regardless of your personality , you've got plenty of positives, just dive in there.
The VN just got an update, so it's at top of the lists for it's themes, folks will see the numbers i posted above , they'll be impressed, they will hop on (some will read the synopsis, some wont XD) you'll get new fans , new positive reviews, you'll get new people that will criticize the same things you've heard already, some will leave a negative review, some will drop it in silence, some will troll , it's just the way of things.