Is online play relevant to the hobby?

I am in the precarious position that I am criticized for “coming up with imaginary enemies” who only allegedly criticize me, because they don’t really exist. But I am also criticized for other things, by people who ostensibly seem to exist and are human (I have not seen bots who analyze content to this extent). I don’t usually address them mostly because I don’t usually care. If I express confidence in myself then I am an arrogant jerkoff who thinks he’s the David and loves to see walls of his own text, and if I am self-deprecating then I’m a tortured artist emo pissant who should not even bother to write anything if he’s going to be that spineless. I have long since realized that if I’m a Lunatic, then the people who follow me along to criticize me reside in Pluto.

But I just thought this latest criticism was something the community might like to talk about with me.

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