I think I'll note that Strawberry sounded fairly critical to me as well.
Overall, I think this was a case of 'communication sucks without having at least an audible tone of voice to go by' (which seems like it should have a trope, but I haven't spotted one like that yet).
I avert this trope. I'm such a textual being. Usually I can't explain stuff in real-life as well as by text.
Unnamed, shouldn't have said, "WOW. Way to completely miss the point" to me. That's the only part that sounded rude to me. It made me sound like I'm dumb and I should know what's going on - which I don't.
Let me explain. While the "
WOW. You're completely missing the point." part really had some
snarky edge, it didn't mean to be hurtful in any way. Because I recognised myself that it
can be interpreted in the wrong way (the way you explained above), I continued my post with this: "
Even though it's really easy to misinterpret the site's intention - I remember when I read the first page there, I also had a feeling that the site's mocking one of my favourite shows for not being original, and it felt bad, though just a little bit.". By admitting that the site's intention is so easy to misinterpret that I also did it myself, I eliminated the possible
unfortunate implications of the previous sentence: it proves that I didn't mean to imply that you're dumb or you should have known what's going on in the first place (or the other interpretation would be that I think I'm just as dumb as you, which is unlikely because it's almost as unfortunate as the original possible negative interpretation I wanted to avoid).
Q. E. D.The only thing you should have done to avoid the misunderstanding is to continue reading my post, because a text should be interpreted as a whole. By concentrating only one sentence of it, you practically
quote mined my text - which is something that
I could take the wrong way... which I don't. Of course then I shouldn't have included that
unfortunate sentence, but frankly I couldn't imagine that it would lead to this.
I had to explain this because I really
wouldn't like to stay in the state of guilt for a misunderstanding. It just happens. Anyway, I wouldn't like to talk about this case anymore, I think it's overtalked already. We should discuss tropes here...
So please
love, peace, fluffy bunnies (and cats!), Leebles, and everything... and berries!
Other (unrelated) thing: I've found an ally! \o/ As I was browsing
TV Tropes, I got to a random troper's page:
ccoa. The only thing I've known before I've seen her profile that she's really into
TV Tropes. Then I liked her profile that much (particularly the "
software engineer" and "
makes videogames and writes" parts) that I
had to send her a PM, asking her help to find certain video game tropes. Her answer surprised me:
Oh, Melolune has a playable demo? Way to go, Shigi! I'm going to have to play that.
I'd be happy to help trope it and help you find related tropes. Ask away.
You can also open a thread in the Video Games subforum to talk about/pimp/trope the game.
It turned out
she knows Shigi, and she's already heard about Melolune (they've met on certain forums previously). Though Shigi is pretty famous, it's still amusing that a
totally random folk I encounter on a totally different site, knows her.
It's so awesome to have a hardcore troper to help with the Melolune trope page! She's already cleaned up the page and added the
Ridiculously Cute Critter trope, which applies to Leebles.

I wish she joined here!