Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151111163045/@comment-995426-20160308042342

Look, I...didn't want to create too much of a stink or anything like that. But this was the kind of fundamental difference of opinion that was never going to just go away. It's too deeply rooted.

It seems like there are two different TMNTs in two different genres, and two different kinds of TMNT fan. And sometimes, a fan loves something for exactly the reason that a different fan loathes something, and vice versa. Sometimes there are areas of compromise where there's something both kinds of fans can enjoy. But some elements will tend to heavily attract one kind of fan while alienating the other kind. And if that element is so abrasive to you that it makes your life as a fan difficult, it's not always easy to just bottle it up for the sake of harmony.

I mean, why are people fans of something? Because they like it. Because they enjoy it, and like spending that time. It's not supposed to feel like torture. But sometimes it does, and here we are.

I contribute to this wiki for lots of different reasons. I'm actually the primary editor for entire sections of the wiki, and I have great affection for them. That field of interests used to include 2K12, which I had so much affection for I made over a thousand animated GIFs for the wiki. But 2K12 committed the cardinal sin of abandoning the genre and elements I love so much, and exchanging them for the worst kinds of TMNT genre and elements I can imagine. Short of a time machine to erase what has happened, 2K12 is not easily forgiven for that. The fact that 2K12 has since doubled down on exactly those things, just makes it much, much worse, because of the incalculable long-ter, damage it's doing to TMNT's legacy and brand appeal.