This has to stop. It all has to stop. Yesterday I came to you all with a statement regarding events. Now I am coming to you, the community, with a plea. Please stop tearing yourselves, each other, and the community apart.
Battletech is a game that we are all passionate about, but at the end of the day it is A GAME. These people that you are talking about like characters, Me, Blaine, TEX, George Ledoux, people at Catalyst...we are all PEOPLE. There is a human being behind every name and screen that you are talking to. This is not a game to be played. We are not characters. This is not some internet experiment. This is people's LIFE. Take a step back and think about that. This is people's life. We are not pawns for your amusement to be thrown around the board for excitement and to be tossed away at a whim. We are people. We have lives.
The past week has seen me receive threats, has seen people like TEX receive demands that they take a stand for one side or the other, has seen hard working people at Catalyst have their livelihoods threatened. This is insanity. We are not your puppets. We are not your pawns. We are not your toys. We are people. I have had my children brought into this. Two innocent little babies, ten months old, talked about as if they are character stats on a page. It has to stop.
I do not owe you whatever explanation or proof will make you think I am "real" or conform to the character that you have designed in your head for me. I have come to you and presented myself authentically. I am Faith McClosky. If you cannot accept that and who I am, then go fuck off. TEX does not owe you his opinion or his sword to your cause in this fight. He is a person that has done some damn amazing stuff for the world around him and this community and he deserves the right to handle this situation however the fuck he wants to. If you don't like that, you can fuck off.
The toxicity and abuse that has come out of this community in the wake of Blaine's shameful pity party has been insane, and it has to stop. I publicly implore him to stop pouring gasoline on this fire just to fuel his own career. But more than that, I implore you all to stop throwing the rest of us into that fire and gleefully watching as we combust for your amusement and catharsis. A grown ass man lost a contract and he is setting you all up to tear the community apart with pitchforks and flames to fuel his sense of ego. It has to stop. We are people. We are not your toys. Please treat us like people. Treat us like the person across from you at the gaming table, not some character a thousand miles away behind a screen. We are people. Treat us as such. That's all we ask. We just all want to be a part of this community, of this great game. We just want to be treated as people.
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