Ooo ya I felt that. Starting up classes again feels weird and I'm trying to turn off my vacation brain and turn on my productive brain but alas,,, i am glad that ur recovered from being sick!!! being sick is Awful especially when it's cold outside too it's just an extra throat punch for you to enjoy

I feel better tysm been a weird past week since school started but all good :^) I am glad u are getting use out of the coins since I usually just sell them. I think gambling is more fun heueaha How's yoots

Ahh join the club, same here with the autism. xD It takes me a while to "get" how others are feeling, but then when I do, I realize where I was wrong. xD I have a hunch I know what Keith's deal is, I was notoriously nasty for a few years on here after losing my one job (I just took it out on everyone and was in a severe depression). Now I have a new job and am out of my funk finally. I still have a harsh demeanor, usually sarcastic or someone who likes to jab at weak points someone has, but generally now I'm trying my best to recover my reputation where I can, and show that I do mean well. I care about this place. I've been over a decade. I've seen staff come and go. I've seen the worst of the worst, and the best of the best. And right now, I feel like we're in a dark time on Subeta.

Please don't let Keith's...I don't want to say meanness or rudeness, I think he's just as frustrated...destroy your interest in Subeta. It'd be great to have more people like you stick around. Anyone that left Neo knows exactly what poor staff-user communication looks like. We prided ourselves for having the best around for pet sites. Just now.....I don't know what's going on. It really feels like an us versus them mentality, and I don't like it. I think if anyone else had started that board, Keith wouldn't be that way. Maybe, I dunno. But him and his team have a sore spot with me still. So if I get cooked, it was nice to know ya at least. xD

I don't word things the best. It's generally not something I'm good at, especially on the Internet without tone. But thank you for chiming in. I've not seen Keith act this way before, so even I'm shocked at what's going on.

Thank you for your kind words, it means a lot. ❤️ I think what's further conflated the issue is that it was released as battle loot and there's been a lot of opinions on how the battling community gets treated (like with their battling investments) v rest of the site, so this was adding fuel to that fire. And to have battlers chime in with eh what's the big deal or at least you didn't have to pay hundreds of millions to do your subeta hobby just irked me. At this point, subeta feels like a bunch of smaller groups/cliques (cw, battle, achievements, pet, etc) and it sucks that there's less a sense of unity. It also sucks that emotions are invalidated. I have defended subeta and I have tried to be as emotionless on forums when posting my opinion but I also didn't try to get anyone's feelings invalidated. I know that I easily could have come across just as rude/heartless at those times, I just hope that the others would have given me feedback on it, so I could say sorry. An apology can go a long way. /shrug To be fair, subeta is better than some other pet sites in communication. It's just that doesn't necessarily excuse it and is probably a reflection on poor communication strategies by sites in general. T_T I ended up buying the beanbag for closure but it felt so weird and off-putting. I'm not even sure if I would be genuinely upset if the staff member had pinged me and been like yo sorry it's not a special shop anymore, idk, some sort of communication? Maybe that's me getting too entitled now. I shouldn't expect staff to care about one user and I'm not going to delude myself into thinking my $ contributions make me better than anyone else or that I matter in the grand scheme of subeta. I just wanted some understanding. Going to work and feeling like I'm putting out metaphorical forest fires all the time (I'm in healthcare) which involve people getting upset at the wrong group of people (like healthcare v social work for example, leading to staff burn-out) and me trying to communicate and set realistic expectations, it's hard but it's doable and I don't really see why an online website cannot improve on its communication/empathy skills, just because it's an "entertainment" thing. ANYWAY thank you for reading/listening to me. ❤️ n_n A number of friends are MIA / left this site so I haven't had a chance to rant in comments/mail. So yeah, thank you. ;3;