just constantly alternating between "doc sucks, this article is bad, he says he hates anyone who plays a game he didn't even mention in the article, he says he doesn't like cozy games even though the article begins and ends with him talking about wanting to make a cozy game" and "I KNOW POETRY"

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it was funny cause one person had a multi-day crashout trying to talk shit about me, doing multiple threads on it including "be curious" (this article was literally me going "why does some cozy give me the ick?") and "read your work aloud" (I already do that lol) from a talentless hack and cozy fan

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For me, cozy feels inhuman. It shaves away the difficult in the pursuit of comfort, not as a subjective experience, but like an HOA standard for a "nice" neighborhood. That character you identify with? Innocent. The people hurt? Bad. You are good for adhering to neighborhood rules. Leading to this:

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Dorian wasn't even suggesting that cozy art shouldn't exist, only that it shouldn't be skinning and wearing other art that it isn't. Also, cozy mysteries aren't meant to be comfort fiction. The word is being used differently there; they're a subgenre because of their formula.

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Why is it the cozy addicts who lash out like in these screenshots? Bc seeking out frictionless media means you aren't engaging with difficult feelings through art. You start treating your comfort as holy, and anything challenging that as evil. So you seek more comfort, and lash out more, cyclically

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