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Hino- Hugs! I agree with everything your saying there. There are times people don't agree, its gonna happen and in the past we've all been able to handle it well. Thanks for stepping up and sharing your feelings and how you see the board and why you stay. Maybe I've become a bit complacent since I've been here for a few years.

Thanks, Hino. I appreciate your words ... and agree with you. Thank you again.

Well said, Hino!

Hino, thank you for your honesty. We are like a family and families have their differences, but they work them out, just as we do.

Hino, I appreciate the thought behind everything you said. I too hope that we can all move past this and keep Gatchamania as the fun place we know and love.

Hear, hear, Hino. Well said.

/tilts head i have no idea what's going on, but whatever it is, i agree with them. but not the other them, with the other opinions. once i find out what IS going on though, i'll have an opinion about it too and then i will be excited to share it. as long as we're cool with that.

Originally posted by lyon /tilts head i have no idea what's going on, but whatever it is, i agree with them. but not the other them, with the other opinions. once i find out what IS going on though, i'll have an opinion about it too and then i will be excited to share it. as long as we're cool with that.

As long as it doesn't become them vs them

spy vs spy. /ninjasneaks

Hino ... thanks ... yours are great words! I've read this thread first thing before continuing reading the others which have been posted in the past two days (speaking the truth, I don't know if I wish to read some of them this early). I too did not, and don't want, to comment on the subject. I, myself, think that each and every person in this world has his/her own opinion and we have the obligation to respect such ... at least if it's not harmful in any way. I only wish to share some of my views this time and hope I'm not offending anyone. Thank you Hino for giving me this opportunity in this thread. To be honest, I've enough RL problems to ponder upon than working my brain over misunderstandings and POV issues. That's why these last few days I've opted to skip some messages and threads in this site ... and to speak the very exact truth, I also wasn't so eager to enter the site as usual as I've been finding a rather different atmosphere than that to which I was used to and which has attracted me in the first place. These last few days I actually felt the need to be the Gatchaman fan I always was in the past, that is a loner! Lately, I'm not feeling the true Gatchaman nature here. I don't know if I'm explaining myself well but I feel that the focus is not being made on the original series, it's characters, and why we were hooked by it in the first place. I'm seeing different characters and issues that are overpowering my ... our ... love for Gatchaman! At least that's from my own point of view. I'm also slowly losing that muse that was rising in me to create works, being drawings or writings, with regards to this subject. For a short time, this place had not been the happy go lucky place it used to be ... I also am feeling stressed out not finding time, from the very restricted one I have, to read fics and view other constructive material just because I have to read tons of, may I say, sometimes futile messages which I feel to have to in order to keep in touch and in line with what is going on. Just another small point and I'm out ... as long as I can remember from the day I've joined this site, there wasn't any type of competition here and I hope there won't be any in the future. Everyone did what he/she wanted because he/she liked it and had fun, and acquired great satisfaction from it. And there are great people here who continuously contribute to push hesitant people to show what they could offer ... and these I thank with all my heart. I'm the first one, when it comes to writing, that cannot compare myself to any of you due to the language barrier ... but I don't feel intimidated. I do feel an outsider, sometimes, but as I said, I do what I do because I like it, no matter the outcome ... it's my own satisfaction that counts, and the knowledge that I can share my previously secluded thoughts with others. Please, let us not change the atmosphere of this site. Let's only base on constructive critisism when required, and as Hino said, if one does not like what he/she's reading or seeing, just skip that and move to the other one. Sorry again if I may have been hard or offended someone and hope everything returns to normal. I'm a person who usually keeps what she thinks to herself but I needed to spit out what has been bothering me lately. I don't wish to lose the wonderful friends I managed to make here just because I decide not to peep in any more.