I hate to bring up a dead issue from almost 5 years ago but considering a certain part of the internet recently managed to grab a hold of this thread and brought it to my attention, I felt that proper closure was needed seeing as this thread seems to lack it.
2011 was a rather stressful year for me. I was firmly gripped in paranoia at the time. I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't any longer, but then was much worse if you ask me. Between the incident reflected in that initial post from my site 4 years ago, coupled with the fact that around that same time it dawned upon me that my characters were not exactly the quality creations I thought them to be, I figured I'd pull the plug and call it quits. To add to all this, I fabricated a story that I received a DMCA notice from someone claiming to represent Team Shanghai Alice. I wanted to distance myself from anything Touhou or Mugen related. In a way, I was ashamed of myself. I won't try to justify my actions, but I couldn't let the lie continue. I had hoped that I would convince everyone that it was a friend who sent the fake DMCA claim to me as a prank, and that the matter would be swept under the rug and people would forget about it. While that did work, my guilty conscience caught up to me over time. Looking back, I probably only contributed to the perceived negative image that the Mugen community has, not only back then, but now as well. In short, in what I thought was the best course of action at the time, I only ended up doing more harm than good. I had to come clean eventually, and that time is now.
I know that there are plenty of people in this community who can't handle feedback or make subpar creations and give the community a bad name in general. My biggest regret was that I became one of those people in a way. In a time where this hobby of mine that Ive been doing passionately for almost 9 years caused me to become gripped in paranoia, I lost myself. To all those who feel manipulated by my dishonesty, I apologize deeply. If this affects how people perceive me then I suppose it's well deserved. However, all I ask is that you don't let my actions portray the mugen community as a whole. Most of you know as well as I do that there are plenty of diamonds in the rough.
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