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but, man, you confuse not torturing yourself for living a lie. even if you think your situation is hopeless there are no lies in taking it in stride and not letting it get you down. there is no lie in being defiant to the end whether that end is certain or not, and there is no lie in finding joy wherever you can even neck deep in the greatest tragedies.

you know, for instance, that i'm making a video game - would you tell me my months of hard work are for nothing? that i'm a fool not to resign and "spread truth", as you do? that it is cowardly, or that i'm living a lie? or would you respect the fact that even in my dire real-life circumstances, i found the inner power and ambition not to succumb to what any of my real-world peers would have succumbed to - drugs, consumerism, alcohol, promiscuity, depression, sloth - and instead work through the pain just on the off chance, on that 0.0001% off chance that i can give people a video game and a community around it that can inspire them to be better, maybe even good enough to change things?

i don't ask this for myself. while your approval would be nice, i don't need it to go on. i ask this for you. if you would respect my actions, which are in direct opposition to yours, why not follow them? why not spread willpower instead of this infected half-truth which saps willpower from both you and the people you club with it? even a Bible is reduced to a tool of evil if all you do is throw hardcover copies of it at people's heads.