Sadly I've gotten a bit used to it over the last 5 years, but I still have moments where the sheer surreality of it all hits me. I really miss having that feeling more, but I guess you get used to anything.
I love people doing videos, but honestly my favorite thing of all is you guys on the forums coming in and sharing what you're up to in the games, and the back-and-forth that results. I'd feel like I've lost an arm or worse trying to make games without this community. Not that everyone here needs to stay out of guilt or something (people have lives too, and I understand that!), but the collective and the individuals are something that I do cherish. There are some old forum names that I see that make me kind of sad because I remember the folks and miss them, but they've moved on. Which is okay though, because there are all these newer names that have become really familiar over the last years, months, and weeks. At first it always scared me when someone disappeared from the community, like things were going to fall down after that point, but awesome new people have always kept showing up. And sometimes old faces return, too.
Anyway, it's that sense of community and working toward a common goal (a better game) that I really love the most. Reviewers and LPers come and go for the most part, and seeing what they do is 100% entertaining. But they aren't usually the ones who sink in a hundred hours or more, etc. I honestly value all of it a great deal, even if I do take it for granted more than I should.
Wow that got surprisingly heavy.
