Dan Houser

When I think about growing up to the extent that I am capable of growing up, it is about accepting the bad with the good from any situation or any aspect of myself, you know, going, okay, it's not perfect or I'm not perfect.

I think it's the new thing that we're going to lean into, the bug feature.

It's both, isn't it?

I mean, it cannot lead that self-critical brain that I think lots of people suffer from.

And I think the internet is designed to induce.

If you didn't have it before, you will have it after being online.

It clearly can become a bug, but it also can give you drive and a lack of complacency.

So it can also become a feature.

I'd rather not have it, but I certainly have lived with it this far

There's a danger that negativity, for me, that negativity and consciousness become the same thing, you know, and sometimes have to fight to not just be perpetually negative.

And that can be part of the human struggle for lots of people and certainly has been for me.

I think if you're trying to do, you know, good stuff and you're reflective inevitably and, you know, you live in this world of constant, constant criticisms by the Internet.

Of course, you know, everyone who ever put something on the Internet, be it a picture of themselves or any kind of work they've made or whatever it is, is going to get 50 good comments and one bad comment.

And remember the bad comment.

So that becomes fuel for the negative voice.

I don't know anyone that's strong enough not to, you know, some level, you should just measure that stuff in weight, not in quality.

But of course, we just focus on the quality.

I hope so.

I mean, that's what I've been.

I could not be more cynical.