Talk:Celestia/@comment-3549461-20111016030721/@comment-4531340-20111016202450

Yeah, I'm indifferent to it when it's just a joke, but hate it when it's taken seriously. The problem for me is that it's hard to distinguish between jokes and seriousness over the Internet, so I just assume it's all serious. Plus, it's my style to get defensive about something (or someone) I like that people are bashing on. For example, my former band teacher in high school (I graduated already), well... most of the kids hated her, but, honestly, I liked her a lot. And especially when there's strong hatred on the other side, it becomes hard to just take it as a joke, or tell the jokes, since they might take you seriously. So I started staunchly defending her in my mind, and once you start that, any negativity is taken seriously. So blah, it's kind of that way with Celestia now, only much less extreme.