This is more bitching at myself, but it has to do with roleplaying.

I kind of hate myself for spending so much time in the genre that games like Dark Souls occupy, where doom and gloom is name of the game. Death is expected and frequent, and the little hope that exists is tenuous at best, treacherous at worst. I've consumed this kind of media for the past several years almost nonstop, and though I enjoyed the sort of depressing elements and eventually fighting through them in the past, I'm way burnt out now. Whenever I see a new game or roleplay that outright advertises player(or general) death/has doom&gloom as a background theme, I can only think "Ugh, THIS again? No thanks..." even though the media itself is very well put together.

All in all I wish I could break past that barrier of being burnt out, but I think I've just spent too much time in those types of settings and need to branch out. In the end, I suppose you could say I'm simply...

Crestfallen.