Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160213154456/@comment-1430834-20160214073227

''I like stories where they don't fully succeed. You know, people are lost along the way, or there's still the cleanup to do. It makes me feel like the efforts the characters went through were real; they didn't just always have the power to finish everything off and simply didn't because of plot. They struggled, and that struggle makes me enjoy the story more.''

Thing is, when they struggle too hard or have a too low win-loss record, it can quickly shift from "I hope they succeed soon" to "Oh man, they deserved to win now" to "WHEN THE FUCK ARE THESE WEAKLINGS GONNA WIN?!"

''I get kind of tired of "100% happy, everything is okay, the main characters saved the day and 100% definitely won, hooray!" endings, so endings that are bittersweet or "They kind of won, but not entirely" help me take a break from that.''

Eh, I never get tired of positive stories. I watch the news everyday and the shit I see on the TV lately (unstable economies, murders, robberies, crimes recorded on CCTV, corruption, etc.) always gets my bad ending quota filled.