Reeling back a few posts.

Quote from Hewitt

...Or rather, people who ever thought that Pivot ever had a chance to co-exist in a Flash-dominant setting.

I know this was taken out of context, but there's a reason us pivoters are here. But maybe I can help you see the appeal. Well, maybe. I obviously can't speak for everyone.
But for me, I want to get better. Y'know, just really hone my craft in this thing. And well, if I'm aloud to make oddly specific analogies. I'd like to connect this to something called Super Smash Bros. Melee. Competitive SSBM. You see, this is Bizarro Flame If you don't understand what's happening well he just bodied fox, absolutely demolished him, read his every move and absolutely ended his entire career. With GANONDORF, the slowest character in the game, albeit he hits hard when he can. But, if you also did not know, he performed that on FOX. Fox, the most technical character in the game with the most options, set ups and movement, and the fastest. Hard to master, but when played to perfection he makes half the cast look like...Go! Animate if you can see what I'm saying.



You see. Ganondorf represents Pivot and all the other "low tier" animation software. (Tisfat-Yoshi, Easytoon-Peach, Stykz-Bowser etc.) And Fox, Flash and the rest of the SS tier characters. (C.Falcon - ToonBoom Marth - AnimeStudio etc.)
and RHG is a way to directly challenge somebody who may or may not be using low or high tier software. It's like being great with Dan or Deejay in USF4 and knocking out Cammy. (Extended analogy, sorry!) It's like WE KNOW we'll never be able to waveshine across Final Destination and Up Smash somebody to oblivion. WE KNOW we'll never be able to create something along the lines of Mic Wizard/Terkoiz/Resh levels of visual effects and type of animation. But we can animate. And it's also pretty awesome when we collide. So don't count us out.



I know you didn't say Flash was superior to Pivot (Though it was implied.) It's a mindset that exists on this forum. "You're really good for a pivot animator." "What! That was Pivot, woah." etc. and y'know I kind of live for that reaction, while still trying to destroy that state of mind. And all in all, this thread was kind of discouraging, in the fact that. What Exilement was saying. What are we going to do? Have we really hit the ceiling? Why should I even try to get better, if the limit has already been reached? Not as pivoters, but as stick animators. This IS Stickpage, and what do we do when we're tired of animating stick figures? This is another problem entirely, but those were the 2 biggest things I took away from this. All this RHG stuff I was so interested in just an hour ago has turned so...materialistic and pointless. I didn't even KNOW clans were supposed to be a way of mentoring and just thought they were a kind of hang outs \and coordinated animator collaboration zone and I was okay with that. And I'm not okay with that.



I really don't know what I was trying to say with this post, but I know I couldn't NOT say something. And I suppose that's a start.