Five Nights at Freddy’s developer on hate and working at Dollar General

Making games seems like a rough gig. Success is tough to come by, and when you do succeed, it paints a target on your back. But one game developer seems like he’s handling both success and hate gracefully.

Five Nights at Freddy’s developer Scott Cawthon took to the Steam forums for his horror games (the fourth one is out now) to directly address his fans along with some people who seem to hate him. The programmer wrote a few hundred words as something of a response to the people who he says are directing vitriol toward him on “forums [and] on YouTube.” And while he acknowledges that haters are going to hate, he goes on to make a sound argument for why people should probably focus less on things they don’t like.