No worries, Adarias. I have no problem with your tone specifically, nor was I directly insulted.
I'm more disappointed that somehow my critique turned to an excuse for both a) "I don't want to draw like you, Helm!" and b) [other users going] "man some of the users in this forum have no fucking PASSION and are all about technique" to manifest, both of which I feel were unwarranted conclusions to what was from my part, honest -although harsh- technique critique. I was harsh because you're very good and you're young and if you stick at it you'll become an awesomer pixel artist, and I just wish we didn't get stuck on drama over whether you agree with critique or not.
I never wanted you to draw like me and to be frank the amount of hue-shifted (btw since you asked, this is not my name for it, nor do I have a name for it. I always (as in, in the last 3 years) used 'ramp unification / hue tinting' to cover a bigger aspect of technique, the latter of which is I guess standard artist terminology, not pixel-specific) work and mentions of 'computer aestheric' or whatever else I get kind of uncomfortable because I don't want to influence how people work in that way. So tell the "I don't want to draw like you, Helm!" more to yourself, and less to me.
About passion: whoever was it that took it upon himself to judge how much passion goes in a bit of art, and to condemn the 'passionless technical-minded', you're out of line. This place is about technical critique, always has been, and if there's one reason it still thrives, it's because we leave the directionless 'MAN THIS IS FULL OF ENERGY! PASSION! NICE GOING!' deviant-art-type critique to the other fora. You come here and people will talk to you about your AA and your dithering and your color selection, passion notwithstanding.
Adarias: You say if the critique amounts to 'scrap it' then it shouldn't be posted. First of all I don't agree with this. Second, my critique never amounted to 'scrap it', I made general points that apply to that piece as well as your overal style. You could go in on that piece and fix the palette a bit, or deal with the broken dark selout, or take some of the fullsat high contrast off... But even if it *did* amount to 'scrap it' personally I feel if there's one rude thing to say to an artist is to tell him 'start over', just that. I gave paragraphs on paragraphs of critique, and you say you'd rather have read just 'scrap it' to that? Just a bit disheartening because I really believe in critique.
I don't know what your current life problems are, and I wish you to overcome them with a minimum of fuss. And as I said in the beginning, no worries about this.