celeste

Thanks for sharing! I’d only heard of dragonsweeper before.

If we’re sharing honest opinions minus filter here: if you worded your question differently, more people would answer, and they would be less defensive and have more interesting answers. You’ve limited the people who will reply.

Condescensing and annoying people like myself will still have a lot to say, but people with fun stories and heartwarming anecdotes will not want to put themselves out there for what seems like will be a snarky put-down as a response.

Specifically, the “kiddie game” opening was fine, but the way you worded the followup came across less like you were confused and more like you wanted to have a group shit-on of adults who play mario kart. Being a little more vague would’ve been your friend here. “but it looks like i was wrong” might’ve convinced people who don’t want to be shit on to give an answer.

The part about it being unfair by design was fine, but the last paragraph again comes across as “anyone want to hang here and make fun of the losers who like this obvious bullshit?”

anyway, i don’t play party video games generally but my impression is they want to appeal to different skill levels, abilities, and ages, so they often have additions that level the playing field so it’s not just Gamer Frieda winning while everyone else gets bored and gets out the playing cards (which can also have a random quality that means sometimes the newbie will win or at least not be bored and frustrated).

These catch up elements add extra elements for dedicated players to account for, which is more memorization and reflex training, which is a kind of fun for the type of people who play outside parties.

i know most of ao3’s budget goes to server costs. they get by with volunteer labor and donations, but they mostly host text. i genuinely have no idea what a sustainable model would look like for the fediverse, that doesn’t just treat volunteers like disposable rags we toss when they get inevitable burnout.

I kind of figured it was something like subscriber and data loss, but my immediate mental image when someone says that bit is like, way more dramatic than that because of its regular use in action movies.

could just be a sign i’ve watched too many movies, though.

I’m all for promoting alternatives but as a mild critique i’ll say not knowing you or what you dislike about lemmy specifically, the “no matter the cost” part of the bio reads kinda creepy.

mbin has an “abandoned” tab when you search communities. does lemmy have something like that?

I like that they put some guides up ahead of their announcement. At some point I followed polygon on here, and I remember the guides being some of the most frequent updates.