My earlier comment almost had a section that said "and if English is your second language, sorry in advance about all the incorrect assumptions! Learning a second language is difficult."
Best wishes! I do think you would find better reception if you put more information about what you are posting about in the title and body.
Hey, just clicked on something in this series of posts for the first time. Genuinely, thanks for your effort in writing it. I usually see link posts, and I have missed big original writeups like this. We need more people like you on Lemmy.
Re: slowdown, I use Lemmy exclusively via browser and it's a very smooth experience for me ;)
]ANYWAY, to the point, I really enjoyed this video from Fastminer07 on YouTube, it was clear and reiterates how important this is. Worth a look if you’re searching for interseting videos for your down-time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Ih__mE05c)
Might want to turn that first bracket to be an opening bracket so the link works.
I'm not a perfect being so I use Steam out of convenience instead of GOG, though I do have a GOG account. I am pleased to see good news from them and that they are maintaining a good library of games. It is nice to see the option that I think people choose in an effort to be anti-DRM and to support games preservation doing well.
I should probably look into the Switch emulator thing more, sounds ripe for an original [email protected] post.
politics
I guarantee Musk chose DOGE as the name to seem like some cutting edge internet maverick making a throwback to the meme, but it just… It doesn't feel appropriately playful, like the actual CAN-SPAM act from the US government before he came around. It feels incredibly illegitimate, "stop trying to be cool," and that's putting aside any personal political beliefs I have about how it actually is an illegitimate department.
I'm not sure why that got included in a gaming news post, though, to be honest politics is stressful. I do keep up to date, but having it show up in a gaming newsletter when it is not directly connected to gaming, even in what seems to be an agreement with my views, does not feel awesome. And no, it's not an "ew politics" because it does not affect me, I stand to be very affected. I just have to be incredibly disciplined about my intake of political content to not be constantly stressed and dooming and scrolling nowadays, especially given how I stand to be affected, and reminders outside of Politics Time make me unhappy.
Of course, it is your post in the end and you provided a lot of wonderful content :P I usually just make basic link or image posts or ask simple questions, I'm no creator.
Recently picked up shapez.io again, part of the [email protected] genre. Just started that community. Also currently playing [email protected] (which at least one person on Lemmy mistook for a waifubait anime gacha game with straight male gaze fanservice going off the community icon, which I think earned it a bunch of downvotes when promoted in [email protected]. When to be honest, it is the opposite: still an open world gacha game, but marketed at women. No romance featured, no sexualized fanservice, but a lot of pretty outfits to dress up in with nice hair and dress physics), [email protected], and Antimatter Dimensions which is in the [email protected] genre. I have several [email protected] that I kind of just stopped midway through even though they were enjoyable; likewise with the [email protected] Dragon Age: Origins. I enjoy the above listed genres and games, as well as [email protected], [email protected] or management games, and [email protected] games. There are other games I enjoy too but this is sort of turning into my subscribed communities list, and I'm not currently playing them right now 😅 I game on Linux (PC only, not in the market for a console, however Steam trying to sell the Steam Deck and then doing the whole Proton thing to try to make more games compatible with their Linux-based console means that suddenly a lot more games are playable on Linux so I'm grateful for that), iOS, and MacOS. Lutris has been very helpful for finding different emulators on Linux.
For transparency, I mod [email protected] and [email protected] but not the rest, and I want to help the other Fediverse communities I listed grow. I like those genres but am not super knowledgeable about any of them and like seeing recommendations and discussion about them.
If you actually do enjoy this genre and want some unironic takes (and no, they are not all dating sims or erotica) take a look at [email protected]! Also related is [email protected], a VN subgenre: dating sims aimed at women with male love interests. For transparency, I mod the second one but not the first.
Oh boy.
I want to support content creators, especially the ones willing to post to Lemmy.
This also reminds me of kids just trying out creative pursuits for the first time, what with "Please no hate" in the title instead of using the title like an actual title and asking commenters to be gentle in the post body. Not wanting hate is just a normal and understandable desire, so I feel bad for even saying that, but I also only ever saw that kind of thing in the title of a post when I was 9 and looking at stuff fellow kids put online. Most creators, even those seeking feedback (and I've seen a lot of those), will put a request to be gentle in the post body. Their title actually tells you about their content and tries its damndest to appeal to you.
"Tell me what do you think about this video" also isn't 100% perfect English. I mean, who among us hasn't made a screwup before with the English language? But somehow this just… really reminds me of kids trying out creative pursuits for the first time. I can't really explain it.
I think I'm also expecting a description of what your video is even about in the body, and your message could apply to any video uploaded. A makeup tutorial, a math lesson, an avant-garde art piece… I assume it has to do with gaming given you posted it in [email protected], but that is all I know. Something about this just feels weird and wrong and I figured I might as well help you (since you did ask for feedback) by trying to explain why I feel so, so offput by this post.
Also, I opened the video, saw the #dani hashtag, and thought "oh that guy that person on Lemmy was trying to promote," had a hunch, and checked your profile to find you are that person on Lemmy who was promoting him. So I admit I have that experience coloring my perception of your post.
[Bracket City]
April 1, 2025
https://bracket.city/
Rank: 🎖 (Mayor)
❌ Wrong guesses: 2
👀 Peeks: 2
Total Score: 86.0
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I played the first one for awhile on iOS. Got hooked till I hit endgame and ran out of things to do. 2 looks like there is more stuff to do, might check it out.
I was going to skip this based on graphics but the review sounds interesting… might check out some playthroughs online or just ask my friend to stream it.
nevermind there is a demo, oops
lemmy.ca seems to be the 6th biggest server while ani.social is 33rd, so whoever created this community on lemmy.ca is actually contributing more to centralization than they would if they put it on ani.social if you're looking at just instance size. It might be decentralization when it comes to spreading topics around: I understand not wanting all your anime eggs in one basket in case something happens to ani.social, although I myself am a huge fan of the topic-specific instance model.
Left a save of the game totally unprogressed for awhile now because I randomly decided to use that save as a testing guinea pig for a mod I'm making, and right now I'm testing a particular event. I should probably just progress and use a different save I am not actually trying to play as the testing guinea pig.
spoiler
Also, while I’m on a rant, it should be “golfers” without the apostrophe
It feels good that someone else caught that too. And yeah, that's the worst when even looking at the surrounding brackets does not help you disambiguate between two possible answers. I was just lucky that "yell" is something I personally use and see more often than "shout".
Also, I don't play in Hard Mode specifically because I might make typos and don't want to be penalized for making a typo and hitting backspace and fixing it before I submit. Does Hard Mode actually count each individual keystroke and so I'd get penalized for mistyping, recognizing it, and fixing before submitting?
If you check the wiki or just trust the random stranger on the internet you'll find it is indeed a storyline in game!
Alex's page, forget where it is tbh
George's page, check Quotes
I think https://tvtropes.org/ will also back me up on this.
Nice to find another woman on the Fediverse. Usually I don't mind male-dominated environments as long as nobody treats me badly once they know I'm female, but the small amount of participants in [email protected] and [email protected] (both communities for games that are aimed at women) makes me wish for more women here. Meanwhile the gender-neutral [email protected] attracted a lot more attention.