People on the internet suck. No matter what, there will be someone that is upset with your words for some reason. This opens you up to harassment.
I just don’t want to.
I hesitated replying to this post because you are responding by redundantly @ing the user you are replying to. That is a mega pet peeve of mine and I hate it.
Sorry it auto does the @ on my instance (I use Mbin btw). But yeah I know that some people are hateful, I guess it's because people feel they can be more open without consequences often.
Good shout, one of my favorite games is from 2004 and getting it to run properly on "modern" hardware and OS-es is not a super obvious process. PC Gaming Wiki made the process a lot less annoying.
I posted for a while, but the responses were all kind of the same. There isn’t a lot of variety here: we mostly have the same viewpoint and we aren’t great at discussion.
I don’t know y’all, and when people interact, there’s no true community here. I’ll probably not remember most of your names, similar to reddit, digg, slashdot, etc etc…
That’s actually what I like about these sorts of communities. I recognize a few super posters and a few specific regulars from communities I frequent. (@skymtf I want you to know that I think about you and you matter <3) But mostly I’m dealing with disembodied ideas and content. It’s a conversation with strangers who meet up to talk about certain subjects. We get little bits of each other in a vacuum. We have to address only that bit we’re given, because we don’t know each other.
I use other social media for real community. Lemmy is for camaraderie. We meet to do something, not to just be.
I would really like to foster a sense of community in the communities I’m active in. Mostly I try doing this by encouraging others to post, reference to other users by name like “nice to see you back, user” or, “you should ask user, they know more about this kind of thing”.
Referring to others by name does make a community seem more like a connected whole. At least in my opinion.
It’s nice to be recognized as a person and not just another comment.
Coming out is a big deal, and yes it comes with some big downsides. I do not blame anyone who wants to call attention to their trans status as little as possible. But so many of us have internalized that shame that, even for those if us who wants to celebrate, it isn’t seen as appropriate. That if we revel in our joy of self discovery, we are somehow not taking things seriously. That we are focusing too much on aesthetics and not on the (very real!) politics of simply living.
So go get those spinny skirts and spin until you are dizzy! Make a competition with yourself to fit as many things into your pockets as you can! Get those shirts with pictures of Barbies or dinosaurs or stars and wear them everywhere. Choose a weird nickname, learn to dance however you want, practice signing your new name with hearts and weird squiggles. Replay your favorite video games with characters and choices that reflect the new you and see if anything changes. Dive headfirst into a new hobby or group event that jives with your new expression.
Yes, being trans can suck. Dysphoria sucks, society sucks, and some days are worse than others. But, as someone with chronic illness as well, don’t feel that you have to give in to that pressure of being a walking topic of serious conversation. Have those conversations as needed, but the rest of the time, you deserve to thrive in your own experience.
@ProdigalFrog That sucks, it would be really good to see the different gaming communities grow as I feel that's one of the best ways to grow the Fediverse further than it already is. Especially as general Gaming Communities don't really do it for me as I'm not interested in these games, I'm interested maybe in just learning or hearing about a certain game.
I feel that’s one of the best ways to grow the Fediverse further than it already is.
What I’ve seen happen is that someone with an interest in a more niche thing here will create a community for it, actively post in it for a couple weeks, and maybe a couple other people will post in it a couple times too, but then the creator loses interest or lacks material to post, and the community sits with old posts months old.
Not to dissuade you from making an attempt at creating those communities, but it’s just a little hard to sustain them without active participation to keep people coming back and growing.
You may even find that there are some active communities for games you’re interest in, but may just have trouble finding them. The best way I’ve found to discover communities is with Lemmyverse, using the communities tab at the top.
@ProdigalFrog Thank you, yes it seems like a few communities that I have seen have rather died or just been set up to leave to rot, I can always say that I will stay active for X months at minimum or even a year but tbh life and other things get in the way. Thank you for the Lemmyverse suggestion I will check it out and see if there are any active communities on them to join and help stay alive for the topics I enjoy.
You can find communities from specific instancesA great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. Different instances may have different themes or focuses, and so you can find related communities that way. For example: lemmy.ca/communities- pangora.social: Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts. - awesome-lemmy-instances
These can make it easier to find, subscribe, and manage communities on different instances- Instance Assistant: Browser extension with tools to help you redirect and search for communities - Voyager Migrator: Tool to help you migrate Subreddits - Other apps: lemmyapps.netlify.app
👽 Coming from Reddit?
See here- sub.rehab: You can sort by official replacements & sister communities - redditmigration.com: List from the migration - quippd.com: Another list created by a user during the migration
Go to lemmyverse.net, fill in your instance, and click the links to communities that sound interesting. It’ll open them in your instance and get them federated so your server starts getting those updates.
I’ve been using backloggery.com for too many years at this point. Any site that doesn’t offer an import tool is likely one I’m not going to switch to. Just too lazy to import all that data.
Yeah, it doesn’t have an import feature but having an option to export to CSV was a big part of why I set up on Grouvee. Because there will inevitably be a next thing.
Well, that and I didn’t want a site with “backlog” in the title.
I only just migrated from backloggery this year too, so I know how you feel. It was a daunting prospect to manually move my 2000+ game list over, but I got it done. I'm actually updating both still, since it was so much work to setup backloggery in the first place and also serves as a nice backup in case something happens to one of the sites.
The way backloggd lets you write a daily journal entry in a calendar for every game you are playing is so good. Though I miss the homepage on backloggery, that one is still nicer.
Yeah, the homepage thing stood out to me as well. It doesn’t feel like it’s focusing enough on the games on currently playing and is just a “general gaming info” type of homepage.
Exactly. I love backloggery's focus on the games you are currently playing. The games you are playing and the last status you wrote are front and center when you log in and its exactly what I want to see. I can only hope backloggd someday copies it.
isthereanydeal.com is great for getting any given game at a good price. You can see where it is currently/usually cheapest, its price over time, etc. You can also set up notifications for when it drops below a certain threshold.
In a similar vein, there is also www.dekudeals.com for the Nintendo switch. It has similar functionality where you can make an account and be notified when games go on sale for consoles.
Also gg.deals in the same veins, it list both official stores prices, and key resellers, but with resellers it also lists the risks known for each reseller (like “unknown key sources”, “adds a fee after checkout” etc)
These are two that might be well known, but I don't really hear people talking about:
I use Map Genie quite a bit. It's just a bunch of interactive maps for a lot of different games, but it's really helpful when looking for that one item you're missing, or waypoints in general. It's mostly geared towards open world games.
I also use How Long To Beat if I looking to play a new game but don't really want to spend over a certain amount of hours playing. (Although I'm a bit of a slow player, so whatever completion times are listed I have to multiply by 2).
The other reference sites I use like NeoSeeker and Game FAQs are pretty well known and have been around for ages.
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