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Coelacanth
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The original poster was @mizu6079@lemmy.world who seems to have deleted his account and the original post. It was archived in various places though, sadly without the original comments (which had some back and forth with the OP that only increased the mystery). It was the top upvoted post on Lemmy as a whole for a while. Here is a link to an archived version of just the OP:
No-poop guy truly was a Lemmy moment.
I did see it got a recent uptick in concurrent players, so hopefully the game is on the right track again. I'd really hate for it to die.
You're right though, you really have to view it as a hobby, not a video game.
Well this is definitely about time. Simplification, job homogenisation and cut down difficulty has been a compounding issue over the past what, three or so expansion cycles? I still can't believe they removed the iconic Hissatsu: Kaiten from Samurai.
Same. I still miss it. I quit after the main FC and leader of my corp quit. The whole group kind of fell apart without his leadership. Had some damn good times, though. Peak EVE was something unlike anything else I've been apart of in gaming.
Don't know the current state of the game, though. It was kind of on a decline when I quit, in terms of how the updates were changing the game for the worse.
Great points as per usual from Yahtzee, and definitely something many games struggle with. BioShock is another one that comes to mind in the same vein.
In general, letting the player be evil in a satisfying or at least interesting way is hard for games to pull off well. I've been meaning to make a post about it on !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
Thanks for your efforts keeping the Poetry comm alive! I know I mainly lurk there but I appreciate your posts!
Its just that I see people use a lack of population in 'niche' communities as a failure of Lemmy overall, and using some subjective made-up number to justify Lemmy's overall failure, when there's obviously traffic to major communities and 'life'/activity on Lemmy on a daily basis.
It's not so much a "failure" of Lemmy as it is an assessment of the situation (at this point in time). I wasn't suggesting Lemmy was or will be a failure, nor that it's dead. I like it here and I'm active most days. There still isn't enough activity in niche subs for Lemmy to have mainstream appeal, though. Even a broad subject like Poetry is carried by a handful of people, and that is a fairly lively "niche sub".
We're currently still in the phase where determined, committed individuals have to spend concerted effort into keeping small subs going, rather than them being self-sustaining.
I do like it here, though, and I really hope the growth continues.
Yeah, I feel that. Formula 1 does okay (maybe unsurprisingly due to it being tech adjacent), but even huge sports like soccer are mostly ghost towns.
To confirm, you don't think we have a minimum population base currently on Lemmy?
I mean, depends on what you view Lemmy as, right? It's a great place to hang around and chat (depending on your interests). The people here are generally polite and friendly, and most interactions feel meaningful. It does not currently have enough content volume and niche communities to provide a viable Reddit alternative to most people.
If so, how do you make that judgment? How are you measuring that? How are you quantifying that?
Completely subjectively, though I didn't think it was an unpopular opinion. I thought most people agreed niche communities struggle here. The exact number of users needed to reach critical mass I have no idea on, just a best guess extrapolating between where we are now and where Reddit was a decade ago. You can use Mastodon as another data point. I'm not on there, but I'm under the impression that Mastodon, too, has a little low userbase to truly feed niche communities, and it's noticeably larger than Lemmy.
Anyone else quietly hyped for Black Myth Wukong? It looks really good from what I've seen of it. Apart from maybe the English voices. Looks like Chinese with subs will be the way to go.