Elevator7009

I feel if I spontaneously quit all my niche gaming communities and posted everything I'd post there on a general community instead, I'd annoy everyone with a bunch of Steam links for games they probably do not care about. People in the niche communities are more likely to care about a link to a game in a genre they already like. Also, for most of the small communities I've got at least one other poster sometimes, and that's better than nobody! Despite all the trouble with incremental.social and federation, when I can get on there we do have a few regulars chatting there and that's nice.

You could make the argument that I'm simply posting low-quality content, and I'd just have to raise the bar for !games@lemmy.world to accept my posts, and that I just want my niches back, to which I say: fair. But unfortunately I'm no video game expert or connoisseur. I play and enjoy. The lovely guide and wiki makers usually get there before I can. I'm not too good at coming up with fun discussion questions that are better than what I'd consider low-tier engagement bait back on Reddit like "name one good thing about [noncontroversial character]". So link posts it is, better some on-topic content than none at all. And even if I did write a wonderful in-depth review or guide, if it's not for some big mainstream appeal game but something that only genre enthusiasts really like, not sure how well !games@lemmy.world would take to it. So that's my rationale for having these niche communities. You're still very free to think I'm wrong ;) Thanks for contributing in earnest to !games@lemmy.world!

• !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world has some activity thanks to @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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• !factorio@lemmy.world has some posts
• !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de has three people including myself There are probably more for some really big games, but these are the ones I know of.

On one hand I understand this, but on the other hand I'd like to post games I find that fit these subgenres or talk about that subgenre without making myself the biggest spammer in !games@lemmy.world, and I think (time will tell!) I do have the stubbornness necessary to scream into the void until people come along. Maybe I should crosspost the ones I think are most likely to have mass appeal...

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You're probably right, but most of these do exist already, so I figure not why not continue trying to use them (and to direct attention from this big community there)? Also probably doesn't help a lot of instances have general games communities. We're pretty splintered. Now that I think about it I should probably crosspost to some of the bigger ones.

So pleased to have seen this on my feed. Loved doing mazes as a kid.

(Also you might want to look at !lifesimulation@lemmy.world)

I'm always surprised these posts go to general gaming communities but nobody thinks to post to !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

Sometimes I crosspost myself and sometimes I make some comment like this hoping OP will do it because it feels somehow like I'm "stealing credit" even though it's just a link post and not some original textpost. This time I took a third option and just straight up asked how they felt about the new subclasses

While we're here, !crpg@lemmy.world definitely could use some love (and by love I mean posters).

Hey, thanks for your effort again!!

Looked into Metro, completely disinterested, but . I always figure if my tastes do a 180 or a friend wants to play some games (it is pretty likely our tastes will not be identical) it never hurts to have.

I guess we're total opposites, I usually avoid physicals because I know myself. I want to keep things nice and pretty and pristine, I'll never subscribe to "the flaw/crease/spillage adds to its charm!", and I know I am too clumsy to actually keep it as nice as I'd like. Less objects to clean, to lose, to cry over when they inevitably get messed up.

At least from what I am aware of Mitchell cheated. I never heard of the suicide thing. If the lawsuit was really just over suicide and not over the cheating claims, I wonder why his records got reinstated after this. But hey, I'm quite out of the loop and my comment would probably be a good example in court of reputational damage, as a random who does not really follow these records but might click a video on them someday or read something and come away thinking something about a person.

Have been playing Antimatter Dimensions, an !incremental_games@incremental.social, and various Steam demos to see if I'll like the game or not.

Eh, to each their own, to me it wasn't funny at all. Not in a this is offensive way, I can appreciate dark humor, but the impression I personally came away with was "annoying snarky comment" and less "incisive, witty, funny and topical joke". Of course, my impression is probably extremely colored by my feeling it was just barely on-topic and a conversation hijack away from American Truck Simulator to American Politics, but I also have seen American politics comments that I found funny and this wasn't one of them. Glad you enjoyed at least, as well as the other people who upvoted, nice to see people getting value out of it where I couldn't.

If you like this genre come visit us at !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works!