Ashtear

u/Ashtear@kbin.social
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Ultimately, this is one of those things that needs subjective judgment and community ambassadors to be handled effectively. That requires human labor with high turnover.

I'm sure at some point one of the big players in the especially bad spaces (like MOBAs) will figure out how to do it on the cheap and create a market efficiency. But until then, all the profit chasers are allergic to creating actual jobs to solve the problem.

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I do the tourist thing now with WoW but I'm still talking with players, especially since my duo partner never stops playing.

Less so now, though, since /r/wow was where I participated the most.

I was selling countless pre-orders at retail going back to 2001. I don't know when this mythical time would have been either.

Ultimately, the vast majority of people making pre-orders aren't here, on reddit, or any gaming community. And frankly, with the rate at which physical print runs are shrinking, people are going to find they will need to pre-order if they want a physical copy of anything not AAA.

Why I left mine intact. The Reddit "library," as it were, remains one of the largest and most significant public goods online. I think that's more important than burning my contributions in the hopes that Reddit management will do a 180. I also pinned a post advertising kbin/lemmy and Squabbles on my profile.

I'm certainly no longer participating, however, and I don't think Reddit's built to survive only on visitors from Google.

With Atlus announcing that they are going to add voice lines to all the S-Link level up scenes, I'm guessing that's why FeMC didn't get included. They said this will already have the most voice lines of any Persona game. Adding FeMC's S-Links to that would have been a lot more lines on top of that.

Whether or not expanding the voicing was a better move than not including FeMC is another question entirely.

Something I've noticed as I've shifted more of my conversations from Reddit to Discord (even before the garbage fire over at the site) is that I'm not looking up stuff as much during instant, short-form communication. Just casual conversation really is okay sometimes. I'll be trying to keep that in mind as I spend more time on Reddit alternatives.

I also have a theory that message board conversations spend as much time on opinion as they do because all the little shit has been solved now that we have esoteric information at our fingertips. Some people don't even know what it was like to be sitting around with friends all trying to figure out what 80's film you saw Robert Loggia in because you couldn't just look it up on-demand.

Mostly that exactly. The instance is probably the most restrictive general NSFW content platform I've ever seen, and that's ruffling feathers. There's also a lot of the same power struggle dynamic, too. It's exhausting. One of the threads publicly descended into name-calling (on both sides) so I doubt it'll get better in the long run.

My worst ever is a gout flare that I got in my knee once. That's when I discovered I don't like morphine.

But yeah, I've had sciatic issues associated with spinal disease, a three-hour tooth extraction, a section of flayed skin. All of that doesn't compare to gout.

I think the one I have the most nostalgia for is Destiny of an Emperor. The main boss theme is instantly transporting for me. That 8-bit Capcom sound is so iconic.

Final Fantasy IV is what truly got me to fall in love with the genre, though. It was one of my first 16-bit games, so I was blown away by the graphics and especially the music.