mana

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on Stop using Fandom · c/games · 4 pts · 2y

Fextralife embeds their twitch stream into their site, artificially inflating their twitch viewer numbers, which in turn hurts smaller streamers since fextralife will be sorted first by viewer count.

on Stop using Fandom · c/games · 24 pts · 2y

This is one of the main reasons I use Kagi. I have sites like fandom and fextralife blocked in my search results.

One of the things I miss about early internet years was all the independent fan sites and forums people had. Now, so much is just posted to these garbage platforms that control everything.

I'll recommend a few from different genres:

  • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (later FE games also allowed the player to choose between male and female)
  • Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (or Bloodstained: RotN for a newer, but aging, game)
  • A Hat In Time (not sure if this is really that old but it's an amazing platformed)
  • any Touhou game
  • Life Is Strange (again, not sure if you'd consider this old)

I think Mike Mahardy from Polygon is alright, but generally I find their content leans into social commentary more than I want in a gaming outlet. I respect that some people want that, and I'm glad these sites exist for them.

If it's in a setting where open conversations are normal, then I think it's fine as long as their speaker volume isn't louder than any other normal conversation. To me, there's no difference between two people talking in person and two people talking over the phone.

If someone doesn't want to hold it to their ear because they want to video call or just browse their phone while they talk, I don't see the problem.