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If we’re sharing honest opinions minus filter here: if you worded your question differently, more people would answer, and they would be less defensive and have more interesting answers. You’ve limited the people who will reply.

Condescensing and annoying people like myself will still have a lot to say, but people with fun stories and heartwarming anecdotes will not want to put themselves out there for what seems like will be a snarky put-down as a response.

Specifically, the “kiddie game” opening was fine, but the way you worded the followup came across less like you were confused and more like you wanted to have a group shit-on of adults who play mario kart. Being a little more vague would’ve been your friend here. “but it looks like i was wrong” might’ve convinced people who don’t want to be shit on to give an answer.

The part about it being unfair by design was fine, but the last paragraph again comes across as “anyone want to hang here and make fun of the losers who like this obvious bullshit?”

anyway, i don’t play party video games generally but my impression is they want to appeal to different skill levels, abilities, and ages, so they often have additions that level the playing field so it’s not just Gamer Frieda winning while everyone else gets bored and gets out the playing cards (which can also have a random quality that means sometimes the newbie will win or at least not be bored and frustrated).

These catch up elements add extra elements for dedicated players to account for, which is more memorization and reflex training, which is a kind of fun for the type of people who play outside parties.

i know most of ao3’s budget goes to server costs. they get by with volunteer labor and donations, but they mostly host text. i genuinely have no idea what a sustainable model would look like for the fediverse, that doesn’t just treat volunteers like disposable rags we toss when they get inevitable burnout.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h158 scrollin through looking to see how my state’s reps voted

maybe someone will put it up here

mbin has an “abandoned” tab when you search communities. does lemmy have something like that?

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https://mastodon.social/@dansup/114516730213752057 he did solicit feedback after a recent update, if you wanted to let him know? i don’t know what it was like before the migration, but it sounds like you’ve got a valid suggestion for improvement.

I like that they put some guides up ahead of their announcement. At some point I followed polygon on here, and I remember the guides being some of the most frequent updates.

same guy developing pixelfed, i believe

I watched some streamers play it and was just wondering why they weren’t anymore. Now I know!

With most games, I don’t mind just watching a playthrough, but this is one I’d actually want to play. Maybe in a few more years the emulator will have fewer bugs or I’ll get a cheap 360 (or a new computer ). I’d forgotten how disappointed I was back then I couldn’t play it on pc!

Always wanted to play this one, but never enough to buy a console.

An older victim said she feels vulnerable and intimidated by what had happened and that she is sorry that she did not speak up sooner but was afraid that people would laugh at her or not believe her.

I mean, there it is, right? He thought if it was weird enough, they’d be too embarrassed to tell anyone. I’m glad they did, even though they knew people would think a guy tricking them into groping him is hilarious. He did this to young teens.

No real reason except to separate us. It’s all arbitrary, so pick whatever rules you like and throw the rest in the garbage.

I don’t particularly care about the downvoting, but I do prefer bidirectional blocking when possible. Obviously a public profile is still visible, but if someone blocked had to make a new account to interact with you, that’d be nice.

That’s just a preference. Whatever the consensus is, I’ll be fine with it. The most important thing is that it’s clear and known how it works. Someone with a stalker should quickly be able to get how things work to decide if they want to be on here.

I’m not attempting to guilt anyone. I apologize if it seemed that way.

This was mostly notice to myself to avoid these comment sections, so I’d see my comment in my profile and remember not to click certain articles. If someone describes the pain in detail they wish on him and it’s relevant to my uncle’s illness, i will imagine my uncle experiencing that pain. i just will, and i see no need to train myself out of it. there’s no value in that, for me. I like reading news comments, so I’ll often just click an article I see with them without thinking.

It’s none of my business what you post.

Thank you

I have a relative with the same cancer so it’s going to be rough hearing people celebrate the pain he’s in. probably should just avoid comments for a bit.

I found:

For support, please visit our matrix channel at: #fedia.io:melroy.org

I’ve had luck communicating with the kbin.earth admin on matrix

“I ended the assembly, took it off him and slowly carried it outside and put it behind a far tree in the car park. I wasn’t 100% happy carrying it to be honest.”

I wouldn’t be 100% happy doing that, either, even being 99% sure it couldn’t go off.