Online is a good place to share all the games you liked. It is where I talk about singleplayer experiences with others. In all honesty if they really are that niche you might not find people with similar experiences on Lemmy, just because we're not a massive user base. Or you might!

You also might want to look into video game preservation.

time to shill [email protected] and [email protected] if you like em

Unfortunately the name makes it seem like it's just for ads and not asking where to post. And I am honestly surprised that you, who I think has the view of "don't make communities with the same purpose on multiple servers, consolidate unless there is a big moderation/content philosophy difference" are cool with [email protected] and [email protected] both existing. Is there a moderation/content philosophy difference I am not aware of? Is it that !newcommunities is only for new ones and !communitypromo allows any? I recall being able to post old communities that I revived, or that had to move instance on !newcommunities without any blowback, but that was awhile ago so perhaps they actually do have different philosophies now.

It’s cool to see a new Zach-like game post-Zachtronics closure.

And coincidentally, the developer Coincidence is a team made up of former Zachtronics members. Including… one Zach Barth.

—https://gamermatters.com/kaizen-a-factory-story-is-a-new-zach-like-game-by-former-zachtronics-members/

So I looked into the closing more, it was voluntary and not caused by disaster. Also,

Though Zachtronics is closing down, it's only really doing so in the sense that it won't be making any more games -- hence all of its development staff no longer working at the studio.

The company itself is still going to exist and its games will still be available for purchase. Barth will even be around to address any problems that might arise.

This also makes it a Zach-like and not a Zachtronics release, so I changed my title to reflect that.

randomactsofgaming: lemmy.zip

A Lemmy community for everyone, with a focus towards tech, PCs, and gaming.

As someone who does not subscribe to WomensStuff, so I only have general advice for you:

• If you or your instance (still forget the specifics) is opted into Lemmy Federate, then the bot drops a subscription when a real user subscribes. If that real user unsubscribes, I'm not sure the bot picks it back up.
• People deleting their accounts or getting banned from an instance, perhaps? Not sure if banning from an instance drops all the user's subscriptions there.
• Fatigue or dislike with the posts there.
• Maybe just plain old federation issues? I know I have a community where my subscription is still pending, because the instance has massive federation issues.

It happens. I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it drops a good fraction and stays down.

I have definitely bonded with people over video games. Playing them together, or playing them apart but doing so physically side by side, talking about them… most social groups I've been, even when they were not formed around gaming at all, went and made a Minecraft server for us to play together. I think it is telling that the fastest way to get me to open a game and start playing is if my other friends are playing. I am younger than your generation, though, so I'm definitely not helping your argument for retro games specifically.

Online play has helped a lot for when I am physically separated from friends. Just hop in a game and voice chat, and play together anyways.

I think people are very much taking this less as an "I'm curious, why do people find this fun? I want to understand" post, and more of a condescending "I think it's not fun because I have taste and am presuming people who think it is fun do not until proven otherwise, now prove me otherwise" post. Some people, including me until I saw these comments, were seeing your post body that tells us why you don't like the game less as sharing your own perspective and wanting someone to show you a bright side, and more as trying to denigrate people who see it as fun. I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I think you can reread your post body and see how people might interpret a far less curious, far more judgmental tone from it.

To actually answer your question: I played Mario Kart Wii mostly as kid against the computer and other people, and a few times as an adult against other people. I like to think I was good at the game, that skill mattered and it wasn't random and unfair. I won almost every time both against the computer, and against other humans. So I just didn't perceive the game as "mostly random and unfair." (Although now that I think of it, when I had the option I'd usually switch all items to Strategic against the computer, eliminating a lot of the catch-up items, so perhaps I did perceive it initially and just removed it from my experience to the point I don't remember it? Although when I played against other humans it was usually on their console at their place with their settings, which probably didn't have it set to Strategic.) The catch-up mechanics could sink me if I made a mistake, but if I drove well the whole course I almost always came out in front. Perhaps you're thinking of later editions that I never played and have no opinion of, or the computer plays badly and the people I played against were bad at the game?

Stephen Merchant.

Correction not to be an asshole, but because looking up Stephen Marchant brings up a different human

Would be an indirect way to see who gets reports, too. You know, in a way besides checking every community's modlog. I mod a few things and am happy to say I've received zero reports and one mild, unintended rule-breaking behavior, so I couldn't post anything here.

Stupid person checking in. At least, compared to all the tech whizzes on Lemmy. What counts as hacked? I recognize ROPs are not the same as full system control.

I helped a friend with exactly one puzzle, and thought the artstyle was cool. Am browsing this thread because I've heard about the hype and want to see if I ought to check it out myself.