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  • I give almost every game a positive review. My logic is, I can recommend almost every game to “someone”, even if I didn’t enjoy it personally. I make sure to highlight both the good parts, and the reasons I personally disliked it in my review.

    over explaining

    A recent example was Against the Storm and Anno 1800. Normally I love city builder games like Farthest Frontier, but those two games I just didn’t like them for various reasons. But they’re still a good game, clearly effort put in. On Steam I gave them a thumbs up recommended review. Out of 10 I would give them 6–7 (heh). To me 1–4 is the scale of badness, how bad is this. 5 is meh. 6–10 is the scale of goodness, how good the game is. So anything I would give even a 5 needs to be a thumbs up if reduced to a binary choice.

    I’ve been told I’m weird though. Like I’ll give something a 6/10 and people will say to me oh I didn’t realise you hate it so much. Like what? When did 6/10 mean bad? I call it review inflation. Where for most people 1–8 is the scale of bad, 9 is mid, and 10/10 is good. Most people have no room left for true excellence anymore.

    For me a 10 is a peak craftsmanship like The Return of the Obra Dinn, And Roger, Animal Well, Elden Ring. It has to make me “feel” something. Mystery, discovery, rage. Wonder. Something new, or something old done really well.









  • I kept getting shadow banned constantly. My comments ending up with 1 view no up or down votes. For completely arbitrary reasons as well. And I got completely banned from a few communities by accidentally using extremist terminology (?).

    And yes I don’t doubt they removed it for a reason, it makes it a much less friendly place. Like you’re putting down and directly affecting the other person rather than just disagreeing. It’s hard to explain.






    • Nier Automata (yes I seriously haven’t played this yet)
    • Silksong (yes… I know)
    • Doom dark ages
    • Ghost of Tsushima
    • Hades 2
    More obscure games
    • Mewgenics
    • Cozy Grove
    • Find Matt’s Cats (from the dev of Epic Battle Fantasy… If you haven’t played them he’s made more games since early flash days)
    • Manor Lords
    • Mount and Blade 2

  • I really loved grim dawn, I did a summoner build and had a great time then suddenly hit a wall in difficulty where the A.I. ignored my pets and assassinated me making my build completely unusable. But it was a great 20 hours, felt like my first Diablo 2 run where you just completely fuck up your build but enjoy it anyway



  • Myself and everyone I know considers Reddit to be a social media. Along with TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Lemmy. Some grey area ones are Discord and Snapchat. So if you work backwards from there, the Aus Gov definition you listed above is actually pretty reasonable.

    I agree that the forums I used to ask for help in Diablo 2 don’t count as social media, and they are rightly excluded in the definition you listed. So you’re really just trying to argue that Reddit and Lemmy is a forum instead of a social media, which you’re entitled to your opinion of course, but most people will disagree with you.