I love having my decision not to buy a Nintendo Switch and stick to PC games validated.

Feel bad for all the Nintendo fans though, I get how you can fall in love with a franchise they make and want their stuff only to have “except it costs a ton” stuck on, so you’ll have to skip for financial reasons and feel unhappy. It’s a lot harder to abstain from something you actually care about and want, than something you are maybe mildly interested in.

Nice to find another woman on the Fediverse. Usually I don’t mind male-dominated environments as long as nobody treats me badly once they know I’m female, but the small amount of participants in [email protected] and [email protected] (both communities for games that are aimed at women) makes me wish for more women here. Meanwhile the gender-neutral [email protected] attracted a lot more attention.

My earlier comment almost had a section that said “and if English is your second language, sorry in advance about all the incorrect assumptions! Learning a second language is difficult.”

Best wishes! I do think you would find better reception if you put more information about what you are posting about in the title and body.

Hey, just clicked on something in this series of posts for the first time. Genuinely, thanks for your effort in writing it. I usually see link posts, and I have missed big original writeups like this. We need more people like you on Lemmy.

Re: slowdown, I use Lemmy exclusively via browser and it’s a very smooth experience for me ;)

]ANYWAY, to the point, I really enjoyed this video from Fastminer07 on YouTube, it was clear and reiterates how important this is. Worth a look if you’re searching for interseting videos for your down-time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Ih__mE05c)

Might want to turn that first bracket to be an opening bracket so the link works.

I’m not a perfect being so I use Steam out of convenience instead of GOG, though I do have a GOG account. I am pleased to see good news from them and that they are maintaining a good library of games. It is nice to see the option that I think people choose in an effort to be anti-DRM and to support games preservation doing well.

I should probably look into the Switch emulator thing more, sounds ripe for an original [email protected] post.

Recently picked up shapez.io again, part of the [email protected] genre. Just started that community. Also currently playing [email protected] (which at least one person on Lemmy mistook for a waifubait anime gacha game with straight male gaze fanservice going off the community icon, which I think earned it a bunch of downvotes when promoted in [email protected]. When to be honest, it is the opposite: still an open world gacha game, but marketed at women. No romance featured, no sexualized fanservice, but a lot of pretty outfits to dress up in with nice hair and dress physics), [email protected], and Antimatter Dimensions which is in the [email protected] genre. I have several [email protected] that I kind of just stopped midway through even though they were enjoyable; likewise with the [email protected] Dragon Age: Origins. I enjoy the above listed genres and games, as well as [email protected], [email protected] or management games, and [email protected] games. There are other games I enjoy too but this is sort of turning into my subscribed communities list, and I’m not currently playing them right now 😅 I game on Linux (PC only, not in the market for a console, however Steam trying to sell the Steam Deck and then doing the whole Proton thing to try to make more games compatible with their Linux-based console means that suddenly a lot more games are playable on Linux so I’m grateful for that), iOS, and MacOS. Lutris has been very helpful for finding different emulators on Linux.

For transparency, I mod [email protected] and [email protected] but not the rest, and I want to help the other Fediverse communities I listed grow. I like those genres but am not super knowledgeable about any of them and like seeing recommendations and discussion about them.

If you actually do enjoy this genre and want some unironic takes (and no, they are not all dating sims or erotica) take a look at [email protected]! Also related is [email protected], a VN subgenre: dating sims aimed at women with male love interests. For transparency, I mod the second one but not the first.

Oh boy.

I want to support content creators, especially the ones willing to post to Lemmy.

This also reminds me of kids just trying out creative pursuits for the first time, what with “Please no hate” in the title instead of using the title like an actual title and asking commenters to be gentle in the post body. Not wanting hate is just a normal and understandable desire, so I feel bad for even saying that, but I also only ever saw that kind of thing in the title of a post when I was 9 and looking at stuff fellow kids put online. Most creators, even those seeking feedback (and I’ve seen a lot of those), will put a request to be gentle in the post body. Their title actually tells you about their content and tries its damndest to appeal to you.

“Tell me what do you think about this video” also isn’t 100% perfect English. I mean, who among us hasn’t made a screwup before with the English language? But somehow this just… really reminds me of kids trying out creative pursuits for the first time. I can’t really explain it.

I think I’m also expecting a description of what your video is even about in the body, and your message could apply to any video uploaded. A makeup tutorial, a math lesson, an avant-garde art piece… I assume it has to do with gaming given you posted it in [email protected], but that is all I know. Something about this just feels weird and wrong and I figured I might as well help you (since you did ask for feedback) by trying to explain why I feel so, so offput by this post.

Also, I opened the video, saw the #dani hashtag, and thought “oh that guy that person on Lemmy was trying to promote,” had a hunch, and checked your profile to find you are that person on Lemmy who was promoting him. So I admit I have that experience coloring my perception of your post.

Not everyone has to be a master architect/artist, just to enjoy the game :)

Good content, just wish it wasn’t a video and was an article instead. Bless YouTube transcripts for getting me one step closer to that.

I am in the other camp, I like the immersion.

I also have a tendency to not bother with VA, though, and to just click through the second I finish reading the dialogue, except for lines in particularly dramatic parts of the story. Sometimes not even then. Just figure I’d offer a counter opinion especially since this thread is probably going to be full of people who always choose voice acting when it is an option, given the thread is all about it. I am glad so many people derive joy from it, just because it is Not For Me doesn’t mean I think it’s Bad And Worthless :)

Not sure if more [email protected] or [email protected], otherwise I’d ask you to crosspost there

Steam link, pleased to say demo works for Windows, Steam Deck (which means Linux), and Mac. Pretty sure this is Fishing Paradiso

embrace [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected], except you mash past all the voice acting because you can read faster than the lines are acted out

An actually high quality mobile game… I never played it myself but was quite happy for iOS gamers when it came around. Should play it some day.

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work to improve the skill gap or draw 20

acknowledge that one singular woman is currently better than you at this one particular skill or draw 20

man it’s like there are options that don’t involve aggression towards another person for… not being bad at a video game

I count myself lucky the men I know in real life are chill, and that I am not too interested in PvP games, scared off by the constant reinforcement from stories online that someone will be shitty to me because I am a woman. When I did play TF2 it was always pubs mic off and with a very gender-neutral username.

Ugh. If you are suggesting it it’s probably a good idea. Just a bit frustrated that two community promo things exist, especially since in my experience this is its smaller cousin that usually just sees duplicates from [email protected]. The only benefit I can think of is that if Beehaw is still defederated from lemmy.world because of its size they can see [email protected] too. Will be posting there soon…