Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary

Shame about nearly everything else Sega has done to the franchise since.

Framing this as a meme implies there’s supposed to be some sort of irony here.

I’m here, not planning on leaving any time soon. But I’m also acknowledging that Lemmy can’t fully be everything Reddit was, not without a Reddit-size userbase.

I’m saying that when the problem is a low userbase, responding with “you’re spoiled for even wanting niche hobby spaces, and it’s your fault for not putting in an excessive amount of energy that isn’t even likely to pay off (because the userbase isn’t there)” isn’t productive.

I never said I don’t want to be on Lemmy. But when people talk about the downsides of this platform’s still niche userbase, it isn’t productive to jump in and admonish them for just not trying hard enough to manifest a critical mass of users through sheer willpower.

Better UX would be nice, but that’s not what would solve the Nazi problem.

Next time I need tech support for an obscure indie game that probably sold less than a thousand copies I’ll be sure to check the Lemmy community for that game.

Okay, now you literally are saying I didn’t try hard enough.

This is not my first account (it’s also not anywhere close to a year old, not sure where you got that idea). I’d tried to start a few communities over on kbin.social, but that’s gone now.

I don’t have the energy to spend several hours a day flooding threads nobody will engage with, just in the hopes that if I keep it up forever eventually one of them might get a reply or two. It’s not that easy, and it’s patronizing to act like that’s such a simple solution I should’ve thought of.

Fighting games and Riichi Mahjong. !fgc@lemmy.world and !mahjong@lemmy.nerdcore.social exist, but are pretty barren. I’d also previously tried to start communities for them on kbin.social, but that’s gone now.

Also arcade-style versus puzzle games, but those are so dead these days that even on Reddit they didn’t have an active sub.

Not overnight, that’s for sure. It’s going to take a long time to ever get that kind of critical mass.

I’ve tried, believe me I’ve tried. Posting a bunch of threads out into the void doesn’t suddenly manifest a like-minded community to reply to and engage with those threads. It won’t truly be viable until there’s a much larger userbase to begin with.

And honestly, it just comes across as patronizing to say the only reason my hobbies don’t have traction here must be because I didn’t try hard enough.

“Nice scarf. Do zey make zem for girls?”

“Nice face. Do they… uh, shut up.”

Pardon me for wanting to have a place where I can discuss my hobbies, I guess.

Puyo Puyo Champions - help me I’m relapsing

Riichi Mahjong - mahjong causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit

Blue Revolver: Double Action - This has been sitting in my Steam library and I saw it got a big update. Learning how to play a shmup is on my bucket list, but so far I cannot get any further than stage 4 on the lowest difficulty. Very fun though, and banger OST.

Also went down to Round 1 earlier this week, haven’t been in years. Played a few rounds of Wacca, Chunithm, Arcana Heart, and Chaos Code.

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I loved Wolfenstein until it got too political :(

Puyo Puyo Champions - help me I’m relapsing

Riichi Mahjong - Been doing way too well in my IRL games all season. I think that means I’m due to lose this week. That’s called like Gambler’s Theorem or something, right?\

Blue Revolver: Double Action - This has been sitting in my Steam library and I saw it got a big update. Learning how to play a shmup is on my bucket list, but so far I cannot get any further than stage 4 on the lowest difficulty. Very fun though, and banger OST.

Also went down to Round 1 today, haven’t been in years. Played a few rounds of Wacca, Chunithm, Arcana Heart, and Chaos Code.

He is not a liberal, he’s the end of liberalism.

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Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I’m still cracked.

Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.

Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where’d I leave off again?

Bring back versus puzzle games. Puyo Puyo is more or less the only surviving IP today, and even that is only barely on life support now that Sega has banished it to Apple Arcade exclusivity.

The whole damn genre lies in ruins now and I miss it so much. Someone, anyone, make a new game please.