No leverage? I think having full control over the platform, the ability to boot out any moderators still protesting and force subs to reopen, is all the leverage.

There’s nothing any of us could’ve done to change the outcome. We voiced our displeasure, tried to protest, but Spez was able to quash all of it by forcing out anyone who didn’t accept it in the end.

The users did give up. I moderated one of the subs that took part in the blackout, and we got a lot of complaints from users over it.

The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal.

Well I think you just answered your own question, that’s exactly what happened to the 2023 Reddit API protest.

I moderated one of the large subs that took part in the protest. When the admins threatened us, that was the last straw for me to leave the platform.

Steam Forums is genuinely one of the worst social media platforms on the internet. It pains me how much Valve has allowed the alt-right to incubate and spread propaganda there.

Earlier this year I made a short video essay about how Dr. Mario’s garbage mechanics are unusually different from the rest of the versus puzzle genre. I think it’s my best work yet… but sadly it ended up as my worst view count.

I just finished another video about another versus puzzle game that I plan to publish tomorrow, but can’t share it quite yet so click the Dr. Mario one instead I guess.

That people are only pretending to be nice to me but are secretly mad at me behind my back.

I went through an incident where the people I thought were my closest friends, weren’t, and it fucked me up pretty bad.

Violet Evergarden: The Movie

Major Gilbert is revealed to be alive. And she goes back to him. And it’s implied to be romantic.

The whole series was about her escaping her past as a child soldier and learning to live a normal life, and they end it by having her go right back to him. But it’s okay, he may have made her into a child soldier, but he was kind sometimes, so he’s a good guy and definitely not an abuser! And he was the closest thing she ever had to a father figure, but now that she’s all grown up she can love him and that’s perfectly normal! This is a great finale that doesn’t undermine the whole show that led up to it, and isn’t fucked up at all!

The rest of the show is still so damn good, just pretend the movie never happened.

Finally got my hands on my childhood holy grail.

When the sequel to my favorite game didn’t get translated back in 2005, that became my villain origin story. I convinced my parents to sign me up for Japanese classes on the weekend just so I could play it. But it turned out learning a foreign language was hard and I had too much actual schoolwork to keep up with, so I didn’t get all that far.

But now that I’m trying to learn again on my own, I’ve decided it’s time to tackle this one. Took me almost an hour and a half to get through the opening cutscene, but with the help of OCR and a dictionary I understood nearly all of it. Made 30 new vocab flashcards out of it in the process.

Unfortunately my old GBA SP is not holding much charge, I may need to find a new aftermarket battery replacement. And the game’s signature gimmick gets in the way of OCR, it already takes several tries to read the pixel font and it’s even harder to recognize while playing outside.

Motorola Droid 2. I just miss keyboard sliders.

• Towerfall 8-player
• Raining Blobs
• Some versions of Bomberman go up to 8 players

The second CPU is the GBA CPU, but at twice the clockspeed (which can then downclock for GBA games). You’re double-counting it and making it sound like the system had three.

The 3DS is the real funny one, adding its own new CPU alongside both the DS and GBA CPUs. So that’s actually three.

Retro game prices have been skyrocketing too. Everything’s kinda fucked.

Everything is relative. The FGC is ‘small’ relative to the likes of League or Valorant, and Riot seems to truly expect that every project should be as popular as those or else they’ll pull the plug.

Masculinity isn’t an inherently bad thing by itself. If anything, I think we need more positive role models who can show a wholesome side of masculinity.

The hope wasn’t that the game would dominate the existing FGC, but that the IP would have such a massive pull that it would expand the FGC so much (and in the longer term, make the players be l branch into other games in the genre).

And even ten years ago I thought that was delusional.

Still thinking back to when this was first announced and people were hyping it up like the mere presence of Riot’s money was going to result in Project L completely dominating the entire rest of the FGC combined by an order of magnitude. I knew from the start that it would never live up to such unrealistic expectations.

From what I’ve heard, it doesn’t sound like the game even did that badly, I wish some of my other favorite games had as healthy of a playerbase. But we’re in this weird world where some games are perfectly comfortable with whatever audience they get and others have to pull the plug ASAP if they don’t hit Fortnite-sized numbers overnight.

They just needed to have realistic expectations and they could’ve been fine with what they have.

There’s already !fgc@lemmy.world

Pull up rockin’, smack a racist in the face
Jet out, and leave ‘em screamin’ in the place
I come straight from the heart, you come straight from hate
And if you’re threatenin’ someone I ain’t gonna sit around and wait
I just smacked two cops, I’m waiting to see what the case is
Because my hands automatically smack people who are racist

• 2 Mello, Pull Up

Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff.

I’ve had my Galaxy S9+ for roughly eight years now. The battery doesn’t hold much charge, and the screen has this known bug where it stays completely black unless I do this funny workaround by activating Always On Display first and only then turning the screen on.

But everything on the market now comes with some catch, I really don’t want to give up that SD slot. And I’m unemployed and prices are fucked. So I’ll ride this thing out until it fully dies - which feels like it may happen any day now, honestly…