Your comments made me curious what our threshold for “too new” is, my first guess being 5 years. (Thanks XKCD.)

It’s actually

catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game

according to our sidebar. But you pose a good question if Early Access release counts as release, especially if it’s been in EA for this long.

For the curious, Iron Village dev’s Mastodon

Nope, but now I have to look into Merry Gear Solid haha

Eh, to each their own, to me it wasn’t funny at all. Not in a this is offensive way, I can appreciate dark humor, but the impression I personally came away with was “annoying snarky comment” and less “incisive, witty, funny and topical joke”. Of course, my impression is probably extremely colored by my feeling it was just barely on-topic and a conversation hijack away from American Truck Simulator to American Politics, but I also have seen American politics comments that I found funny and this wasn’t one of them. Glad you enjoyed at least, as well as the other people who upvoted, nice to see people getting value out of it where I couldn’t.

I’m a newbie onlooker to this genre, but I’ve read and enjoyed enough manga where the main character is reincarnated as a villainess in some romance story for women/girls, and a few twists on the genre that involve action, that I’m probably going to try out this game. Grabbed via story premise, same way Hades got me despite not usually liking roguelikes.

I’m a newbie onlooker to this genre, but I’ve read and enjoyed enough manga where the main character is reincarnated as a villainess in some romance story for women/girls, and a few twists on the genre that involve action, that I’m probably going to try out this game. Grabbed via story premise, same way Hades got me despite not usually liking roguelikes.

Feels good to see Anonymous Donor on every level.

Hello!

I think !strategygames@sopuli.xyz, !strategy@lemmy.world, !turnbasedstrategy@lemmy.world, and !turn_based_tactics@lemmy.zip might like this post too. Might want to crosspost there.

Interesting to read as someone with pipe dreams of being a hobbyist dev someday.

If you like this genre come visit us at !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works!

Ooo, fellow Linux gamer. Did you check ProtonDB to see if they have a fix for your issue? I’m hyped for Timberborn but also have a personal rule to never buy Early Access. Also, we would like this post over in !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works.

Read, nice little guide and retrospective

If the city-builder genre seems somewhat interesting

If you are on !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works you might already think this ;)

I just found !turn_based_tactics@lemmy.zip, might want to add that to post body

This is FOSS, not a job. You are doing it for free + maybe some donations people give. This is social media, not some critical health thing that needs to be working 24/7. Thanks for caring, now you know for next time, but don’t beat yourself up. We appreciate your efforts and the transparency you have been giving us by making these posts! Keep on going with the transparency, but take it easy on yourself.

Watch Lemmy turn one of the few apolitical posts about something American into something political in 3… 2… 1…

Politics is important but sometimes I just want to play a video game without someone turning the conversation to politics when that wasn’t the topic at hand at all. I’m super angry about all the things my country is doing now too, but I also sometimes want to enjoy what I have left instead of being constantly stressed about it and bringing up the horrors happening at every opportunity—especially with just a comment about if a truck driving sim that seems to be mostly just about driving will suddenly implement something political and unpleasant (when we know they probably will not, that’s not the vibe they are going for) and no links to taking action. (Here are a few, albeit aimed at Americans.

• https://indivisible.org/ for finding a local group to get organized with
• https://5calls.org/ for calling your local representatives
• https://www.mobilize.us/ for events in general
• https://action.aclu.org/give/now for donating to a group suing illegal things the current admin is doing
• https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ also for finding events and groups)

On the other hand, people have to vent sometimes and I guess I need to build up tolerance and a thicker skin to that, even when it shows up in a place marked Games and not US Politics.

Just exploring this community, this is a super cool idea for a thread. Might steal it for a community I participate in more often someday ;)

Cute profile picture!

I’m very happy the series did not have a dark ending. Fanfic writers can do what they want, have fun with the established universe, and make dark fics, but it’s one thing to have it as a fanfic and a headcanon if you want; and another to have it be flat-out canon in a previously happy series. Some people would find that huge subversion of expectations cool, I often find subversion of expectations cool, but I like the lighthearted Pokémon theme and am glad it stayed that way.

This is probably a decision for someone else to make. I would not be a primary contributor to any strategy community, at most maybe a post every two months or so when one crosses my feed.

Wait why? I thought we were trying to consolidate away from lemmy.world because it’s the biggest and we want to help others grow to its size, and there are lots of strategy communities not on .world. The other listed ones seem specific to subgenres, but !strategygames@sopuli.xyz is general and not .world.

(I have no beef with .world aside from it being the biggest when we’re trying to shoot for decentralization, in which case 20 big instances to choose from is much better than 1 big instance and a few medium and a bunch of small ones—if you strike down a big one, which situation leaves the most servers and content for everyone? It’s not .world’s fault and I have no animosity towards them. Just happens that they are the biggest so they really do not need any help right now.)

Thanks! Was definitely hoping to eventually have a strategy community to lurk in. Interested in the genre but do not know enough to feel comfortable aiding in their revival past an obvious strategy game post that comes across my feed once in awhile, or their consolidation.