Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. In general I don’t use social media the way a lot of other people do and was worried that having a pic show up even those 2-3 times in a row would get on people’s nerves and end up not drawing them to the community.

I was worried about seeming spammy if I was cross-posting immediately.

Legitimately thanks for that. That had stood out to me as “one of these things is not like the others” but my mind only went to sex workers, I did not think at all about men who bought prostitutes.

Why is that your question?

Kinda hate to show my whole ass on this topic, but I lived through this exact thing 5 or 6 years ago when AI Dungeon accused its entire userbase of being pedophiles.

I learned about it from Austin Powers in Goldmember in the early aughts, but yeah I’m glad someone else pointing out there’s like, an odd historical rhyme with the particular numbers coming back.

I’m not sure I (or most of my fellow Americans) can truly relate – I once had a Finnish friend who explained how kind of frequent and understated getting nude was for things like saunas, bathing dogs, and other tasks you just generally don’t want getting clothes wet for. Over here there’s such a huge culture of shame around our bodies that even being naked inside your own home can be an issue.

I’m sorry, are you telling me you get to wear a wizard hat in the sauna?!?

(I apologize for my American ignorance)

I couldn’t even read past the third sentence and that was the first thing that popped into my head.

I thank you for your contribution to my collection ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁)

I tried to make a resolution this year to not buy any new games when I have all these demos, ROMs (and ROM hacks!), fan games, and otherwise free games so it’s nice getting a recommendation like this.

If anyone here is into puzzle platformer games I strongly recommend Toki Tori 2+. I think it’s come out for just about everything at this point. It’s somewhat billed as a metroidvania but that’s only because of the platformer aspect of it and the large map you have to explore – there’s no combat and the only gates to progression are your own knowledge of the gameplay. You start with your only two abilities and slowly you are introduced to puzzles which give you insight into how those abilities interact with the environment and creatures, until by the end you realize you had ten times the number of options from the beginning as you thought you had.

There’s also an abstract puzzle game I recommend called Hook (here it is on Steam to be sure). It was originally a mobile game, I think. It’s not long, and it’s not difficult, but it’s zen and I personally loved the way it introduced and iterated on concepts.

• catgirl booba

Sorry if this comes off as creepy but I feel the need to ask due to my own disappointing searches lately: do you mean this in like “100% serious the devs let you sex up a catgirl” kinda way, or just a “we have catgirls, everybody loves catgirls” kinda way?

Also, I’m curious how much Morrowind differs from the ones before and after. Because I remember playing many hours of a friend’s Oblivion and ending up souring on the open world enough that I legitimately never want to play Skyrim despite it being the most popular one, and I have Daggerfell and Arena on my GOG account but have never touched, either (I think those may have come free on the account?).

Personally, I recommend Snes9x as an emulator (I also play on linux, Ubuntu if that’s helpful). As for hunting down ROMs, you can often find compilation “best of” packages on Archive.org or if you hunt around for trusted sites (I’m unsure of the rules here if I’m allowed to direct you to said trusted sites or not) I’m sure you can find it.

Officially, Chrono Trigger is on Steam and that probably takes minimal finageling nowadays even on Linux.

The more days pass with both a) your submission garnering the most upvotes and b) more submissions coming in with the same kind of copy/paste vibe, the funnier this post becomes.

Very tempted to just photoshop more hats onto your image after that comment ;P

Damn. My sympathies, friend. Life dealt you a bad hand and society said “get wrecked” instead of helping you fix it. Hope I didn’t offend. 🫂 🫶

I’m sure you just made a typo, but I am chuckling to myself at the thought that you are walking around being blind specifically because it’s against the law and not because of any biological problems. Like “fuck the police, I’m throwing away my glasses!”

Lemme (heh) know if you ever figure it out – I’m very new here and apart from doing the legwork of finding communities to subscribe to I don’t know what else there is

I think most of this is spot on, but the hearsay was that the subreddits who did participate in the shutdown were threatened with an ultimatum, which while I don’t think is possible to prove either way, hints that it would have happened regardless. Tho I’m usually all-too-ready to don my tinfoil hat when it comes to reddit trying to look appealing to investors; I witnessed a number of hentai/porn subreddits get banned and users actively request to become new mods only to be ignored.

Even if you discount the mods, there’s definitely a certain inertia you see in groups like this (like what’s going on with Discord right now) – people don’t want to leave in part because they’ve got their little in-group and don’t want to have to go through finding or founding a new group elsewhere. I think it’s particularly prevalent with those niche communities that don’t ever really break containment; the community would already be small enough without fracturing to the eight winds. I’m liking Lemmy so far but as I am trying to drum up activity in one of those niche communities (RWBY), it’s kind of disheartening how little relative traffic there is across the place.

I would go for something like debauchery or degeneration, tho the latter has kinda been completely subsumed by horni culture (tho TBH I like the juxtaposition with “generation” as an genAI term)

Also I can’t help but give you a slow clap for that username, my friend ( ಠ_ಠ)ﾉｼ You got me.