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forums face a lot of the same issues federated platforms do, chiefly- why the hell would the proverbial i join it when reddit and discord already exist? i already have an account there, there's already a community there... i think for some people that's just never gonna change. there's no closing pandora's box. i run an online community with a small but fairly active discord and we have a forum as well in anticipation of discord going full enshittification, but it's just impossible to get younger people onto it. the fedi at least has the advantage of looking like the monolithic platforms people are leaving, but forums are such a foreign concept

getting a community going is a bit of a catch 22. the best way to get users is to already have users and appear active. if i recall correctly, early on reddit had a ton of staff sock puppet accounts to do just that. i'm certainly not advocating for it but it goes to show how tricky the problem is. the only real answer on an individual level is to pick a platform and stick with it through the thin years and try to recruit a few friends- after that MAYBE hopefully it eventually gets some momentum

i'm gonna level with you, i completely forgot IBM cloud was a thing and just thought this was MS pointing fingers at system Z or system . thanks for catching that!

so Delta's non-Windows machines were the ones that suffered the most from a Windows software malfunction? that makes sense

seconding this. despite the url, the instance i am on runs mbin and it's the bees knees

it must have been weird for Hayden to return to a role he's synonymous with to put a capstone on a long and emotional story arc that he had nothing to do with, but you never would have been able to tell by the way he sold it

"I'll be right back, gotta check if the bathroom still works"

i could stand maybe ten seconds tops of a DRD sadly singing 1812 Overture as it died of radiation damage until I'd have to climb into the fuckin condiut myself to save it

kinda funny that they're doing this while still selling the remake for 50 bucks new. still, more mystery dungeon is always a good thing!

he was just doing that because it's a neat trick

not a single mention of SEGA Rally or Power Drift? shameful!

i'm maybe a third of the way into macguyver and nana visitor has already played two seperate characters

a lot of games these days have higher graphic "fidelity" but it's at the point where they're exaggerating them just to show off. light and reflection systems in particular have kind of an uncanny valley feel to them now at least to me, and it makes the games much less pleasant to look at