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Cake day: September 25th, 2023
  • Elevator7009@kbin.runtoNew Communities@lemmy.world•Weekly active communities promotion thread
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    3 months ago

    I’ll be honest, I never thought you were a troll. But people might think you are because you seem to a lot of trouble finding information on your own without asking another human for help, while being quite active here, and your comments are always short, from what I’ve seen of them. Disclaimer: I never stalked your profile to see everything, but I do see you around a lot just by naturally using the Fediverse.

  • Elevator7009@kbin.runtoNew Communities@lemmy.world•Sappho and her Friend
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    3 months ago

    A community dedicated to mostly humorous instances of queer erasure.

    Abides by that specific community’s rules. However, I feel “They Were Roommates” would work better for the name of a community for general humorous instances of queer erasure, as “Sappho and Her Friend” makes me expect it’s either lesbian-only or woman-only.

  • Elevator7009@kbin.runOPtoNew Communities@lemmy.world•Otome Games
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    4 months ago

    Thank you, I appreciate it!

    Just in case you mean by “to get you started” that no posts are showing—you might want to check straight at https://kbin.run/m/otomegames. If nobody has subscribed to this community/magazine from your instance before, it’ll either appear totally empty, or it’ll only show a few posts, not sure which, when viewed from your instance, regardless of how many posts the community/magazine has. (If it was subscribed to by at least one person on your instance, and then at some point in time later nobody on your instance subscribes to it, it’ll stop receiving any updates until at least one person subscribes again. The posts from the period when nobody subscribed will be missing.)

  • Elevator7009@kbin.runtoNew Communities@lemmy.world•Weekly active communities promotion thread
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    4 months ago

    Have been meaning to watch Frieren after I saw a comment on a Dungeons and Dragons subreddit awhile back. The conversation was about the fantasy trope of elves being isolationist and sticking to their own. Someone gave a nicely-written explanation of how you could run that in your game as being because everyone else lives shorter lives than them, that it’s a phase in most elves’ lives where they say they’ll never be like their elder elves and they go adventuring, and then their friends die before them and they are heartbroken, and they go back to their walled elven communities because “what elf could bear that loss ten times over?” or some other closing line that hit the spot. The reply said Frieren was basically about that. Also have been meaning to watch Spy x Family!

    About cute girls doing cute things: slice of life and themes of friendship are gender neutral. Men might fantasize about being with them: no significant male characters to threaten the fantasy, not even a “self-insert” MC who might not actually be relatable to the particular man. But what I think less people realize is that for women, it’s a female-dominated show, and there are no important men, so naturally the girls talk to each other about doing things unrelated to men. In other words, shows in that genre are nigh-on guaranteed to pass the Bechdel test. I’m a woman who watches cute girls doing cute things. I don’t spend much time thinking about the Bechdel test when consuming media, but I know other women do and I figure it’s a cool insight.

    Honestly, I tell myself I play otome for the men, but really I get sucked in by the interesting premise or the main character’s personality or the main character being relatable to me somehow. From what I know of Variable Barricade, absolutely none of the guys appeal to me, but I want to play it anyways because of the tsundere MC and it being a dramedy. Playing My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom -Pirates of the Disturbance- and I’m only interested in 4 of the men, but because I’m enjoying the story/characters I’m going to play all 6 routes. If I get sucked in by a love interest it’s usually because I heard something about the way his route progresses, or he hits a particular character trope that I want to see in a love interest character that I rarely get to see in them. Although I do think part of the appeal for me is still romance—I consumed quite a lot of shipping fanfic up until a few years ago. For what it is worth I am attracted to men.

    I really enjoy social interaction and relationship building mechanics in video games, and would love to see more games entirely focused around them, though with more mechanics than you see in visual novels. I also personally want to make a game some day about messing with them like a villain in a soap opera or teen drama, but I do not know if I’d actually commit to it, and I am definitely not looking forward to “so was she a bully in high school, or is she a bully victim looking to take the role of the oppressor?” questions asked in a similar vein to “so how many people have you killed?” questions for people who work on violent video games.

    I also am enjoying this conversation! It feels like something that would not really be done on Reddit, but that is okay here. Or at least culture is not established enough here for anyone to tell us to stop and go away :P On Reddit I would have tried to take it to DMs and here, given issues with federation, theoretically I should be able to DM you from Mbin and you should be able to get it on Lemmy, but it might not work in practice.

  • Elevator7009@kbin.runtoNew Communities@lemmy.world•Weekly active communities promotion thread
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    4 months ago

    Also, even with the owl stuff, there’s political crossover, where I get a bit angrier about loopholes in laws that destroy ecosystems and inaction to saving endangered animals.

    That kind of politics is very likely to be nearly universally agreed with on an owl community… at least I think, so you’re probably safe.

    I usually won’t stalk profiles, I really only do to check “are you for real or are you just trolling”, and now what with the Fediverse being a new thing I’ll sometimes check on people to see if they stopped commenting too.

    I’m a bit oversensitive and politics gets a lot of engagement, naturally, and there are so many politics magazines or magazines that aren’t strictly politics but will post a political meme or about where inflammatory politics intersects with their usually non-political point of interest, and that’s so so so many to filter out that I just don’t trust I can look at All on my instance without seeing something enraging or “look how awful the world is today!” when I already know about that thing and don’t want to spend my time getting worked up over it yet again. I know it means I lose out on fun interactions like the ones you have, though, and that’s a tradeoff I take, especially since I supplement by subbing to !newcommunities@lemmy.world, and either that or Fedigrow has the active communities thread. I also used https://sub.rehab/ when first coming here from Reddit to replace all the subreddits I enjoyed, so I tried to hit all my interests I would be remotely interested in talking about online.

    Yeah, given the games are visual novels and usually don’t have much gameplay besides that (there are stat raisers like the Tokimeki Memorial series, I’m not really personally interested in Anchored Hearts but am aware of it because it is supposed to have some gameplay beyond just usual visual novel making choices, Boyfriend Dungeon is hack-and-slash) they put a lot into story or characters in order to keep it engaging. As someone who started with more traditional gaming before I found otome games, I would love to see more otome that also includes more traditional gaming. Some of the otome isekai genre things I consumed (more detailed explanation of what otome isekai is here, but in short the name should tell it all: girl/woman isekais into an otome game) feature otome that also is a real RPG with levels and everything (off the top of my head, Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I’m Not the Demon Lord, Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, definitely have the game in the story be an RPG otome, and I don’t recall what kind of genre The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior was but the title should tell you it definitely wasn’t just a visual novel) which, if it isn’t another misunderstanding of otome or artistic license being taken, implies that such games exist in Japan and just went unlocalized. But most otome are just straight up visual novels, so you have to sell them to us on the story, characters, and art only. Sometimes the music is really cool, but you don’t really sell an otome on its music. Even if it’s Band Camp Boyfriend. It’s pretty cool. I’ve seen that some men play otome for the story and/or the romance and I definitely welcome that and them.

    Curious what anime you like, and if you’ve joined any anime communities on the Fediverse. Or on Mastodon. Thinking of finally trying Mastodon after a year being on Lemmy and Kbin only. (I know my account age has me starting in September, but I instance-hopped.) I think I remember people on Fedigrow talking about anime communities they set up.