I was definitely assuming this would be an opinion piece about young people saying “what do we think chat” and “victory royale” but, no, it’s actual research

This is a huge help, thank you!

it’s very likely an intentional exaggeration

Yeah, that’s how it goes. Glad you got out when you did.

what was your experience, if you don’t mind me asking? what game snared you?

if someone put a gun to my head and said “say you love Trump or I’ll pull the trigger”, I’d probably say all sorts of shit.

As soon as their eyes are off me I’d try to fight back, but at some point you have to make compromises to ensure you’ll be around to keep fighting.

ah, more modern dystopian bullshit, got it

traditional vanilla consenting relationship :(

What was he congratulating Harvard for?

small note, the image linked says “execrable”, while the transcript says “excretable”

good game. played through the whole thing without realizing that Niko was never gendered in any dialogue. no pronouns whatsoever.

A couple weeks ago, I had a (dnd 5e) barbarian who was supposed to wrestle some random fire shaman using a series of contested athletics checks. I had advantage due to raging, the Bless spell, and bardic inspiration, (and Powerful Build but that’s only thematically appropriate) and still failed three contests in a row, because the fire shaman never rolled under an 18. My DM just said, no flavor, “yeah this guy just beat you”.

someone called me “you bitch” the other day (in jest, I was teasing them) and I just… it felt nice. gender affirming profanities. who knew?

“According to the Kinsey Institute, 12% of females and 22% of males respond erotically to BDSM” (on the Bondage Positions and Methods article) is surprising to me. I assumed it was more of a feminine practice.

Wait, that’s BDSM, not bondage specifically. I’m ace so it’s really not important, but I am curious about whether people prefer being tied up or seeing someone else tied up.

I’m not into bondage, but I am into rope typing/knots! Kinda wondering what they’re using here, looks kinda inefficient

yes, I purposefully avoided that one lol. I’ve got a “fortheworthy” seed that I never finished either

I’ve been trying to squirm my way through the DontDigUp seed lately after not completing a world since like 2020. The game’s hard :(

oh I’ve got quite a few. well, it’s all over the place. I’m assuming you want long videos to have on in the background and not something, like, Jerma985’s slapstick gameplay

Deus does challenge runs in the Shin Megami Tensei games and their like. Latest video was three hours long, but most of his videos are between one and two hours, I’d say. Fun to listen to someone speak about a game they’re passionate about, and he never stops talking.

Amos has literally one playlist on their channel, a playthrough of an old game called Baroque. Very fun to listen to. They have a neocities page, which means to me that the aesthetic is good.

Kiwo technically might not count but she’s a livestreamer who records all of her streams on youtube. another gamer who just enjoys playing games and talking to people in her chat. very chill vibes.

they say imitation is the greatest form of flattery

you could not convince me that Robin Williams, Bob Ross, and my high school physics teacher weren’t good people

I also like Neil Degrasse Tyson but he’s definitely a snob who doesn’t know when to shut his damn mouth. but like, I can forgive that.