or idk if this is 'new' (last 8 years) development and fandom culture has permeated gaming communities and brow beaten the older, cynical culture

just as toxic either way, imo

(no smoke to your friends and anyone who genuinely loves the lifestyle - it works for them and that's fantastic)

Feel like making it a content mill for yourself would
1) Kill your passion for it by making it an obligation more frequent than you want to do it organically
2) Would turn into that "my lizard's instagram" video levels of stress over maintaining it

Getting myself hype like Charlie Brown and the football for the 8th time now

I want it to be good so fuckin bad

hell yes brother

thank u for being one of like 6 people with reasonable takes calling it out in that thread, I was (and still am) going a bit insane at the replies

The research is weak and specious and no serious agencies or institutions are really corroborating it

1 final one for LOTR: ROTK for ps2 is beating my ass

dedicate myself to being mostly up to date on only a few channels total

rip to the other ones, but even a moderate discord of like 30-50 people can be impossible to catch more than a small amount of

ooooo I haven't played BP, ty ty ty for the rec!

Obra Drinn will be such a good couch co-op time w/ the hubby I think

Omori really hit recently, Obra Dinn was really good for a detective/investigation game, Nier Automata is up there for sure

in my top 3 or 5 of all time, which is crazy for how recent the playthrough was

absolutely phenomenal and it's a shame you can't recapture the feel of the first play other than by watching LPs or something

this one starts with a hilarious 2 sentence horror story