Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@CoyoteTraveller Of the set, I found Etrian Odyssey 4 to be my personal favorite. You may also want to add Persona Q and Zenki Zero to this list, though I have less personal exp with them.

@gardevoir Yeah. I do know a lot of folks came off of Twitter and just... stopped posting. Myself included to some degree (at least to public timelines)

Still there, still working on their own projects, but much more active down private channels now.

Which I suppose makes sense: we trusted corps with the public square and they blew it up for clicks and ad revenue. That distrust isn't easily forgotten, even if smaller platforms lack the same incentive.

@gardevoir But yeah, it's an abusive relationship that site has with its users, and I'm still internally hoping folks can build the will to move.

Because social media sites don't really just... die anymore, they get mergered and acquired to worse entities looking to capitalize on the downward spiral for ad revenue (as a best case, compared to say, LJ). So.

@gardevoir Like, even when Jack was still running it, I was calling it a misery engine after they started using The Algorithm to sort things (it's almost hard to remember the site didn't start that way! Time organized stuff was great!). Seeing actual studies lately did not improve my opinion.

People aren't made to be bombarded with that much negativity, sorted by most effective, all of the time. I'd be concerned if disaffection _wasn't_ common there tbh.

... and the game actually told me what I missed to go back for, so I have an expectation of the costs of digging out the remaining lore.

Also game good. Will be playing it more to see what else I can find.

Played through my first run this evening and... just like with Prodigal, this is everything I wanted Void Stranger to be. It's just so fscking refreshing by comparison.

Because while I hit the credits being mostly bewildered by what the heck was going on? I can still kind of tie it back together to series lore, have vague exposition threads to go on, had a satisfying gameplay loop that respected my time, and got an absolute banger outro song to play it all out.

Tired: today is "boat stuck" but for IT

Wired: this outage was caused by several layers of systemic failures in change management, vendor trust relationships, logistics, and blind bad luck getting past major safety barriers, beyond the original ship

Inspired: today is "boat stuck" but for IT