>play game>make multiple thread on /v/ about it>no one ever responds
>>732299345>making threads on /v/good luck, you're competing with threads full of shills and obsessed fags, the only way you make a successful thread is by posting good bait that guarantees millions of outraged (You)s. you wanna actually discuss a game, you take your ass to the steam forums or something
>play game>make thread on /v/ about it>"fucking retard kill yourself shill tranny"
>>732299345Because this place is just r/gaming except everyone's negative and you can say nigger without a bar of soap in your mouth.
>>732299345The bots are programmed to discuss only fotm games, not the cool hidden gem you decided to play as an Actual Human Being.
>play any slavic developed game, just any one>Make a thread because you want a genuine, non-baity convo>Not 5 posts in and already we're talking about Ukraine and Russia
>>732299345what game faggot>inb4 some indieslop no one heard of
>>732301820Fear and Hunger, a game I've seen hundreds of threads for before
>entred /v/ thread with hundreds of replies>must be a very active thread>make a banger of a post>no more replies>archived
>>732299345/v/ do be like that sometimes unfortunately.>>732302128I still see occasional threads here take off for that but if you want longer term discussion try /vrpg/.
>>732299345I really wanted to talk about how much I enjoyed RDR1, so I made a thread shitting on RDR2, and it exceeded 240 posts. I still got to discuss RDR1, but I had to frame it in a way that engaged other posters. this is advice applied universally, btw.
>>732299345You need to shit on the game you are playing for ragebait replies, and then engagement begins, that's where the indians starts taking screenshot for twitter engagement. That's how it works
>>732299345This board is for shitposting and porn posting.If you want to talk about games then join a tranny discord server or some forum.
>>732302394>>732302323See I tried that but no one took the bait either>>732295316
>>732302498put "Fear and Hunger" in your subject or comment line so it shows up in people's highlight filter lists
>>732302498It helps but it's not guaranteed.
>>732299345>make game>0 sales>make threads>0 replies>I need to make another game, better game
>Have a niche interest>Post about it where it belongs>Zero traffic>Post about it on /v/>Tons of replies
>about to own some retarded loser and his objectively wrong take by typing out a reply that would be second only to the 95 theses and would make that demihuman troglodyte regret ever having internet access.>"thread has been deleted">mfw retard got away and I wasn't able to tell him off all because jannies are faggots
>>732302610Truly the worst kind of pain.
>>732299345you have now created an entirely useless thread that displaced a thread which someone posted about a game they cared about but nobody responded to in time, hows that feel
>>732299345>trying to discuss games on veeWhy would anyone do that?
>>732302610What's worse is when you have no energy to call out retards and the thread is full of shit takes.or the jannies go on a power trip.
>see thread in /v/ with 200+ posts about game I like>make a post>thread diesevery time
>>732302970Is it on purpose?is there a conspiracy?
>>732302203>>732302610>effortposting on /v/a game only for fools
Bump
>>732302128Only because of hardcore rape. The only way a indieslop get's talked about on /v/ is because >There's a waifuand/or>Rape happensBecause even the anons that whine about muh culture wars and woke turn around to still be closerted perverts.
>>732304720>closeteduh bro did you think the guys who didn't want sexy anime girls to be censored or replaced with ugly dykes were at all hiding the fact they like sexy anime girls?
>>732304720Thats right saar everychad love a raping for once in a while give a women a good rape and they loving it .
>>732302590this time you will sell 10 copies, keep trying
>>732303486Some days you just feel like being Sisyphus.
>>732302610Honestly anon, take it from me. There comes a point where you give up because they just DO NOT GIVE A SHIT. They'll laugh you off or ignore your post and keep going elsewhere. Our brand of autism doesn't work.
>>732305127>One must imagine the /v/ poster happy
>>732305238Of course he’s happy, why else would he be here? If he wasn’t happy, he’d simply just leave
>>732299345>tfw no anon will ever talk to you about Lords of XulimaBut thats okIm the last month weve had like 3 might and magic 6-8 threads, a jagged alliance 3 thread, and some fun raceist threads with all the racing games
>>732305329You're right.
>>732302610>very interesting off-topic thread in /v/>over 200 posts>writing my post, see that the thread is still getting new posts>click Post>This thread has been pruned or deleted
>>732301175>good baitI don't even have to try to bait and people here flock to it anyways. You can just say the most obviously wrong thing in a sarcastic sense and it will get people tripping over themselves to say "nuh uh, that's bait" like it's something other people couldn't get and it's worth pointing out.
>>732299345You need a lust provoking image, anon. What's the game? Maybe I can help
>>732301175/thread
>>732302836Autism.
>>732302590If you make a game and didn't spend the money on advertisers, you should have given a character big click baity tits so people check it out.
>>732302610Story of my lifeOne day I shall get my toblerone threads to bump limit, mark my words
>make thread about [game]>summon the infamous schizo that has dedicated his life to shitting up and derailing any [game] thread he finds>thread immediately 404's
>>732299345>thread title: I just played [game], What did I think of it?Good fucking threads retard shrimp
>>732299345this website is a psyop to break your mind, the less effort you put into it, the better save your effort for reality
>>732308060you are posting too many pragmata threads
>>732302203
>play game>go to /vg/>find its general>talk about gameWOW that was SO HARD.
>>732308060There's a guy that posts Dragon Quest, has like 5-6 very autistic and outright mentally derranged theories about the series, and I can recognize whenever he enters the thread. If someone replies to him more than twice, I just leave it and start a new thread. It's just more cost-effective.
>>732305654Real
>>732308226/vg/ is one of the worst boards on this site, every thread is either gacha racing to cram everything else off the board or venerable generals with a handful of people having prolonged schizophrenic arguments about thread drama since everyone sane left long ago.
>>732308226>post general on /vg/ because it's not on the roster>get drowned out by 50 individual gacha threads, each being spammed 50 posts an hour by ~3 deranged people who fucking live on a niche imageboardgreatgacha needs a containment board and a hard ban policy if it infests anywhere else
>>732308226>go to /vg/>want to talk about video game in question>general is in fact not full of posts about the video game in question>it is 95% waifu posts, off topic xitter debate and discussions about streamers
>>732299345
>>732308226>/vg/>talk about game
>>732309041Every /vg/ or anime themed thread>First for [Waifu!]>Sex with [Girl]!>SEXOOO>How is [girl] winning so much?The worst part is, this isn't even hyperbole, you can often find all of these chained right next together.
>>732301175>steam forumsSteam forums are basically just as bad, except it's a lot easier to confirm how many thirdies are actually gunking up online discussion as a whole. It's over, the third world won I guess if this is the kind of internet they'd prefer to have.
>>732299345Try a game you know very well that /v/ hasn't ever fucking played but due to its depth, yearns for discussion.Playing this is like being the only one alive who's watched a David Lynch film.
>>732308226>go on rimworld general cause I wanna talk about the game>it's unironically being spammed by the barneyfag for weeks on end >leaveMeh.
>>732299345make the op rage bait as if you hate the game you want to discuss and enthusiasts will join to defend said game. 2016 onward polluted /v/ to where that's the only way to get an active thread now.
>>732304720>>a waifuKill yourself newfag
>>732309846You can't name Garage and act like anyone in the world will know what you're talking about except 10 other autists (including me). This basically doesn't count.
>>732301175>make completely sincere thread last year in August >take a small nap for a few hours >thread is on page 10 with 4 replies >check top of catalog with some twitter screencap of some furfag drama vaguely related to some indie game>400+ replies it was made an hour ago I wish social media was banned here. Why it or AI isnt truly eludes me.
>>732310369At this point I don't even think it's AI or bots or anything like that, I really think there are just that many subhumans on this board that seriously feed on that type of content. For that reason I don't come here for months at a time, I just stop by once in a while to see what's going on and throw in my 2 cents then disappear again.
>>732310369Everything hinges on clicks from the new arrivals. No one cares about where the click comes from, just as long as they like and subscribe or bring traffic and "engagement".
>>732310369Generates traffic. It's business.
>>732302848>open low-quality thread discussing some AAA goyslop or some thinly-veiled e-celeb/vtuber shit like Psychopomp>reply to 10 different posts with 'take your [subject]nigger shilling to resetera/[other board]'>close thread
>>732301289I find myself frequently running into the "insta-apprehensive Anons" when I post.
>>732303486Irony poisoning has gotten so bad on this site making a genuine post is considered "effort posting?" That's grim...
>>732301289schizoid SEAniggers, there quite a few of them that get very, very angry when certain characters are posted (ex. anything oppai loli upsets this one ESL who loves Alice from SMT, and he constantly ban evades to angrily shit up the thread some more)
>Post an obscure game only you like>thread dies almost instantly after>this happened enough that you start to think that the game is cursed or something
>>732310798>>732301289People from slum countries interact with each other like this in real life btw
>>732310275I can because fucking /vr/ RESURRECTED IT FROM THE DEAD.4chan was the reason Sakuba got off his faggot artificial scarcity bullshit because we leaked it, and promptly made a remaster.Yet no one remembers, like all the people that pulled the funding together to buy the auction just left 4chan for good.
>[List provoking image] [Irrelevant time wasting question] thread>It's the same 1 to 2 porn addicts who are in every thread dumping their entire lewd folder >Made for BBC!>She looks like she fucks human men!>Is this the thread?>Call them out for being degenerates>*CroppedBoobjobPaizuriQueen(5).jpg* WHAT PORN TRANNY? >>STOP TALKING ABOUT VIDEO GAMES ON /v/!!>YWNBAW>Tranny janny spends the whole thread banning the local schizo
>>732310906In front of goblin mutant animals that only want to identify your weaknesses to use against you, yes, effortposting is useless
>>732299345Sorry. This is a /v/eddit tranny board now. Only AAA slop and NPC mongoloid apporoved shit like Fallout and Skyrim gets replies.
What group(s) did the most damage to /v/?
>>732311242I assumed he started making updates because of youtube attention but I wouldn't be surprised if 4chan popularity played a significant role
>play game>make a thread about it on /v/>"SHILL SHILL SHILL THIS IS AN ORGANIZED DISCORD RAID YOU ARE THE DEV TRYING TO SHILL HIS GAME SHILL SHILL SHILL"
>>732311242I remember. Wasn't a very good game but was certainly very unique and atmospheric.>>732311267>Now that the dust has settled... what do we think about [game]>straight up porn dump thread with smut as the OP image>doesn't get deleted because there are like 17 posts actually discussing the game and one of the many MAP furfag mods are participating
>>732301289Based
>>732299345>play game>don't make threads about it>happy
>>732299345I know that this place tries to make it seem like it's a substitute for having actual friends, but it isn't.
>>732311679This is why I have an autistic hobby of writing game reviews that I don't post online. I need to talk about the game and I'm the only one that can appreciate it.
>>732311351You know your post makes me wonder how the internet devolved from people finding shared camaraderie for their faults and hobbies to trying to deconstruct and tear down everyone and everything in existence for their faults and hobbies. What the fuck kind of insight or entertainment can be gained from cannibalizing entire fandoms and enjoying this on a daily basis?
>>732311609Because /v/ has this unspoken phobia of being manipulated by a corporate interests.
>>732311731Try and make it less obvious next time.
>>732311838I don't think any "corporate interests" are trying to shill a gay furfag game that is still in early access.
>>732304997>Thats right saar everychad love a raping for once in a while give a women a good rape and they loving it .I look like this and say this.
>>732308226>go to /vg/ to talk about game>everyone is talking about ecelebs and discord dramanuke that shithole of a board
>>732308226>try to talk about game in the /vg/ thread>get shit on by schizos and autists because you broke up their art dumping and ERPing and cliquefaggotry
>>732299345>see thread with interesting premise>look inside>stealth general that’s not even talking about the premise presented in op, let alone vidyaReally wish you can report these for what they are but they get around it since the op technically isn’t of whatever the general’s about. Hate getting psyoped into clicking on one just because I didn’t recognize the op image as being from whatever game it’s about
>>732312305Seriously, we need a "general outside of /vg/" report option because there's like 7 or 8 of those constantly up on /v/ at all times. And if you point out that it's a general, they cry at you for "wahh wahh we're just discussing videogames" when 90% of the thread is just shitposting and dumping softcore porn and nobody actually talking about the game.
>Find thread that poses an interesting question>Spend minutes jotting down a reply>Proper punctuation, fact checking and more go into it>Finally happy with my wall of text>Click Post>"Error: You cannot reply to this thread anymore.">Realize that the pic OP used was for some stealth gacha general, /pol/ or coomer shitIt happens so often to me nowadays.
>>732311940Fair, but you and your trooncord need to fuck off to /trash/ already because you're not here to talk about vidya, furfag. I've seen your threads and they're blatant /vg/-tier: No vidya discussion and just porn.
>>732311940It's one of those "last laugh" ordeals, it's a flex about how intelligent and above it all your average /v/irgin postures himself as.4chan's hostile environment has its perks in scarring away reddit types but the downside is it causes newfags to, with time, adopt this sort of "I may be a fucking neet loser with crippling autism and will likely die alone, but I damn sure know I have great tastes in video games and no one will ever trick me into buying bad ones" facade.>"The indie dev is a faggot, I don't know him but he's a faggot and he wants to sell me this. >Guess what, I won't, buy an ad faggot I know you're the dev and you can't manipulate me!It also plays into the general "I like video game, this game/console/company is my tribe and the other thing is the enemy, fuck you other thing!" mindset.
>>732312397>Implying the tranny jannies will enforce it>Implying they aren't made/protected by themNo use brainstorming what we as users literally can't do to fix this dying shithole because it's all curated by and for the tranny jannies. You either accept it and do your damndest to filter whatever you can, join in on the chaos or leave.We're an insular bunch, but we're maladjusted autists who don't organize or coordinate raids on IRC to get anything done.
>>732312305>>732312453>make a thread posing an interesting vidya question>use what seems to be an appropriate image for the topic>turns out said image is related to a stealth general you didn't know about>fags come out the woodworks thinking it’s “the thread”>mfw watching my thread get taken overYou cannot understand the level of hate I have for these faggots
>>732303095Yes the Jews are watching you post.
>>732310369/v/ is fucking dead. This is now a social media engagement farm.
>>732312305>>732312397>stealth general on /v/ is mostly on-topic discussion but still gets deleted and hounded by backseat jannies telling everyone to fuck off to /vg/>general on /vg/ is 99% imagedumping and schizo e-drama but this is totally okay and if you complain you're b&Eat a bucket of black dicks you little tattle-tale faggots, I'll talk about whatever games I want, whenever I want.
>>732313056Well, yeah obviously.
>>732312305stealth bug threads are so much fun
>>732312570I feel like there needs to be some middle ground. Shills do exist as evident by the Amazon Fallout threads for example but so do sincere posters. Eventually sincere posters just coat themselves in over a thousand layers of irony from dealing with shills and retards, eventually adopting the same tactics, the cycle repeats until /v/ is just a social media, politics and porn addled hellhole.
>>732313235>BBAAAAAWWWW I SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LACK OF MODERATION AND BREAK THE RULES WHENEVER I WANTThis is literal nigger behavior. Posting on 4chan is a privilege, not a right, you entitled loser.
>>732313723If a game is good, it doesn't matter if someone was paid to tell you about it or if someone genuinely shared the game with you because they liked it.If a game is bad, all that matters is the truth that it's bad gets out and to call out lies about it; which usually stem from actual shills (though contrarian shitposters take full advantage of the oppurtunity)Faggots trying to flex their mental fortitude in shill detection do ultimately just ruin the board. Nobody will ever care that you're "immune to advertising", unless you have an actual criticism of the game you wish to share, shut the fuck up.
>>732313727>mods have the right to rape me up the ass and delete on-topic threads whenever they wantHoly fucking boot-licking redditor. If I replied with an image you'd probably sift through b4k for something to go "LOOK LOOK GUYS THIS GUY SUPPORTS [irrelevant thing]!!!" too. Catch AIDS and die, newtard brownoid scum.
>>732313610Bug threads and other off-board threads get a pass cause they’re fun and/or comfy. It’s faggots like touhoufags and umaniggers that are the problem. Hell I even tolerate those fairy friday and saturday zelda girls threads since they at least don’t try to disguise themselves
>>732314487>cause they're fun and/or comfy>because I'm a /trash/tard that's only here to discuss my fetishes and ERP as a mothgirlftfy
>>732314487>I hate 2huThey're only like this because /v/ banishing 2hu was a mistake.
>>732301175>steam forums
>>732311491/pol/tards
>>732308226>play game>go to /vg/>find it's general>talk about dicks and kissing anonis a fucking card game.
>>732302610Every time
>>7323117979-5 normies venting and sharing their misery
>>732305654>respond to a thread because it looks interesting>the last few posts were just me chiming in
>>732308226Why is /vg/ one of the least efficient ways to discuss vidya anyways? I can only assume that having an anonymous thread up 24/7 causes their mind to deteriorate from talking about the same damn game constantly, especially if it's a one-off indie title.
>No one talks about the game because there is nothing new, shit is old af and is not even multiplayerYume Nikki pretty much, and you can’t mention online because of schizos
>>732308226>go to the general>thread janny has a meltie because you shat up his private chatroom with posts about the gameFuck off back to discord you queer
>>732309671Steam forums have a nasty habit of potentially stealing your games if you piss them off hard enough. Ever since the clown purge one could assume the metrics have dropped off a cliff in response.
>>732313235>mostly on-topic discussionBAHAHAHAHAHAyou think you are escaping from the cancer of veegee by making some YGO or toehoe thread? nigger YOU are the cancer of veegeenobody would mind if you weren't obnoxious faggots running 24/7 threads, plenty of weekly threads chug along just fine
>>732314617Nah I like talking about real insects
A fulfilling thread doesn't need hundreds of replies, the most in my observation is only two, and my day is complete.maybe don't have a wall of text as an opening, or your game is too obscure for /v/, but interest fluctuate --- it comes and goes.There's been a increase of drama threads that are getting more attention, i wouldn't be surprised if it's all bot posters.
>>732309671won at being shit and hated?
>>732316319>i wouldn't be surprised if it's all bot postersSometimes i feel as if there are only 30 people on this site.
>>73231643830 real people, mind.I know I'm not.
>>732316438At any given time you would be correct. Now enjoy this high quality cheese.
>>732316438Today was especially egregious. There were shitpost threads from fucking yesterday still up.What the fuck has happened to this site?
>>732299345You might be better going to other boards. I love horror games but most of the threads here die unless its like Dead Space R or RE4R, then its >muh tranny bathroom or some shit so I go to /horg/ and have very nice talks about Tormented Souls or You Will Die Here Tonight
>>732315302Because ritualistic posting fosters repeated patterns, which leads to people adopting personas and handles which is the antithesis to an anonymous imageboard. You’ll have someone in a Sonicshitter general always making posts about what kind of wife Amy would be with the same filenames, which then devolves into talking about Amys bowel movements which leads to autists posting /dbs/ bullshit involving Shadow to seem like “badasses” and half the people move to discord which bleeds over into the regular thread when they have drama (this occurs daily.) The reality is any sane man should have varied interests in numerous boards so they dont go insane from repetition and residual schizophrenia from dealing with other retards.
>>732316393Won at ruining something that genuinely used to be an enjoyable thing and I figure they take a lot of pride in that.
>>732318965>The reality is any sane man should have varied interests in numerous boards so they dont go insane from repetition and residual schizophrenia from dealing with other retards.This is also why you tend to see much higher quality discussion of a topic outside of its native board. The schizos are too focused on camping the intended board to shit up discussions taking place elsewhere.
>Play game>Suddenly a bunch of threads about it start appearing
>>732314425see >>732313727 and kill yourself, rule breaking turdworlder.
>>732316438Haven't run into my mimic stalker in a day or to so maybe I'm in the clear or maybe I was talking to myself the entire timePerhaps I'm losing my grip on reality
>Go into a clearly off-topic thread>Vocal 'Sage in all fields'>Leave>Banned within minutes to a couple hours>Rest of the thread's left untouchedor my favorite:>Call someone a nigger/any other slur>All boards ban for 3 daysI've started reporting racism in retaliation just so others get fed up with this site's bullshit.
>>732320149Damn this made me miss discussing anime and vidya on /b/ back in the 2000s
>>732308993Anyone posting about gacha should just be bannedSame with robloxSame with haloSimple asAnyone playing games like those and sincerely posting threads about them are not the type of anons that should be here.
>>732309432You forgot the targeted posting for the thread boogeyman (possibly multiple)
The people here try way too hard. No board is as childish as /v/.
>>732318965>You’ll have someone in a Sonicshitter general always making posts about what kind of wife Amy would be with the same filenames, which then devolves into talking about Amys bowel movements which leads to autists posting /dbs/ bullshit involving Shadow to seem like “badasses” and half the people move to discord which bleeds over into the regular thread when they have drama (this occurs daily.)Kek la kek this is such a fucking commonplace issue on /vg/, the only general I haven't seen this shit happen in is fucking stalker general.
>>732299345>Play game.>Thread magically appears within the next two days even though it has never been in the catalog at any point for the past year.>Thread goes on for like 40 more posts with nice people until it 404s because it's not that popular of a topic.I swear, threads just manifest when you play games.
>specific game has a dedicated schizo to ruin it every time
>>732315302Because in order for threads to survive on the board at all they need to have someone posting every few minutes. This leads to people talking about very little or ritual posting to keep a thread alive. On top of that many of the people in a general have already been talking about the topic for months if not years, likely with some of the same people even, so they're somewhat out of topics to talk about./vg/ itself also has a terrible reputation because of how schizophrenic and hair-trigger everyone is about every topic so you get even less people who actually want to look at something they might be interested in leading to a circular issue of the thread needing more people not to be a circlejerk but because no one wants to come to the threads it stays a circlejerk. The worst is when people actively refuse to listen to criticism in any way and think they're some secret agent from some rival thread or fanbase so you suddenly get a bunch of schizophrenic autists arguing with each other about why each of their games is garbage on repeat.Then you get cliques that form because by its very nature a general leads to the same people talking to each other, and many of the topics that can sustain a general involve guilds, chatrooms, or Discords in some manner. So now you have people who only post in the Discords/chatrooms, post drama in the threads, and only use the threads to bump and keep up a general that maybe ten real people outside of the group are even using which is honestly ridiculous.Another big issue is that if you let a general die it's very hard to get it up off the ground again because no one knows it's there once it dies and comes back. /khg/ is the only example I know where this worked because I remember when the initial KH3 news came out we had a few threads, there was no new news for weeks, and so everyone collectively decided not to make threads until the next KH3 news like a year or two later and it has continued to stay up since.
>>732323272>schizos can permanently attach themselves to a thread or character (Aquajeet) for example and make it their lifes goal to ruin any amount of discussion to any slight or inconvenience the world has given themHow the fuck do you even fight this? Giving them attention is irrelevant, I’ve seen people spam gore of camel dismemberment to get attention…on an Animal Crossing thread of all things.
>>732323485yeah I kept saying if people ignore the speedstorm threads the guy would stop but it created another schizo dedicated to post his archive every time he posts lmao
>>732323485>How the fuck do you even fight this?In my experience it's more on the mods than anything you as a community can do outside of reality hitting them like a brick and they either grow up and realize they're assholes or they literally cannot fund their lifestyle anymore to continue doing it. If someone is dedicated enough to reset their IP and continue spamming they're just mentally unwell enough to continue doing that indefinitely until whatever slighted them passes.Just look at how Lanced Jack and Toxic Jester both took mods repeatedly banning them and I believe LJ got a range ban before he finally stopped which took years. I believe Barry only stopped because he got a rangeban after plaguing the board for nearly a decade. ACfag is still around but I think he's mellowed out due to age and doesn't post about ZSS or Other M as much so Metroid threads are mostly better nowadays (Until MP4 happened that is).If you want an example, in Yakuza threads years ago we used to have some guy who day after day would nonstop post about how Yakuza had "god tier combat" and then proceeded to spam the thread for like 20 posts with the exact same webms of a guy mashing light attack. He did this for an actual year and a half in every single thread before he got bored. His reason? Someone said Yakuza 6 had better combat than one of the nuGod of War games.Another example is the drawfag in Senran Kagura threads who does nothing but spam his doodles 24/7, calls everyone who says they look bad "trolls trying to make me look bad" as if he's channeling CWC, and somehow posts in every single one so 40% of the thread is just his doodles. He would continuously get banned for spamming over and over and it did nothing, until he had an epiphany a few weeks back and mellowed out for some reason.
>>732323485>How the fuck do you even fight this?24/7 moderation by people who actually care, and/or a board small enough to not attract them to begin with. Anonymous image boards are pretty much dead sites walking once they hit a certain size because there will always be a dedicated schizo or ten who make it their life's work to shit the place up.
>>732312397This used to be an option but it was removed shortly after dalle threads were being spammed
>>732323864>and/or a board small enough to not attract them to begin withNah, it still happens on small boards. When I was getting into tokusatsu like 15 years ago at this point on /m/ when it was an extremely niche community there were two massive autists who would spam "Toku is not /m/" for years even before that and one guy who made it his life's mission to talk about how Heisei era shows were all garbage and only Showa era were worth anything.Small boards just make it so it's less likely to have autists, but the more niche you get the higher the chance someone gets even more schizo and lashes out.
>>732324038Even during LJ and Toxic Jester (holy FUARK that's an old name) the site wasn't THAT populated. Sure it had the chanology wave and fox news talking about exploding vans but traffic still was relatively low no? I'd say 2012-2016 4chan was peak saturation.
>>732323864>or a board small enough to not attract themdoes /3/ not make the grade?
>>732324189"Summer /v/" becoming a popular thing people would parrot and captchas being introduced (Like 2009? 2010?) was roughly when you can say it started to be "peak saturation" in my opinion. Pool's Closed, Chanology, and hackers on steroids were bumps but it took a while before it actually became a big bump.
>>732324189https://dev.4stats.io/Depends on the board.
>>732310369>Why AI isntDALL-E threads are banned on sight now>social mediaheadjanny looooooooooves twitter sloppa, can't even blame him, it's probably the only location where 4chan is getting new blood from (especially the phonefag kind who don't block ads)
>>732324951That jeet swine also loves /pol/ shit so it really doesn’t surprise me to learn the de-facto leader of this site wants to see it fail.
>>732324189I remember robot unicorn attackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqJTKdznaM
>>732324420>tv that activeJesus, what do they even talk about? Modern shows and films are fucking dogshit, you would have to force me at gunpoint to watch one and not fall asleep 5 minutes in, even the worst games of 2025 are not that badAlso, this might a hard truth to swallow but the downfall of vidya directly correlates with degradation of both western and japanese media, devs used to take a lot of inspiration from them and now all they have is lame and gay circus show, everything takes itself too seriously as if they are making the next Mona Lisa when in fact they are creating another Beast Jesus
>make thread about gaem on /v/>0 replies>make thread about meta on /v/>467 replies, 124 images
>>732311940this same retarded logic is what people that have <usernameTTV> characters use to justify their annoying begging and shitty social behavior>bro i'm not microsoft, so i can run around screaming for people to buy my bullshit okay?shut the fuck up! ~*~*~! buy an ad !~*~*~ fuck you!
>>732325323Skill issue
>>732308993>>get drowned out by 50 individual gacha threadswhy is it that every time someone talks about /vg/, they've never actually used /vg/ and are just hallucinating shit up or repeating some garbage they read some other anon wrote up?which one of these do you think will have your thread die in quicker:>/v/ with 50 slide threads per hour (thread lasts 20 minutes before 404)or>/vg/ with 3 generals per hour (thread lasts 4 hours before 404)just say you dislike /vg/ as a concept and like the crowd that inhabits /v/ more instead of making up shit
>>732325323The absolute state I think not even Half-Life 3(lol) can revive this zombie board, it's just too late now for zoomies to acquire better taste since they grew up on shit like CoD, Fortnite, Roblox, mobile ad games, gachashit, streamerbait horror/friend slop or worst of all, they just watch vidya related youtube content all day instead of playing anything themselves, this is like 90% of /v/ userbase nowadays
>>732325469maybe you have asperger's and don't understand hyperbole - only explanation i can think of here
>>732325469>check the catalogWow, you weren't kidding, the fuck is this?I was convinced niche threads couldn't survive on /vg/ because gacha spam would plow your thread off the catalog. The fuck?
>>732325739You can survive for a while but someone needs to keep posting or the thread dies relatively quickly. This isn't like back in the day when /lolg/ had three threads up at any given time with max posts shoving everyone off the board, but I know the Tomb Raider, Ace Combat, Kingdom Hearts, and a few others generally have someone who bumps the thread just to keep it alive. The Ace Combat guys in particular are dedicated, one guy keeps it alive so others can post later in the day if I remember right.
>>732325739The most active gachashit general can create 6-10 threads per day at most since multiple threads at once are usually deletedCompare it to the constant /pol/ ragebait threads, twitter threads and other threads getting bumped by shitposters on top of HOURLY 20 new threads created in quick succession, niche threads are always at disadvantage on /v/, believe me, I had firsthand experience with it
>>732323863I often remind myself that their vendettas are entirely pointless since they can't be everywhere at once and they evidently always just stick to throwing their tantrums on here leaving the rest of the internet along give or take, so it's just as pointless having discussions on 4chan if you lack the patience to ignore them.Though often times I can't help my dogmatic sense of justice and if they piss me off and they're insecure enough, I troll them back since it disrupts their brand of fun and it genuinely does upsets them because they don't expect you to fight back.
>>732326040>it genuinely does upsets them because they don't expect you to fight back.It's a double-edged sword. Barry for example harassed and doxed some chick because she kept arguing with him for a while. In the Yakuza spammer's case he actually got even worse when people started interacting with him to the point he was word-for-word copying posts of people to use in threads the next day. At one point he used like five of my posts from the previous day to pretend like he was arguing with himself in the new thread just so he could post the webms again, and then in a thread a few weeks later he copied like half a thread from a few days prior and posted them to argue with himself.
>>732301289based
>>732323863>His reason? Someone said Yakuza 6 had better combat than one of the nuGod of War games.based as hell
>>732325874Second life general is solely some guy that spams reposted images and a French Muslim schizo
>>732325874>one guy keeps it alive so others can post later in the day if I remember right.Is the sanctity of the topic really worth the effort at that point or have they just made it a habit? At some point one has to learn how to let the fuck go.
>>732326458Ace Combat's not really my thing so I've never browsed it, it's just something I remember one guy talking about a few years back. They did it because most of the people who do play AC are in that thread and whenever they tried to make threads on /v/ they'd die fairly quickly so they stopped bothering.
>>732325389That kinda encapsulates what anon meant though.You have to be either directly obtuse or facetious to start a thread.
>>732326935>facetiousFair enough that's very much me
>>732326278I've been there, particularly so with the doxing threat, though the end result of him getting IP wiped because of it along with 100+ of his posts samefagging to himself was fun to witness. Cunt's a Passu user too. The tranny jannies really ought to be investigated by the law for some sort of tard extortion/exploitation or whatever because it's genuinely fucked that they knowingly make money off these legit schizos.
>>732327003It was fine back then and to an extent. I can't say I never pretended to be retarded either.But it really did bring all the retards.
>>732327120>Telling the feds to investigate themselvesLolLmaoThose moot emails just cement the fact even more-so.
>>732299345>enter thread on /v/>pick some anon who is arguing about something>tell him that he is a retarded faggot that is wrong about everything>close tab and never open the thread again or read any of the replies
>>732327301The blame can’t solely be put on people occasionally fucking around. The internet isn’t supposed to feel like some rigid place of endless rules. Theres genuinely people who have zero sense of community regardless of where they go, they derive endless enjoyment from the attention and clout they get from acting like an unhinged retard. And you know what? Even this would be fine, we deal with these kinds of people on a daily basis, but the entire moderating staff also encourages, funds and supports the undesirables. In some, well even most cases they are the undesirables. All the /j/ logs proved trannitors were feeding troll discourse for revenue.
Since the discussion is in the ball court of /vg/-esque shit, I'm going to voice my opinion on where /vg/ is good and where /vg/ is badYes, I am incredibly biased, eat my peenus weenus.Generally-good:>extremely autistic solo-journey focused sandboxy shit like modded minecraft, terraria, factorio etc etcMiddle ground, can be either or:>/v/ threads but just on /vg/, for some reason without the /v/ schizos>multiplayer games that have little character customization or personalization that force people to focus and talk about the game (helldivers, co-op games) rather than their persona>limbo shit that can't survive /v/ but is too fast for /vm/, /vrpg/, /vst/>non-MMOs with seasonal shit up till a month after launch>shit that I forgot to mentionBad:>dressup, bethesda>gachaRADIOACTIVE WASTE tier:>general story focus games or VNs>MMOs>seasonals a month+ in>>732324272Creative boards are hell because they're haunted by people who failed who cope by trying to drag everyone down.
>>732327397Then they'll have to go through ME!
>>732299345Why do you think every single thread starts with rage bait?
Imageboards are just washed up, the only new blood that comes in are undesirables who are either banned or shunned from every other place each and every single one being irony poisoned to the brim and all the remaining ""oldfags"" are entitled niggers who stomp their feet at said newfags for not spoonfeeding them OC content and culture that's a carbon copy of the shit from their arrival date; things they never participated in themselves because it was "reddit" and "forced".
Boy I hate anons complaining about the state of the board.Don't misunderstand me, they're not worse than the posters they're complaining about, but those fellows have the excuse of being ontologically evil.Do you feel that people enjoy reading whiny posts about the good ol' days? Is your dream /v/ a grey board of undifferentiated nostalgia and malaise? Or do you somewhere realise that your posts are still below-average, and therefore making the board worse just as you complain about people doing so?It's like going to the city and spraying "I HATE GRAFFITI" in bright bold letters on a wall. If it's not intentional avant-garde art, it's the senseless ravings of a half-wit.Here's an alternate suggestion: rather than saying that you wish people would make good posts, how about you, instead, make good posts yourself? Make a thread about a game you like and have it sink to page 10 immediately? You know full well that is a deed of virtue still. If you see a thread like that, you can reply to it. And most of all, in the words of our forefathers: Hide bait threads. Ignore bait posts. Do not reply to bait posters.Or you can effortpost. /v/ has not so fallen that a /v/ingo thread would go gentle into that page ten. If you set up and host one of those, you will make /v/ a better place. You know this. Everyone knows this. You hold the power in your hand but choose to play as powerless.Because at the end of the day, you don't want to put effort into your posts. You don't want to make a post that will get ignored. You want to make a low-effort comment to get a lot of (You)s, about a topic unrelated to video games.But you're complaining about the trolls whose low-effort bait attracts (You)s and prevents vidya discussion, so that means you're the hero.
