>make a cogent effort post about a paradox of video game design, lay out the terms of my argument and offer my solution, inviting curious discussion>check an hour later>archived, 1 reply >"kek">other thread about reheated youtube or twitter drama >413 replies
i regret every second i've wasted here in the past 15 years
kek
>>732404368What threads
Either you have outgrown this place, or the audience has shifted imperceptibly over a long period of time. Either way, the result is the same.
It's been over for a long time. The board you're posting in now is like a fanfiction of /v/. It's not canon.
>>73240436890% of the users of this site don't post AT ALLOf the users that do post, 90% are phone posters who can't read and just guess what you saidIf your post is long enough they can't guess and give up
>>732404368I mean that's the lay of the land >Hey guys lets talk about stealth games>20 replies and half of them are me bumping>THIEF sucks ass fuck all of you old faggots >300 replies and full blown discussion about stealth games also feel free to talk about the paradox, ill be happy to hear you out
>>732405146>just guess what you said>If your post is long enough they can't guess and give upRead about this yesterday.Most zoomers can't tell the difference if if the words are close enough. Dericisive. Decisive etc
Too many v tards either don't play games or play something they can't talk about about (gatcha, multiplayer shit) so they stick to drama, culture war and e celebs
>>732404368>he says as he posts more off topic garbage>>732404418Same. Been trapped on this hell for 20 years now. First came to 4chan when I was 14 in 2006.
lmao
Eh, even if /v/ was less shit, I don't think a thread about game design would really take off unless it's something controversial. Armchair game design isn't worth its own thread and should just be in a thread for the relevant game(s).
>>732404670Didn't the creator of that Mario Music Box game murder somebody?
>>732404418This.>>732404421Yeah.
>>732405709Hey man, it's not funny. Quit laughing.
The only video games worth talking about are FromSoft games because FromSoft is the only company left that makes real vidya.
A grand amount of things in life are a paradoxWhy do we even bother living when true bliss lies within the release of death?I can't imagine how it would feel to never have had to exist, sounds kinda great honestly Are we just here to suffer?My pp hurt
>Blud writin he thesus :skull:
>>732404368this thread has taken off, its time to post your deep take anon
>>732405974>FromSoft games>real vidyalol, lmao even
>>732406057I'm just up far too late and sleep deprived
,>>732406215Name one other company that still makes real vidya. You can't. Even Capcom is putting out DEI slop now.
>>732406361Nintendo and I'm not even a tendie
>>732406361Rollslop isn't vidya just like walking simulators
>>732405750yeah he killed the real mario... mama mia...
It's basic human nature. Drama is more interesting. Shitposting is more interesting. Baiting for (You)s is more interesting. Anything aside from actual discussion. This is an image board website, after all. Discussions are for forums or discord
>>732406524This
>>732406410Nintendo just makes generic slop now. The Wii U was the last console to have SOULFUL games.>>732406451How do you roll in Armoured Core 6 and Sekiro???
>>732406560I will give you armoured core but sekiro came out in 2019, that's 7 years ago.
>>732404368same but the thread was deleted and I was banned
>>732404368this happens to me everyday, you get over ityou have to realize that most of these niggers are cattle
>>732404368>cogent effort post about a paradoxFrom this statement alone I can tell your post wasn't worth reading
>>732404368I also like to make long detailed posts. You have to take pride in your own effort and enjoy the process of developing a well reasoned opinion. you may not have received the responses you wanted this time, but the topic will come up again, either by you or someone else, and you'll be ready to contribute and advance your ideas.
>>732404368Always reddit space. Fags scream about it but I've realized effort posts with more than 3 lines of text get ignored./v/ loves easy reads. Green text formatting is also preferred.Unfortunately there is no fix for banal posts though, learn attention grabbing phrasing.
>>732406182>this thread has taken off, its time to post your deep take anonThe bushes in Super Mario Bros are just green clouds.
i saw that thread it sucked ass, looked like LLM crap
>>732407235As fun as 4chan is, it really is unfit for serious continuous discussions, either you have one off threads which rarely are of good quality or you get generals that devolve into faggotry. Forums were the proper format.
>>732407357It is a problem exclusive to fast boards, slow boards never had this issue. People on fast boards are addicted to the short, spastic and chatroom style engagement and stick around for that form of entertainment.Meanwhile anyone on /sci/ is looking for something informative to chew on for a bit and will reply with an equal effort post if they must.
>>732407614Fast boards are just that: fast. Unfortunately there's hundreds of anons who want to make a discussion thread and only the most active (read: baited into being replied) tend to survive.
>>732407295Wrong, the clouds are white bush.
>>732404368At this point, at least post what you wrote.
>>732407752>>732407614>fast boardslol lmao4chan boards are basically glacial now
>>732407357>>732407614>>732407752it depends on if there's enough anons interested in the topic, even on fast /v/ stuff like elder scrolls lore threads tend to have actual discussion. it's just nobody gave a fuck about whatever topic op was blathering on about
>>732404368>cogent effort post about a paradox of video game design, lay out the terms of my argument and offer my solution, inviting curious discussionYou and most other people in this thread haven't made a genuine post since you've hit puberty.
>>732404418/thread
>>732404368this has been the case for literal decadesthese types of threads have also been the case for literal decadesshame the archive doesn't go further so I could prove it more but you get the point
>>732407797I love white bush
>>732406560>Nintendo just makes generic slop now.I don't see any cinematic, mtx, f2p ridden games on their systems. > The Wii U was the last console to have SOULFUL games.HA! Iwata fucked that entire era.
>>732404368Even if that thread didn't get bumped off, there's always some faggot arguing in bad faith because they were never spanked enough as a kid. They don't care about anything you say, the more effort you put into a post the more entertaining it is to drive by and leave some totally ebin comment about how little they care. Their lives are miserable, and the quality of the posts has gone down sharply as these kinds of people became the majority. What was once popular here is often railed against, accused of being "reddit" by newfags trying to fit in. When the boogeyman lives in your head rent free, and all conversations are tinted by their shadow, you can't have an original conversation. Everything will always lead back to desperate attempts at being the opposite, and is defined increasingly by its presence.This site isn't a fun waste of time anymore, and it hasn't been in a long long time. Every so often something mildly entertaining happens to remind you of the old times, but you have to suffer through the most fucktarded personalities on this site for months inbetween. /v/ is a miserable pit of ads, schizos, and angry losers.If you have any doubts, just leave. Life is too short to spend it around fags like these.
>>732404368if you that passionately about a topic, make a video essay.or use reddit
>>732410184afraid so
>>732405481>DericisiveWould help if you could spell.
>>732404368I'm getting tired of the chud culture war spam too. They fell for a jew psyop and they still can't stop. It's bots or mentally ill behavior. Don't know which.
>>732404368We just had a meta thread yesterday, you dunceDon't try turn this into a daily ritual, you'll regret it
>>732412501D’you think all the ‘le trans’ spam is by real organic people or just one really dedicated anon
>>732410184Right wing humor is predicated around being as obnoxious as possible. Oh this bothers you? Is my bad faith annoying you? Am I offending you? Ad nauseum.
>>732412889Red pill means being a contrarian at all times no matter what. No logical thoughts.
Oh now we've reached the part where 2 leftoid newfags condescend back and forth with each other about stuff they're pretending they were around for but weren't. Erry damn time.
>>732413521You still had to comment on it.
Screw this I'm shitposting
>>732413770They unironically did this with Gundam.
>>732413860Ouch, far too true
>>732410184This
>>732412361No need to be so dericisive about it
Repost a few times. If it's meaningful eventually anons who care will see it and respond.
>>732404368Imageboards are not meant for slow, in-depth discussion, it's just not how they work.They're meant for fast-paced discussion of current events or media.That's why a single "kek" has the same bump value of a text wall, and why these threads would vanish forever after a few hours if archives did not exist.Talking about youtube and twitter drama that will be meaningless in a week is exactly the kind of thing you do in a place like this.Even if you make a thread about some game from 30 years ago, the point is that there needs to be enough interest in talking about it right now for the thread to not archive in minutes, and what generates that kind short-term interest in large groups of people? Youtube videos and Twitter posts with millions of views.
>>732416926Nah, it's more of a modern change. Before you could have actual discussion but nowadays the younger generations don't really care for any form of conversation opting to make people react to their nonsense for attention.
>>732404368your mistake was not bringing up trannies, you would have gotten replies if you just dipped your toes in culture war bullshit.
>>732405146>If your post is long enough they can't guess and give upMost of the time if someone is making a long post and then I disagree with their thesis statement or a core axiom of their argument they’ll just pretend I don’t understand them because I won’t let myself get into a pseudoff about the nature of knowledge and definitions
People who make these whiny threads about their walls of text being ignored are so funny to me. Literally just go to /vg/.
>>732405749People understand fundamental/objective quality, and devs come here.
>>732418773>People understand fundamental/objective qualityPeople trying to make objective assessments about subjective qualities is easily the most retarded thing about modern Vidya discussion
>>732418881Everything either detracts from, or adds to quality. People that understand the height of motivation/fun are extremely rare and valuable. Fun was solved in 1985 (extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation; SDT).
>>732418453What does the image dump gacha board have to do with text walls?
>>732404368Don't ever post anything worth posting on here. Post it somewhere else under a name and take credit for it instead
>>732405974>real vidya >it’s just rollslop Grim times
my favourite retarded thing i have heard on here>you cant have any discussion on the rest of the internet because powerhungy mods and normalfags, 4chan is the only place with actual discussion>its literally all just pure bait, people playing characters just for bait, porn dumps and purposefully spreading misinformation just for fun, millennial losers randomly "venting" about their life and derailing threads, etc
>>732423212So just like real life socialization>Wait it's all performative?>Always has been
>>732419247>Everything either detracts from, or adds to qualityNo shit, but people weight “everything” differently so quality in regards to “fun” is ultimately going to be largely a subjective assessment
>>732423212Yeah, this is said mostly by people who haven't been here for very long.
>make a thread about a game>there’s someone on /v/ who despises the game>floods every thread with steam charts, sales figures, and insults everyone who says something positive
>>732404368you suckImagine that instead of crafting your effort post to be more interesting, you decide to whineYour inability to pull attention to something worthwhile suggest that no matter the effort, the post probably wasn't worth reading.
>>732424576BG is owned by tencent
The vast majority of people on /v/ are just generally stupid and can't explain/articulate anything about game design, especially 3D games.
Unfortunately, games are not worth discussing. Games are not good, never have been good, and never will be good. The only reason to post on here is to discuss waifus and politics.
>>732419247go away nutriments nigger
>>732424576>Anon conveniently neglects to tell us which game was the topicI'm gonna say it's your fault for wanting to talk about woke corpo-slop and the other anon was a based chud
>>732405216>also feel free to talk about the paradox, ill be happy to hear you outNo answer. No surprise from an OP who admits he makes a thread and then abandons it for hours.
>>732424325The scholarly material exists, dude. I don't think you can argue against maximizing skill expression, roleplay, and socioeconomy. People are going to have more fun than MOBAs and CS when we have a good sandbox MMO.
>>732424913>I don't like interactive [other medium].Skill issue.
>>732425185>everybody should objectively like the exact same gamesKek autist or bait I don’t even know
>>732407912t. twitterfag with chronic anxiety>inb4 NOOO I CAN READ 10000 POSTS PER HOUR, I CAN, I SWEAR!
>>732425387We will all play the same games together. People will understand objective quality.
I wish it was possible to have more decent conversations online really, one of the best things about 4chan is that occasionally there MIGHT be a good discussion here because nobody is worried about proving their self-worth when it comes to certain subjects, compared to reddit and twitter where people are encouraged to engage even if they don't know shit and end up attracting more flies, or in Twitter's case, long discussions are just discouraged because of the word limit unless you feel like paying a sub, yet it won't make the quality of discussion any better
>>732404447It's shifted and it's not just due to the old guard aging out. The new crop of idiots ate more idiotic than the old ones. Can't meme properly, only repost Twitter, Youtube or other shit, no originality. You can see the difference in the threads showing screenshots of old posts, at least people would put in effort to insult you back then.
>>732404418but then I read posts like this and laugh and remember it is worth it
>>732425580No they won’t. Autists will hate that something isn’t catering to their tastes and hyperfixate on some irrelevant bullshit to whine about nonstopExample: door jpgs in Pokemon
>>732424576I swear to god if I see that fucking pasta in another E33 thread I’m gonna lose it
>>732426007Then you just measure physiological parameters and show them what's more fun.
I have a great theory on narrative choices in games, but you don't deserve to hear it
>>732406524>>732406553
>>732404368stuff like that is unironically better fit as a serious reddit post.if you want to do it the 4chan way, you first have to either ragebait or meme about something similar, then in the thread comment your actual opinion or whatever.
>>732427896>4chan wayTourist like this retard really ruined this site
>>732404368If you were smart enough to say something smart, you'd be smart enough to post it elsewhere, preferably profiting from it.
>>732404368>cogent effort post about a paradox of video game designkek>>732404421also this
>>732428953lmfao anon does the mere statement that someone made a smart post in the past threaten your intelligence that much that you have to prove you're smarter?
You never go full vidya. You do something like this instead. >What video games would he play? What afte some video games? Video games! pic related
>>732404368Im tired of this schizo site being the only place i talk to people online but everyone outside of here is annoying and wont shut up about muh ice and muh blumpf and muh lgbt. pol-tier retards and leftoids who are trannies half the time have destroyed nerd spaces and theres no sensible people left to talk with, let alone be friends withits not fair lol
>>732404368Bolo
>>732404447>>732409713>the audience has shifted imperceptibly over a long period of timeImperceptibly? Long period of time? There was a very obvious cratering around 2023, like literally overnightDon't get me wrong the board has been steadily becoming worse ever since it was made, but even during the darkest days of e.g. 2016-2023, you could still have a good thread full of efforposting reach bump limit without having to ragebait people into engaging, or having to keep the thread alive with bumping, regardless of the general state of the board, this was possible even during the height of GG Then in 2023 it just stopped, I have literally not had a single good thread in 2024, 2025, or 2026 so far, even threads that were board mainstays and had regular anons turn up for them every single time for 10+ years stopped being viable, it made me feel like I was taking crazy pills I'd like to blame something simple like the IP counter being removed or the captcha becoming shit or the release of ChatGPT but I fear it's something much deeper, like society collectively giving up on the pretense of stability and going into survival mode to the point where just discussing games becomes a trivial thing no one wants to bother with or spend time or energy on, when they're struggling to make ends meet and we're teetering on WW3, so no one does anything in good faith anymoreOr maybe it *was* due to AI and now no one wants to bother with putting effort into a discussion when they don't even know if they're talking to a human on the other end Or it could be that all the effortposting oldfags died off during 'rona and were replaced by ADHD zoomers raised on phone games who think single player gambling is peak gameplay, I've certainly noticed massive shifts in opinions in the last couple of years where previously I could count on /v/ to always have taste and rational takes, to now being no better than twitter or reddit
>>732404368you are an absolute buffoon for thinking you could do something like that on 4chan.
>>732432660kek
>>732432660thanks for the novel unc i am sure it was riveting stuff
>>732404368Is this the thread?I'm looking for reccomendations for games to keep on my apocalypse external. Lately the internet has been going out more and more and I don't want to find myself completely fucked if it goes out for a longer period.Im specifically looking for some gems between 3-10gb.
People just prefer shitposting. It's coomthreads or culture war shit. Anything interesting is off to page 10. Saw a creepy levels thread yesterday. I love reading those kind of threads, especially when they're still up the next day. But it vanished so fast. Bumped it twice to no avail. Try having a KCD thread. Won't work unless it's about the gay stuff. Just ruined.
>>732433017>>732433128Ironic shitposting is still shitposting
>>732405750Yes. By setting them on fire no less.
>>732433230Conquest of Elysium 5
>>732404418I don't, all other sites are normie garbage. at least I can call garbage out in this place
>>732406008>Are we just here to suffer?Yes, that's not a joke.
>>732404368Cause like social media and getting a girl has shown, people don't want conversation they want to be pissed off.
>>732432660Internet has become so bad lately that staring at the wall is a better activity than browsing. I hardly even bother to visit some lesser-known forums that I used to frequent.
>>732404368My mang lad buddy boyo, effortposting on 4chinks in the current year of our lord Muhammat (peace be upon he/him) isn't worth it. 99% of the posters are non-sentient animals, bots or paid advertisers. Discussion's been fucking dead for years now.Thanks for being part of that 1 percent of actual humans. It's best for us to just give up the possibility of any sort of intelligent discussion and lurk for vidya news. I got my wake up call when it happened 15 times in a row that I posted a well thought-out reply/argument in a thread and it died right after.In case you do want to continue posting and making threads here with the topic of your choice (proper discussion worthy stuff and not whatever drama or offtopic bullshit that makes threads hit bump limit nowadays) you have to samefag and manufacture artificial discussion by arguing for both sides and baiting people into attacking and defending the topic for you. And then hope the thread gains traction. The other option is migrating to infinite and wait a day for a new post in your thread.I'm going back to lurking. Good thread by the way.
>>732433704>teased my brother about something that happened in his past.>didn't know he was off his meds.>now lives in perpetual mental torment reliving this moment every minute of every day convinced that the act was evil, that someone is coming to punish him for it, and that he has somehow doomed humanity.
>>732406008Life is suffering, to live is to suffer. The sensation of not existing is far beyond the periphery of human understanding. The concept of a no-thing can only occur in a space that transcends duality so completely, that neither the concept of dual or nondual exists; a nonthingness even beyond nothing: a no-thing. That No-Thing is an absolute virtue of the highest divinity and ought to be revered as such. To believe that we could possibly experience such bliss during a simple energy transfer as base as death is arrogant and overly optimistic. Indeed, the only way to properly exalt this No-Thing is to follow our karma so closely that we exist in a zen state for as much of our life as possible. For nirvana does not exist outside samsara, it exists in any enlightened mind.
>>732434968There is a very good movie called Love Liza with Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I watched it after a family member I was very close to had a terrible mental breakdown and the movie really helped me understand that you just cant take responsibility for someone else's mental illness.
>>732435068>>732433704>>732406008gay
>>732432660Wouldn't surprise me if effort-posters moved onto LLMs like GPT. I have no incentive to ask any of the morons on this website for advice the same way I ask GPT because GPT is actually helpful and the morons on this website usually aren't. When I have something meaningful I want to talk about, I take it to GPT first because it is literally like having a discussion with a 4chan effort poster.>inb4 here you're talking to actual people which makes it more valuableDon't make me fucking laugh. The AI is more of a person than the "people" on this board.
>>732435415>my toaster is my friendgrim
>>732435504>implying i consider anyone on 4chan to be my friendIdk what's more pathetic, considering yourself to be among peers in a literal crab bucket or being "friends" with a machine that helps improve your life.
>>732405806hyuk hyuk hyuk
>>732435415I tried talking to ai but holy fuck does it fucking lie in your face, and doesn't learn even when you call it out on its bullshit. Gotta fact check everything that garbage says. Even for a basic question like "Which games in the battlefield series have a singleplayer campaign and/or offline bots?" it gave me an answer where 30% of the info was plain incorrect, and it says it with a straight fucking face, worded all nicely.I can't wait for its crash.At least here I know I'm sometimes speaking to an intelligent being capable of reason and learning.
>>732435646Do whatever you want anon, just know your questions aren't sharp, insightful, or deep. That's just marketing.
>>732435879>as if the idiots here are guaranteed to try to give you something accurateAt least GPT will admit it's wrong and attempt to correct itself (even if it keeps making mistakes). The cretins here will get defensive and argue for 300 posts before admitting they made a simple fucking mistake kek.>>732435930It telling me I'm a genius is just a bonus, all I'm looking for are answers to the questions that pop into my head, and it does that without hesitation and with a ton of context. It may not always get things right and may sometimes hallucinate some pretty crazy shit, but I've used it enough to know when I need to fact check things. I don't take the things it says at face value any more than I take the things anons on this website say at face value. For all intents and purposes, it is the same shit as 4chan, only more pleasant to interact with.
>>732432660The reality is that the old effort posters became old and boring. Our brains atrophied and don't have the capacity for creative thinking, the way how mathmaticians and comedians both do their best work before they hit their thirties.Not only that, but your own senses have also dulled to the point where it would take more stimulation to experience the same.It's like desensitization squared
>>732437234I think it's more likely that they just found better things to do with their lives. An effort-poster most likely did other things in their spare time besides post on 4chan, and that likely led to them living healthy, responsible lives. What's left here now is the refuse-- the anons who never contributed anything and are now stuck inhabiting a website full of people who don't know *how* to put effort into doing anything. Blaming it on aging both lazy and irrational.
>>732437571I know how I just don't want to.
>>732437736>I know how I just don't want toA) I don't believe you and B) that's a stance that is less than worthless on this website. Cheers.
>>732438015>A: Okay>B: It already cost you a (You)
>>732438260>unironically seeing (You)s as having valueThis may be the actual reason why the website has gone down the drain.
>>732438632>my attention is worth nothingOkay, explains a lot about the normieverse actually.
>>732438826>my attention is worth nothingYes, obviously. Did you forget that this is an anonymous website?
>>732438632>that one day when (You)s were disabled and everyone threw a tantrum until it came back
>>732439236>4channer.com posters say reddit is bad becuase it has the updoots>then they shid and pizz their diapey wipeys when they lose their precious (You)s
>>732439234>the only value I understand is moneyNeat.
>>732439236MY DOPAMINE!
>>732439432Lol would you kindly explain to me the value of a (You) so I can wrap my feeble mind around it?
>>732439592I don't understand why you're acting this dense. Why aren't you sitting in silence in a dark room right now as we speak? Do you need more?
>732439896Yes, actually. I am so dense that I do not understand what you meant with that post. Please explain it to me in a way that a complete idiot could understand.
Let's try the way of analogy. Why is solitary confinement a punishment?
>>732404368Should have started the thread with a lewd vidya girl ya schmuck
>>732439236To be fair, the underline of dots they replaced it blended in way too much to be useful. It was an ergonomically retarded decision, all to stop a meme.
>>732440339Because it makes you feel alone and thus causes you to lose your mind. Oh wait, I get it now. People farm (You)s because it makes them feel like they actually exist when otherwise they would feel like hollow husks. Yikes. No wonder this board has such miserable low-effort content most of the time.
>>732432660I'm a 2018 newfag but I noticed I couldn't stand the majority of /v/ ever since 2023. Wasn't sure if there actually was a drop in quality since that year or if I was imagining it.
>makes the case for effortposting>shitposts about a fundamental of human experience no one can do anything about>I am very intelligent
>>732440673>pandemic lockdown in the US officially ends in may 2023That's the only thing I can recall happening that year that was of any substance. Though maybe the 2024 election also had something to do with it.
>>732404368you have to make a bait topic then post your real thread content in the first three replies with a lust provoking image of an anime girl face
>>732440832Forgive me, anon. It was arrogant of me to assume that you were an idiot. I can now fully apprecaite why shitposting the status quo and why it would be foolish of me to expect much else from myself or anyone else.
>>732440918>That's the only thing I can recall happening that year that was of any substanceLLMs launched December 2022, and October 7 2023 increased global tensions after COVID and Ukraine already got them high
>>732441672All of it was just a big setup, huh?
>>732406451This anon is a bsky tourist and doesn't play video games at all. These shitposters will never tell you what games they enjoy because they don't play any.
>>732404368It's maddening. My only advice is to post those sorts of posts on an actual forum, you will get proper replies and an actual discussion.If you do it here you'll just get shitpost replies and your thread will be closed within a couple of hours.
bamp
>>732424576Koh
>>732410184But anon… im here forever..
>Discussions are for forums or discordRope right fucking now
>>732416926>Imageboards are not meant for slow, in-depth discussion, it's just not how they work.that's an audience/thread limit problem
>Devs blame you for what they did
>>732435415AI chatbots are designed to suck your cock, they're good for finding initial information and having them give you a broad overview on some philosophical or technical concept. But having an actual back and forth? Nah, they're too sycophantic.
>>732451041Yeah I suppose that's true. It starts to get kind of embarrassing having a machine tell you how special and unique you are lmao. I do find it to be rather amusing how much people are put off by that, though. I don't have many outlets for receiving praise and I'm the type of person who needs praise to keep on chugging. The fact that the AI did a better job of providing me with emotional support than my own family is definitely sad, but probably something that isn't wholly uncommon.
>make a retarded shitpost>one reply>"based"
>>732405146>90% are phone posters who can't read and just guess what you said this happens way too often for the last 6 years or so
>>732433704Figures >>732435068Trying my best boss but I'm tired
>>732434175I need to save this for totally video game related threads
>>732439236>>732439415>enshittening your website because people meme it for pointsI like knowing who replied to what in which conversation, jesus christ
>>732404368You're only just now realizing how astroturfed this entire website has become, huh champ?I assure you: if one day 4ch*n is nuked from the internet, you won't miss it as much as you think.
>>732404368>make a cogent effort post about a paradox of video game design, lay out the terms of my argument and offer my solution, inviting curious discussionYour topic isn't as interesting as you think it is.
>>732455630Yeah that's the same excuse zoomers use to dismiss any video longer than 15 seconds that's not on TikTok
>>732404368I may have been the kek poster. To be fair I do it to bump the thread because I saw the effort but had nothing to add.
>>732404368Kekkers, and I say that with the hardest of Rs, deserve to be castrated. Or if you are already a tranny which you probably are, I hope your dick grows back.
>>732440673I notice there are more "schizos" here now. Every game, there's always one resident weirdo spamming for no reason. That didn't happen (much) before 2020.
bmvnr
>>732456190>I hope your dick grows backwhy are you people so cruel? this used to be a left wing website. what happened to this place? how do we go back?
>>732456393Shut the fuck up predator crotch
>>732456393>this used to be a left wing websiteDon't bother trying to convince the modern userbase of this. It's unthinkable to them. >>732454970Lol yeah, I thought maybe doing the thing where you just greentext their post might still function about as well, but at the end of the day there's no bettert way to handle it than the current system. It's an unfortunate byproduct that there are people who unironically fish for (You)s because that's the most human interaction they receive on a regular basis, but what can you do.
>>732456393It actually kind of is again since this round of trump. Outside of /pol/ I would honestly now say more anons are left, or at least they're going to make fun of and argue with anyone defending current trump
>>732423212>>you cant have any discussion on the rest of the internet because powerhungy mods and normalfags, 4chan is the only place with actual discussionIt’s certainly an overexaggeration but to some extent it is true. Yea this place sucks, but it never will suck as much as reddit
>>732458295Don't buy into either spectrum total chaos all the way, I follow the lead of my own drummer who just happens to be me
>>732423212This is how I genuinely felt about it back when /b/ was a board that people still used to discuss things. After Moot left and NSFW boards got their own domain, that was the beginning of the end of this website being for honest discourse.
>>732404368You're meant to just lurk and take the game recommendations and then go play the games bro.
>>732404368I kinda got fed up with the rampant polposting and most threads devolving into "tranny" "brown" and other similarly ephitets.However it feels like a lot of these people are gone now for some reason, so the board is moving much slower than it was a couple years ago, idk why. I think people just gave up seeing literally any topic devolving into ecelebs or meaningless trolling and now even the trolls have left for the most part.
I have internet fatigue
>>732460895Same might just go on a week long drinking binge to pull myself away for a wee bit
>>732404368Zoomers are terrified of being seen taking anything seriously, and browns are too stupid to understand the discussion. As the site fills up with both any sort of discussion becomes impossible. On the rare occasion that discussion organically appears, a janny will interfere because several are a literal fifth column who are intent on disrupting 4chan for normal use. The result is that every catalog on every board is now dominated by people who are just trying to piss each other off. Nobody says what they mean or behaves earnestly in any way. It's just two clowns hitting each other with pies, forever.
>>732432660>2023Sit down sonny, and let me tell you the story of the September that Never Ended
>actual videogame discussion>ignored and dies in less than 10 posts, or janny deletes it for "le off topic" because he doesn't like that game or character>twitter screencap, eceleb circlejerk, softcore porn dump thread, gachaslop "stealth general">bump limit every time
>>732453778I'm just here to read, man
>>732461506>Zoomers are terrified of being seen taking anything seriouslyMy cousin is kinda like this. Like, he doesn't have *bad* taste in music, but he seems to think shit in which the people on stage are just acting like fucking idiots is absolutely hilarious. Like, a thrash band that is just purely taking the piss with their name, lyrics, and the cacophonic noises they puke out for the mutants off stage to gawk at. He'll show me this stuff and be like, "LMAO THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER" and I'm just like "haha yea...."It's weird, man.
>>732461680Because janny is a low status volunteer position, it's fairly easy to get a ideological tranny in there, especially with a few friendly mods from the same group chat. Once in place they can set about purposefully degrading the board. There are several boards here that can only be explained as active malice.
>>732461680Like it or not, this *IS* videogames in 2026. The only time this board is usable for discussion is when a new game is released. That's the ONLY time anons will take discussion about vidya seriously (which isn't all that shocking if you really think about it). Otherwise, you have to settle for anons who take things like (You) farming seriously kek.
>>732462181>That's the ONLY time anons will take discussion about vidya seriouslyNo it isn't, they just see it as a chance to shitpost and meme. A descendant of shazam who descended from TORtanic. For most anons left here their hobby isn't even playing games, it's shitting on them online. Everything they do online revolves around it. They'll play an hour a week and shit up /v/ for forty. This is the game for them. What am I going to play tonight, Zelda? No, I'm going to play /v/.
>>732461314As an alcoholic in recovery myself, I would advise against doing this since you and I both know it'll just make you feel much, much worse. But as an alcohlic in recovery, I also know that's not much of a convincing argument for someone who has little else to look forward to in their day-to-day life. Ganbatte, drunkard-kun!
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>>732462439When's the last time you played a game at release and followed the /v/ discussion surrounding it while you were playing? I haven't done it too many times, but I've definitely had a great time in the past with it (like when Fear & Hunger 2 dropped-- that was basically the best month I have ever spent on /v/). Most recently for me, it was Wuchang, which sadly people quit talking about less than a month after release. I've seen Pathologic 3 threads lately and now Nioh 3 threads that followed a similar vibe. People who pop in to act like morons in those threads usually get builled out of them rather quickly or straight up ignored, especially since there's nothing they can post to hook people's attention more than content directly related to the game.
Doomposting & demoralized, just how the elites want you.Epstein fucked moot and pushed for creation of /pol
>>732462759>/pol/ chud admitting he got gotOh boy to be a fly on that wall.
>>732432660this is hard to put into words but 4chan was always half porn half something else. back in the day, the something else half was funny shitposting and memes. now its all culture war bullshit. i used to organize my 4chan image folders and split them between porn and not porn. ever since 2022 ive saved so few not porn images that i havent bothered organizing my folders the goofy shitposting spirit of 4chan has unironically moved to reddit. the big popular subreddits are filled with retarded normalfags, but smaller subreddits are cranking out funny memes still
>>732461712Silly me
>>732463446This. People memed this website as being a haven for misfits and rejects so much that it finally became just that. There is no rational reason for someone with an actual sense of humor to keep using this website outside of habit or laziness. Take it from someone who is guilty of both.
>>732463446>now its all culture war bullshitI hate the attitude that this just fell out of the sky. You see culture war bullshit on /v/ because the topic of the board is and has been inundated with culture war bullshit.
>>732463118Don't think they care, mental midgets and cultists
>>732463884i get what youre saying, but its not just the topic of discussion, its how things are discussed. people spin everything into the culture war now. back in the day someone would call you a niggerfaggot because its an insulting word. now they call you a brownoid esl tranny because the culture war has deemed those people to be the lowest on the totem pole. they dont just say that as an off the cuff random insult, they seriously mean it. back in the day everybody had a much more cavalier attitude regarding the intent of insults
>>732464347I mean back then you roughly knew you were talking to actual people in the first world, these days you're more likely to hit upon a shill, bot, or third worlder doesn't even understand what you're saying
>>732464492I don't ever remember being so painfully aware of the sheer number of ESLs on 4chan as I have been of late. Americans are the minority on this website now I imagine.
>>732404421SPBP
>>732465732It's even funnier when they try to correct me on obvious slang or common english sayings
>>732404368>>732404418The best thing to do is get off 4chan and find a creative hobby.
>nobody entertained by generic GPTbabble 4chan has fallen
>>732466082More power to 'em. Can't imagine which part of it they find entertaining, but I guess that's the point innit.
>>732405216>THIEF sucks ass fuck all of you old faggots >300 replies and full blown discussion about stealth games This. If you want to talk about your favorite games/series you have to>Make thread>Say [insert popular game in that series] sucks>First few posts call you faggot>Rest of thread ends up talking about the series until bump limitEvery time
>--You fags are doomposting with ChatGPT
