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  • Elevator7009@lemmy.ziptoPokémon@sopuli.xyz•You can't let people just enjoy it, right?English
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    1 个月前

    at what point is bringing it up valid discussion, after all, because people need to vent sometimes and air grievances and this grievance does affect peoples’ ability to even afford to play the next Pokémon game? And just because an opinion isn’t all sunshine and roses and positivity does not mean we should silence it, toxic positivity sucks and censoring criticism just feels bad. And for every person who already knows, some people are newcomers to the franchise or have Pokémon as their only game they really follow and have not really been keeping up with the industry and its bad practices, so what looks repetitive to us still could be new useful information to someone else.

    and at what point is it just a buzzkill, constantly bringing the mood down without a big enough benefit (or prevention of big enough harms) to justify doing that? Outrage and scandal and bad exploitative business practices are intruding on everything now so can we at least extract what joy we can from a game and enjoy talking about it with others without the constant reminder about the sucky parts? Can we maybe have a Fediverse community that does not immediately turn the conversation to political or economic complaints or other real-life-sucks complaints? Life is short and we have limited time and resources and there are too many battles to fight and it’s exhausting. It’s hard to find the will to keep resisting all the things going on in society without any joy. Especially when the joy is constantly being undermined by “here’s how the thing you enjoy is supporting bad things actually”—whether from my own brain reminding me or comments online. So I’ll play Pokémon instead of $lessRuthlessAnticonsumerCreatureCollectorGame because goddammit I like Pokémon already and I already try to make new purchases ethical and I do not have the bandwidth to drop Pokémon for whatever alternative is not Nintendo. I’m already emulating, leave me be

    First option is probably best, but damn if it isn’t annoying and exhausting and a reason I really have to stop touching Lemmy comment sections; and I think once enough negative comments reach too much of a mass people will start being turned away from engaging at all for similar reasons. Pinned/weekly posts to hold common topics sometimes felt like a good solution to prevent spam/overwhelm, sometimes felt like “yeah fuck you guys with your posts, to the quarantine zone you go, have fun never getting engagement because nobody checks here whereas if we didn’t quarantine you to a weekly post/single pinned post you would get lots more engagement”. Not sure what a good solution is for the collective (which probably wants to know these things, but also probably has limited tolerance for negativity).

  • Elevator7009@lemmy.ziptoPokémon@sopuli.xyz•You can't let people just enjoy it, right?English
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    1 个月前

    As someone leaning towards the “fuck Nintendo” take it is still exhausting to see it posted around maybe 70% of posts talking about upcoming Pokémon games, including in Pokemon’s own community. At some point I’d like to still enjoy the IP together with fans and maybe hear about people excited for the games (or criticizing it with paragraphs showing more passion for Pokémon than derision for the series and its fans), instead of constantly bringing up Nintendo’s business practices.

  • Elevator7009@lemmy.ziptoGames•Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry reportEnglish
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    2 个月前

    I do notice that it takes more effort though. Before online platforms figured out the whole engagement outrage pattern, I spent a lot of time playing video games, yes, but also reading books or making art.

    Then the online platforms started investing in trying to figure out how to engage you, and it is easier and easier to spend time online by default to the exclusion of other things and feel bad about it because your online time wasn’t spent on something that made you feel good like it did in the past. It is surprisingly hard to resist the current big platforms are trying to push us down.

    People on the Threadiverse have taken at least a small step by disengaging from Reddit and going to an open-source, non-corporate-controlled engagement-maxing platform. But human negativity bias still makes it a lot easier to post outrage and comment outrage and get in fights. Hell, I am making this comment because of my own negativity bias and desire to expound on how much I hate what has been done to our attention spans! It’s a lot easier to complain than to analyze why I enjoy something. And I think the engagement bait outrage has ruined my brain a bit to still sort of seek that out and scroll (but better Lemmy than Reddit). I’ve been trying to get off but change is hard. Sometimes I relapse and click an article I know will have negativity and anger, like this article I clicked on.

    I do really appreciate what you did by posting something to help instead of yet another “thing bad” even if I super agree with “thing bad”, and I’m being part of the “thing bad” pattern right now.

    I do know of [email protected] which might be able to help with the whole online engagement problem.

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