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  • No reason to be a dick. You could have rephrased most of this and had it be a beneficial suggestion, but instead it just comes across as you being mean. Looking over you comment history, it looks like most of your comments are that way. You almost are never helpful, just lashing out at people for doing something wrong or asking for help instead of figuring things out themselves. No one is going to take advice from you like this, you’re just pissing people off and wasting your own time in the process.




  • Yes, that’s right.

    What I was mostly referring to was

    posts bumped threads to the top

    The controversial threads get more posts, so usually they get bumped to the top over and over until the hit the post cap. Being on top also attracts more posts, but seemingly the easiest way to get a newly created thread to succeed and attract posts is by posting something controversial first.

    For example if I wanted to talk about Morrowind, and I think that overall most users there like Morrowind, I’d be more likely to have a successful thread/discussion by making a first post that was something like “I can’t believe I fell for the meme that this was actually a good game”. I’ll get more intial responses of people disagreeing with me, and that will help the thread get started. After that the discussion can move on to other things about the game.


  • There used to be a dozen sites like 4chan. I don’t know if any of them are still around, but I’m willing to bet that if 4chan doesn’t come back there will be a new website that takes its place.

    4chan is a pretty unique experience. Most of the internet is forming into echo chambers, where having a different opinion than the “correct” opinion for that community will get you downvoted or banned. My understanding with 4chan is that post popularity is determined by replies, and frequently controversial opinions/etc get the most replies. So posting stuff that most people will agree will result in a less popular thread than posting something controversial, offensive, or wrong.

    I think this leads to a lot of the negative things you’ve heard about 4chan, but encouraging disagreements between its members keeps it from becoming a full echo chamber like a lot of social media. They still have some dominant community opinions, but those opinions can’t really smother all the other opinions like on most sites.

    To be clear, 4chan is a cesspool. But for all it’s flaws it does offer something unique that’s largely missing on other websites.







  • I think part of Blue Prince for me is that I keep discovering additional layers of depth to it. They keep giving me reasons to go back and re-evaluate rooms, and I have a dozen different larger puzzles that I’m sorting out the details on as I go. I also appreciate the steady permanent improvements to the rooms and my base resources, and it’s really cool whenever I find a new mechanic to abuse for easier future runs.

    The storytelling is vague, I’ve “finished” the main objective of finding room 46 but the pieces of the story I’ve put together suggest there’s a much more important conclusion to reach.