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    What are you playing today?

    in The Spawn Point

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    I'm playing Hollow Knight on Switch. I'm not good at these kinds of games, and I really dislike having to walk back through the same section to replay a boss, but the game is too good not to play. I don't know how I had never heard of this one when it was on PC. I just beat the Soul Master and am going to take a break because my thumb hurts now :p 

     

    On 6/26/2018 at 11:32 AM, Paperclyp said:

    Currently doing a new game + of dark souls remastered, playing hollow knight, playing Skyrim, and actually a little pillars of eternity and FF6.

     

    Too many at once.

     

    I really should go back to god of war. 

     

    I'm not a fan of Souls myself, but in general that's a solid line up of games!

    I vote we collapse Retro and PC Tech into tags rather than suboards

    in The Help Desk

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    19 minutes ago, Jason said:

     

    Seems pretty easy to me to tell whether or not anything new's been posted...

     

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    That's not actually quite sufficient. It could be new because someone responded to a topic you've already seen but passed on. Or, maybe someone did make a new topic, but then a different one you've seen got bumped above it. Unless you actually go frequently, inevitably you're going to miss something. But since most checks yield no return, frequently checking is a bit silly and annoying.

     

    I really don't think you can make this easily disappear by suggesting people just check more frequently or pay attention more. As far as I can tell, it's a pretty common phenomenon on message boards and I don't see why it would suddenly change.

     

    If the sub community simply doesn't care about that phenomenon, then that's fine. Maybe you guys have reasons for keeping it small that I don't appreciate that are more important to you. Or maybe you actively don't want certain people responding. But I think that's going to be the effect all the same and it's why I would vote to change it.

    I vote we collapse Retro and PC Tech into tags rather than suboards

    in The Help Desk

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    29 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

    You still didn't answer why you'd miss topics with the way things are now. 

     

    But I'm glad you conceded. Wade's word is law. :P 

     

    Also, there's a thread on the NES Classic in GG, so win!

     

    I thought I did, but maybe I didn't express it well. I don't end up going to the subboard often because it's slow moving enough that usually there is nothing to new to see. The consequence of not visiting it often is that I end up missing things when there is something new that would interest.

     

    Maybe that's just me, but my impression is it isn't an uncommon. I've certainly had it happen in the reverse. Post something in a slow board and it gets little to no attention; post it in an active board and lots more people respond. Clearly there were more people interested than was indicated by the slow board, and it's just that they don't visit the slow board often enough to generate the discussion. Given that, I don't think not visiting slow boards and missing relevant topics is only something that happens with me :p 

    I vote we collapse Retro and PC Tech into tags rather than suboards

    in The Help Desk

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    4 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

    There's really no reason for you to miss topics that pop up on that board, if you're so inclined to contribute. I didn't think you cared about that area, anyway.

     

    We enjoy our little community. Just leave it as is. 

     

    I mean, there's a limit to this, right? You can over consolidate something or over fragment it. We could fragment our board into separate boards for different genres. Someone could still argue that there is no reason to miss anything, but it simply becomes more annoying to fuss with all that at a point and that will lead to more apathy in searching in general. Same thing here. We just have different lines where we'd put the cut off.

     

    I still play retro games ever now and then. These days, more usually PC retro games, but I did also just buy an NES classic.

     

    I've already said it's fine if you guys feel strongly this way--I'll manage to get over it :p  I'm just explaining why myself (and maybe others) might care even though we don't historically post on the board.

    I vote we collapse Retro and PC Tech into tags rather than suboards

    in The Help Desk

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    8 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

    Sorry, Wade has spoken. He promised us. 

     

    We enjoy retro discussion and don't want it getting swallowed up in GG, where that would most certainly happen. 

     

    Why do you care so much, anyway? I don't see how it would bother anyone.

     

    Also, fuck discord. 

     

    If you guys feel strongly about it, that's fine. But my reason for caring is simply because on many occasions for other boards or subboards I find I've missed topics I would have otherwise discussed. Having MS and Sony, for example, in GG has made it much easier for me to stay on top of all the boards. The same could be true for retro. If D1P was a big as Neogaf/ResetEra, then I would wholly endorse separate boards, because those boards move way too fast to have just one. But we're not. I don't think those threads would get swallowed so quickly, and I'm be more likely to see them and contribute to them.

     

    I'll add that without the required tags (as it was before) I could understand why you'd still want the sub, because there would then be no way at all to make sure you see the retro-specific stuff. But with tags now, you can. You can just filter it and it takes about just as many clicks as it did before.

     

    Again, if you guys feel strongly otherwise, that's fine. But I honestly think it would be better the other way and I would be more likely to participate (as would possibly others) therby growing the sub community and increasing community discussion in general.

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    I vote we collapse Retro and PC Tech into tags rather than suboards

    in The Help Desk

    Posted

    I want to offer the hypothesis that these sub topics would be more active in the main board. It's not that I'm uninterested in them, but I'm going to forget to check them and will miss threads in which I would have otherwise contributed.

     

    If a topic has enough activity that the parent topic and it fight for attention when together, then you should probably have a whole new board, not just a subboard. But that's not the case, and I think by using the suboard you're relegating the topic to obscurity.

     

    Just a thought for those of you who want it separate and are the current active contributors.

    New arts for you

    in The Shower

    Posted

    Nice stuff!

     

    I'm always jelly of people who can draw, particularly in the sketch variety. I always think about how much more awesome my research journals would be if it didn't look like I was late stage in Parkinson's.

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