Posting anything in 4chan is asking for trouble.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.If you're very sensitive to how people may perceive you, then 4chan is probably one of the worst communities to join. Unless you can handle being called a slur or just insulted in general on the regular, don't post on that site.
~Omniscient Hyena 66 here's a rule of thumb for you: don't go on to 4chan, Twitter, You Tube or Reddit to see what people think of you about video games, that's asking for trouble.
After 10 year plus years I have the confidence to be here. My one and only Fate servent.yeah, 4chan is the cesspit of the internet. a veritable collection of who to avoid, not who to get validation from.
also seconding the suggestion to not seek validation from social media. its just playing into their hands and is just as draining on sanity even if the folk there might not be as blatantly assholish as 4chan.
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Aug 20th 2025 at 4:00:31 AM
There are places with chill people and places with very judgy people who have specific opinions and a specific worldview. The latter are full of people who will turn against anyone who doesn't fit into their limited worldview and share their limited range of "acceptable" opinions.
The former are much more accepting and much better places to hang out, especially if you don't fit into those limited communities.
TV Tropes is primarily the former. There are some major minority opinions and big differences in taste here!
Video games are one of many hobbies for people. I'll just leave it at that. So are sports, for example, but I don't find the risk of having a ball launched directly at my face and causing injury, or spending time outdoors due to bugs interesting at all. It's all a matter of perspective in what people find comfortable to spend their time with. So I can't imagine how utterly pointless a life without video games is for me (mind you, there is also a diverse set of genres that appeal to different people. I stay the hell away from sports games, MOBAs, competitive games, etc).
More and more games these days have options to help reduce nausea-inducing mechanics such as reducing head bobbing or camera motion. You should at least try those out when you can.
ASAB: All Sponsors Are Bad.I wouldn’t say only liking a specific kind of game doesn’t make you a gaming fan. You just like cozy games, a specific subgenre of gaming. And there’s nothing wrong with that! Lord knows I can’t throw stones in that department when I like point and click adventure games.
“Now! Let us engage in the art of deduction!”My niece has strangely specific criteria for being a gamer, and they keep changing.
- At 9, she asked me, "If you're a gamer, how come you don't play Roblox?"
- At 10, she described a friend of hers: "She's not really a gamer. She only plays Roblox."
- At 13, she told me that a different friend of hers who has a Switch isn't really a gamer, then clicked her name to find she put a lot of playtime into various Mario games, including 100 hours into Super Mario Odyssey. "Oh yeah, she loves Mario!"
Really, what "is" a "real" gamer? What is a "gamer" even? You have gamers who insist they're not gamers because... they don't care what they play? Because they only play with friends and never by themselves? Because they don't like a variety of games? Because other people told them they're not a gamer?
In a time where nearly everyone plays video games at least a little bit, everyone is a gamer... until the definition narrows, I guess.
Nintendo fans not being treated seriously by 'Gamers' is older than.your niece
its more of a "vibes" thing TBH. The only qualifier is having something to do with video games. That said gatekeeping is depressingly common as a secondary quality.
Literally speaking a gamer would be anybody who plays video games, but that's so vague as to be useless since it would technically include a ton of people that normally wouldn't get put under that umbrella (e.g. your grandma who plays solitaire on her phone).
I feel like the closest usage you could get to what people might generally agree on would be someone who has video games as their primary hobby, or who spends a considerable amount of time playing. Of course, that runs into all sorts of issues too. Is a semi-casual who plays a variety of games casually more of a gamer than someone who only plays one or two games exclusively, even if they both spend the same amount of time on it?
TL;DR it's mostly a semantic issue and most people have different ideas of what it means.
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Edited by tclittle on Aug 20th 2025 at 9:36:22 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."I'm really hoping Animal Crossing will get a new game on the Switch 2. Even if that were to happen, i'm waiting till the Switch 2 is cheaper, but I do hope there will be a new Animal Crossing game
I think another reason why I love Animal Crossing I realized in addition to it being very cozy is that it doesn't feel political to me. I know people say all art is political, but to me, political feels like war, political leaders, government, soldiers, imperalism, that kind of stuff and that stuff doesn't interest me (I've never had any interest in stuff that deals with politics). Animal Crossing doesn't feel political to me, whether its the original game or the newest one with New Horizons
Will there be a new Animal Crossing game on the Switch 2 or is Animal Crossing a lower priority for Nintendo than say, Mario or Pokemon?
Edited by OmniscientHyena66 on Aug 20th 2025 at 9:08:55 AM
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Animal Crossing has had a mainline game on every single Nintendo platform since its first game on the N64 except the GBA and Wii U, so the series getting a new game on the Switch 2 is a matter of when, not if.
Ultimately the question has been how long until we wait, excluding the first game on the N64 and New Horizons, each game in the series came out within the first couple of years of a platform's life cycle.
Also, while it has separate development groups for each series, EPD 5 handles both Splatoon and Animal Crossing and each has "traded off" so to speak (Splatoon had 2 games between New Leaf and New Horizons and a 3rd game and a spin-off afterwards).
There's also the 20th anniversary next April, so that might be something.
Edited by tclittle on Aug 20th 2025 at 11:25:10 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
20th anniversary of what? Splatoon isn't that old, and Animal Crossing predates the Game Cube, so it can't be either of them.
The original Animal Forest/Dobutsu no Mori came out on N64 on April 14th, 2001.
In just over 8 months, it will be the 20th anniversary of the Animal Crossing series.
Edited by tclittle on Aug 20th 2025 at 11:34:30 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
...isn't it 2025, wasn't the 20th anniversary 4 years ago—

Well, there's your problem.
Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Aug 20th 2025 at 5:34:55 AM
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