Any gaming magazines worth subscribing to these days?

[Somnia]

Reminds me of those guys who live alone with all their nazi paraphernalia.

Feels like a weird comparison to me

I'm sure everyone has their own reasons for participating in a space like this, but I wonder how much of it is the urge to find something written by actual people. Web searches turn up AI generated responses, and social media is drowning in bots. How much are folks aching for something real?

For me it is just a far more reasonable way to responsibly communicate with people. To curb social media addiction as I slowly delete all of my account and to (ideally) find platforms that are less reactionary/bigoted, I turn to platforms that are less convenient on phones, aren't run by algorithms and are typically far better moderated.

Plus there is that general nostalgia that forums as a concept give me. I'd spend so many afternoons as a kid on my grandparent's computer just endlessly refreshing forum threads on shitty dialup that would take ages to load anything. Wasn't easy for me to socialize irl and so I more or less got most of my communication with others via message boards and such.

Recommended? Not at all, but it's all I had at the time lol.

So yea, this type of enviornment is just ideal for me on many levels, at least for now.

 

[χKai]

Feels like a weird comparison to me

It would, to someone who's never seen that kind of thing firsthand.