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A Silent Voice. I watched it while I was going through a rough time, and the visual metaphor used to portray the main character’s isolation hit me so hard.

Flight, hotel room, and entry fee to a major tournament. If you’re splitting hotel costs maybe that’ll cover 2-3 trips, and enough left over for a good fightstick.

OP, you’ve done a fantastic job demonstrating exactly why some people might want spaces where they don’t have to deal with the likes of you.

I got to see him live for the first time last year, absolutely incredible show.

Right monitor is 16:9 and VRR, left is a 16:10 monitor my work gave me during covid. So games go on the right.

Bear in mind that ActivityPub is so much more than just Lemmy. Mbin and Piefed both exist as alternatives.

A worthy opponent for all of my favorite niche games that I’ll never convince my IRL friends to play.

Skullgirls, Slay the Spire, Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary

In middle school they called me “hey” and “you there”

To play perfectly and still lose is what _____ is all about.

(it’d be too obvious if I didn’t redact a word)

Oh my gah

But I don’t even know when and where the assassin is coming, do I?

Do I have any information at all about the assassin? Sending back the only info I know, “there is an assassin”, won’t help much, will it?

The problem is that I can’t wait for the assassin to make a move in order to learn about them. It’d be a lot easier if I was trying to prevent someone else’s death, but I can’t send a message after my own death, can I?

I see you’re going for a Steins;Gate reference but this is a significantly harder scenario.

I think we should reelect Francis.

I have my PC and Switch with two monitors. No need for a television.

I’m a huge fan of Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s work.

Akagi is the best series that I can’t actually recommend, because if you don’t know anything about Mahjong it will be completely incomprehensible. Or if you do know anything about Mahjong, you’ve already read it and didn’t need me to recommend it to you. Akagi is peak, but only for a very specific niche audience.

Kaiji is the one I can recommend. Kaiji gets conned by shady loan sharks and forced to gamble his way out of crippling debt, playing all kinds of bizarre games with high stakes. It’s the same style of intense psychological warfare, but, like, accessible to the average reader.

He’s written a lot of other great stuff, and most of it is more Mahjong, but those are the big two from him.

No, I can’t say I’ve regularly seen that as a problem, at least not any moreso than other online spaces.

Communication is a two-way street. If one person fails to understand what you’re trying to say, that may be their fault. But if nobody seems to understand what you’re trying to say, if this is happening to you regularly enough that you have to ask this kind of question, maybe you’re not being clear enough.

As others have pointed out, text cannot carry tone, facial expressions, or other nuances that can picked up on with in-person conversations. When communicating through text, it’s important to keep that in mind and work within the limitations of text in order to be clear. Communicating effectively is a skill that takes effort to improve at.

Full disclosure that I do not know you and I don’t want to accuse you of anything, but this sounds like the kind of question that has a story behind it. If you do feel like this is a frequent problem for you, I think you should try to look inward.

Rather than worry about trying to be universally attractive to everyone, think about the type of partner you want to be attractive to. There’s certainly no shortage of potential partners who are into that. Anyone who isn’t wouldn’t be the right fit for you anyway.

Anime. There are plenty of great shows I like, and seemingly no way to discuss them with people who are actually normal about it.

Still waiting for more info on it, not to mention games, but I’ll almost certainly be buying a Switch 2.