Alright, fair enough. Totally understandable position, now that I get the full picture. Sorry if I was a bit blunt.

You might want to look up how certain political positions switched from being supported by both sides of the aisle to becoming wedge issues. Obama was most certainly not right of Nixon. That’s just absurd.

To get back to my question though, I don’t feel like you answered it clearly. Does your reply mean - since Obama was and still is very popular on reddit - that the site is center-right from your point of view? From a European perspective this might be the case, but not in the way the current American political spectrum is organized. The political spectrum is not an absolute thing, but instead applies to the current reality in a certain place and the relationship of its participants to one another.

There’s also the issue that people who are politically further away from the center perceiving those that are closer to it as more extreme than they actually are, e.g. a far-right person might consider a moderate to be far left and a moderately left-wing person might consider a centrist to be center-right.

34k is absolutely nothing for an entire network of communities. I used to mod for a stagnating/declining gaming forum that was just in a single language (not English) and much larger than that - and even it felt quite small.

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of users on any online community are near permanent lurkers and do not contribute with even brief comments - or even by voting. What matter is how many people are actually submitting links, writing posts and comments.

Look at this community: It’s the largest “general” technology community on the lemmyverse (I think), yet there are just a small handful of people posting, often days between posts and on average (going by the last three pages of submissions), tons of posts where not even a single user is commenting. Anything that isn’t controversial and does get comments is usually in the 3 to 7 comments range.

That’s a ghost town. I can practically see tumbleweed slowly rolling across the page. My perception might be a little skewed though, because the way I interact with posts is by annoyingly inserting myself into existing conversations or at least replying to unanswered comments that already exist, so I tend to avoid empty posts.

Part of this emptiness is certainly due to forums in general going the way of the dodo (thanks to Facebook, twitter, instagram and especially Discord, as awful as all of these are at replacing conventional forums) and part of it is due to reddit having absorbed much of the user base that is still interested in forums. My hypothesis is that reddit losing users due to ongoing enshittification would just result in the overwhelming majority of them ending spread out across the aforementioned services instead of ending up here. I’m terrible at predicting things though, but the big reddit exodus (or whatever actually materialized) largely skipped the lemmyverse in the past and I don’t think conditions have changed enough for anything different to happen this time, should this recent boneheaded decision by reddit’s management result in fewer people using their site.

The lemmyverse is center-right in your opinion? Or did you misread and thought I meant reddit with that? Sorry if I caused any confusion.

This just mirrors what’s been happening with “Indie” music and films for decades already. I don’t think it’s even remotely new in the gaming space either. Indie is more of a genre or even just a vibe than anything else.

I vaguely recall using them once for some project eons ago and I must have been lucky, because they just worked. This was back in the DDR2 days though, I think. Like I said, back when dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth.

Unlikely. Reddit is too big and mainstream and the lemmyverse too small, too confusing - and too far-left politically, to be frank. Most of it is a ghost town. I also doubt it would be able to withstand a sudden massive influx of users from both a technical and organizational perspective.

GT 610/710 are my go-to, but they are not massively cheaper, at least not anymore. I’ve got a few of these left though (and an equivalent Radeon or two that I forgot the name of), just in case I need a basic display adapter.

I’m a rather literal person who tends to overthink things. Can’t help it.

I’d argue they are overkill for that, almost to a ridiculous degree.

The major thing? Not global thermonuclear war? Not global warming leading to massive political and economic instability? Not democratic backsliding?

I like my PC games as much as the next guy, but let’s be reasonable: It’s just a luxury good.

Even EA/Bioware realized that this wouldn’t work. That’s how we ended up with Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which was switched mid-development from live-service to a singleplayer game.

It’s also really important to stress that the whole live-service fiasco that was Anthem was Bioware’s idea, not EA’s. In fact, most of the decisions and mistakes that led to Bioware’s demise can be traced back to studio leadership and culture, not the publisher. “Old” Bioware (up to around Mass Effect 3) was successful despite being a complete mess, with projects often only coming together at the last minute and always under extreme crunch. EA bought a studio that was already like this, always has been like this - and the publisher actually tried to preserve the studio’s “magic” by being very hands-off, only to get blamed anyway.