I usually hate walking simulators but I made an exception for the Stanley Parable, and, predictably, for Rabbit Simulator

Moonlight Rabbits, an incremental/idle game with adorable bunnies!

Also Stardew Valley with friends again, and My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! -Pirates of the Disturbance-. The latter is an otome game (basically think a visual novel specifically aimed at women, and romance is a major component) based off the My Next Life as a Villainess anime/manga.

In the anime/manga, a girl who loves otome games dies and gets reincarnated into the villainess of one of the games. That villainess dies or is exiled in misery in a lot of the game's ends, so the girl tries to prevent those things from happening. The girl is a really nice person unlike the original villainess, and inadvertently ends up attracting a ton of suitors, both male and female. She's also super romantically oblivious to any advances towards herself since she is thinking of herself as the game's villainess, and she's canonically, self-acknowledged in the game to be dumb, so it is way less infuriating than it would be in most other media. It's a romcom. And then it got an actual real-life otome game made out of it, the one I'm playing, which also seems to be a romcom.

First link also works for me. I'm on Kbin if that makes any difference.

If you check the view of the community from lemmy.world the last post visible is from a month ago

… oh crap. I might as well just start my own community on kbin.run and post here again in a month or so as to not come off as a super spammer repeating the same topic.

Thank you so much for helping! I really appreciate it! And I do hope visualnovels gains some traction. Propping up dead communities hurts…

I'll be honest, I 1) have no problem with straight males enjoying content aimed at them, including male-gazey content. I am 2) a woman extremely disinterested in that. I think the entire reason on Reddit we congregated on r/otomegames and usually didn't bleed into r/visualnovels is because r/visualnovels catered mostly to men, and although that's fine there also wasn't much there for us. I took a brief look at your link and although it does have gender-neutral stuff like Ace Attorney, ~~the one otome post has two downvotes and zero upvotes despite being on topic, and I see a lot of romance games aimed at men sexually interested in women. So sorry, but definitely not for me. Yes, those downvotes might be the obligatory few downvotes on nearly any Fediverse post I see ever no matter how inoffensive and on topic, but still, no approval balancing it out…~~ nevermind, I read it wrong, two upvotes. My point about content I actively do not want to see (though I am okay with others consuming it) being prominent there as well as neutral news still stands. (Yes, I can handle male gaze in shows, I really enjoyed Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. But it feels a little different to play as a guy where at least part of the goal, whether explicit in game or just a goal in real life and not part of the main story, is to see women in a manner sexually exciting to a straight man. And although most otome aren't quite sexual, and more about romance, I feel some men might also not want to see content focused on games where a big goal is to romance a man as a woman, presented in a femgazey way or a way tailored to our desires even if not sexualized.)

I know of the Lemmy alternative and I think I was ignoring it because at first, otomegames@kbin.social did have activity, and the Lemmy one was overrun by just reposts of fan art someone else drew (at least with attribution) and I preferred majority-discussion over a replication of that particular game's tag on Pixiv. Also, oh god the English errors on the rules. It seems to have died so I might try that if this doesn't work. Does Lemmy have a way to get inactive mods removed and replaced? Thank you for the recommendation!

(So why don't I just recruit from the subreddit? Already tried when Lemmy and Kbin were getting their big population boom from the API drama. I got shoved into the Self-Promotion Sunday threads that nobody pays attention to.)

I know kbin.social has issues but I figured the federated nature of the Fediverse meant we could still post to communities there without being on it ourselves. Is the issue that the posts will be frequently inaccessible? I am a little confused.

Works for Kbin people, thank you, the one in the OP shoots me to mander.xyz

Clicking that on Kbin gives me a 404 Not Found, clicking that on Lemmy works.

What I typed in was [!bunnies@lemmy.world](/c/bunnies@lemmy.world) which I got from the sidebar of Lemmy communities. I have had other people bring up the format with the exclamation point before, this is the first time I'm being told to put in what I see in the URL on Lemmy. I really wish people would just make the different linking methods compatible between Lemmy and Kbin, I always try to accommodate for both and somehow always end up with a comment telling me I did it wrong even though I try to listen and do what the comment says.

I love Eastern cottontails! Thank you for sharing! How did you get such a nice picture? Mine are often more grainy because I have to use the zoom feature on my phone or get a small picture. The bunnies run away if I get too close. So I have actually taken tons of pictures that never make it to Lemmy

I always appreciate the Epic posts. I know it is a known weekly thing, I also tend to forget with all the other things going on in my life to actually go claim the weekly free game. Your posts remind me to do that.

The final aesthetic is called submission, though I prefer the term that the Extra Credits’ team use: abnegation. It just sounds cooler and more complicated. Submission is the pleasure you get from turning off your brain and losing yourself in a task you don’t have to think too hard about. Grinding levels in World of Warcraft. Mining minerals in Minecraft. Farming item drops in Diablo III.

Now, submission is an odd one to discuss in tabletop RPGs because it is one that tabletop RPGs doesn’t handle so well. The thing is, even the simplest tasks in an RPG require a high cognitive load. You have to think things through. But still, the concept of “beer and pretzels” play exists for a reason. Go down into a dungeon, kick down doors, kill orcs, take their loot, go back to town. Lather, rinse, repeat. That is submission or abnegation.

And there are people who want exactly that. They look like challenge seekers sometimes, but they don’t want to work too hard or think too hard. They just want to goof around and enjoy a simple game with clear, straightforward goals.

— theangrygm.com

Being charitable, no deadline + they chose to write this for fun so it's a passion project as opposed to an "ugh another thing I have to do for work I guess" project.

There was an r/hobbydrama post on her awhile back that I copied to lemmy.world.