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PunchingWood

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  • Yeah I was looking at Twitch numbers too, but honestly it'd still be a wild guess why it's that much higher. Could also be that they do something with Twitch drops, it essentially doesn't say much about player count itself.

    I know previously it was because of world-first races, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.

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  • Hm last I checked it said WoW had a lot more, I think mostly due to the new expansion at the time. But I think different sources are stating different things, they're pretty unclear where they get the numbers from anyway, there's little consistency with other statistics online.

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  • Maybe, but they're not MMO games.

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  • Most definitely.

    It's seen better days and current expansion is kinda meh, but it's still leading the amount of active players by a lot over all other MMO games.

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  • Depends what "side" you're on and what content you choose to engage with I guess.

    Because features wise it's better than ever I'd say, I'm not even sure what stuff they added or removed that would've made the platform worse.

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  • These kind of articles always remind me whenever a new MMORPG launched, and then people claimed it would be the World of Warcraft killer.

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • I do think alternatives got traction, but I don't think any of them are anywhere near actually competing with X though. Perhaps it's the beginning of becoming a true competitor, but it's a long ride still.

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • Yeah but I mean I've often seen people claim they leave X for something else, only for them to return a couple of weeks or months later again. This seems to happen with every new similar platform that pops up. It's just like Lemmy being a Reddit alternative, but it seems to forever struggle to take off, and it never quite feels like the amount of engagement you get on Reddit, just because everyone is staying there or returning there anyway.

    I think it's mostly due to alternatives trying to copy the originals, instead of doing something new that could keep people interested longer to build up a bigger community.

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  • People been saying this for years since he took over and nothing changes.

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  • There are occasionally American shows that address this, both serious and comically, and it's always crazy how people are stunned by beaches and the ocean.

    That said I live in a country of which half the border is a coastline and half of the land is below sealevel. But still, it seems so normal to have been to a beach at least several times in a lifetime, even if it's distant. For me it's the reverse with mountains and rough terrain though, everything is flat here.

  • Born in the 1900s

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    My parents

  • Born in the 1900s

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  • As a 90s kid I definitely feel like there's such a huge generational gap in the past 20 years though, so much changed so rapidly since then.

    Like watching MP3 players come and go. And the transition of videotapes to discs to streaming. Or watching nobody own a cellphone to the entire world not being able to go anywhere without one. As well as throwaway cameras to everyone having one in their pockets.

    Pre 00s and after is such a difference in just about everything. I wonder what the pre 10s and after will be like.

  • Business Names

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  • I feel like US has a store chain with every conceivable name at this point.

    And hearing about chains called like Five Guys just sounds weird to be honest.

  • Nuclear Demonology

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  • Leave it to religions to get insanely mad about characters and beliefs they made up. It's such a dumb fucking thing. Then blame everything on "demons". Big talk for someone coming from the one country that literally committed warcrimes with nuclear technology.

  • you never see the lower half

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  • Hey you, my eyes are up here!

  • Batgirl

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  • Reminds me how annoying it is when English speakers use "ain't no" in a sentence.

    Which is just a double negative that practically almost always means the opposite of what they mean.

  • Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see.

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  • Yeah I don't think it's entirely useless, it's mostly useful for filtering out spam posts and unrelated stuff from communities.

    Just on a comment/discussion level it feels like it's not that great.

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  • What annoys me about Reddit-like communities (yes including Lemmy) is that there's this downvote feature.

    The whole idea of these discussion boards is to have.. discussions. Well, perhaps not so much this particular sub lol. So it's annoying when you make a post or reply to someone with a constructive reply or argument, and then people can't be arsed to actually reply, they just downvote to disagree and move on. It's like the equivalent of people just going like "lol no" and then walk away.

    Frankly it's a feature that feels like it completely contradicts the point of online forums.