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.

I’ll be honest, I’m a straight import from Reddit HFY, and always saw HFY as a subversion of the “humans are the boring, weak race” you’ll see in fantasy and sci-fi, so HWTF stuff would absolutely count as HFY to me, even if it wouldn’t always be to my particular tastes. It would not count as HFY to this community, which limits HFY to more uplifting/positive stuff, which is understandable because a lot of people want their HWTF marked and labeled as such. Although I don’t think we have caught on on the Fediverse to the point we can afford to have a split-off HWTF community yet.

Warning for Reddit link, but… The Great Filter: Cheat Code literally has our bond with a certain animal be why we passed one of, I think three? great filters

I distinctly remember “humans are the friendly ones”/“humans are willing to pack bond with a lot of stuff” as a common HFY theme.

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.

The Fediverse community is definitely about the Fediverse in general. I think it won’t come off spammy at all, I never even saw that post because I am not following !fediverse@lemmy.ml. I’d definitely think about it!

You might want to promote on !newcommunities@lemmy.world

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

Still running Idle Formulas, but took a break from PokeClicker and started playing Moonlight Rabbits, which I bought on sale near its release date. I’ll admit I just got it because I really like bunnies. I just started and have been leaving it closed in the background for a bit, so I can’t say much about it now.

I am super happy to find another Idle Formulas player here!

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

What I typed in was !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

Gives me an Adobe Flash game kind of feel.

Link to 8:04

I wanted the life simulation genre to grow and for EA to maybe see some competition. But it seems to be mostly Sims to the point this post is here and @lifesimulation@lemmy.world (!lifesimulation@lemmy.world for the Lemmy users) is dead. I’m here because I enjoy The Sims but it would have been nice to get something new.

Same, started playing with a friend and now I’m back on the Stardew grind in singleplayer too. Doing a challenge run where I try to complete the community center without ever buying from Pierre (except for the backpack upgrades) or Joja, and without ever going in the mines. The real blocker on this is quartz. My only route to obtain it is fiddling in peoples’ trash and it is a rare drop.