I consider this a result from destabilization campaigns by evil global forces. They make everybody hate each other and spread negativity that snowballs into more negativity, until the point where we hate everything and become monsters ourselves.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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Speaking of negativity, how the hell do people deal with the way reddit looks now? Everytime I see it this way I am shocked.
Avatars, ads, wasted space, weird conversation drop downs..... yuck.
most of them are bot and AI responses or posts.
the bot responses are done by people warming up thier accounts for ban evasion to be exact(OF fans, link farmers), this seperate from the propaganda ones.
one thing reddit REALLY hates is new accounts and old accounts with sudden activity.
It's wild how they show so few replies. Like, the whole point of the site was discussing.
i don't see it because I quit the millisecond third party apps did.
old.reddit.com. Anything that doesn't work on that or is to cumbersome to use on that is not worth engaging in.
Searching old.reddit.com is getting harder. If you try to site search it on google, it gives you new reddit links.
Old seems to be blocked, as in other search engines it just gives you no results.
Luckily Kagi lets you add rewrite rules so you can filter site:reddit.com and then have reddit.com rewritten to old.reddit.com, but man reddit are fighting against people using the old site.
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I used to use old.reddit.com with Reddit Enhancement Suite to disable CSS
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This is exactly how Eric Barone felt, despite knowing in his heart that he had made something special to him. This is how he thought Stardew Valley would he received. The general gaming community are such cunts.
The reason is because; the general community aren't the nerds that made gaming fun
The reason is, the people who like to leave reviews are cunts. Source: I hardly ever review anything, because I'm not a cunt. When I do review, it's to a small busines (buzzword alert), and it's always because the service was excellent.
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With 20/20 hindsight it was obviously a good idea.
But at the time of making the decision, it was an unbelievably risky plan and the odds were stacked against it. As a matter of fact, for every successful 2D platformer made with care and love that gets released and becomes successful, there are dozens that fail miserably and that you will never hear of.
Yes, believing in yourself and taking risks makes success possible, but remember that it does not guarantee it.
luck has a lot to do with success, people often forget
Luck and a good review from a relevant reviewer. The devs of Nightmare Reaper credit Civvie11's reviews of their game to the multifold increase of sales after they sent him a redeem code. And that's not the only game that he's helped out.
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My friend quit his job and has been making indie games since 2015. It's been ~~20~~ 10 years and he's made like $40,000 total in the time with all his games combined. His wife pays all the bills. Every time he releases a new game he tells everyone this is the one that'll make him a million bucks. He points to games like Hollowknight, Stardew Valley, Undertale etc as proof.
My friend quit his job and has been making indie games since 2015. It's been 20 years
If it has been 20 years since 2015 then I think I overslept.
It certainly feels like 20 years since 2015. Covid and Trump have easily stressed 20 years out of me.
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Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
Huh, I seem to have woken in 2011
In a just world, your friend would be able to create as much art as he wants without having to worry about who is paying the bills.
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He's definitely taking the wrong approach by trying to catch lightning in a bottle.
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Yeah but the vast majority of those failed games look bad and are mediocre gameplay wise. Even if they are a true passion project. They don’t come close to the quality of games like Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy, Inside or even Pizza Tower. Most sidescrollers (including metroidvanias, rogue likes and souls likes) released on Steam are of low quality because it’s very easy to make a basic game in that genre.
Yes the genre is risky but if you make a very good looking game that stands out with top notch gameplay you increase the odds of success significantly.
Budding indie devs need to realize whether they can make such a game. If not they need to find another genre that is less crowded or a genre with a very high demand, like the horror / liminal space genre those games have a much higher success rate compared to the average platformer.
There is a great Bo Burnham clip where he talks about this.
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As someone who quit his job to create a video game this makes me feel good.
I will probably fail, but that's a future feeling.
If you're making something you like, you can't really fail. :) That's the only way to be an artist in the face of criticism.
I love looking at my old work.
Then you never had to look at your old code (that tends to be of way worse quality than what you are currently coding due to improved skills) xD
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Oh, what are you working on?
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I remember the first comment I got on online was "you suck". But it was soon drowned by encouragement words and constructive feedback.
About Hollow Knight, by the time this got posted on reddit, the game was already funded through kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11662585/hollow-knight
What this image does not show is the amount of support this post received, more than 20k upvotes and plenty of endearing messages on reddit only.
u/YoDudeguy Nov 20 '15
Damn, that looks amazing! Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Will buy.
u/Eliza_Douchecanoe Nov 20 '15
I like the dark feel of it, but with light-hearted game play and sound effects. Good shit.
If I sort by votes, I had to scroll a bit to get to that 756 votes message.
It is important to filter and properly process the messages you receive. There are some mean and unnecessary messages on that image (and on the reddit thread), but they do not show the full picture and at that time could easily be ignored.
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