charlatanwonder.bsky.social
I make videos about all the strange, wonderful games you'll probably never see on gaming news outlets or on the shelf of a game store over at https://www.youtube.com/@CharlatanWonder . #1 hater of the word "content". Secretly a cooking show. Possibly a cat
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yeah I know that this is probably too much gratification for them.
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And what a surprise, when these comments get no traction I can help but notice that threads pop up on r/imsim that are essentially trying to get more people to say really shitty, rude things about me. What is actually wrong with all of you??? (2/2)
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Like I don't need or even *want* a trending tab or whatever. What I want is the show less feature to work for it to automatically hide whatever it is I don't want to see like how every other site does.
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Yeah. It represents my other big issue with bluesky that's about equal with the whole "no one bothered to try and change how they acted coming over from twitter issue" features like algo tuning and spam detection just aren't being worked on if they even work at all.
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True. The weird thing though is that these guys weren't around a few months ago and a lot of these seem like relatively new accounts. Why start spamming now after the site has arguably slowed down since late last year???
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I accidentally clicked over to this once and i got images that made no sense based on what the titles were and descriptions that were just keyword soup.
YouTube could have spent all this R&D money on making a competitor to creative could for it's partners or something but instead we got this crap.
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Thanks. I do what I do for all the indie devs out there and all the folks like you who wouldn't ever know about those games otherwise, not for those chuds on reddit.
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Yeah it's literally that, but apparently we're at Fallout: New Vegas levels of "anything that isn't pure, unquestioning praise is hatred and if you're a hater I'm going to call for your public execution."
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Sinno and the other mods used to actually keep those "special cases" in check and tried to remind you all of basic morality. I assume their absence means they were harassed off the sub. Fuck it, go ahead and keep reposting the RoSoDude copypasta. Never question why he was so mad. You're lost.
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Look man, while I myself am big mad for the hell of a day you've all given me, I understand that you are not all of that Godforsaken board on that Godforsaken website. You are one guy. Regardless, neither of those threads were nearly the first time I've had to deal with that sub's shit.
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I appreciate you effort to clarify, but one clarified comment does not absolve an entire thread of people shitting on me over how they misremembered my opinions on a 25 year old game. Why do you all think that GGman, Sseth, Civit and others don't regularly cover Imsims? hey see how you all treat ME.
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It's nuts. They all bellyache and claim no one makes imsims anymore but here I am showing off every upcoming indie game I can find but they don't want it because apparently I was mean to Gloomwood and I didn't blindly praise thief so I am the actual devil who works at EA or something.
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The Above was our entire conversation. He posted that thread within an hour of being blocked because big mad and you all gave me a hell of a day because you wanted something to confirm your biases. Why do you all think indie devs come to me instead of you!? This shit!
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Fuck it, I'm not done but I'm gonna let the Whiskey talk now: you motherfuckers went on a hate train over me over literally this pathetic thread, some Ryan Gosling PFP on twitter got buttmad I blocked him because I didn't want to spend time appeasing them instead of time with my wife watching shows.
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Also WHAT THE HELL DID YOU ALL DO TO SINNOWARE AND WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN MUCH OF HIM IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS!?!?! I SWEAR TO GOD IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO HIM I AM NEVER POSTING ANOTHER CAT PIC AGAIN!!!
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Ya'll get so weird about hating anyone that doesn't blindly praise the same three games you don't realize you're making my job way, way harder by scaring off other creators. and the funniest thing is I don't even Dislike your sacred calf, Thief; I just prefer more action-oriented ImSims like SS2
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I hate to bitch and moan but between this and this morning's thread it feels like for every one step I try to push the imsim scene forward that sub sends everything 10 steps back. Do ya'll think that all those small channels don't notice how you treat the only guy who does imsims consistently!?!?
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If there was an /s there it didn't show up when I saw it and it's in a thread full of people foaming at the mouth over the very mention of my name. Every since those crypto bros got so mad that I wouldn't shill for them tried to get my heat cut in a -15 winter I have to take this shit seriously.
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Seriously. I'll admit that things got a little antagonistic over it because people weren't leaving it alone, but it's been *years* man, let it go
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Basically this. According to his own comments he also seemed to be still upset over how I refused to make videos about the Fear and Hunger series, but if it's anything I've learned in almost 13 years of doing this it not what you're willing to do that pisses people off, it's what you WON'T do.
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I really don't care if redditors like me or not but what place in your life do you have to be in that after one interaction with some youtube guy where you're so weird and aggressive that the youtube guy ends of blocking you that you have to run off to whatever community you can find to get revenge?
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Okay that I can sorta see but personally I feel that a lot of the missions in Skin Deep get too formulaic towards the last third of the game and slow pacing of a stealth-centric game does that no favors.
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What??? Yeah, Thief is an Imsim, even if I'm not a fan of it it's one of THE imsims. And personally I don't see where you're getting Hotline Miami from as while the game had tunes, it's not nearly as fast paced as HM. I'd say it's similar to Thief, but is missing a lot of what made Thief special.
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*The Dark Mod is literally credited in the design making it arguable the biggest Thief overhaul mod ever.
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Making this a second reply for the character space. Also neither of these things address that the whole site climate feels like it's doing nothing to avoid becoming like pre-porn ban Tumblr. It's a sort of site culture that permeates all feeds. I don't have the time or energy for that.
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Stopped looking at those when they stopped showing me things relevant to the feed. Just checked again and they're all pretty quiet. Like the above says you can't just endless out in work on something that's not doing the same.
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That's a ghost town. Feels like we're the people who gave this place much longer of a chance as most of my follows packed up and left. So I go to discover and instead of any of my interests it's engagement bait hell. You can't just endlessly put in work on something that isn't working on itself.
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It feels like all the loudest, most annoying accounts spewing the kind of stuff we'd clown on Tumblr for a decade ago are now here taking advantage of a less refined algorithm to spew some pretty unhinged stuff. Also Inb4 I'm logged out again for saying mean things about Bluesky.