Brutkey

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Much as I disdain Discord, I will admit that the number one most perfect use case for it is enabling a fan forum for $thing that's completely invisible, unsearchable, unindexable and isolated from whoever's responsible for making $thing

Which is very important and useful because if a creator looks at their own fan forum they might be tempted to do the stuff that the most vociferous and obsessive 1% of their fanbase is interested in, which is very rarely what the other 99% cares about

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Conventional thing-having-fans-type-business wisdom is to Engage With The Fans but this is wrong and encourages obsession and parasocial relationships, to ensure the longevity of your business and your own mental health you should instead identify your biggest fans and ask them hey have you ever played Undertale, you should try it, it's brilliant


Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

This is my confession, back in 2008 I was introduced to an informal group of exhausted small-time webcomic/fiction/game producers who all had 999 normal fans and one scary fan. We shared stories about our scaryfans and consoled and comforted one another long into the night. We hatched a plan together, and on April 1st 2009 we all went into our respective fan forums and asked if they'd ever heard of MS Paint Adventures, hey scaryfan you'd probably dig this,

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

There's a point at which the Meta About The Thing becomes bigger and juicier than the Actual Thing and this intersects with Milkshake Duck and two-hour Youtube Explainers in just this, horrible, horrible way

I understand completely why I don't know what Toby Fox looks like

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Like imagine having people write 20k word blog posts about you

Imagine having people make multi hour YouTube videos about you

kakerlakatze - DM to follow!
@anarceus@boosts.squirrel.pictures

@ifixcoinops@retro.social reminds me of how mangakas often hide their appearances, names and even gender and yeah. I would as well

Mx Amber Alex (she/it)
@amberage@eldritch.cafe

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I would say "who is Toby Fox", but since this morning, I have actually heard the name before xD