This subforum has been steadily turning into nu-/v/ for a while now and it feels increasingly difficult to have any worthwhile discussion that isn't just "circular conversations about how terrible everything is where everyone just agrees with each other on barely lukewarm takes", just like what happened with /v/ back in the day. The only nails in the coffin we're still missing is people openly coomposting (since the mods would crack down on that pretty quick, thank fuck) or people regularly making throwaway threads (the advent of which has already started to happen to some degree).
Good thing there's always video games (or other forms of entertainment) to fall back on if people just want to circlejerk over being contrarian about everything.
nah, it's still good imo. this thread doesn't really have a topic so anything goes. the rest more or less stays on rails. throwaway threads just slide into the background, that always happens on every forum. I rather take that organic process over mods getting autistic with USE THE SEARCH FIRST MUH DUPLICATE THREAD.
what I mean with nu-/v/ is like the descartes quote about idiots. "back then" hating videogames was an ironic joke because it kept your expectations low, but you could still enjoy them. these days it's all about hating everything (granted, modern mainstream videogames
are fucking shit, so it's the normal reaction), but even when it's acceptable or outright good. at some point enjoying videogames stopped being acceptable and retards took the "fun is a buzzword" literally.
besides, current /v/ usually only talks about the current FOTM/outrage anyway, anything in the middle or not mainstream doesn't get any attention. fuck I've seen that live with one of my mates who likes to constantly regurgitate /v/'s opinions without playing any of the games he's talking about. it's not even "agree to disagree", it's just fucking insufferable.
there are still some nuggets of gold in that turd, the next fest threads actually talk about videogames in an enthusiastic manner, with hardly any shitposting. might be that the games are not zoomer enough and "
too indie" "not AAA enough" because MUH PIXELSHIT. same for offtopic threads, but that's true for every board. or the occasional non-containment /vg/ game that gets mentioned (usually ff14 and genshin).
