Comic: https://www.deathbulge.com/comics/441
Alt text: Yeah yeah, there's always exceptions, I mean look no further than the game in the 2nd panel, not the most thrilling gameplay, is it?
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
1383 points (98.9% liked)
Comic Strips
24631 readers
2378 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
-
π Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
-
ποΈ Community Standards
- Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
- Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
- Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
-
𧬠Keep it Real
- Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
-
π½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due
- Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
- Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
-
π Post Formatting
- Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
- Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
- When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
β Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
β Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
-
π¬ Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 π) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 π) will be removed.
-
π΄ββ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
SΓ, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
-
πΏ Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists
The following artists are banned from the community.
- Jago
- Stonetoss
- GPrime85
It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.
Web Accessibility
Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.
When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:
Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)
Web of Links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
Other Comic Communities of Interest
- !bloomcounty@sopuli.xyz
- !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world
- !cyanideandhappiness@discuss.online
- !exo@discuss.online
- !foxtrot@slrpnk.net
- !garfield@lemmy.world
- !moomin@sopuli.xyz
- !oglaf@discuss.online (NSFW)
- !outland@slrpnk.net
- !pbf@discuss.online
- !peanuts@discuss.online
- !smbc@discuss.online
- !theboondocks@slrpnk.net
- !thefarside@sh.itjust.works
- !xkcd@lemmy.world
- !NoseEars@lemy.lol
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Lets be real:
Most console gamers, console primary gamers... have no idea what an indie game even actually is, let alone how many of them there really are.
(Indie means self-published, btw... Independent -> Indie)
The expections to this are the ones that specifically hunt for really niche, not advertised things, or go hard into emulators.
Only true console peasants are in hysterical despair right now, or denial, or whatever stage of grief.
If your brain can only process passive consumption, if you're not capable of or willing to actively seek out specific games, find out which ones actually jive with you, put in some effort?
Then you have an abusive parasocial relationship with a or multiple corporate entities, which is mostly just sad.
Maybe try like, actually talking to someone, an actual person, who actually knows games, instead of just following the herd and listening to marketing branded as 'journalism'?
While there is some truth to this, as an almost exclusive console gamer, I play hella indie games. SolarPunk this month, Ive also 300 hours in stardew valley, Indika was a cool story game, inKONBINI was really nice too, Im trying to think of others, The Long Dark, Limbo, (just downloaded Inside yesterday) but Ive played so many smaller indie games on console.
I recognize the monopoly/issues, I dont pay for gamepass, but I do have access. I have played so many smaller/indie games, I might not have tried because it is on gamepass. Ive even bought some after trying them there first, like HouseFlipper 1&2.
Yes Ive heard people say I play videogames all the time, and Ill be like, oh yeah what do you play? and they say, Call of Duty, and I know to exit the conversation. But, we out here, I activley try the smaller games, all the time.
The only games I have on steam (we have a Lonovo Leigon Go) is Civ 6, Paralives and Rust. It's kind of a shitty set up I have, with a tiny tiny bluetooth keyboard. It hurts my hands so I dont play it as much. And Rust hasnt worked since the jungle update anyway, I get like 25fps. Its stupid
You are precisely the kind of exception I was trying to describe.
I know not all console primary gamers pretty much only play games from well known publishers... but most of them mostly do, as you seem to agree.
'Casuals', as we used to say, though the vocabulary has changed in the last 20 something years, so thats probably not a great word to use these days, as 'casual' is now more of a genre or an attribute, games that tend to not require intense/precise input sequences, or very much thinking, are designed to be low intensity, low frustration.
Back then, we meant it as 'casually interested in the hobby of gaming', as opposed to some kind of diehard nerd that was always looking intently for the best or the weirdest or rarest, or something like that.
I hear you. Really. I dont think Ive ever seen a CoD type player play their game with low frustration though lol But I understand. Felt the need to voice "it's not all of us!" is all :)
Yeah haha, 'casual' as a word for that... I tried to expand on the meaning confusion via stealth edit, I may not have been fast enough lol.
But yeah, a lot of bog standard dudebro games are not casual in the sense of uh ... sweatiness?
But they are casual in the sense of 'you only have to be casually aware of video games to know... CoD, or Zelda, or Halo'... like, opposed to niche, basically.