That's so interesting: an event map would draw me in! I like graphs and seeing what I did and did not complete. But knowing FOMO affects you negatively and dropping it because of that is totally valid.

Feel free to let me know if this is inappropriate, since I literally just copy/pasted it off the comment I put on the weekly what are you playing post in !otomegames@ani.social.

Went and played the Saintess of the Golden Bow demo. Haven't explored different options yet, just one playthrough.

• MC is definitely her own person, and I like how she has realistic reactions to her situation but also still refuses to just give in—she pushes herself to make sure she's taking action to get out of the situation. Has her own hangups about love which bodes very well for my drama appetite.
• Game is very pretty. Also torments me with the fact that out of all the dateable characters, I only like Noah's sprite; for literally every other character I like their sprite including MC's abusive dad. Just off looks he looks better than the LIs 😳 I like the personalities of all the guys though.
• +1 for quality of life features. I got times in the game where it's clear I can make a choice to ask for exposition, but I'm pretty sure I could also not without being penalized. I also got the game explicitly telling me about the fact that the next choice I made would lock me on one guy's route. Yay for having this information upfront for replays!
• I feel right at the beginning I was fed lots of different situations with romantic drama lurking and I am living for it.
  Noah route spoiler

Went and played the Saintess of the Golden Bow demo. Haven't explored different options yet, just one playthrough.

• MC is definitely her own person, and I like how she has realistic reactions to her situation but also still refuses to just give in—she pushes herself to make sure she's taking action to get out of the situation. Has her own hangups about love which bodes very well for my drama appetite.
• Game is very pretty. Also torments me with the fact that out of all the dateable characters, I only like Noah's sprite; for literally every other character I like their sprite including MC's abusive dad. Just off looks he looks better than the LIs 😳 I like the personalities of all the guys though.
• +1 for quality of life features. I got times in the game where it's clear I can make a choice to ask for exposition, but I'm pretty sure I could also not without being penalized. I also got the game explicitly telling me about the fact that the next choice I made would lock me on one guy's route. Yay for having this information upfront for replays!
• I feel right at the beginning I was fed lots of different situations with romantic drama lurking and I am living for it.
  Noah route spoiler

Do not think the novel has Jim and the fired mage hook up to start a business, cute addition.

Does not feel too satisfying but that is probably my fault for reading the finished web novel ahead of the manga completion, wonder if epilogue chapter will help.

Thanks for posting this!

There is an epilogue chapter coming out, I think.

I admit I have been holding back some interesting questions because I do not know if they'll get engagement, and deleting a thread because it got no engagement and reposting later in hopes people bite feels bad and somehow a bit sneaky and deceptive. I have done that, and have spaced out by weeks or months instead of after a few days so it does not come off like spam, but I still felt bad doing it somehow.

Huh. Took a look. Nice art. Mildly interesting plot. Don't love it, don't hate it.

I wonder what communities people put on ani.social such that there needs to be a rule about communities being related to anime. (Honestly curious!) I agree with the rule, but I'm assuming it had to be instated specifically because someone put something non-anime-related here, as I also figure it is kind of obvious ani.social is for anime communities.

Saw someone promoting Lemmy Federate again, something they said in their promotion made me wonder:

What happens if a user is the first to follow a community, so their instance's bot unsubscribes, and then the user unsubscribes?

I used to read a wider spread of genres, but I definitely seem to have consolidated towards shoujosei, and as far as I have noticed you are the only one posting that here. I'm a lot more of a "broad tastes" person outside of anime and manga.

Another series to toss on my to-read list. This would normally be a "click and read immediately!" but I find myself with more things that must be done in real life nowadays :(

I ought to mention I'm pretty lucky that one of the active !manga@ani.social posters, aka OP, shares my tastes in manga :P Thanks again!

Wonder if any of them have actual recipes you can try out in real life, I have recently started getting into cooking. Food Wars is on my to watch/read list.

I find Lemmy to be a fun Reddit alternative. I do love r/otomegames, no beef with them at all, but I wanted to leave Reddit behind (mostly because they forcibly resorted my feed from Best to Controversial :/ made me think a bunch of sweet, nice communities had suddenly morphed into jerk central for a bit before I figured out what Reddit did).

I'm so glad ya'll are on wiki.gg! I'm not a Voltage girlie myself but I'm willing to try to take it on to help you out with the wiki. Wikis are great.

I did end up joining! Very quietly, I haven't talked at all lol.

I guess I am just used to seeing very negative interactions online, especially from two opposing positions, and like to make it extra super clear I'm not trying to be an asshole to you or shit on you, given just how many times I've seen "I disagree" expressed alongside insults, or at least an aggressive tone even if there's no explicit name calling. Call it the pendulum swinging too hard the other way as backlash from it, and a product of me desperately trying to ensure I'm not being misunderstood (it happens!). Thaanks for the details!

I feel like you also have a bit of an advantage because people who don't really care about lemmy might not care about an address like lemmy.zip, but crazypeople.online gets attention, as would ani.social from anime enjoyers like myself.

Thanks for your work on ani.social :) and probably the rest of the Fediverse, I think I have seen you on my many, many Elevator7009 alts including the dead Kbin ones.

Good to see crazypeople.online still having steady growth.

Rare indie otome where I find the art attractive and not just "well you're definitely skilled artists but uh… not really to my taste but not offensive to it either?". I like the plot idea too, definitely keeping my eye on this one.

These benefits are honestly things that do not enhance my personal experience, but I hope others find them useful. I'm probably forever going to be the "not for me but the community has outvoted me so I guess I can let it exist without complaint for the common good even if I personally don't like it" guy. Thank you for your explanation. You might want to put these benefits somewhere on the Lemmy Federate project sites so people can learn about them.

for almost every community

Do you have to sign a community up to have it put on Lemmy Federate, or is everyone's community glommed up regardless of whether it was signed up for it? How does this work? I want to know how it works, all the things an admin needs to know, or maybe a mod, not just a list of benefits.

Again, thank you for engaging with me, I realize my questions and bias against it are probably seeping through and making me appear more hostile to you than I am. I don't really like the tool but I notice a lot of others do and you did put it forward and, I think, create it with good intentions for the Fediverse, and I (have not contributed any code to the Fediverse's wellbeing) thank you for that.