Now this is a list I can get behind

As best as I can tell, just about 200 years

Mission Accomplished!

I loved Driveclub back on PS4, think it’s delisted and possibly servers shut down, don’t remember.

Project Gotham Racing (I think 2 was my preferred one), Midnight Club II as well

Mario Kart series

Quantum Redshift on OG Xbox

I am so shocked, I have to put all my shock into a spoiler:

Did you catch how shocked I am? I’ll do it again:

Ok, maybe not that shocked.

I don’t know if you’ve seen them, but since no one else has mentioned them, there’s a few other communities that might work for posting your thoughts besides casualconversation:

• [email protected] (tends to be shorter form, perhaps more absurd or sillier in tone than you want. Alternate option at [email protected])
• [email protected] (mostly memes/links but occasionally someone does a text post)
• [email protected] (other posts might be less neutral than you’re looking for but your post doesn’t have to be a rant or vent or w/e)
• [email protected]

In one of your other comments on this post you mentioned somewhere to ask fact oriented questions rather than open ended questions as encouraged by asklemmy. For those, you might consider:

• [email protected] (some people might suggest just using google/search-engine-of-your-choice, ignore/block them if they’re jerks about it. Alternate option at [email protected])
• [email protected] if it’s science related

Otherwise just post your question in a community appropriate to the topic. Hope you find what you’re looking for from Lemmy.

As to your title, who says it isn’t? Just because it isn’t as commonly used that way doesn’t mean it isn’t for that. Also, my understanding is that Lemmy was created as a federated alternative to Reddit, and while I would say that Reddit did have more engagement for general discussion, it was/is probably better known for questions, links, and memes just as you’re seeing on Lemmy.

What happens to your thoughts? Do you turn them all in the form of a question?

This next part is just my opinion, but regarding this quote and your title contrasting commentary to questions, in my opinion posts with questions are likely to be more engaging as they give a direct point for responses. If you’re just posting your thoughts and ideas into the void, people are less likely to engage with them unless you are saying something particularly compelling or controversial.

If Lemmy had more of ourselves in this way, maybe it would be a healthier place.

Healthier in what way? Size of userbase? Number of posts/comments? Or are you referring to the quality of discourse and level of courtesy or toxicity between users?

Apparently it wasn’t. I don’t remember where I saw it, I think maybe a Kyle Bosman video, but Gearbox/Randy Pitchford basically said they made the movie to pull in people who hadn’t played the games.

Holy hell that was quick from the announcement to shut down. Did they have a 2 week free trial on the servers so they had to get out today?

We will never be past low effort tie-ins as long as line must go up

“In terms of the Final Fantasy that I think is the ‘most complete’; I believe Final Fantasy 6 comes close, and does stand out above the other Final Fantasies, especially because it was the last Final Fantasy to use pixel art in all of its visual expression,” Sakaguchi said.

Gauntlet, specifically in the vein of Legends/Dark Legacy. Arrowhead did a reboot-ish of the original style games 10 years ago, let em put some of that Helldivers 2 money into this.

Have someone thrown out a window on the 1st day to establish dominance

Based on past experience, first will probably be Thomas the Tank Engine

Am I? Probably.

Is everyone I know? No idea, can’t say it’s something that comes up and I’m not qualified to diagnose them.

I’m happy they’re keeping this going but the thing I liked best in the original was watching the player’s avatar just absolutely jamming away on the trombone despite how silly it sounded

From my understanding users of the beta can then invite others to join as well, Valve isn’t necessarily directly choosing who has access. So if Valve didn’t send the invite themselves they wouldn’t know to specifically put someone under a more strict NDA or whatnot because they’re a journalist. Could they have done more to restrict all users from sharing information? Yes, since apparently you just have to hit escape to bypass the agreement pop up, and there’s no other sort of NDA or contract or w/e in place upon joining.

I’m just speculating, but I think they chose not to do that so people could openly get their friends playing with them instead of going through waves of sign ups and hoping to get in together, or otherwise risk people losing interest when they can only play with randos. I could also see a line of thinking where you assume people want to talk about the game, so let them bring others in to play with them and that gives them someone to talk to about it too instead of just spilling the beans for randos on the internet.

It’s not clear if he actually got access from Valve or from a friend or someone else. The article simply states

Earlier today, I received a no-strings-attached invite to play Deadlock on Steam.

Oh no, the pacing isn’t glacial, how dare they!

S2 was better than S1, and they’re both better than seasons 7 or 8 of GoT. People acting like their own damn goats out here being eaten or something.