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Would anyone be interested in participating in a sort of retro gaming "book club" style group? Basically, picking a console era, voting on a game, then playing through it together and discussing it? (Emulation is fine, we don't all have real hardware)
It seems like a fun idea. I want to call it "The Retro Retreat."
Wide open to ideas to bring it from conception to reality.
@Jojonintendo @thanius @nausahaver @lyonsinbeta @baltmatrix @TeamLinux01 @chris @Btph @gsquirrel @CleanDesign @tylnesh @jsstaedtler
Retro Game Club: ASSEMBLE!
The first thing to figure out is where to chat while we get set up and organized.
Let's make this a group decision, OK? Cast your vote:
@killyourfm @Jojonintendo @thanius @nausahaver @lyonsinbeta @baltmatrix @TeamLinux01 @chris @Btph @gsquirrel @CleanDesign @tylnesh @jsstaedtler for more "live" discussions, definitely matrix, signal is too much of a pain on the desktop (it works when it wants to, plus needs to be signed up for on a mobile app on ios or android with a phone number) and mastodon doesn't do well for threading group conversations
@raptor85 I'm definitely aligned with this. Matrix tended to be unreliable during my time at Mozilla, but I think it IS the best option, and I'm sure things have been improved.
@killyourfm Not sure how long ago that was but I've used it for a while, all my friends have moved over to it as well. (with a bit of prodding tbf), we even have the full voice calls/etc set up on our home server for gaming. It's basically just better discord without all the crap now.
I would never use it to replace a forum or something like masto of course but for chat imho it's the best there is at the moment.
@raptor85 Yeaaaaa... every time I log into Discord for something, it just feels so loud and chaotic and distracting.
@raptor85 ... I just re-read this and I sound so old 
@killyourfm eh, not really, I get what you mean by it, whenever you log into discord you have to dismiss like 20 notifications of it trying to upsell their service, then even in the chat room there's just CONSTANT things it shows you to try to sell you stuff.
Everyone moved to it for a while because it was basically just IRC with pictures and a built in teamspeak server but as soon as they had the captive audience boy did they tighten that noose and start pushing to monetize.