• Stamets@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    What blows my mind is that I’ve never heard of this game until the past two days when suddenly it has shattered records. I don’t know if I’m just outside of demographic shit or what now a days but this game might as well have not existed for me up until 48 hours ago. Like… did I somehow miss everything or did they have a subdued marketing campaign or something?

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      9 months ago

      This is how I feel about movies. Did you know there was another haunted mansion movie last year? I didn’t until a month ago.

      I feel like I’m aging outside the demographic for entertainment, so news of it doesn’t reach me anymore.

      • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        shit dude I didn’t ever realize I missed the superbowl until I saw a random post about snacks for it. The older we get, the less fucks we have to give.

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        9 months ago

        I knew about the Haunted Mansion movie but only because of my playstations media tab. I tend to just leave the PlayStation on that screen to kill system audio if I’m just in a party chat. The page has ads though for different streaming services. Disney plus has been pushing that movie for the past 4 months for me.

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      9 months ago

      That’s how I felt about Palworld. I don’t know how I completely was unaware of its existence, but there was enough prehype around it to get the huge sales it did at launch.

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      9 months ago

      Same. A friend of mine messaged me about it, and I had never heard of it, not to mention there was an entire other game that came out before it. Same with Palworld. Shit came outta nowhere (for me).

      • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip
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        9 months ago

        Seriously. I’m fairly active in checking Steam Early Access, but I’d never heard of Palworld until the day of its release.

        As for Helldivers, I had no idea there was a sequel in the works, though I’d heard off-hand that the first was pretty good (but still not my kinda game, anyway).

        Maybe it’s because I have adblockers on everything I can and don’t use social media outside of Lemmy. Actually, that’s almost definitely it.