I was thinking we could try to host a few gaming competitions. Nothing too crazy obviously, probably just some specific titles that more than a couple people play, and see if we can try and get high scores.
Maybe if we can figure out a way for us mods to pay for things we could even do some sort of awards for the winners
We can use these competitions to form external centers of gaming communities, outside the spheres of influence of Leftists who seek to destroy any actual communal cohesion.
Would be pretty nice if we could get TD and the other boards in to create a decent sized gaming event.
Friendly competitive gaming is a great way to build bridges and creating lasting relationships.
I was thinking something smaller for the next couple months, get the idea down of what we should like to try and work on, then expand out and use it to invite people to the board.
So, maybe have a 3-5 games selected with up to 10 people familiar with them, try to win a couple prizes. Participants have to be members of the board with enough comment history to guarantee that they're not just crazy Leftists trying to subvert shit and hurt people.
Use the experience of that to advertise on other boards, maybe even social media, to bring people in. Come for the relatively winnable prizes, stay for the conversations and community.
That's not a bad way to go about it. I just worry we wouldn't have enough people here to make it more tournament style instead of just s social club, though I guess that's just fine for now too.
The hardest part would be setting up for the team games like CS:GO or DotA.
RTS' and arcade fighters are usually the easiest, though I'm not sure how many play them here. It kinda feels like the userbase skews more towards single player games.
Social Club is basically where we have to start now.
I don't even think we need to have like full on multi-player matches atm.
Isn't there a way you could create additional Steam accounts just for KiA purposes?
I suppose maybe, but then we'd have to figure out how to transfer ownership to other accounts.
This might work better with non-Steam games though. That being said, if we do Single-Player competitions. The competition results can just be sent to me and I can filter through them.
It's not the first time this has been discussed. Would be nice, but it has to get off the ground first, with people willing to take the lead. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people.
I'm interested but have not much input on games. I don't play much multiplayer much anymore. Party type games might end up being fun, are there any fairly accessible PC ones? I'm thinking something like a Mario Kart where you can pick it up and have fun having never really touched it before.
Some of the emulators for older systems (eg. SNES, N64) have online multiplayer modes, so you probably could just straight-up play Mario Kart. See for example Online multiplayer Mario Kart 64.
That's something I'd be interested in, since most of what I play nowadays is my video game collection from when I was a child (NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, etc...).
Well, we could do single player games and use time trials, points scored, cash earned, things like that.
I like it! Put Tetris on the list
I'm more than willing to jump in and play just about anything, but if the question is, "Am I willing to actually set the damned contest up," then the andwer is unfortunately no.
That's still helpful and I'm glad to hear the participation.
I'm down. Maybe we could set up a format where even some steam games are anonymized: start up a video stream through qtox with whoever wants to show how they got to a score, then if we want, edit and post clips of that to Odysee, Rumble, BitChute, and possibly YouTube.
I'd be happy to help set up a few gaming events, even if only to figure out how to get actual secure communication.
I know we can use some of these peer-to-peer communication services.
I don't know that we need to do video editing yet, thought that could be a cool idea way down the line. Just doing the competitions would be a good first step, and then figuring out how to disseminate awards.
I suppose for anonymization purposes I can be informed on who has what username.
Fair. Well, whenever the competitions happen, I'll adjust my schedule for them or for supporting them, as long as it's not 3AM or something.
Any games in particular you'd like to see?
Personally, I like fast response games, like Beat Saber, Dust Force, Or Smash Bros. Though, if a story has good characters, I can get really sucked into it, and I've written stories with people and played DnD a bit.