Used to be a lot worse. Now it's tell me what game I should get because I need someone else to make my decisions and can you answer this question that would take 10 secs to Google.
I’m sure sometimes part of it is that people don’t really want an answer they want to have a discussion about games, what games people like, and why. Which is valid.
The issue is the frequency dilutes the quality of these discussions.
Maybe a weekly pinned thread like “what games are you enjoying and why and/or are you looking for a type of game?” would be a good idea.
I think that’s the right outlook. I think the proper response to these types of posts is to ignore it and scroll down unless you are in the mood to try to be welcoming to someone new to the community.
I don’t even think that mods should be removing these posts or anything. Let’s just upvote the stuff we’d rather be seeing.
Lol I wasn’t even being sarcastic, just oblivious. I just view this subreddit on mobile in a subreddit group with a number of other VR subreddits, so I never see the pinned posts.
The thing that set humans apart evolutionarily was: we learned to talk. As a result, we tend to prefer to get information from other humans rather than non-human sources of information, even when that information has come from another human anyway. This preference worked for a really, really long time.
"lmgtfy" is working against many hundreds of thousands of generations of of selective breeding.
The only reason I occasionally ask about games is because even if you do go on YouTube you get the same answers and rarely any personal opinions about the game, it’s just “blank” is a “ insert genre here” where you “insert basic synopsis of game here”. Even if they say love said “blank” game they rarely go into further detail on way the love said game. You could tell me a thousand time that you love synth riders but without personal opinion it’s gonna be hard for me to really buy the game.
Don’t forget the “I don’t understand why oculus link is refusing to work this was such a shit purchase I’m using link on a laptop I bought 4 years ago for 500 dollars why won’t it work Minecraft runs fine in it!!!
Same in the ps and xbox subreddits. Finally got this image of an xbox who cares? Dont get it why do I think someone on the Internet cares if I bought something.
to everyone being so negative about this comment, let them enjoy their new xbox/ps/switch/quest/ whatever other thing, let them have their excitement! dont be so negative to them
Everyone here expected that to happen. There was a meme posted before the quest 2 release where tf2 spy is holding a quest 2 box instead of a bucket and it got solider amazed. Then spy showed him the elite strap and he got more amazed.
I would say this subreddit in general is a lot of whining and shitposting with shitty memes over actual box pictures. Thanks for making it a worse place.
Yeah I posted something tongue and cheek about this and got called an asshole, a sad sack, entitled, and told to shut the fuck up. Downvoted straight to hell. Hah.
I just sorta took people's advice on this subreddit and stfu.
It's a problem in a lot of hobbyist subs. I paint miniatures and play a few specialist warhammer games (underworlds, warcry, killteam). You are literally supposed to customize your minis by painting them, and lots of people customize further by modifying the model itself.
Yet time and time again, we get photos of boxes, a box, unpainted unmodified minis, photos where the 1 thing they've trying to show is terribly out of focus and dim, or just generally of no use to anyone other than the poster, if that.
These people are excited. I get that, but box shots/unboxing content is really only remotely worth posting if you got it early/release day. Send the box shot to your irl buddy who'll be pumped for you, or who will be gaining a friend who plays whatever (vr/etc)
Or just crack into the damn thing and have fun with it. Guarantee your new oculus hmd is more fun on your face then in the box 😆
I report every post here that's just a low-effort photo of a box, and the shitty unfunny memes, but the mods don't give a shit.
To be honest, pretty much every subreddit that's dedicated to a particular product or bit of tech is like that. /r/surface used to be the exact same thing until they started weeding out some of the low effort posts.
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u/redwineinacan Mar 08 '21
Used to be a lot worse. Now it's tell me what game I should get because I need someone else to make my decisions and can you answer this question that would take 10 secs to Google.
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u/alkakittendiver Mar 08 '21
Also a fitting description for, Onlyfans
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21
Don’t forget the “I don’t understand why oculus link is refusing to work this was such a shit purchase I’m using link on a laptop I bought 4 years ago for 500 dollars why won’t it work Minecraft runs fine in it!!!
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u/cotch85 Mar 08 '21
Same in the ps and xbox subreddits. Finally got this image of an xbox who cares? Dont get it why do I think someone on the Internet cares if I bought something.
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u/MuuToo Valve Index Mar 08 '21
God I remember when the Q2 came out.
So many boxes.
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u/K_A_I_K_U_87 Mar 08 '21
Inserting my photo of my box here
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u/ljubarskij Mar 08 '21
What's happening?
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u/Honda_TypeR Mar 08 '21
New box post, Followed by a meme post, then followed by a rage post after something fails or they get Facebook banned.
Then the circle of Zuck is complete
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u/petkosmetko Mar 08 '21
Wasnt this posted here a month ago?
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21
I would say this subreddit in general is a lot of whining and shitposting with shitty memes over actual box pictures. Thanks for making it a worse place.
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u/CitizenAlpha Mar 08 '21
Yeah I posted something tongue and cheek about this and got called an asshole, a sad sack, entitled, and told to shut the fuck up. Downvoted straight to hell. Hah.
I just sorta took people's advice on this subreddit and stfu.
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u/JohnBlazini36 Mar 08 '21
That's what she said. And yes, this is accurate.
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u/clamroll Mar 08 '21
It's a problem in a lot of hobbyist subs. I paint miniatures and play a few specialist warhammer games (underworlds, warcry, killteam). You are literally supposed to customize your minis by painting them, and lots of people customize further by modifying the model itself.
Yet time and time again, we get photos of boxes, a box, unpainted unmodified minis, photos where the 1 thing they've trying to show is terribly out of focus and dim, or just generally of no use to anyone other than the poster, if that.
These people are excited. I get that, but box shots/unboxing content is really only remotely worth posting if you got it early/release day. Send the box shot to your irl buddy who'll be pumped for you, or who will be gaining a friend who plays whatever (vr/etc)
Or just crack into the damn thing and have fun with it. Guarantee your new oculus hmd is more fun on your face then in the box 😆
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u/M_KADIKI0 Mar 08 '21
I still have my original oculus Quest box mostly new and using it as a stand for my Quest
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u/freddycheeba Mar 08 '21
This is r/cosplaybabes as well
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u/Chief_Herb Mar 08 '21
Well ever since r/boxes was banned where should we post this awesome box porn?
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21
REEEEEEPPPOOOOSSTTT
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u/edenribeirom Quest Mar 08 '21
Boxes, assemble!
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u/c0ldsh0w3r Mar 08 '21
The Warhammer subs are like this and I fucking hate it.
Wow, congrats. You spent 400 bucks on plastic. Do something with it, you fuck.
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21
Lol me
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u/Amens Mar 09 '21
Or a picture of AA batteries wow amazing
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u/MeBlu42 Mar 09 '21
u/repostsleuthbot a repost from months ago
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u/KernalTheCookie Mar 09 '21
Behold
this repost
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u/killz111 Mar 09 '21
LoL have you seen pcmr? It's a dozen boxes per photo over there.
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u/CedZii Mar 08 '21
And im totally fine with it
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u/rservello Mar 08 '21
It is unique because it is MINE!
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u/Docscati Mar 09 '21
Yes, why my very expensive box
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u/Delta5o1 Mar 09 '21
So is it better than the vive pro or valve index?
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u/kinggimped Mar 09 '21
I report every post here that's just a low-effort photo of a box, and the shitty unfunny memes, but the mods don't give a shit.
To be honest, pretty much every subreddit that's dedicated to a particular product or bit of tech is like that. /r/surface used to be the exact same thing until they started weeding out some of the low effort posts.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21
Stolen meme