I read somewhere that back then Microsoft was looking to buy some game to include on windows and everybody was showing then games that are more "videogame-ish", with some level of violence or stuff like that, which Microsoft didn't want. Eventually some guy at Microsoft had just rejected another game and said something like: "can't someone just create a pinball game or something?" and someone overheard and created what we now know as Space Cadet Pinball.
I still meet new people to play with whenever I start a new mmo. I started one just last week, asked for a guild on the recruit chat, joined their discord and played together for a while.
I guess it really just depends on what kind of game you're playing and how old the game is. For games that have been going on for years, I doubt any guild would want to recruit people out of the public chat right away.
Mom letting the 11yo "loser" daughter apply makeup and stuff to look older so she could hit on an autistic 19yo and let him believe he finally had a shot with a girl, just so she could have someone running after her to compensate for the bullying she suffered in school.
(AFAIK nothing actually happened between the two, the girl just wanted the attention, but it went on for years)
Feels like everything from Japan either belongs to Sony or Kadokawa already. If this goes through, Sony will will pretty much own everything made in Japan. Not just Elden Ring, but all sorts of stuff from Rpg Maker to a ton of anime.
Orange Season was a pretty neat game when it was being made in rpg maker. When the devs changed and it got shifted into unity it turned into an awful mess.
I only started remembering which side west is (relative to north) when I started thinking of "the wild west" and then thinking of where the wild west was. Still can't use it in the real world for anything though. At most if I'm at my own town I know approximately where north is, but anywhere else I'll quickly lose the sense of which direction is which.
And it used to work better on Linux, until the Steam Deck got announced.