Hey everyone!
After a lot of number-crunching, we're finally ready to post the first of three posts with responses from our third annual community survey! It is, to our knowledge, the largest such survey in the Choices community.
(Note: You can see all the responses here) We had 2,210 responses.
We are posting the results in four parts:
- Demographics, playstyle, MC choices, and series.
- LIs and their popularity, etc.
- Book questions.
- Questions about the app and community, as well as spoilered questions.
This is part one.
There are too many free-form answers overall, so what we do is present both aggregate data and a selection of free-form answers as well chosen by the mods to represent broader opinions as well as just plain humorous ones. Please remember that what you're seeing are just opinions! You're free to agree or disagree.
Note: Answers have NOT been edited for spoilers. Please proceed at your own risk.
Demographics
Age
Consistent with the results from last year, where like the rest of Reddit, our community skews younger, with over two-thirds of respondents being 25 or younger, and 95% of respondents being 35 or younger. The community has slightly grown older compared to last year.
| Age | Respondents | % |
|---|---|---|
| 13-17 | 443 | 20.7% |
| 18-25 | 1089 | 50.8% |
| 26-35 | 496 | 23.2% |
| 36-45 | 97 | 4.5% |
| 46+ | 17 | 0.8% |
Gender Identity
Three-quarters of r/Choices respondents identify as female, a slight increase from last year. For full results, please consult the results page.
| Gender | Respondents | % |
|---|---|---|
| Female | 1621 | 75.2% |
| Male | 431 | 20% |
| Non-binary | 52 | 2.4% |
| Genderfluid | 17 | 0.8% |
| Demigirl | 14 | 0.6% |
| Agender | 6 | 0.2% |
2.3% of respondents identified as trans, across all genders, while another 2.2% were unsure.
Sexual Orientation
A majority (for the first time) of the community identifies as LGBTQ+. For full results, please consult the results page.
| Orientation | Respondents | % |
|---|---|---|
| Straight/heterosexual | 962 |
Southern lurker here. I might be wrong, but it seems posts on the NI subreddit tend to favour (heavily) one political side over the other. Any particular reason for this?
Not asking what your affiliation is, just why one side seems less well represented.
Weβve had few polls on demographics but itβs interesting to see the age breakdown of the redditors. Speaks of the generational issues they are facing.
the victim blaming is astounding
HISTORY-OF-NAURU APPRECIATION WEEK
Weβve just reached a whopping 900K subscribers, and to celebrate, weβll be doing something just a little different with this weekβs contest. After seeing that we had reached such an astonishing milestone, I decided to take a look at Wikipediaβs list of countries by population to see how many countries and dependencies weβve grown larger than.
There, I stumbled upon an extremely obscure country in Micronesia named Nauru (Now-roo). It has the third smallest population of any country (βbehindβ Vatican City and neighbouring Tuvalu) and the third least amount of territory of any country (yet again βbehindβ Vatican City, as well as Monaco). You probably havenβt heard of Nauru, and youβre not at fault.
But this tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific has so, so much more to offer, because it just so happens to have one of the most fascinating, yet obscure histories Iβve ever encountered.
This tiny community has just as distinctive a character as ours, an-d it deserves to be known! Since we all love history, I figured yβall might appreciate the opportunity to learn (or meme) a thing or two about some of the most neglected history out there.
So henceforth, this week will be HISTORY-OF-NAURU APPRECIATION WEEK! This wonβt just be another average weekly contest, and it wonβt just involve one person winning!
Thatβs because thereβs going to be two components to this weekβs contest:
Fact Scavenger Hunt: If you correctly answer the following ten questions, youβll win a custom flair and a Discord role! Post your list of answers as individual text posts with the flair βScavenger Hunt Entryβ. A word of advice - donβt expect to rely solely on Nauruβs Wikipedia page, although all of these facts are somehow linked to that page
1. How long have Nauruans inhabited Nauru?
2. What do the twelve points on the star on Nauruβs flag represent?
3. When was the first recorded instance of a European "discovering" Nauru?
4. Give a two-sentence long summary of how the Nauruan Tribal War of 1878 - 1888 began
5. Exactly how many firearms were confiscated from the Nauruans by the German occupiers on October 3rd of 1888?
6. In which two, separate, years has an intergovernmental authority allowed Britain, Australia and New Zealand to become co-trustees of Nauru?
**7.**Three ships had been sent by the Nazis to attack Nauru, but only the heavily armed commerce raider Komet actually managed to do
... keep reading on reddit β‘
In my opinion, Stadia was never intended to compete for the hardcore market share. It was never going to convert gamers who have the latest console or a good gaming PC and already own the latest games. Instead, it's trying to capture a corner of the market that no one else is courting: former gamers (or people interested in a premium gaming experience) that no longer have the time, money, or inclination to keep buying the latest console or continuing to upgrade their gaming PC.
I fall into that category. At one point, when I was single, I wouldn't hesitate to drop $1500 a year to upgrade my PC. I would regularly buy 3-4 games a month, and I could game 20 hours a week or more. Fast forward to today, and I'm a father with a demanding career. I'll be lucky if I can squeeze in an hour of gaming a day. And yet I still love gaming, and I'm not casual enough to be satisfied with mobile games. So when I saw what Stadia was offering, I jumped at the chance to try it.
So far, my experience with it has been excellent. The technology works great, there is no perceptible latency or lag, and being able to game while laying in bed next to my wife, or sitting on the toilet, is awesome. The cost per month is less than what I pay for Netflix, and for that I get 2 free games a month, playing at 1080p/60fps or greater, with console quality graphics or better, that I can play on basically all the devices that I already own. And I essentially won't ever have to buy a new console or computer ever again. To me that's a pretty great deal, and one that only improves in value over time. I'm very happy with what I get for the price that I pay. I understand that there are people out there who desire more than that, or who may have already spent money on hardware and games that offer a similar or better experience than Stadia offers, but for people like me (and at least 3 of my friends, all of whom have ordered the Premiere Edition), this is an incredible product that fulfills a need in a way that no other platform can.
I think once the platform matures and word of mouth spreads, Google is going to surprise a lot of people by just how many "casuals" like me it can pull out of the woodwork. It's not going to win over hardcore gamers, but it doesn't have to to be a success.
Preface: I am an atheist that loves watching TV. This is not a criticism in any way towards Christianity and its presence in the media. I am not saying there is anything wrong with Jesus. This commentary is based upon my watching of The Bachelor, Greys Anatomy, and Grown-ish.
So during wfh I've started picking up shows I might've stopped watching over losing interest and I've found something of note while catching up on ABC shows that are this current season.
- We've all noted and commented on Matt James having the women pray so I don't feel I need to go into more detail here, feel free to search for more content.
- On Greys Anatomy while they've always been Christian, this season we're seeing more emphasis on praying, Christian hope soft rock, Meredith basically has confirmed purgatory and heaven again, and if there's a doctor saving someone they're getting the Jesus edit (light around head, bright clear focus on them, halo effect).
- on Grown-ish this is my further support on it being for the younger crowd. While they've always had a Christian character, Ana, this season is focused more on her faith. We have her abstaining for Jesus, finding a young hip church, getting re-baptized, and more focus on finding a hip pastor who wears low-cut shirts, ripped jeans, and a flannel around the waist.
While ABC has always been American Wholesome, this season the Christianity feels like it has gone to the next level on marketing it towards a younger group.
Hello, UI/UX Design student here, we're currently creating a roguelite game! To better understand the audience for these games in terms of age and gender I'd like to gather some data from Reddit and other similar forums where people talk about the roguelite genre or popular titles in the genre. Thank you in advance for filling it in! :)
This is the best resource for worldbuilding I've found in a long time and I wanted to share it:
Medieval Demographics Made Easy - PDF
For a long time I'd been wondering -- what are the basic numbers for how many people should live in a late-medieval world?
I felt like I had a pretty good picture of what medieval life looks like, subjectively, but what are the NUMBERS? How many people should live in each village in my world? How far apart should they be? How much farmland provides for each village?
I finally found a resource by a DM who did the basic historical research on medieval Europe and compiled it into a short PDF.
TL;DR: about 50-200 people live in a medieval village, they're only a couple miles apart, they might be as close together as 1 mile apart, and there would be hundreds or thousands of them in a kingdom's worth of settled countryside.
Even if this was your basic intuition, it's nice to see some statistics that confirm it.
This document also has information about larger towns and cities, and more detailed advice for world generation using dice rolls, if that's what you're into.
Definitely changed the way I think about worldbuilding!
You can PM me on here any time. If you donβt have anyone to help you with things and youβre scared because of the virus, I will help you as much as I can with groceries, prescriptions pick up, anything really for you that I am capable of doing.
