I'm dead tired but can't sleep, so browsing new Lemmy posts. I say this to justify my very skimmy approach to reading this.
My favorite section was the text adventures. The Talos Principle does a good job espousing the unique strengths of this medium and really reminded me how great those games are. It would be awesome to see a revival of them. Perhaps there's already a big text adventure scene I'm simply unaware of, if so I'd love to know. I'll have to check out some of the sources you gave that seem to have built in communities. I appreciate the effort it took to compile the tool options available for making them. I've researched this a bit before but you found some I hadn't heard of, which is great.
I think Lemmy may be a challenging medium for a zine to seem really non-dry, since a lot of the fun of a zine comes in layout and graphics. I feel this is pretty nice given your constraints. I enjoyed the Corner of Fun precisely because of the cheesiness you alluded to. I think it's a feature.
I am too lazy and tired to actually look at the games you mentioned, just being honest lol. I haven't heard of them (not that I really follow the gaming world that closely these days) but from my perspective this brought curated light to things I don't expect I'll hear about from major publications, and I love that. A few of them sounded interesting enough that I'll revisit this post later.
Overall, while I admit I haven't read this super closely, I think this is delightful to see on Lemmy; brought a lot of topic diversity to my feed. I love tech and political posts too, but we need more posts on other topics as well!
I can think of a few immediate benefits of this sort of protest and some potential benefits.
Mainly this shows the populace they aren't alone, or taking crazy pills, or in some kind of Twilight Zone. The media easily makes it seem like these strong views, anti Trump, anti Musk, anti DOGE, pro Luigi, etc... are extremist or minority, or maybe that believe have some gentle disagreement with Trump but nothing major. That can make people feel hopeless and like there's no chance at things getting better, which discourages people from actually doing things to make things better. So this immediately provides some comfort and sanity to people, but it lays the groundwork to motivate people to do something more serious. Remember way back when the Tea Party movement was still considered fringe and extreme? Initially all that stuff was just protesting, all the way back to the Obama presidency. But in hindsight we can see how that laid the groundwork to embolden more serious action later which is at last coming to fruition for that movement. It's a long process, very similar to gardening, hence those phrases about "sowing the seeds of XYZ". For a long time the plant is completely non-functional, and then suddenly it abruptly bears fruit. But it does take continual prolonged watering.