You wish it looked that cool.

Tons of stuff:

I have ~135 game apps plus some that are not exactly games but not exactly for productivity.

I have lemuroid and a pile of old console games.

I have a few sites for doing other little games, like daily Akari.

highlights:

Collapsus

Endless Sky

Pixel Dungeon

Luanti

Gladiabots

Mindustry

PartyHardGO

OpenTTD

Oxenfree

Revoltaire

The full set of games by Yiotro (a dev who puts it all out there for free, no ads, and lets you buy in if you like it)

Terraria

Underhand

Space Chem

A collection of puzzle games off of Fdroid just called puzzles. It has akari, sudoku, minesweeper, signpost, galaxies, towers, etc. All the games you might find buried in the back of a newspaper.

Stardew Valley

Tic-80

A pile of games from itch.io

Growing up? Stranger in a Strange Land

MIchael’s way of viewing the world felt so natural to me, and yet so different from almost anyone else around.

If those are the options, I choose death.

Farming Simulator 25 - realistic modern farming

Coral island - chill life sim

Graveyard keeper - story with lots of farming and crafting sim elements

some Minecraft modpacks are farming focused

Ranch Sim - farming/hunting/homesteading mix

Farming Dynasty - euro farming sim

Garden Life - chill, grow flowers, decorate your garden, etc.

Hard to say where the line is for ‘looking like anime’ but for things that are a bit stylized but not anime styled exactly, there’s also Staxel, the My Time At __ series, and some others.

Ask why.

Need to learn X? Ask why. Why you want to do it might point to a better way of getting what you really want. Asking why one does something in doing X will tell you how process relates to result, informing better decisions.

Did somebody do something wrong? Ask why. Whether it was because they misunderstood or were just an ass, you’ll know better what to do with them.

Wondering what happened? Asking why will usually get you the who, what, where, when, and how as part of the answer.

In a world with probably over 8 billion humans, people are so desperately lonely, they view a machine built to trick them into thinking it’s sentient as the best option for conversation.

For a certain definition of PR, this is true. Most of the cultural associations of the seasons come from ‘classic’ literature, most of which, in the English-speaking world, came from England and New England. How many places in the Southern US actually get a leaf colour change in fall? The cultural touchstones defining the associations of seasons were written in places where the winters are dreary and cold and summers are a bit hot sometimes but not usually too horrible, and certainly not likely to kill you. Try telling someone living in the South of the US that summer is the best season, see how many warning shots they fire past your nose.

Overwatch, and the flaw is everything they ruined it with in almost every update since ₂₀₁₇2018. I loved how tactical and strategic it was for a shooter, and the only problems it had were the turrets. Everything they have done has been to make it less strategic and more lobotomized and left click focused.

Probably these little lychee candy things I had years ago. No fruit flavor at all. Tasted as though someone mixed powdered blackboard chalk and sugar.

Wrong site

Plasma - a wildly programmable physics game where you can build just about anything in a fairly accessible manner. The devs eventually just made it free because it wasn’t getting much notice.

BPM: Bullets Per Minute - at some point everyone thinks ‘what if you combined an FPS with a rhythm game so you had to shoot on the beat?’ BPM is that, nailed. Others have tried but BPM got it right.

There isn’t really a natural ‘popular,’ and almost never has been. It’s mostly just what’s marketed.

What’s going to hit will be a bit dependent on where your soft spots are.

Kids: Grave of the Fireflies or Bridge to Teribithea or My Girl or The Cure

Romantic love: The Fountain

Existential trauma: Psycho-Pass (series) or A.I.

Dogs: Marley & Me or Hachi

Loss: Up

Also:

River

Works… until they die.

Derek doesn’t look like that at night. You’re seeing him because he’s out during the day after a full work shift. How good are you going to look if you have to stay up until 03:00 for an appointment?

Making intentions known is necessary. Flirting is just one of the preocesses by which intention is established. In that way, it is not strictly necessary, in the same way that cake is not necessary, but food is.

Flirting is a process which intentionally leaves ambiguity because it lets people avoid embarrassment. Being rejected, in many cultures, is embarrassing. By attempting flirting, a person can show interest indirectly, and the other person can show interest in return or show disinterest with quiet cues that let the instigator pull back without having to do something as vulnerable as explicitly stating intentions or experience embarrassment at being directly rejected.

Flirting, like anything else, can also be used as a display of quality, the verbal/intellectual equivalent of peacock feather displays.

How necessary these elements are is entirely contextual. Some partners despise the pretense of it. Others view it as incredibly fun. Some are deeply embarassed by the prospect of rejection. Some are not bothered by it at all.

Check out iyashikei as a genre if you like anime. Relaxed and wholesome is kind of the whole bag.

If you liked Corner Gas, also check out Kim’s Convenience.

Measure twice, cut wonke

Here’s the fun thing about that question; it’s basically ‘Would you date someone you considered mentally insane?’ Whether you are atheist considering dating Hindu, a Catholic considering dating a Zoroastrian, or a Buddhist dating a nihilist, this is a person who has a fundamentally different understanding of reality. Here’s the real kicker; ‘Is someone who has a distorted sense of reality capable of giving consent?’ Can you even date them if you value consent?