harmonea

It's the mindset of someone who just woke up and was browsing sleepy as hell from bed and is already tired of hearing about this after finding it in like 8 communities and in several comment sections of unrelated posts. If you want to suspect my intent, go for it, nothing I say could stop you.

Why do you feel this is news that needs to be spread?

Like, I feel for you if all this is true, but we here already left reddit and you're already pressuring the admins and claiming to involve law enforcement and reporters. There is literally nothing the rest of us could do to contribute to this even if we were inclined.

This was just morning drama popcorn. It doesn't need to go anywhere and especially doesn't want crossposting to large communities where it was off topic, nor does it warrant the spam in unrelated comment sections.

And if that opinion happens to make me a sock puppet, well....

Looks back over verifiable same-name online persona in niche interests for years and shrugs

Okay then.

Only bothered clicking through this because it was "found" and wtf? People knew about the Blood of Lathander super early (both wikis I know of had pages on it weeks before the Aug 31 stream this statement came from), and Astarion's freakout if you blow him up in there is one of his most popular clips. And it's definitely not two hours of gameplay unless you include all the creche business too (unless some of those fights up top are super hard on higher difficulties I guess, but if you're blowing up Astarion you probably skipped them anyway). Surely this can't be it lol

none of the self cleaning ones really work properly, do they?

Uh, yes they do?

Or do you neglect your appliances as much as you neglect your animals? They do still require some human intervention to empty their waste, so you still can't ignore them even if you're dealing with it less.

You accepted this responsibility when you took in a cat. I hate it too, no one likes playing in poop. You aren't special or alone in this. We all find a way to suck it up and get it done because we love our pets, and if you can't, you aren't fit to be a pet owner.

@e569668 Oh, hrm. I am blocking a domain, yes. Sophie's choice: see the crap or lose the ability to contribute - haha

Thank you very much for your help and the knowledge that a fix is ready to go soon(ish(maybe)).

@e569668 Yes, like that one. It's not showing up in the magazine even when sorting by newest.

And I've tried posting several images to a federated mag but deleted those entirely when they didn't work, so I have nothing to point to there.

weirdly antisocial

Completely forgets (or ignores) the fact that some people just don't like their lives and avoiding thinking about it is what helps them get through the day. And that others legitimately have nothing new going on that they can discuss with those outside their inner circles. Like, I'm not going to tell someone I haven't seen in a couple years all about the adult novel I'm looking forward to releasing in December, or that time I moved and nothing about it went well to the point it was mildly traumatic, so yeah, they're going to get a "meh, not much. keeping busy. work and stuff. you?" at the most generous.

"Cozy" games warrant a label of their own because just browsing "simulation" or "management" returns as many Frostpunks and Overcookeds as Stardew Valleys and Dave the Divers, and while these are ostensibly the same genre, they're targeting people who want wildly different things from their games. Even the existing "casual" label doesn't fit, because that's meant more for short-session games that you can pick up and put down, well, casually - these games can still be fast-paced and stressful, and you want a cozy game for a nice long zen session.

As for its rising popularity, I think that's also due in part to how the gaming market adapts to the lives of its audience. Shit is stressful right now, and a lot more people just want to chill lately, so more of these games are getting made and growing popular.

Is there a word you think describes the category better, that you'd hate seeing less?

It's hard to get across "no really, I find predictability comforting and/or am not willing to share the personal projects I fill my time with for various reasons."

I suspect patient gamers have held off on this one given its relatively high system requirements, need for patches to improve performance, and super recent expansion. I'm sure you're right, but speaking for myself, it's not on my to-play list for at least another year. (Only mentioning it since you seem surprised)

This. They should be going through insurance for this.

Of course, the insurance rates would rise, and they'd still be passing on that increase to the residents, but residents would be slightly less bitchy about it since the extra layers of opacity would make it seem like "just more of the usual greed and inflation."

The fact that they even tried to pretend it wasn't retroactive because they didn't charge for old install counts. Like, does it charge games that were released under different terms? Yes? Then it's retroactive!