Surenho

Omg I feel seen. Yeah I might not be fully unappreciative of the aesthetic, but shit can be dark and grim in real life as it is and it feels edgy and emo to go all gore gothic all the time. Every videogame trailer that starts with "shit's horrible around here" is an instant "next". Also I've always had a problem with eternal unliveable dungeons that make no architectural sense. Even though it is fantasy, it makes it far more childish, which matters if they're trying to take themselves seriously.

I keep reading one or another form of "regulated capitalism is the goal" or "in small countries work" or "the problem is people". Regulated capitalism sounds great, but it is like saying "sanitised street pond". You can try and sanitise it all you want but in the end it is by its very design gonna be an undrinkable mess.

There is no great moment of the US. Even when you had wealth, it was on the backs of the rest of america, both the country's second class citizens, and the rest of the continent. You're obsessed with empires, meddling in other countries' governments, controlling resources in other countries, glorified violence, dominance, and individualist hero idealism. Even compared to other powers like China, count how many military bases you have vs the rest of the world. You've been historically bullies, obsessed with hustle, profit over life, status and personal achievement. Every time you have an increase of wealth is at the cost of someone else. The problem is you have lived so long in this bubble of entitlement that you have no idea how it impacts everything around you. Somewhere there's a totalitarian regime where they'll murder people with guillotines, and people will rush to buy stocks in companies selling sharp blades. There is no ethic in capitalism, capitalism does not care about people.

Ocarina of time is the one I've read in this comment section that best aligns with the feeling imo. Braid is great too but I imagine less popular.

I mostly play co-op games and I am tired of the "everything is dark, ugly, and evil, and chaos is rampant" with a souls-copy aesthetic. I crave colorful games and fun co-op mechanics.

Nine Parchments is casual, fun, and beautiful. The point IS that there is friendly fire because the challenge is to get the enemies without getting your friends. Played also by up to 4 people on a single screen.

Coridden is very home-made but has cool mechanics of turning into beasts or riding your friends when they turn into animals. Fun isometric rpg-ish game that can be played on a single screen.

Pizza possum. Steal the food and don't get caught. It's casual, chaotic and hilarious. Co-op as well.

Spiritfarer is a great game. Not sure if it's popular or not bc idk what's popular. No killing, very therapeutic if you've lost someone, is a journey about loving and letting go. Co-op allows you to play the cat.

And go play bombsquad with friends, it is the best and my go-to if I have videogame-comfortable guests at home :)

Love you all. Keep being nice people

Play the guitar or harmonica, design a boardgame or a ttrpg, play videogames, check lemmy/youtube/nebula, be in my head. But I'm seldom bored, more like "if I have free time for some minutes".

Entrance and accommodation at a dancing festival.

The museum could pay rent per item to the country the artifacts originate from? Bad idea?

I think people misunderstand how genetics work. What you say about a fantasy war is something that has been bothering me for a while, as this idea of "which genes get passed and which not" seems to stem from real phenomena, but are very poorly understood in its workings. Very few genes have high heritability, many are pleiotropic, many we have yet to understand what they do, and between humans we are absurdly similar to each other, yet as a population we have immense genetic diversity. The last two statements might seem opposing, but it is about the scope we look through. But once you understand this, any child is just like yours, and adopting becomes a better option ethically. This rhetoric of passing genes for selfishness and such are based on the ideas about genetics people tend to have but have little base in how it really works. The reality is much more complex, and nurture plays an absurdly large role in shaping us.

I think it also bothers you as much as it does to me because the argument is used in a way to get people anxious about societal implications for their immediate choices based on things that nobody knows how they would play out. It is guilt tripping, and so it feels like a bad faith argument to convince people of making big decisions.

That being said, I'm not against people having kids. People do what they want, but don't do it for any population genetics duty notion that you think you should fulfill. There are plenty better reasons to do so imo.

If this would play co op, even if it's a player taking over a companion during mission, I'd be totally bought.

I'd love to see a transition to other platforms like Nebula. As users it would be nice to start choosing by principles too.

Uh, did I always use the word "literature" wrong? Literature is not a genre... is it?

Wish I could upvote your comment more than once. Clear as it can be. 👌🏼