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My game recommendations
I had a reblog in my drafts folder for a couple of days to keep working on it and when I was done I saw that the original poster sadly deactivated reblogs on their post.
They lovingly suggested that simmers should indulge in other games too, and I couldn't agree more. It is a special feeling to dive into a new game, learn new mechanics, and have a very different experience from the last game you played.
I really put a lot of work into my answer, so I decided to make a new post for it.
I'm a simmer and a gamer (simming since 2000), gaming since 1994 or so.
I used to play Everquest II way back when and dabble in Elder Scrolls Online but I quit for Baldur's Gate III which has me obsessed for months now, highly enjoyable.
Sims 3 has fallen a few steps on my top 10 list in recent years, but I use it as a creative outlet anyway and do not tend to judge it against other games much. I do judge Sims 4 though, which is a sad state of affairs. I can have fun in it if I spend the time in CAS, or for the first 6 hours in a new expansion - but it's just too expensive for its little value, especially compared to other games on this list.
City Builder/Automation games:
Factory Town: super chill cozy vibe, automate logistics for your pixel-people town. Lovely game
Timberborn: build a town for cute beavers!
Farthest Frontier: a nice city simulation with some logistics and events such as raiders invading the town
Satisfactory: one of the most ambitious automation games, with amazing graphics, for people who like to puzzle, analyze/calculate, and really use their heads while gaming. I like to play it as a challenge and see how far I can take my spaghetti conveyor belts!
Frostpunk: a harrowing/grim atmosphere, dystopian, make hard choices for your town
Simulation games:
Roller Coaster Tycoon and Planet Coaster: I love building super scary rollercoasters and then riding them and trying to get people in the park to ride them too
Strategy games:
Anno 1800: I can spend my entire life in this game it feels, it is engaging and relaxing all at once - love this so much!
Action/adventure games:
Assassins Creed Origins: stunning world, super detailed visuals and fun combat mechanics
Scifi/Exploration
No Man's Sky: At first I thought this was more of a casual game, but prepare for a lot of grinding and long-ish quests. It is fun to discover new plants/creatures and name them!
Survival games:
Raft: great to play with friends too and it has a relaxed vibe but also survival mechanics that keep you engaged
The Long Dark: I love the art style and music so much, the story mode is great, the survival mode can be very challenging depending on settings and it is super immersive. Wrap yourself in a warm blanket to play 😂
Subnautica: my favorite game ever before Baldur's Gate 3 dethroned it! It is a game that will guide you to leave your comfort zone time and time again, but you choose when you feel ready for it. You can really follow your own pace and exploring the vast, beautiful, and terrifying depths of this ocean planet is absolutely immersive and filled with surprise and wonder. It has also very chill and calm base-building elements to counteract the scarier moments. The soundtrack is one of the best in terms of evoking feelings/ building atmosphere, do not turn off the sound while playing this game!!!
Storytelling games:
Life is Strange: a classic, it's fun to explore what we could change and what the consequences would be if we could go back in time.
Firewatch: very emotional and touching, leaving a lasting impression
Casual games:
Bridge Constructor Portal (the dark humor is a bonus, it's fun and trains your analytical thinking!)
Carcassonne (like the tabletop game, chill puzzle game)
Simulacra (you uncover a mystery on a phone, interesting idea!)
Retro Games:
My favorite old/retro game would be Black & White (from 2001), which I played when it originally came out, I loved it so much! The free camera was revolutionary at the time. You play a god who is powered by worshippers whom you can either provide and care for or reign terror over, and your actions decide your alignment, good, neutral, or evil. You get a creature that you can train (and will be more or less useful to your goals or disrupt them depending on how well you train it). IIRC, you can train the creature either in the story mode or sandbox/skirmish mode and then go back to story mode with a stronger creature. The mouse gestures which activate miracles in the air felt like a revolutionary new idea back then. The game is not available officially anymore, but it is downloadable from some abandonware websites and the community-made patches so it is still playable today! Writing this, I had to reinstall it right away... the nostalgia!
RPGs:
Cyberpunk 2077: it's just iconic, the city energy and car drives are nice, the story is interesting and it feels immersive
The Witcher 3: great quests and story, beautifully crafted open world
Baldur's Gate 3:
I could also talk for hours about Baldur's Gate 3. If there is one game out there that everyone should have tried once in their life, it's that one. It really lets you try any strategy you want and did not actually expect to work in a video game, but in BG3, it does. Even cheaty ones like pushing enemies from a cliff or using explosives to blow stuff up. If you got surprise-attacked but have no weapon handy, you can throw a grease bottle at the enemy that can make them slip and fall, and then you can throw your burning torch at it to light everything on fire. You can stack boxes to climb up to reach something (or throw a goblin body onto someone's head, because it's perfectly normal to carry those around with you). You can be sneaky and steal stuff, even rewards from enemies. Don't like fighting? You can talk your way out of most fights if your character has the necessary skills and still complete quests that way.
95% of NPCs have something to say, and if you click them again, they will have another line. The narrator is awesome. The companions have so much character, the banter is great and every character has its own story arc and goal, the voice acting is phenomenal all around. Definitely get the talk-to-animals skill and use it on all animals, you'll have hilarious conversations!
It's worth every penny, even if it's not on sale (and I hardly ever buy a game at full price, so that is saying a lot).
Thanks for reading, I hope you feel inspired to try some new games! Have fun 😊
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"being trans is a choice" do you honestly think i would CHOOSE to get gender euphoria from wearing knee-length basketball shorts?? that's humiliating
#nonbinary#trans#transmasc#transmasculine#transgender#i look like adam sandler and feel like myself thats so embarrassing#thank god it's not exclusively basketball shorts though#i would look a fool all the time
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For this Disability Pride Month, I saw a post that was shittybad and it made me angry. So have this
#that one person was right OCD is NOT fucking de-stigmatized#intrusive thoughts aren't exclusive to OCD though I'm just tagging those because that's how I got on the topic#ocd#actually ocd#intrusive thoughts#in case anyone needs to filter stuff like this ->#all caps#bold text#ask to tag
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me designing OCs: "okay this one's a monster because she was born that way and doesn't know any other way to be. and this one's a monster because of circumstances out of his control and a lack of skills with which to cope. and this one's a monster because of her blind dedication to an unjust cause. and this one's a monster because she was complacent to a loved one's suffering. and th
#ragsycon exclusive#i mean they are all also monstrous in the physical sense as well#fishwoman being a fish woman and mark being a dogman and agent hill having a fucked up tentacle arm#emily's totally human though she's fine#...sighs wearily and throws this in my#hall of fame#tag
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"asexual discourse" is so funny cause dude that's not discourse and it's never been discourse. it's not an argument and it's not a conversation bitches are just yelling at us unprompted and then making up people to get mad at 😭
#exclusionists will act like they're in the fucking trenches when they're posting#as if they're not taking the time to walk into someone else's community without provocation and start being nasty.#saw a post the other day that was saying smth aphobic and was like 'it's true and we should be allowed to say it'#babe nobody's Stopping you. you can say whatever the fuck you want.#thing is though that when you say shitty things. people don't typically like it <3#anyway die mad sorry that you fell for heteronormativity and amatonormativity and assume both to be the norm.#i'm gonna keep creating community with other queer people and you are more than welcome to go off and die alone <3#also if you're fr going into ace discourse in the year of our lord 2024. jesus fucking christ get a hobby#aromantic#aromanticism#arospec#aroace#aspec#talking#asexual#ace discourse#ace exclusion
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I have a gripe about the Star Trek mugs...
Picard's teacup is a delicate, fragile little thing held by a strip of plastic and a dream. That thin glass will break if you look at it sideways. And where do they put that ridiculous tiny cup? On the Enterprise, which is always being dragged into conflict
The DS9 raktajino mugs are hefty, wide-based things that are meant to not tip over. They're called no-spill mugs. They have a foam piece on the bottom so they don't slip. They're incredibly sturdy – meant for ships and traveling! Where do they put them? At the station, which is arguably the most stable place they could be cause DS9 rarely gets knocked about.
Far as I'm concerned, Janeway's the only one doing practical space mugs correctly. Come on, a metal travel mug that's as strong as her coffee is black? Takes a beating through 70,000 light years of bridge shakes fighting off the Borg and the Hirogen and still holds a hot drink? Now that's a space mug
#is this the spoon post all over again? am I just insane about dishware?#it's 3am and I'm ranting about space mugs#believe me Picard's teacup is fragile or I just had a bad one#I broke one by putting a butter knife in it doing dishes smdh#I know they all have more mugs but we're talking about icons#I exclusively drank coffee out of the Picard mug until it broke then I retired it#the defiant mug gets a pass cause it's basically the proto Janeway mug they're both thermos Nissan#and the iconic ds9 mug is the raktajino mug I don't make the zeitgeist#inevitably someone is going to come at me for the defiant mug cause this is tumblr where ds9 lives#it's not called Star Trek Defiant though is it?#you say ds9 mug people will think raktajino ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#I have a collection of screen accurate mugs I have a draft somewhere ranking them all#I drink out of the raktajino mug more than Janeway's mostly because hers is impossible to find and honestly the no spill is a good mug#don't get me started on how hard these mugs are to clean#I will fight you about this
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Reminder that I am a homosexual, and that is always the case no matter what I'm doing.
#its also still the case even though in practice ive pretty much exclusively dated trans girls#it wasnt a conscious choice#it just ended up happening more than once#its also the case even though im intersex andnmb#meaning i never think of myself as any particular gender#but it is still true none the less and thats the joy of being queer
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A proper look at Brook, my weirdest weirdo, and the offspring of a very unusual throuple. She's a Blues-Rock Troll, mostly inspired by bands like Delta Rae and Larkin Poe.
#she is so weird but so fun to draw#trolls#dreamworks trolls#if it's not clear she's part country part funk and part rock#the rock part isn't very obvious. it mainly shows in the black hair and pointy ears#(though i realize pointy ears aren't exclusive to rock trolls)#my art#ex bandmates#trolls floyd#trolls oc#brook#les#hed#hed is so happy for his bro 😭😭 (he's half the reason they even started talking bc les is an idiot)#trying to make sense of the trolls genres in combination with the history of music genres is pointless#let's just pretend a funk and country combo could create blues even though blues predates both#tw smoking
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being a bisexual woman who turns into a horrifying beast and commits atrocities is actually the hottest thing a person can do
#hegemon edelgard#the immaculate one#edelgard von hresvelg#lady rhea#fe3h#☕️🥧#also just like in general though#not fire emblem exclusive
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Do you know when in the timeline the Phantom Bride story takes place? ( I love your comics btw)
thank you! :D :D :D
the events tend to be deliberately ambiguous about when they're set, probably so it's easier to schedule them, and to accommodate players who might be at different points in the main story. though I think you have to have finished episode 2 in order to play events, so most of them are kind of...in this nebulous chronological space of somewhere post-episode 2?
that said, the more recent events (I think starting with Fairy Gala IF) have been set after episode 6, since they have Ortho as a student and in his college gear. so there is a bit of a split there that Ghost Marriage/Phantom Bride falls into!
so basically...somewhere between episodes 2 and 6, and that's about as far as I think it can be nailed down! beyond that, whenever your heart tells you is right. 💙
#twisted wonderland#joseimuke games are serious business#twisted wonderland spoilers#(in the tags)#events assume you know everyone and are friends with them already and work from there#(which does lead to some fun scenarios of yuu being like 'WHOS THAT' at a character you have 15 cards of)#though i did notice in tamashina-mina that leona was exclusively referring to malleus as tsunoyarou#which is 1) AMAZING#and 2) was he just feeling clever that day or does he find out about tsunotarou at some point#quick i have to know before the timecops get here
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deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao
not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad
#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is#i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good#it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them!#it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive#tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little#irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny#and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately#reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women#who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music'#to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their#personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny#i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit#among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me.#but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere#from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy#anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem#but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in.#anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3#taylor swift
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a little spoiler for ch.10
I knew that some people would be mad at X but personally I feel bad for that farm boy 😔
I know he shouldn't have expected more from X and he let his lil delulu get over him , but I still feel little bad for him. Bro just wanted some love 😭 ( I know at least 3 girls like him)
#deluluisnotsolulu 😔✊
He absolutely had a case of selective hearing when X stated in advance that this was a strictly no strings attached tryst lol. Thought he could convince X otherwise, but unfortunately for him his game was NOT there, to put it politely 🙈
A bit of skill in observation would have also told him that X was fucked up over a certain someone else so he never had a chance, but alas...
Also, let's be honest, the people that are mad at X are way more delusional than the farmer guy. At least the farmer guy got laid. The Crown on the other hand hasn't even gotten a kiss from X yet at that point, yet somehow these people think X is in a committed relationship with their Crown and that X "cheated"? Yeah, no, that's not how that works 💀
#ask#anonymous#x route spoilers#chapter 10 spoilers#i regret to inform those people that casual flirting =/= a committed relationship#nowhere did X and the crown agree to be exclusive#they hadn't even confessed their feelings yet? like... ❓#just very strange and distorted ways of thinking#rip to the farmer guy though lmao
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Something I notice is the idea with transmasculinity and transmalehood is almost this idea that we had beauty that transition has vanquished, and I honestly never related to this pretransition.
Beauty was never afforded to me as somebody who was obviously neurodivergent and traumatized and weird. I was never seen as beautiful pretransition, and I knew that. Conversations about how desirable we "used to be" never rang true for me personally because I wasn't even given the opportunity to be "beautiful." I was never going to be included in that even if I were not trans, you know? Since transition, I know I'm desirable now, even if it is not in a conventional way. It's interesting how my masculine features are now embraced because people can actually register my maleness, when before, they would never.
Desirability is often used as a tool and a weapon on trans people. The idea of not being "desirable" is a punishment. It's just weird when you're the trans person who was never desired in the first place, and you know it.
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#nonbinary#i specify transmasculine and transmaleness because it can be really overt that transphobes often interact with us with the idea that we...#...killed our 'female beauty'. i definitely don't think it's exclusive to us but it's something i take note of because i'm a trans man#it's just funny because i KNOW the transphobes who whinge about my lost beauty would have bullied me for my nose because it's not 'feminine'#or they'd mock my broad shoulers and the fact that i'm asocial and awkward. like it is very transparent#i read a friend who was saying that their beauty was used against them in an abusive way and it's something relatable...#...but it's Complicated at least for me. on one hand - i absolutely get that. on the other - i don't know what it'll be like to be Desirable#or Desirable like that. i find that even though i am desirable after transition people still interact with me in certain ways#part of me appreciates that but part of me is embittered that this is something i just can't ever shake#i think these conversations are interesting and sometimes important which is why i talk about it#i've just been thinking about this since reading what my friend went through (and my heart goes out to them - it was harrowing to read)
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actually, since it's the new year, i WILL post a non-spoiler image from my private gamedev account... a sign of good things to come
#i will allow myself a little treat#NOT rebloggable though. gertblog exclusive. tumblr exclusive even#my ocs
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I have finally figured it out.
That "'found family' that is in no way a 'make-believe' nuclear family, that does NOT have pre-defined relationship roles doled out to the participants, just people from wildly different walks of life + attitudes bonding through a shared hellish experience who would be there for each other no matter how late the nightmares hit / that will help you bury the bodies without question no matter how cold it is outside"
...THAT is how I see all the Dream Friends being in Kirby.
#Kirby#Dream Friends#Dess Text Post#I thought I didn't like 'found family' tropes#but I just didn't like a specific version of them#this version though? this DOES sum up my feelings#Had a bad morning but this thought fixed it + had to share#This is probably also why I internally hiss and seethe at...#...takes like 'the gang like everyone BUT susie/marx/dmk'#Obviously personal HC are personal HC but...#...the way I see them that thought'd be akin to sacrilege#(They can not like individual things about each other...#...but casual exclusion from the group? Not in my HC >.< )
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wouldnt it be so awesome and cool if the sonic franchise was normal about fat people . imagine
#from what ive seen its mostly the earlier comics and cartoons that are guilty of this#(the amount of jokes about eggman's weight in fleetway sonic is insane. not a fleetway exclusive prbolem though#its just fresh on my mind because i read it recently)#but the later stuff and the games arent off the hook either#*stares at rotor being redesigned to be muscular instead of fat* *stares at them making movie eggman skinny at first*#*stares at zomom. like in general*#idk if they actually make any fat jokes about eggman in that sonic 3 teaser but im already bracing myself for like 500 fat jokes#in the actual movie . because thats the hell world we live in
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