To be fair, that’s just the culture that’s come up around the game. You have to plan how you play if you want to “win” in the first 2 years, but the only thing you get is a few candles lit in your backyard, and you can still “win” in later years if you play more slowly. You absolutely can just plant some stuff around a sprinkler, sleep until they are grown, and do everything you want to do without being at all efficient with it

Sarah and the Safe Word have some absolute bangers

Yeah pet licenses should definitely be a thing

Ah, the old phineas gage story

I miss when his videos were just about the records and not the drama surrounding them

Folding Ideas is my favorite channel, but since someone else already recommended that, I’ll also recommend Thomas Flight. He’s a film nerd, but its all really beautifully explained and he also puts a lot of effort into highlighting things that he likes. His video “Why do Movies Feel So Different Now” was really enlightening.

Copper gold and silver too

Oh hell yeah, we just finished this year’s rewatch last night

Become a politician, then sell out to a corporation

Ooh, thats sounds right up my alley. Used to love civilization and stellaris and those types of games, but war was always my least favorite part of the gameplay. It gets in the way of my perfect empire.

Having recently read Rise & Fall, yeah. The party started out as a small nationalist club with socialist tendencies to attract the impoverished WW1 soldiers. But Hitler only cared about the nationalist part, and once they had any sort of public presence, Hitler squashed any attempts at doing anything socialist. For example at one point when they were a minority party, there was a vote to take land from the wealthy Junkers, which some members of the party wanted to vote for, because it wouls be popular with their voters. But Hitler refused, because he wanted the Junker’s support and money.

TUNIC is another game that you can only play once. I recommend it to anyone who likes elaborate puzzles

Good on ya. The whole book is like that.

+1 for this. Keeps all of my characters nice and tidy. Whenever you level up, you pick your new abilities from a list of options, and then it’ll autofill that into your character sheet. It won’t autofill your spells, though, so I use a different app for that. The only downside is that some of the abilities for certain classes aren’t named correctly, I assume due to copyright issues. But the names are pretty clear what they’re referencing (example: Agonizing Blast = Potent Cantrip).

Really? They’re all over the place where I live. Not saying they’re a majority, but maybe 10%, more out in the country

Oh, you’re in for a treat if you haven’t seen it, it’s an all-time classic

Edit, didn’t say the name because someone else already had

Woah, 3x?

I’m not quite as bad as you, but i do not cry as often as I’d like to, joy or sad. I think I last cried when I took an edible and watched Your Name

TUNIC is my favorite recent indie game. Full of really interesting puzzles and meta-layers to the game within a game. The manual is a game unto itself. It was almost too good, in that I finished it and lamented that there aren’t really any other games like it, and replaying it really isn’t the same. Maybe a few years from now, I’ll have forgotten most of it, and I can play again.

This is such a weird change that has happened in the last decade or so. I remember the comments on youtube videos being the absolute worst. There were definitely memes about “Youtube comment section being vile”. I think that an improvement in moderation tools, plus a switch to an engagement model (aside from all of the negatives that brought) really changed the culture of commenting on youtube.