Love Thai curry! Almost never make it though, as none of the Asian markets near me carry thai curry paste that is both vegan, and doesn’t contain any allergens to me (Cardamon being the big one there). I’ve made the paste from scratch a few times, but its a fair amount of work.

I think its about intent. While the DF devs could spend more effort on keeping players from being maniacs, it still doesn’t seem like the want the players to be terrible to children. In fact, some of the worst stuff (danger rooms as child abuse training zones, and mermaid bone farms), were specifically targeted in patches to no longer be ‘good’ strategies.

As opposed to a lot of other games, who’s inclusion of ‘punching children’ seems like they’re doing it to be ‘edgy and subversive’. And the ‘child snatching’ thing is just classic fairy tale, and also would be a real danger if you’re living in the wilderness around predator animals.

He should have the wolves sicced on him then.

The normal, ‘people eating’ wolves.

C’mon, the correct response to finding a friends weird porn is to bully them, not to snitch

Unless is to of course.

It is modded. I’m just not interested in the minecraft formula anymore. I know there’s plenty of unique stuff out there, and some of the automation mods did catch my interest for a few hours, but idk, the overall ‘feel’ of the game just gives me a big ‘been there, done that’ feeling. Its not really cozy for me, just tedious.

I enjoyed minecraft, but its not a game I feel like I want to return to. Like, I played hundreds of hours of it a decade ago in college, so I do like the game.

But my brother in law set up a server for us to play again during the pandemic, and despite all the new stuff, I just hate the feeling of doing the grind all over again, and just can’t really get into it. I already spent a buncha effort building a buncha stuff, it just feels like work to do all that again. So I stick around to hang with people, but usually play other games.

Was she Lutheran? It is a belief that some Christians have, that afaik is associated most with Lutherans, that everyone goes to heaven now, since jesus has taken on all sin. (though, I think the general official Lutheran position is everyone who accepts christ goes to heaven, which imo is much funnier, since it says that jesus gets to go to heaven but not, say, the jews he killed).

Regardless, imo Christian afterlife beliefs are super fucked up, but that idea of universalism, that everyone goes to heaven, is the one that makes most sense to me. It always seems weird to me that people insist jesus is all about forgiveness, but also he will condemn for to eternal hellfire if you say he isn’t real (or kiss boys or whatever else is in vogue to be considered sinful).

If you want something giant to occupy you for a year or more, I love gloomhaven, and its sequels. Jaw of the Lion is the ‘pared down’ version that’s a good starting point, both for being more accessable and substantially cheaper. Frosthaven is the newest full game, and it is huge, to the point of maybe being too large, but me and my partner are into it. All of this is very RPG-like.

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is fun, very much a ‘try to solve cases like sherlock holmes’ game, so its pretty focused on those type of logic puzzles based on tracking the details of the case, but there’s a boardgame-y time managment aspect to it for how you go about collecting clues and interviewing people.

For more of a ‘classic boardgame’ in terms of just being single session, Spirit Island is great. Theme is being the spirits of an island, in tune with the natives, fighting off colonial empires coming to colonize the island, so that’s sick.

All of these are fully co-op.

Lol, “Chemistry classes scare kids away! Let start with organic chemistry instead!”

I like o-chem, as a chemistry nerd, and I do not think that’s the place to start, by any stretch.

‘oooh, salts are boring’, okay, combine some sodium and chlorine in front of some children then, coward. I bet they’ll love it.

That blurs the line between spoiling plot details, and telling you puzzle solutions to be fair.

The plot and the puzzles are so intertwined, it’s definitely hard to talk too much about the story without giving a new player ‘puzzle clues’.

“I don’t like this thing, but its important to me that I have Correct Reasons to not like this thing, preferably articulated in someone else’s 2 hour long video essay.”

I don’t mean to mock, I’m also like this, as a professional thing-not-liker.

If the target is already captured or subdued, nothing can oneshot them. That’s just coup de grace.

“one shot” says to me that it instantly kill or removes as a threat an as-of-yet untouched and un-interacted-with target.

I’m the opposite. I can’t ever ‘zone out’ while listening/watching/reading/playing stuff; I can’t even listen to music while playing games, and usually turn background music on low or off.

I am still like this with movies and TV.

It just doesn’t appeal to me. I’ve seen a handful of movies/shows that I’d call “not boring as shit” ever, and even then, its not something I’d choose to do myself, but is fine if I’m, like, chillin and chatting with people or whatever.

Might be my neurodivergence, might also just be how much of a reader I am. Movies are just so slow compared to reading.

Yes, was going to bring up Fate! I really like systems that split damage into ‘heroic near misses or light damageless scrapes’ and ‘actual wounds’, without getting too bogged down in random tables and lookup charts.

Last I saw, Covid death rates were still almost double that of influenza. And that’s even with (generally) higher vaccination rates for covid over the flu.

I used Plime before reddit, around 2008. Hard to even find info on it these days, not that it was anything special; same general setup as digg or reddit or lemmy.

Glad to see this; was going to comment this exact story.

Fwiw, the forum thread about Mermaid ‘farming’ was the exact type of Gamer joy at how ‘transgressive’ they are that you see around the ‘rimworld is warcrime simulator’ Gamers. Just reveling in how ‘funny’ it is that the found a way to automate raising, breeding, and slaughtering of human-like pawns for virtual cash-money.