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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you playing this week? June 10 2024 Edition⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny that you mentioned Coral Island, that game has been on my wishlist for a while now. Yeah, I can’t disagree, Moonstone Island often feels pretty chore-ish. It hits many of the same points as farming sims and creature collectors do so if I had played some of those recently I probably wouldn’t enjoy it very much. That being said, it is a very charming game and I’ve been having fun with it so I’d say to wait for a sale if you’re not too sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you playing this week? June 10 2024 Edition⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m playing Moonstone Island, which is basically Stardew Valley meets Pokémon. So far it seems pretty average in both fronts but it is a very chill game so I’m fine with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chef RPG is a foodie Stardew Valley where you brew your own drinks and try to keep the critics happy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen some of the devlogs on youtube and it seems pretty interesting. It’s a shame it has such a generic name though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I believe theyre talking about newborns there.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What if you keep a baby from sleeping until it becomes an adult?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a feeling that someone will later make a 4-hour-long video essay calling them out for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so sweet. Getting to show cool stuff you like to your kids must be one of the best things about being a parent. If I ever end up becoming one I’ll show my kids all the great Pixar movies and also the Emperor’s New Groove cause that one is a classic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Writers, no matter how good, are just regular people. I have much higher expectations and not as much patience towards a game studio with infinite money and no released games whatsoever in over a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were your top favorite video games as a kid?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On PC I must’ve spent thousands of hours playing The Sims, the first and second ones. They had fantastic soundtracks and were very chill experiences where you couldn’t really lose and didn’t rely on reflexes or strategy. Above all else I’ve always enjoyed being able to build cool houses. I would barely even play with the Sims themselves, I was mostly just creating families to not leave my houses empty. I had entire neighbourhoods made from scratch, all with wildly different houses with wildly different people living in them. I lost all my data a couple of times but I always kept the CD around with the key code written on it so I’d just reinstall and start rebuilding from scratch (that disc is probably still in my bedroom somewhere). Just selecting an empty lot and spending an entire afternoon building a cool house on it, then making a family to live there and putting all the furniture in place. Rinse and repeat, life was good.

  I’d later go on to play other games that allowed me to build stuff trying to scratch that same creative itch. Mostly other Maxis games such as SimCity 3000 and Spore (never got into Sims 3 as it didn’t run well on my PC) but also Minecraft, which was all the rage and would go on to consume countless hours of my life. A few years later I also tried Sims 4, which did run well (on a newer computer tbf), but also felt so limited with the small fixed-view non-customizable neighbourhoods. It’s baffling to me that 4 couldn’t have the same features 2 had a decade earlier. Oh well, at least the building tools are much better than 2’s, so there was that.

  Tl;dr: I like The Sims. The first couple ones, not the last couple ones.