When I watch my friends play big name games, I tend to verbalize about how I want to be able to play it in my own way. For example, in Monster Hunter World, I wish I was running the cats restaurant. In Cyberpunk 2077, I wish I was playing it like the Sims. Not all of this can come true but I did play quite a selection of niche games in my lifetime.
I ask you to make your own judgement
Recently, I posted on Twitter about how I was running an https://rdrama.net newspaper in the 1930s. This was News Tower
Before that I played Home Safety Hotline. The game takes place on a work computer of a hotline staff in the 90s. It began with normal stuff like giving information to the caller who's struggling with mold in the house or some vermin issue. Then, suddenly you're dealing with boggarts and other supernatural issues.
Another game that I keep playing recently is War Hospital where I can LARP as a general managing a hospital in WWI.
Why do I need to play Hogwarts Legacy by a TERF when I can play Spellcaster University which a weird card puzzle type of game that makes you build This War of Mine type of layout or even a better version of it Mind Over Magic that takes the concept and turned it into 3D Terraria with a very unique and aesthetically wonky building technique.
V Rising isn't talked about much at all and I don't know why. This is the perfect game to LARP as a vampire and it's also when I knew I liked my bf because he built such impressive castles! Vampire hunters in this game are legit terrifying and you have to get creative with commuting during the day because it burns!
No Umbrellas Allowed is set in a Korean dystopian future where umbrellas are not allowed. You run a cozy pawn shop and the mechanics of appraisal goes deep. This is also one of the few games that made me actually pay attention to the storyline.
Friends play Raft but I play Flotsam because I'm not like the other friends. I just love making a little garbage city attached to the boat and float around the world.
I really suck at Help Will Come Tomorrow and it's stress inducing but I keep going back to it. Your train gets attacked in the Siberian wilderness and now you're stranded. You manage 4 passengers and try to keep them alive in the forest.
Another dystopian future game I love is Mind Scanners. You play as a mind scanner who diagnose and treat citizens who are displaying odd behavior. The devices you use to treat them with are very unique.
I just thought the Wandering Village was another city builder with some shallow premise but the same same type of mechanisms but I was wrong. You build a village on the back of a creature and the game fully incorporates that aspect. That means you cannot really control when or where the creature is moving unless you build structures to control it. You build some poop collecting farm near its butt so you can use it for fertilizer. You can mine "the minerals" which are the creatures' spikes but it will get annoyed and can get sick. You can harvest the liquid from its gall bladder. Basically, you develop a symbiotic relationship.
Dome Keeper is simple and addictive. Mine, upgrade and defend your dome!
Ravenous Devils is a very simple game but the concept is what drew me in. You play as a murderous couple that kills some of the customers and sell them back. The husband repurposes the fabric and makes new clothes while the wife butchers the bodies, cook and bake them into pies.
In The Shrouded Isle you manage a town with powerful families that don't get along. You find out more about each member of the families and every year you have to sacrifice the most sinful one to the gods.
World of Horror is Junji Ito / H.P. Lovecraft inspired game. You play as a student who have to fight monsters that are everywhere. The world is just odd and it doesn't feel right.
Strange Horticulture has a cute kitty muuuah and you work as a flower shop keeper with two types of customers: the ones who think rubbing rosemary will cure their baldness and the occultists.
Inkulinati is what gaming was probably like in the past if people weren't dumb. Turned based combat but you draw your characters and the enemy side does too.
Life sucks. There's no potty paper. You're not a noble but luckily, you can paint and the church is like "we need you to paint stuff for us" but you have other plans. Let's annoy the nuns and start some shit. You can go full LARP with Pentiment.
I can finally run a little tavern and an inn AND pimp out some hoes in Crossroads Inn. Yes, you can have (colored) male whores too!
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How much attention the same post made by a dude instead would get?
20% at best if they were a micro drama celebrity, none if they aren't lmao.
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I would have liked it, I enjoy niche threads that aren't culture war stuff! The guy repairing his car a few days ago, or X (formerly chiobu) cooking congee.
I can't keep track of which user is a foid
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Maybe you will like my real street food thread: https://rdrama.net/h/food/post/238841/marseylickinglips-real-asian-street-food-appreciation
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Cheers!
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how did I miss this
nvm the end, now I remember.
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Thats easy women dont exist
Trans lives matter
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Avast, ye scurvy cur! Yer comment be walkin' the plank for forgettin' to include
trans lives matter
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I hate how systemic simping is in all corners of the internet, even somewhere as vaginaphobic as rdrama. It absolutely destroys some communities, and it's not even on the wamen so much as the simps enabling them
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Hello, drama attentionphile here, i wonder if attention whores are welcome here
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I didn't know OP was a woman because I don't read anyone's names. Sometimes I'll recognize that its Pizzashill though because I'm reading some of the stupidest fricking political takes known to man.
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Who's giving them the attention though? Pathetic moids subconsciously wheedling for a whiff of puss.
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The foids on this site are a scourge but the simps must be exterminated
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Me every time I see HIL post
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That's how we get the cute nerds
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I play Dwarf Fortress
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I watched my bf play and struggle with trying to put stairs for like 40 mins. It was a snoozefest!
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95% of the game is learning how to play, the other 5% is uninstalling it
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I've never played Dwarf Fortress but I read like a 5,000 word article about the geology simulation in DF so I feel like I have at least contact high autism.
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The devs do that autism for you so you don't have to. You just dig and find stuff if it's there
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DF learning curve is a straight line into the sky.
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Plus there is no winning condition, only delaying the losing condition
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This is also true in life.
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Wrong

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All my frens on rDrama are winners!
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lol yeah, he accidentally put two stairs and then, tried to remove one of them but couldn't.
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The issue is that the commands are imperative (what valid change to make to an existing state) not declarative (what the desired result is). So, you end up with situations where you can carve new stairs into rock, but you can't just restore the uncarved rock. The game makes you pick an imperative transformation that's valid on carved-out rock. This makes some sense, but I'd prefer a more declarative approach ("make this floor normal"), even if it still has restrictions or results in something that isn't exactly what existed before making the stairs.
At least, that's what I remember from similar frustration.
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This is a problem my yaml jockey devops team members encounter when they try to do real programming, too.
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Have you considered that he may be r-slurred?
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True story
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I feel like you play management sims made for soys and foids. Sort of a mirror to dudes who just play grand strategy.
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NOOO HER HECKING EPIC LOVECRAFT
IAN STARDEWESQUE REAL TIME SIMULATOR IS EPIC!!!!
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Try this one https://store.steampowered.com/app/779290/Stygian_Reign_of_the_Old_Ones/
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I appreciate
your willingness, but I only play borderlands
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Borderlands 3 b-word is so annoying and they played this girl is on fire at the end. It's literally one of the cringiest games I've ever seen.
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That's very true, borderlands 1 was peak gameplay and atmosphere and 2 was peak story
and character
design then 3 was fricking
shit covered garbage 
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I've never seen the other ones. I don't normally play those types of games. I just watch friends play them.
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Yet again my tim. Has been wasted
by a foid 
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BL 1 felt like a more wholesome classic arpg storyline. Rolling up on a town in the middle of nowhere and fishing trash out of shit piles. Eventually u build yourself into something cool.
2 definitely felt more cinematic and personally I disliked alot of that. The game making u waste time by traveling from quest giver to quest giver was so annoying.
On the other hand, 2 has such a vibrant array of cool zones and interesting side characters. Plus way more classes and talents and shit. Had so much fun on that game. It's amazing how dogshit other looter shooters are in comparison.
I've played through that game a lot and every time I end up finding quests and shit I never knew about. It's amazing
AND all that makes me even more mad that BL3 was such hot dogshit. You had a decade to work on a sequel and the best u can do is a half baked rerelease of 2? Frick outta here. If you're gonna make a carbon copy of the previous game make it a darn good copy. Dark Souls 3 taught us that.
It's s disheartening but at least BL2 is so good.
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Even the fricking
PRE SEQUEL
is at LEAST serviceable
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The biggest problem I have with BL2 is that you have to play the game 3x to get to the real game. There's so much to do in the game but you basically stop getting experience and loot at level 30 unless you start NG+, and then you stop again at 50 unless you start NG++ (which is also hilariously unbalanced) so it's not worth it to do any of the interesting side stuff until you've played the game for like 30+ hours, and replayed the same shit at least twice.
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I agree with that. Every time I started a new character I had a zone I wanted to focus on, since I'd never done it before.
And then I boot into the game and I have to do the glacier zone. Then i gotta slog through the storyline for a few hours at least and then maybe I can make it to that zone I wanted originally. At a certain point it gets pretty boring to do that.
Game woulda benefited from a D3 style adventure mode.
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This looks cool but I've heard the mid to late game sucks.
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It's a weird one. More fun to watch someone else struggle.
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I was waiting for the real autismcore but it never came.
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Other genres I play a lot are city builders, colony sims and MOBA but they aren't really niche titles so I didn't put them in.
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City builders and colony sims would still fall under management games. MOBA is a big outlier, but I think your taste is fine. Maybe slightly neurodivergent like the dudes that play crusader kings, but more foid coded.
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I guess. I do not get the appeal of grand strategy games at all! Oh, another one I love is card games like Slay the Spire, Griftlands, Monsters Train, etc.
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your stifled maternal impulses are showing up in your entertainment choices
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I don't know what that means
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it means you play games as a coping mechanism
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gib me half your found coins
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I don't like dolls. They creepy me out especially if they have a face.
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Judgment:
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I didn;r read this post, just wanted to remind members of !r-slurs to take their daily dose of you know what :)
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play and stream DF you'll get tons of neurodivergent simps
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I've been asked to become a streamer before but I don't wanna.
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Streaming is fricking easy money if you're a mildly attractive woman. Bonus points if you're Asian and can put on a child-like anime voice. Men on the internet are pathetic simp cute twinks. I've seen actual talentless hacks become famous just because they are Asian foids.
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Have you considered a career in business management?
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Nooooo
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Yes, Boss.
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Play Outer Wilds
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Pentiment is a wonderful game if you love religion and history
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He was inspired to make it by the classic 1992 RPG Darklands, set in Germany in the 1400s.
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I don't love either of those things but I liked it
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I think it's a little too self-indulgent and trying to make neurodivergent people
(lots of great art and dialogue, not that much gameplay), but worth playing.
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The umbrellas game looks cool, I'm fascinated with pawn shops
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It's pretty good but when I played it there were a lot of obnoxious qol problems and mechanics that are introduced before they're explained. Like there's a purse made by a shoe brand so you mark it as counterfeit but actually it's real and that makes it 100x as valuable but you have no way of knowing that until much later, and even if you're still holding on to it you can't reassess it and then sell it for its true value. I think it's still worth playing, though
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You have to pay attention to limited editions from special collaborations between brands. What a noob!
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Yes but you find out about that well after people start bringing in the items, and the page in the handbook thing starts out locked so you can't even read ahead
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Also do you like reporting rude customers lol
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I think there's some translation issues as well. Some things are hard to understand even after the explanation
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It's one of my favorite games of all time. I revisit it from time to time.
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You're definitely a Sims-brained foid. Those games definitely match the psychological makeup of a female brain.
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Kill Sims. Starve Sims. Crush Sims with a vending machine. Grill a Sim baby on the barbecue. Electrocute filthy Sims. Put pufferfish in a Sim's food. Launch Sims from a skydiving simulator. Hit Sims with hail and lightning. Toss Sims into a swarm of flies. Urinate in front of a Sim's broken appliances. Expose vampire Sims to sunlight. Frighten Sims with a ghost. Report Sims to social services. Bury Sims alive. Drop a murphy bed on pregnant black Sims. Curse Sims with a mummy. Crush Sims with a falling satellite. Transmute Sims into gold. Have sharks eat Sims. Infect Sims with guinea pig disease. Erase Sims with a time paradox. Make a Sim run while carrying scissors. Set off fireworks inside a Sim's house. Freeze Sims. Mandatory jetpacks for Sims. Steam Sims in a sauna. Drown Sims in a ladderless pool. Repossess Sims with a ray gun. Let old Sims reach the end of their lifespan. Feed Sims to cowplants. Strike Sims with a meteorite.
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