I mostly play co-op games and I am tired of the “everything is dark, ugly, and evil, and chaos is rampant” with a souls-copy aesthetic. I crave colorful games and fun co-op mechanics.

Nine Parchments is casual, fun, and beautiful. The point IS that there is friendly fire because the challenge is to get the enemies without getting your friends. Played also by up to 4 people on a single screen.

Coridden is very home-made but has cool mechanics of turning into beasts or riding your friends when they turn into animals. Fun isometric rpg-ish game that can be played on a single screen.

Pizza possum. Steal the food and don’t get caught. It’s casual, chaotic and hilarious. Co-op as well.

Spiritfarer is a great game. Not sure if it’s popular or not bc idk what’s popular. No killing, very therapeutic if you’ve lost someone, is a journey about loving and letting go. Co-op allows you to play the cat.

And go play bombsquad with friends, it is the best and my go-to if I have videogame-comfortable guests at home :)

Love you all. Keep being nice people

Play the guitar or harmonica, design a boardgame or a ttrpg, play videogames, check lemmy/youtube/nebula, be in my head. But I’m seldom bored, more like “if I have free time for some minutes”.

Entrance and accommodation at a dancing festival.

I think people misunderstand how genetics work. What you say about a fantasy war is something that has been bothering me for a while, as this idea of “which genes get passed and which not” seems to stem from real phenomena, but are very poorly understood in its workings. Very few genes have high heritability, many are pleiotropic, many we have yet to understand what they do, and between humans we are absurdly similar to each other, yet as a population we have immense genetic diversity. The last two statements might seem opposing, but it is about the scope we look through. But once you understand this, any child is just like yours, and adopting becomes a better option ethically. This rhetoric of passing genes for selfishness and such are based on the ideas about genetics people tend to have but have little base in how it really works. The reality is much more complex, and nurture plays an absurdly large role in shaping us.

I think it also bothers you as much as it does to me because the argument is used in a way to get people anxious about societal implications for their immediate choices based on things that nobody knows how they would play out. It is guilt tripping, and so it feels like a bad faith argument to convince people of making big decisions.

That being said, I’m not against people having kids. People do what they want, but don’t do it for any population genetics duty notion that you think you should fulfill. There are plenty better reasons to do so imo.

I’d love to see a transition to other platforms like Nebula. As users it would be nice to start choosing by principles too.

Uh, did I always use the word “literature” wrong? Literature is not a genre… is it?

Unpopular opinion maybe, but the take on being “I made a thing” narrator and a “I’ll break your thing” player feels like missing the point to me. I mean, you can build that dynamic and have fun if that’s what you’re into, but it is still collaborative, just that the narrator pretends to be challenged. In most ttrpgs, the narrator has almost complete control over the game. You can try to “compete” but it is never a real match, as the narrator can make your character/s disappear in an instant if she/he/they want. So this supposed pissing contest is really more like a dad playing pretend like he got bested by his kids in a fight. Which shows that this was never the point.

What to me really makes it work is setting up scenarios with a lot of input from the players and seeing the game unfold wherever they might take it. The narrator is given that power precisely because it should try to avoid controlling the story as much as it can, and instead interpret the world around the players (as if the world is the character the narrator controls) to develop surprising and captivating situations and events that play off of everyone at the table.

Also related, “Dungeon master” sounds outdated, as it points to a person that controls a 1 vs many boardgames like Descent, Mansions of Madness or Imperial Assault. Which is why the collaborative storytelling is, to me, what sets it apart from other games. One can definitely have competitive storytelling (Everyone is John), but lets not kid ourselves thinking that’s what goes on in most ttrpg games being played.

“Ha de sarar” from Maro

I’m with you but just for the sake of hypothesizing an answer, it might be that those who like it or don’t think too much about it just read, upvote, and move on. While those who have comments click and share.

Would love to see more Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) or World/Chronicles of Darkness (CoD) love around. I think CoD has one of the best systems out there to play modern and contemporary settings imo. Also, long live Mage (MtA)!