THE CUISINE QUEEN

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

tumblr users will be like "human rights! acab! blm! free palestine! We must liberate everyone from our capitalist overlords!! BUT! We must do so using the framework for understanding the world and good and bad and morality that I was raised with or else you're pedophile Hitler"

"Build your local community! Share sugar with your neighbor! And don't forget about stranger danger! Addicts will ruin public bathrooms. To protect children from pedophiles we need to give adults even more power over children, ESPECIALLY their parents. But don't hit your kids with that power! Instead you should invent even more esoteric abuses so that it doesn't count."

"We need radical systemic change yesterday!! But if you try to disassemble any of the constructs I buy into about how abuse and harm is committed by Special Evil People with Tainted Souls, you're just running cover for the Evil Abusers to Abuse More and I will reject every idea you have presented to me with extreme prejudice, and also chalk them up to being abuser shit without so much as thinking twice, because critical thought is how The Demons trick you into letting them in. I'm a leftist!"

rebecca black was right. It’s Friday

eddy burback video: I did the russian sleep experiment for a month

next year they should extend it.

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.

okay but we can't know for sure that the loud noise and bright flash offstage—which occurred after the character who was holding the gun exited the stage with it—was a gunshot, because we didn't get to directly see it

it would feel so awesome to be a final fantasy white mage with the big-ass robes and wooden staff

and the brown leather gloves FUUUUUCK

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household