Scairey!

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

i especially chafe at the way "cozy games" just seems like a "woke" way to say "girl games" and conflate certain game mechanics or aesthetics with a non-cis/het/male identity (to equally useless effect from a buyer's pov). gender stereotyping by any other name is still gender stereotyping. i'm not cis het or male, but i've spent decades enjoying pvp shooters and feel bored to tears by cutesy cottagecore farming sims. and i find those pvp shooters very "cozy" to play, too! @_@;

i look forward to the regression of home cooking from an economic necessity (slash soft requirement for affordable+tasty food) into an extremely optional hobby. pre-made meals (of good quality and variety) and food service becoming less and less of a luxury will be an extremely favorable development for everyone, including weirdos like me who like to cook and eat, because we'll be able to put more energy and investment towards project meals, skill development, and experimentation rather than just, the every day labor of feeding ourselves. Because like, it is quite simply more efficient to have a compensated subset of the labor force focus on feeding everyone else using efficient force-multipliers like resturaunt supply chains, cooking teams, and factory equipment, rather than having everyone feed themselves every day.

no matter how bad things are going at least you aren't watching instagram reels right now

if you are on mobile good news! you can just move your phone around and it is like you are driving maisy car around the real world!

okay but clipping ur collar to ur sister's with a carabineer is an absolute must

mwah is a very important word

hey so i know you said you love me but my Everyone Hates Me syndrome is acting up

hey so i know you said you love me but my Everyone Hates Me syndrome is acting up

hey so i know you said you love me but my Everyone Hates Me syndrome is acting up

went to the beach ten minutes after an actual thunderstorm and got so cold i started coming up with a “fish” cover of creep by Radiohead which I was singing out loud over and over again. imagine me waist deep in the waves no feeling in my legs getting over a cold voice singing “i wish i was urchin. you’re so fucking urchin”