“this application is preventing you from shutting down. Go back and save your work: shut down, cancel”

Clicks cancel

Windows: shutting down!

Stardew Valley.

It’s 2D, co-op, not difficult or punishing, has few inputs, and is approachable mechanically.

Your description of vendor lock-in is obviously solvable by developers making a competing UI and workflow similar to the most popular software, and enabling new features under another menu. That said, there is obviously minimal interest in doing so.

This is UI. UI is not vendor lock-in. Lock-in costs users money to break out of, not developers.

I’ll be honest, I was hoping it would work better on my mobile browser

Isn’t the Factorio tutorial the first 1,000 hours? Ha

Not so sure about the audio design! But otherwise woo!

These posts are always great. They make me want to do better than my box factories haha.

This is mine- I always wind up coming back to it.

I sell the extras for plat on the website warframe.market and buy the things I don’t have on Warframe.market. Then I sell faction stuff on warframe.market and buy things on warframe.market. Then I grind relics and sell the extras on warframe.market and if I fail the rare parts I buy it on warframe.market.

So, lots of selling stuff I have and buying stuff I don’t… On warframe.market because trade chat is a rip off.

And honestly I spend some cash too, whenever I have 75% off, but I don’t think that it is strictly necessary.

My in-laws were here so I couldn’t spend a lot of time at the PC, so I started Untitled Space Idler. I like number go up.

Same - my butt is cleaner but it’s not worth the hassle of it being wet now. The dryer on mine isn’t any good.

Wiggle around a bit to get cleaner. But I’m not a fan of ours.

Unnamed Space Idle. Not very patient though, unless you count the gameplay itself haha.

Slay the Spire co-op mod and AC6 are also recent plays for me but not strictly this week. I’m not sure that I’m gonna stick with AC6 though.

Sometimes I just like killing rooms of enemies by walking around. I like Warframe for that - specifically I have a Gyre build that goes pretty hard even through steel path. Nice brain off time.

Spire Together (I think that’s the name) is a pretty good co-op mod as well

“Sure, I like a challenge”

I’ve always been a fan of Reinforcement Learning.

https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/Gymnasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUojVsCJ51I

Yeah - my first thought was literally “that will look dirty quick”

I saw the original first. I like brotherhood better. Both have their merits. Hope that helps :)

Helpful, thanks

All my recommendations are already in your list