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  • About your point about exploring space: The Orville by Seth McFarlane is a very good example of that in a space show like Star Trek. That’s literally their whole mission for the show, and it provides some interesting stories. Like one where they make first contact with a planet similar to ours, but steeped in religious superstition. Or one where they make accidental contact with a planet that only appears in our universe for like 24 hours once every few months, where in its home universe time progresses at an exponential rate, so you see a microcosm of the impact someone could have on an entire civilization.

    Also I just genuinely think it’s a good show.




  • I like Paleo Pines myself. It’s like Stardew and Animal Crossing had a baby about dinosaurs. It’s absolutely adorable.

    Chao Resort Island. A fan game that’s basically a 2D/3D Chao Garden from SA2. It uses some sprites from the old Sonic Advance games, but it’s just a fun little virtual caregiver thing.

    Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: Chao Garden. The “true” Chao Garden experience according to fans online. I have the steam version so I have the popular Extended Chao World mods to make it better/easier to raise Chao.

    A lot of survival crafting games (base building and decorating and such) can be cozy too, if you want them to be.







  • I played the demo/playtest and it was pretty cool. The physics-based building makes expanding your settlement a bit of a puzzle, especially paired with the resource management of researching new technologies and keeping your settlers fed and happy.

    I will say I think there should be difficulty settings or customization sliders. Towards the end of the demo it gets harder and harder to feed your growing population.

    ETA: resource building output needs to be increased as well. Raincatchers produce one unit of water every 2:30 minutes, only during a rainstorm that maybe lasts 5 minutes tops for a long one.






  • I said almost the exact same thing in another comment in another thread about this exact thing.

    It’s like the devs went out of their way to distance their game from JK Rowling at all, with the inclusion of the trans character. Plus the inclusion of the lesbian witches, and the fact that a good chunk of the NPCs in the game aren’t white or British. And the fact the game’s story doesn’t deal with bloodlines and purity and such.




  • Spaceballs, The Matrix trilogy (I was born in 1996), What Dreams May Come (possibly; I was too young to realize that he was dead and in the afterlife for the entire thing)

    Honestly I can’t think of any from my childhood other than those that might have been “bad” for a kid, other than shows that went right over my head like Family Guy and the like. I know I wasn’t allowed to watch South Park until I just decided to start watching it when I was around 13.

    Other movies that I really liked as a kid (other than Spaceballs cause it was kinda like Star Wars, and The Matrix) that may be kinda suggestive were Mystery Men, Galaxy Quest, and Titan A.E. They may like Lord of The Rings (Arwen and Eowyn + magic and swords) and possibly Star Wars (Padmé and Princess Leia, plus Ahsoka from Clone Wars and Hera from Rebels). Although I’m a man and had an older brother that liked a lot of this stuff, so I ended up liking a lot of it too, you may get better results from other people.


  • Also in the game, literally a third of the NPCs aren’t white or British. Half of the student companion quests are about students who aren’t white. They talk about other countries and the other schools all the time in side dialog. Four of your teachers aren’t even from Britain in the game.

    I really feel like they tried to distance it as much as possible from JK’s harry potter and I honestly kinda liked it.

    But I do still understand that a small portion of what I paid for the game went to Rowling and I do feel a little bad about it. But most of it went to the studio that made it, some went to Steam.