Celebrating a birthday at my parent’s house in my home town. Will probably finish the RPG session I mentioned in the wednesday thread as a two-shot, too :)

Maybe a farming sim mechanic is in order, and “cozy aesthetics”

Aren’t those the ones made to collect data from users with a camera?

That is a good elevator pitch

A roguelike metroidvania with soulslike mechanics in the TES universe

Have you looked at journalling games? Thousand Year Old Vampire was pretty fun to me

I’m dying to start a solo campaign of The One Ring 2e. The new source book just came out with an Elf Lord option for solo play and that might just tip the scale

I’m late but it did happen in a wednesday. Played a duet session of the TTRPG Delta Green with my SO, and added an extremely forward male NPC to help her character out, which lended itself perfectly to me making her flustered irl and lightening up the mood, and also helped with the combat sections and parts where she might have felt stuck. Pretty great session!

Just looking at the visuals you can tell the tone is off. This is not a cutesy story with teacup pigs

Drip I take with no sweetener, espresso I’ll generally sweeten a little

Your TV emits just as much blue light as your phone… It’s literally a screen, you’re not doing screens off

I feel there’s plenty of interest in other RPGs if you go outside the core community. I have never been remotely interested in playing DnD, so I never got a “real RPG gamer” group, because why play anything if you can run Curse of Strahd for the 100th time.
Well, it just so happens that I got my SO to play some Mothership duet sessions with me and it was great. Then some uni friends who were fans of LOTR to play The One Ring… And now I have an ongoing TOR 2e table and a passionate duet player looking to play more horror games (we’re starting Delta Green this week). The most common reasons for these people never having played RPGs? “Too many rules and stats” or straight up “DnD is too hard”.
We sometimes talk about DnD as some sort of necessary evil, but it’s honestly a hindrance. “Normies” get pretty excited about RPGs once they learn there’s more than a fantasy setting designed to be the lowest common denominator and sell miniatures

If the CRT works there are melee players that will buy it

No ads, apparently no bots, no reddit-style comments like “This.”, no corporation involved

Running the service itself over Tor is the only way to prevent local governments knocking on the admin’s door, though

Dogs are a hobby I would love to have but can’t. I would be able to care for a cat, though, but even then I’m allergic as hell and would probably die. I’m sticking to naming the jumping spiders that briefly take residence in my living room

Hard agree. Decentralization itself doesn’t really work against censorship, you need an additional layer of privacy, or, more ideally, anonymity. Is there a way of running a lemmy instance over Tor?

Marinating the hearts with limes and herbs is super good, too.
Yeah, feet turn a lot of people off because of the dirtiness and how messy they are to eat. Here’s more info: they are basically pure gelatinous skin with some juicy tendons, you eat them with your hands (at least in my family) to really get in there, and they taste however the broth as a whole tastes (I can’t imagine having them roasted)

Dobradinha: Brazilian caipira stewed beef intestines with beans. Really goes all the way with emphasizing the jelly texture
Chicken hearts: we eat them by the dozen but IME gringos don’t like them much
Chicken feet: love them plain caipira style but dim sum style is even better, especially the more spicy ones

AFAIK the algorithm for Kagi is really alien compared to Google and Bing/DDG, so the results do look a little weird at first, the main difference being just the sheer reduction in quantity of results.
But I guess if you didn’t like it, you didn’t. Maybe it is worse and I’m biased because I already paid