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A filthy casual's small game diary, if you will. To help with memory, motivation for the games as well as keeping track of progress. No particular order.

May contain spoilers ♥ you have been warned.

Okay, this is a big one for me, buckle in.

About the game: it is literally everything I ever wanted out of a game? Its like minecraft, but with a story, a better block grid system, water physics that make sense, more decorations and easier placement systems, the crafting system is mostly timers but it makes sense, it keeps you busy, it is enjoyable. Farming for materials is genuinely fun, I have put down a big old garden, currently working on a third main base. Plus great amount of exploration, coop options. Character customization. Like fucking Valheim but better in every way. More frequent updates, better updates, accessibility settings for grind amounts, aka valueing your time, arachnophobia mode, etc etc etc. All this and it is still in early access, 1.0 is coming at the end of this year and it is exciting. Go play it right now. Dont even finish reading this. Gogogogo-

Progress: exploring the latest biome they added with the water update. having a grand old time. 300+ hours right now. It does help playing with friends, but the game has an official discord server just dedicated to finding someone to play with. The building, pardon my french but that shit gets me hard, Im so excited about it. The starter base is a beautiful organically growing mess with all the NPCs- I HAVENT MENTIONED THE NPCs so you can get NPCs who are helping you craft, send you on quests to get you out to explore, you have to provide a home for them, like set up a sheltered room with a bed they will actually go and sleep in if you let them. It makes your base feel so alive and is pretty rewarding! You also get tree cats and dogs you can tame and bring home! You can PET THEM AND THEY BUFF YOU it is a delight. Regular villagers who just live and dont interact much exist too. Farm animals too, most wildlife creatures you encounter you can bring home and get a stable for and feed them and you get resources. Still optional though, you can just go out and obliterate them in the wild if you crave violence but i am judging you for it. GLIDERS TEHRE ARE GLIDERS you can fly around the map from any vantage points! Double jump allows for some wild parkour up the steepest ledges too, you can make your own stairs anywhere anytime with pickaxes, its great.

Yeah, okay, so let me yap about the bases: first off generally the map will reset each time you start the game, only areas where you put down a flame altar (you are a flameborn) are exempt and will save any terraforming or building you do on them. You get 10 right now, they act as teleportation points as well.

• currently living in the starter base in the very starting area, aka where the tutorial suggests you set up an altar for the first time. But this base is bursting at the seams. It went from a little hut to a little hut and three huts, to three huts and a castle, to a 3 tiered crafting hall and a castle with four towers, then expanded the castle by twice its size, added a new chonky main tower, added all the interior, kept it open as per request, everything is parkour-able. You can zoom around the entire place. Added a little separate garden with five different houses to home the NPCs around a courtyard that has a strawberry field and a bunch of all kinds of flowers. Then added a whole stable section and a a meadow for the animals to dash around in. Then added several more villager buildings to keep the other NPCs happy, ofc there is a storage building that is overflowing as well. So is the crafting hall. Right now the plan is to move.

• not to base nr. 2 that one is currently just for looks and was built before they introduced water into the game, BUT it is inspired by the hanging gardens of babylon. Sounds like a contradiction but we just used ice to mimic water and it looks amazing tbh. It sits as this green oasis in the dessert, stunning. It is still unfinished because the new water update was a huge distraction-

• which leads me to base nr. 3 which is currently under construction but it will easily be my favourite, I just know it. It is in a spot SO GOOD that I have not heard anyone talk about. It was my friends idea to build there and it just shows that they are brilliant. Basically the mountain/snow biome has a boss at the top of it and next to but just barely far enough away are two peaks that sit on top of that mountain and we are building in between them, setting up for this massive castle with three floors and two towers. The NPCs are supposed to move with us, as is the storage system and the vital interior. The area also allows you to just jump off and fly into most of the three adjacent biomes, it almost feels like cheating but its such a huge shortcut. The view is okay, like yes you can see the entire map but rendering is not as detailed from a distance. Having that big boss as your pet in the background is an amazing bonus though. Also using way more fancy materials for this base. It will be dark and green tones, mostly stone, silvery pillars, grand hall. Very excited about it. In fact I might go play it right now-

Recommend: Yes, obviously. Ought to be my favourite game right now. 11/10

last played: yesterday.

About the game: it is an autobattler with inventory or backpack management. That is what it is but it doesnt really sound appealing to me. Yet actually playing it is so much fun? You get little tiles and place them around your hero and they all do stuff and then face off against someone else who placed other tiles on their board. A lot of different builds you can do. Strategies and stuff. You get 4 different heroes to play as, each having an own set of unique tiles, allowing for unique synergies and strats.

Progress: it is so fuuuun! I have sunk about 70 hours into it, counting the demo. Played all of early access, got really hyped for 1.0! There was a crossover event with bongocat back at the demo where you got a cute cat for playing the game for ten minutes and it gripped me. Today alone I played 4 rounds, lost three and still cant wait to get in again and hopefully do a bit better. Currently roughly at level 10 for all four heroes. Alice and Kitsune gotta be my favourites. Potions and Creatures.

Recommend: for sure. Its got a bit of a learning curve, particularly in higher chambers (a ranking system for players, goes up to 6). Im pretty consistently stuck in chamber 5. But im not mad about it. Im still having fun. And doing the non-competitive mode is an option but doesnt sound as entertaining tbh.

last played: may 26

About the game: roguelike meets base building in a cute cartoon style, you crusade through the lands.

Progress Base Game: Beat the one who waits, yay yay. Ended up recruiting him of course. Getting into the nitty gritty lore now and I am here for it. Loving that Shamura goes by they/them. Ironic that I usually fear spiders. Iconic that I did not mind the ones in the game. Mandatory Nari adorer. Excited to continue discovering the lore.

Progress DLC: Finished Heket after beating the one who waits, then Woolhaven released. Got hopelessly distracted. FARMING ANIMALS IS ADORABLE. You can walk them!! Pet them!! Give pets to your fellow followers! Is a good time! I wish there was a way to keep them alive for longer, oh well.. Winter and the rot are horrifying. But we play on baby mode where time stops while you're away, it's fiiiiine. Found all the lost lambs, still finishing their quests and have yet to get to the last two big bosses. A bit nervous about the whole rot situation ngl.

last played: mar 26

About the game: roguelike set in the universe of greek gods

Progress: Unfinished jahahahajakakdgljsdgk DID FINISH the main story of enough escapes until x but did not finish the story of friend every single god until y. Want to know what will happen but its so much nectaaaaaarrrrr..

Romanced Death because that is a pattern here.. glancing at cotl

excited to play Hades II someday but i MUST finish this one first its the law

last played: sep 25

About the game: basebuilding meets towerdefense, fantasy setting

Progress: Its good, its good fun, only started like a week ago, still at threat level 3 and its making me horrified at the thought of these levels going up to ten ono

last played: mar 26

About the game: basebuilding in your own colony in a place where everything can kill you, with random story tellers sending the most bizarre events your way

Progress: I never even left the planet which is the whole point of the game but i have 600+ hours in it. Its so good. So many good mods as well. Can only recommend. I have so many save files I cant list them here. Go play it, have fun and the time of your life, I dare you.

Recommended especially to fellow queer people if the genre interests you, there are mods for a nonbinary gender and for universal reproduction, literally everyone you play can be queer with a tiny bit of godmode magic. 11/10

last played: oct 25

shows

you ever forget things if you cant see them? yeah me too. This is supposed to remind me of stuff.

hi thank you for clicking and being interested I hope you're having a wonderful day

last: jan 26

rewatched twice or thrice

last: sometime in 25

huge comfort show, went through it at least 7-8 times across the last five years

"Punk."

last: in 25

once or twice

last: in 23/24

Spoilers!!! SPOILERS!

With all due disrespect: disappointed in making the one legit bisexual char a straight prince charming for cinderella. She was terribly endearing and sweet, plus it was adorable how he fell for her on several different occassions but that is not the point-

Like sure, it does not make him any less bi, but the show has been fairly straight thus far and they had a chance there to indulge and explore what that would have been like in that time period, with all those constraints. Aaaaand they did not. Instead they explored between classes. Like okayyyy but you could have explored queer relationships instead... you could have. Okay, there was a bit of that with him last season. But this show is about fairytale like endings and I want one of those for a gay pair. Which is quite getting my hopes up for Fran next season, maybe that can be a thing. Even if it will only be a side story. Although Im sad her husband died, he was amazing. Okay rant over.

Can you tell that I have a hate/love relationship with this show?

last: mar 26

Mae Martin, that's it that is my whole point

Really hoping for more seasons yes yes. Ghost detectives meet Medium and team up to solve crime together is a rly fun concept.

I cannot remember the ending anymore wtf

The first few seasons were quite fun, but the last one... i dont know who thought that ending was a good idea. That entire season was so bleak and sad. Like a 180 from the previous seasons. Maybe the authors grew up? Maybe it was a reflection of ye ol pandemic clutching the minds of people and throwing them into misery and depression.

This one fucking wrecked me. For like 2-3 days.

I dont know if I would recommend it.
I wont watch this again. At least not in the foreseeable future.

Based on a true story, involving fraud, cancer and major character deaths. Heavy shit.
I wont go into detail, you can look it up yourself. Hit home pretty hard for me. Lost a loved one to cancer earlier this year.

Fuck this.

may 26

formerly enjoyed things

Seasons 1-15, until they left Netflix.. which I think is quite rude and greedy. Watched a ton of this until then though, like 3-5 times depending on the season. Idk I think the magic wore off eventually.

last: in 25

About the game: Final Fantasy 14, an MMORPG in the final fantasy universe. Only final fantasy game I ever played. But for ten years oof

Progress: Finished Dawntrail and... it killed all my motivation to continue. Shadowbringers was the best expansion, fight me. Even did the last two raid tiers. Endwalker was a close second. Found me when I needed it, while I didnt know I needed it. That kind of thing. Started when Heavensward came out. The entire game was a huge comfort at the time. Which makes it all the more impressive that DT killed that joy. MAYBE okay maybe I did simply outgrow it. But I will die on the hill that "DT bad". Thank you for listening.

We love G'raha Tia here, the one true fanboy to the WOL. How can you not love him, that is the real question here.

VERY CAUTIOUSLY considering putting this back into the gaymes section. The reveal for the next expansion looked intriguing and they addressed most of the things I had issues with. Might give it a shot again at the end of the year or during a free login period. Maybe. Cautiously. - may 26

last played: sometime in 2024

I dont think this one needs explaining........... insert drawn horse meme for each season here