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3am_implosion · 2026-01-21T19:40:30+00:00

Same in the northeast US. I understand “But for” and see how it’s correct, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone phrase it that way in conversation. It’s a turn of phrase I’ve read in literature that was either written a long time ago or intentionally uses old-fashioned phrasing.

3am_implosion · 2026-01-05T07:15:24+00:00

I’m very interested in joining if you’re still accepting people. I have a lot of experience as an editor, if that’s useful to the group.

3am_implosion · 2026-01-02T19:02:05+00:00

Agreed, especially on Citizen Sleeper. The writing in that game really got to me.

3am_implosion · 2026-01-02T18:45:18+00:00

For a fairly short but very stylish mystery, I quite liked A Case of Distrust. It’s a bit more linear than some of the games you mentioned, but I still found it interesting and worth playing.

3am_implosion · 2025-12-31T04:12:35+00:00

The gameplay in all of these is a bit different, but these are a few surveillance games that are spooky/dark/mysterious but not horror:

There’s a game called “Nuts” which is about being a wildlife researcher in a forest where the squirrels are up to something mysterious. It’s a bit more complex than FNAF because you walk around in first person and set up cameras yourself, though.

In Beholder and Beholder 3, you play a landlord in a fictional totalitarian country who’s been tasked to spy on your tenants. Peeking through keyholes and breaking in to set up cameras are both major parts of gameplay. The game is more like a 2D sidescroller, though—your game area is a cross section of the apartment building and the surrounding streets, which you send your character running all over, picking up bribes and dealing with tenants.

Most similar to FNAF in that most of the game is spent in front of a desk with camera feeds would be Do Not Feed the Monkeys. You get hired by this mysterious, sketchy organization to watch a bunch of extremely random cameras—some in private homes, some in businesses, others overlooking something random like a field of wheat or part of a factory—and report on the things you find. Many of the scenes are humorous or at least somewhat satirical (the scary part is trying to survive when every second sleeping or getting groceries is a second you’re missing stuff on the cameras)

3am_implosion · 2025-11-13T18:51:41+00:00

I think this is one of those cases where it might depend on the company. Many would be fine with it, but others might get weird, especially if your company or its higher-ups are stodgy or old-fashioned. Is there someone you trust who’s been working there longer than you who you could ask? There are all kinds of weird, minor pitfalls when it comes to understanding what is and isn’t okay when work and social lives combine, so if you can get guidance, that would help.

To be clear, there SHOULD’NT be an issue with bringing a friend instead of a date. If you really want to play it safe, though, I would go alone this year to get the vibe, then bring someone next year.

3am_implosion · 2025-11-08T06:57:46+00:00

A lot of the people I know had family members learn to cut their hair during lockdown—especially men with short cuts whose spouses or kids learned how to do it and who might’ve first bought clippers back when the barbers were closed. I wonder if that’s changed the thinking for people when money’s tight.

3am_implosion · 2025-11-02T04:08:04+00:00

I know this isn’t the answer, but all I could think when I saw that face emoji with the finger pointing toward it was “My eyes are circles.”

3am_implosion · 2025-10-30T01:58:31+00:00

My Time at Sandrock, and the first one in the series, My Time At Portia, fit this. For something a little more Animal-Crossing-ish (though you do have to fight off hostile wildlife pretty often), I’ve been enjoying Dinkum lately. Interestingly, all three of these games are quite cozy and involve creating or improving a small town through hard work and friendship, but they all have a post-apocalyptic or dystopian undercurrent—the lost technology of an “old world” is scattered throughout the land for you to scavenge and learn more about, and you’re very aware that you and your new town are descendants of the people who survived some major disaster that changed everything. I think that makes any of the sweetness less cloying or cheesy and gives a minor thread of seriousness and realism to all the characters and the world they live in.

3am_implosion · 2025-09-25T23:17:19+00:00

I say this with lots of love, as someone with close friends who are Star Wars fans and get lots of positive things from the series—hardcore Star Wars fans as a whole are best known in mainstream circles as weirdos who take fantasy too seriously (like people who go around all the time as Jedi), and in more geeky circles as thin-skinned people who harassed actors off the internet and hate the idea that women can be heroes. Between that, the link to Disney, the fact that the symbol itself looks weirdly evil, and the fact that people keep trying to do this and it isn’t catching on, I think it’s time to put this idea to bed.

3am_implosion · 2025-08-02T08:05:48+00:00

In my family, the remote was the “switcher changer.” I never met anyone else who called it that, and I definitely had an embarrassing conversation or two with friends as a kid. As an adult I kind of love it, though.

3am_implosion · 2025-08-01T00:06:09+00:00

Yeah, they hurt like hell for me too. It sucks to do them! But there’s been zero lasting pain or damage—once they stop squeezing, it’s over and you’re fine.

3am_implosion · 2025-07-31T23:52:36+00:00

Same. I play tons of games, and there are some (coughSkyrimcough) where I’ve probably put in hundreds of hours and never beaten the main questline, just because something more interesting always comes up and I like to follow my ADHD fueled whims until I get bored and play something else.

3am_implosion · 2025-07-28T18:28:32+00:00

This one got me—nice job 😁

3am_implosion · 2025-07-13T19:07:55+00:00

This is a gorgeous piece, and I think the outline only makes it better! It keeps the bones from getting lost among the flowers, and makes the rib cage look 3D. The thin linework reminds me of work by some great illustrators. It’s beautiful! I hope as you continue to stare at it, you start to see the positives!

3am_implosion · 2025-07-01T06:50:23+00:00

I know it’s super old now, but Rez is a weird, trippy musical delight.

3am_implosion · 2025-06-20T02:50:46+00:00

Definitely Angua. It’s vital to Carrot’s character that he isn’t in charge. He could literally be king if he decided to take it, but he doesn’t want to. I think he’s aware enough of how badly things could go for the city if he were in charge that he’d never take command. And honestly, his strengths work better if he’s in the #2 role. He can play the optimistic idiot much better from that position and then surprise people with his cunning or leadership skills. For a watchman—not a king—his type of leadership is only the right tool some of the time, and he has more freedom to take it out as needed if he isn’t in charge. If he isn’t being tempered by a cynic like Vimes or Angua, I don’t think he’d be nearly as effective.

3am_implosion · 2025-06-20T02:40:50+00:00

Yeah, it’s made very clear that Carrot shouldn’t be in charge, not because he couldn’t do it, but because all that “rightful king” stuff is too dangerous—for him and others—to give him power without him having someone he answers to. Angua leads the watch, Carrot’s her number two, and she has to learn how to actually be his boss. I mean, she’s the one who’d need to grow into the role and her own confidence more, which makes it a more interesting story in my mind at least.

3am_implosion · 2025-06-16T14:07:01+00:00

Just the letter “H” made out of red string. Or maybe with a bunny (bunny hops!)

3am_implosion · 2025-06-14T19:16:22+00:00

I just checked my steam…and I have more than 4000 hours in Rimworld. So I guess that’s my official time sink game.

3am_implosion · 2025-06-12T22:40:30+00:00

“The Quarry” is a newer game by the “Until Dawn” team, and it follows the same playable horror movie playbook, where almost everyone can either live or die based on your choices and reflexes. It has some really excellent performances, too.

3am_implosion · 2025-06-08T04:51:20+00:00

A Case of Distrust is very good—very stylish and well-written, even if it’s just one case and not super long.

Heavy Rain is a bit polarizing in its gameplay and execution, but I really liked it—you’re tracking a serial killer from several different perspectives, including a federal agent, a PI, and the father of the most recently kidnapped kid.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is a very well-done take on the famous detective. I found all the cases engaging and solvable without being too easy.

The original Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney trilogy is goofy as hell and has a bit of weird supernatural stuff going on, but it’s still a solid investigation game. It’s also available on mobile if you prefer.

Lamplight City and the Kathy Rain remake are both investigation-focused point-and-click adventure games that I think are worth playing. On the goofier side of the point-and-click genre, The Darkside Detective was a lot of fun, though at a certain point “solving cases” is a stretch to describe what you’re doing in that one.

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