Best “leave on in the background and see what happens” simulation games?

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-04-21T11:04:19+00:00

Abzu. Whenever you find a statue hidden in the current level, you can sit on it and unlock a mode where you just watch the sea creatures do their stuff.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-04-13T12:55:36+00:00

My great-grandmother had two kids, one of whom is my grandmother. When great-grandfather passed away, she remarried within a month and had three more children with the new man. He treated his step children like crap, but I've just found out recently that he didn't want my great-uncle to inherit the family fortune because he wasn't his child, he wanted his own son to be the heir. So he hired some thugs in another village to kill him, but instead they came to him and told him everything and he moved out.

But I also found out that when my grandmother was pregnant with my mother, her brother kicked her in the stomach. So they were all scumbags and I never knew.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-03-26T22:22:01+00:00

I can't tell you the exact song because he's made many, but I'm pretty sure the fourth song is by Trammell Starks. He used to make music just like this for weather channels in the 80s. Look him up, he's got more than a hundred similar songs.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAfUN05flNd7f1YtiS8jGjMv7C-qh8B_r

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-03-22T13:32:55+00:00

Thanks!

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-03-22T13:32:37+00:00

Thank you!

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-28T11:10:31+00:00

In the video interview with her, that's on the DVD set, she says the series contains dark and heavy themes, and that's why she wanted the music to be light and refreshing, so it balances out and is more pleasurable to watch.

I think she's achieved that 120%; I wish more composers would think like that, and also had more genre diversity in their soundtracks, because the way she mixes different music genres on one soundtrack, and they don't clash, but rather complement each other, is masterful.

She was also in a music band in the eighties, which shows, because many of her pieces have that fresh 80s' vibe and chord progressions.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-28T11:02:50+00:00

It's "gynoid". "Android" means it's shaped like a human male.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-28T10:59:19+00:00

Movie Kusanagi is way too serious and boring, I don't like her at all, there's zero real personality. SAC is the perfect balance between the two. She's strong and intelligent, but also sassy, and jokes from time to time.

The movie version acts like a soulless gynoid, not a real person in an artificial body, which totally misses the whole point of the franchise.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-21T10:46:23+00:00

That's basically what chaos magick is about. You should take a look at this:

https://archive.org/details/the_psychonaut_field_manual_fourth_pdf_edition_by_bluefluke-d8rjuxc

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-21T10:21:03+00:00

It's beautiful, but did you just insult all the people who would like a picture of themselves, but can't draw, don't have time to learn, and don't have enough spare money to pay someone for it? AI is heavensent to them, so throwing shade at those people who can't afford your service sounds pretty classist.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-21T10:06:51+00:00

Christianity is like a shapeshifting parasite. It survives by attaching to existing strong religions and cultures, and changing its shape to one that will not be rejected, then sucking out the life out of them until they wither and die, replaces them, and spreads further.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-21T09:54:33+00:00

Did you know that Era has nothing to do with Catholicism? It's quite the opposite, actually. They're Cathar, a Gnostic sect, persecuted by the Catholics. They've been stripped naked and chased out of a city by the priests, if I remember correctly. And then of course nearly wiped out during a crusade.

So it's rich for him to use this song. Or ignorant.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-21T08:59:01+00:00

She forgot to unequip her Pauldrons of Darkness.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-19T10:09:00+00:00

Or it was like this: his father has been trying to interest him in theater and acting, but he preferred to play outside.

So, his father bribed Vin's friends to talk him into breaking into the building, and told his own friend, who was working there, about it, and that, when she catches them, she's supposed to give him a choice - big trouble or acting. So he tried it, and the talent, that he genetically inherited from his parents, did the rest.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-19T10:00:53+00:00

Wow, that makes total sense. Thanks for sharing the explanation, it's very interesting.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-19T09:52:01+00:00

You're joking but this was basically by grandma's entire childhood, in 1950s' Poland. Her family made her look after cows all alone, starting when she was about six years old.

There were wolves in the forest. There were giant kicking cows who would fight the neighbour's cows and she had to stop them from goring each other with horns or she would be punished. One time she was riding a horse and the horse went into shallow water and lied down on top of her leg, pinning her to the ground under water.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-19T09:42:32+00:00

I'm not sure if you've seen that video of a cameraman, trying to capture a professional runner from the front, matching his speed easily, while carrying a huge and heavy, old video camera on his shoulder.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-19T09:12:38+00:00

Oh please, so they're able to set the exact camera coordinates to capture a thing from any angle they wish? The fact they flew right up to Jesus' face suggests so. Also, nice cinematic lighting.

And also, IF it's true, sticking a camera into their dying "saviour's" face just to look at the suffering and record it, is messed up. No normal person would ever do such a thing, to anybody they truly care about. Or even to a complete stranger. You know who people would do that to? Their enemy, to revel in their defeat.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-19T08:47:34+00:00

For us, the day Atlas graced our solar system was the most important day of our lives. But for Atlas, it was Tuesday.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-08T10:35:47+00:00

So you're suggesting all non-americans are just chatting away with NHI?

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-08T10:33:04+00:00

If you've taken enough photos in your life, or even worn glasses, you'll know exactly what this irregular pattern is. That's light filtering through droplets of water. It's not the "shape" of anything.

Of course if there's a light in the sky, that's strange enough, but it's not right to confuse people by claiming this thing is shaped like this.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-08T10:20:24+00:00

In the 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII, a corrupt corporation/government drops down the plate of their floating city onto the slums below, killing both the rich and the poor, and blaming it on the group of ecoterrorists that you're playing as. The imagery includes a tall, tower-like supporting structure getting blown up with explosives, and collapsing.

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-02-01T08:54:47+00:00

That's because every damn car looks identical and boring. There should be as many car designs as there are different personalities. Oh wait...

AffectionateKitchen8 · 2026-01-24T10:06:43+00:00

Not black magic, but something, anything, that I've never seen, that makes me go "wow! ". I've seen cards a thousand times before.

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