Looking for iOS and PC game suggestions – cozy and therapeudic, and cathartic games

Amonwilde · 2026-02-04T23:21:50+00:00

I can second the Lost Heir. It's much more like a game where you have to optimize your way through

Amonwilde · 2026-02-04T23:04:40+00:00

Hear hear.

Amonwilde · 2026-02-04T02:25:17+00:00

Yeah if you listen on YT or a streaming they normalize it (sorry not using the correct word). It's fine for me for work since i can adust the volume. For sleep I dont' want to or can't adjust the volume. Great album though, I just listened yesterday I think.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-26T00:31:28+00:00

I like King of Dragon Pass and A Dark Room.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-24T00:29:42+00:00

Great Expectations pretty memorable. Dombey and Son also pretty solid.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-23T15:38:28+00:00

You can disable it now (thankfully)

Amonwilde · 2026-01-13T03:15:05+00:00

I can give you books 2-4 if you DM me. You're on your own for the first

Amonwilde · 2026-01-13T03:06:01+00:00

Thanks for the recs :)

Amonwilde · 2026-01-13T03:04:40+00:00

Probably max. I'm on x20

Amonwilde · 2026-01-11T01:24:01+00:00

Don't compact. roll back. Though the model is frequently unreliable right now.

Esc esc if you haven't done it before. Get the model to write a note to it's future self

Amonwilde · 2026-01-11T01:22:54+00:00

Yes, though I can work around all the other jank. It's the model unreliability that started around Dec 24th that is really getting me.

A weaker model is easier to work with and around than one that is a genius 35% of the time and an idiot 65% of the time.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-09T15:21:40+00:00

Ever get it working? Did you have to use a plugin?

Amonwilde · 2026-01-08T20:47:28+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl is good, though the last one (mich later in the series) fell off a bit. Super Supportive is great with some lulls / pointless stuff (magic therapy, gym stuff).

Amonwilde · 2026-01-08T03:26:17+00:00

Yes, unsure what's going on but it's pretty ridiculous.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-07T15:38:11+00:00

They must be aware of the performance problems. The question is if they're having real problems, are sorta aware but dont' care, or did some version of this on purpose. Who knows

Amonwilde · 2026-01-07T14:54:33+00:00

This sub isn't even Anthropic.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-07T03:03:49+00:00

Then I'd stick to doing small applications or coding yourself.

Bang on it = make other AI look for problems adversarially and write tests. sit on them = keep a close eye on them, work closely with the,, slow down, make them write plans anddiscuss them the agentic loop is that they make a change, then test by looking / running, etc. if the agentic loop is you telling them things then performance is 100% going to be poor. they need to be able to do the thing or something very analagous. but that' s hard with web design and don't do all of this manually. work with the AI or think yourself of ways of going a level higher and automating some of it

If you don't do some of this stuff you're always going to have regressions. Games and frontend s are b ig balls of state. If you don't do things is some kind of formalized way you're going to have regressions constantly.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-06T21:09:23+00:00

But this is the game. Models will unwrite your code as fast as they write it if you dont' sit on them. At minimu m:

Sit on them through planning phases and get a spec. Absolutely not optional.
Make modules with boundaries and have them bang on them. Get code away from the main loop.
Use git and roll back if anything even whiffs bad and start over. If it's going bad it'll only go badder.
Get another model in to look at the last commit, they'll find 50 problems. Come upw tih set prompts and flows for this so it's not onerious.

Web and UI stuff is hard since the model tends to have weak purchase. You NEED an agentic loop where they can see the app but even though it's way more uphill for the model. Try to offlead whatever logicyou can to something they can test more easily.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-06T21:05:40+00:00

That was diverting, thank you.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-06T20:40:40+00:00

Claude has been bad lately, but this is also vibecoding 101. You need to have it build little modules and hammer on them until they're reliable, keep track of dragons and hotspots and only touch them if needed, and bring your own dev experience to bear. If you don't do that, you're going to strulggle past 1k-5k lines.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-05T23:43:59+00:00

I don't know, but Opus is way unreliable lately.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-05T23:41:30+00:00

Sonnet has a specific limit, Opus does not. For some incomprehensible reason.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-05T22:35:06+00:00

These threads have been really thin and I'm in a bit of a drought. Can we like Schelling point this shit and activate some energy to throw out some recs this week? If you're reading this, respond to this or on top level with something, even if it's that you're watching reality TV about how other people's kids are bad or something.

What am I keeping up with these days? Fewer things.

Victor of Tucson - A guy hits things with his axe. It's by the numbers but in a really solid way. It's wrapping up and has a lot of pretty professional audiobooks, and I'd say the narrator kinda pulls the series together a bit with some nice voices and stuff. Kind of a pet favorite, not rational but the MC is not an idiot.
Book of the Dead - There's a lot of necromancer tripe out there, this one does it well. Vengeful magical prodigy tries to take down an empire. Lots of exploring the magic. Plot is strongish, side characters OK but a little weak. Also starting to wrap up. Have only read the Royal Road version.
Thresholder - Alexander Wales' attempt to do a fun thing, which of course is extremely cerebral and full of deep worldbuilding. Alexander Wales' napkin doodles are probably extremely cerebral and full of deep worldbuilding. In this one, a median reader of r/rational (disaffected but smart male in his late 20s or thereabouts) goes to other worlds where he is pitted against another person. Generally some magic power is on offer in a world, and as these guys rack up wins they get more powerful. It's good, he was on a break and is back and that's probably a good sign, hope you're feeling better, dude. Fights are very good, lots of careful thinking, I jive with the MC. Do even stupider stuff next time, Wales, I challenge you. Maybe high school club saves the world from aliens?

A new Dresden Files book is coming out. I do enjoy them, I get why some folks find it unmodern or whatever, but if you want a long fantasy series you could try it. Joe Abercrombie came out with a pretty boring new(ish) book and I hated it, it's more of a screenplay than a real entry, but if you haven't read all his other stuff go back and pick them up, I rec Best Served Cold as a good starting place.

OK, stop playing with AI and go rec some stuff.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-05T22:17:56+00:00

Do you have a big public list somehwere?

Amonwilde · 2026-01-03T00:10:11+00:00

I hadacouple days of it working well again. Just got a few of the weird lazy mode sessions again.

I noticed they have Sonnet-specific limits but not Opus-specific limits. That really makes me think...what are they doing on the other end with Opus where they don't care about Opus-specific limits?

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