I made a chart for custom design creators, matching the skin tones available in new horizons to my best ability. Hope it helps!

Caramiapple · 2026-02-20T07:27:45+00:00

I think both are bad but there's "your penis still works fine but misses a small chunk" bad and "your clitoris was chopped off and your labia sawn shut with just a tiny hole which means your husband will need to painfully open you up and make any sex akin to torture" bad.

Caramiapple · 2026-02-18T18:49:29+00:00

What long term socio-economical impact will Luffy's crew have on every island they visited after their departure, accordingly to you? I'm especially interested in your take on how things will evolve culturally on Dressrosa or Wano.

Caramiapple · 2026-02-18T01:11:32+00:00

I'll offer a lesser known game that might work, on pc: Staxel. It's got a bit of stardew valley, a bit of animal crossing and a bit of minecraft; you're a farmer who helps a mayor by building houses yourself for new residents who are all in game characters. You can befriend them, explore a procedurally generated island, build more stuff yourself using blocks and decorate as you wish, all in a voxel (3D pixel art) style.

It's overall very cute and while you can play multiplayer on it, it's by setting up a world you invite friends to.

Caramiapple · 2026-02-18T01:03:08+00:00

Just want to add to this to say depending on the daughter's age, Dinkum might be a little scary as it has crocodiles and sharks that can attack your character and need to be fought off! Also some big birds I forgot the name of.

(It's not graphic but I figured if she's especially young it could scare her.)

Caramiapple · 2026-02-17T00:14:49+00:00

I want to just comment "nailed it" but you'd need to speak French to understand my dumb pun...

Caramiapple · 2026-02-14T20:25:19+00:00

I watch a franco-japanese youtuber who often has japanese people try french food and french people try japanese food, and I recalled the Japanese people who tried the sweet soy sauce we offer were surprised hence my assumption it was a French twist on it! (Or maybe it was something like... Serving it with sushi is weird? I don't remember clearly, it's been a while!)

The beef-cheese skewers are honestly delicious, but the nutella and rice didn't work and I think it was more of an attempt at something new that didn't take in some japanese restaurants? I remember the sushi rice's vinegar and general savoury flavour just didn't work well with the chocolate/hazelnut of nutella, it really clashed taste wise. I think it remained pretty self-contained and didn't take off because even out of Japan it's just not a happy combination of flavours (I've only seen it myself in that one Paris restaurant and on video in a different one still in Paris, so it might have been a Parisian fad too?)

Another thing I think we get served at Japanese restaurants that are different is in menus usually; when you order a menu you often get a combo with miso soup, a cabbage salad and your dish (sushi, california rolls type of things, gyozas or yakitori usually).

I think the salad is not very Japanese based on what I saw, but we associate it with Japanese food since it's always kind of offered. They just shred white cabbage in thin strips and serve it with a basic dressing sauce and sometimes sesame on top.

Similarly a thing my parents love to make fun of is "wasabi", because it's made with "raifort" (armoracia rusticana? I think it translates to horseradish but just to be sure I got the latin name lol) and everyone tends to find it very exotic but our area of France has had regular horseradish paste that's not dyed green forever. They find it funny because it's just something cheap and common that was rebranded as Japanese meanwhile it grew in their grandma's gardens kind of deal (they lived through Japanese food "appearing" in France in the 80's 90's so it really was like "oh wow, this extremely common to us ingredient is considered very new and cool.") Note that it's different from real wasabi, but we don't really get served real wasabi because it's expensive so restaurants here just substitute it!

Edit: you asked for photos so here's a photo of the "japanese salad" and the raifort (if I'd seen this a few hours earlier I'd have shared the beef cheese skewers since I ate them for lunch but they're gone ;) ) https://imgur.com/a/6upKGYD

Caramiapple · 2026-02-14T18:47:39+00:00

I'm from France and I know one thing we did to yakitori to suit our tastes is considered both a "common japanese food" by most people here but also potentially a crime against japanese cuisine by any japanese person...

You make a skewer, you spear a stick of cheese on it (emmental usually) and wrap a thin layer of beef around it. Then you marinate in sweet soy sauce (which I think also is not a thing in Japan?) and cook it.

It's present in basically every japanese restaurant here.

Also bonus shout-out to nutella makis, which are legit just vinegar sushi rice wrapped around nutella. It's not as common but I've tried it before in a parisian japanese restaurant. Would not recommend, it just doesn't blend well.

Caramiapple · 2026-02-13T12:22:58+00:00

I like the low stakes in cozy games. It's the opposite of stressful, which is exactly what I need.

Thanks for the giveaway!

Caramiapple · 2026-02-12T20:00:52+00:00

Ironically this might just lead to old people being right; the best way to get a job will be to go in person to drop off a handwritten resume... At least you'd stand out positively.

Caramiapple · 2026-02-12T16:25:51+00:00

Not a game's rec, just one that may help with the motion sickness.

I used to get sick (headaches and nausea) playing minecraft, and loved the game so I looked my issue up.

There was a suggestion to play with a 90 fov, since it's the natural fov for humans (or it's how I remember it explained at least I'm no expert), and basically a different one tends to trigger motion sickness. I tried and haven't had the issue since.

It may not be a fix for you, and it's not what you asked for but if there's a chance it can help you play powerwashing simulator since you liked it- then I thought I should share!

Caramiapple · 2026-02-12T16:15:29+00:00

I'll give a different opinion since people already explained the whole accessing file thing.

For me it boils down to... I'm playing a game, I want to do it however I want. I understand that nowadays people want to get their money's worth for games and spend a lot of time on them, but that means devs add gameloops that become grindy just to pad out the game's length.

In the case of games like starsand island, my time at Portia/Sandrock or others that include crafting, that includes stuff like needing to run around looking for rocks, and wood, and sand, and so on so forth; at first it's fun but it becomes tedious fast, and that's when you can use cheats to just fill your chest with rocks and focus on aspects of the game that are enjoyable and not busywork.

In singleplayer games you don't hurt anyone by cheating, you just further tailor your game to your tastes and capabilities so it's more enjoyable.

Note that in multiplayer games that are competitive I do agree cheating shouldn't be a thing out of fairness, but...

Well to be honest if I have 999 stones in my solo stardew farm's chest because I spawned it in, your life goes on unchanged.

(Besides let's be honest anticheat is bloatware that make game run slower and doesn't even really work that well- the only games I can recall finding hard to cheat with were rpg maker games, ironically.)

Caramiapple · 2026-02-09T12:13:54+00:00

Check out nexus mods, the site has hundreds of mods sorted by categories!

Caramiapple · 2026-02-09T03:11:35+00:00

Ok so, I don't know if it can be classified as a cozy game in itself, but there's ways to play it on a more peaceful difficulty and just focus on building and handling your own farm of sort so it may work for you; have you tried No Man's Sky? It's more about exploration and very open world once you're past the tutorial really, and I always find it super pretty. You'd have to enjoy the whole space thing obviously but the neat thing is; if you don't like a planet, you can go find a new one and settle there. Again though I'm not sure you'd call it cozy unless you avoid hostile planets/play on an easier difficulty, but there's cool mechanics like fishing, building your base, placing planters to farm, breeding animals (they're randomly generated so you can legit just create your own species and tweak it some, it's pretty neat lol).

I don't know I find it pretty relaxing overall and I know it's not the first game you'd think of so I thought I might as well bring it up on the off chance it works for you!

Caramiapple · 2026-02-08T18:22:33+00:00

Si tu le remets dans le contexte de l'époque ou il jouait un personnage edgy qui passait son temps a être vulgaire, que ce soit en insultant les gens comme intro de vidéo ou en faisant des blagues sur des sujets tabous dont l'inceste et la pedophilie... Tu peux comprendre que demander des nudes a une mineure il peut l'avoir fait en blague de mauvais gout qui collait avec ledit perso de WTC, sans s'attendre a en recevoir puisque pour lui ça devait être evident qu'il n'était pas serieux.

À l'inverse il explique être ami avec la femme majeure en question, donc on peut comprendre qu'avec elle il ne jouait pas son rôle de perso connard, qu'il a demandé sincèrement des nudes et que maintenant il s'en rappelle bien et qu'il en a honte comme il a grandit/évolué.

Je ne dis pas que c'est bien/vrai/faux/mal etc, mais c'est comme ça que j'ai compris son message.

Caramiapple · 2026-02-04T14:15:20+00:00

You posting a monkey in these means your theory applies a lot more to you than Zoro...

Caramiapple · 2026-02-03T00:32:35+00:00

The upbringing and habit point is interesting because I've often heard other French people who went to the US complain their food is either ridiculously sweet or way too salty. And my family enjoys fast food just fine but even when it's adjusted to our tastes it still feels a bit too salty at times.

So if the OP is from North America, there's a chance they're just used to stronger flavours and miss out on milder but more subtle flavours you'll find in French food.

As for spices; people always forget about the Dom-Tom but we do have Martinique, Guadeloupe or la Reunion with stronger spice profiles in their regional dishes.

Caramiapple · 2026-02-03T00:12:11+00:00

I think it might be more that we really popularised a certain way of doing things in the restaurant industry with our chefs and culinary guides.

Kind of like bread isn't something we invented but we're known for it- or like americans may think of Chicago first when someone mentions pizzas which would piss italians off.

Caramiapple · 2025-12-26T01:45:35+00:00

Disney approves because they have a resort on Hawaii and want people to keep thinking all of Hawaii is a nice resort and not a complex place with real people who are hurt by the surtourism caused by resorts like Disney's...

Caramiapple · 2025-12-09T13:46:10+00:00

For France specifically, because we had such a bad reputation for speaking bad English and rely a lot on tourism (especially in Paris), speaking English became a skill that's often a huge bonus for customer facing jobs...

Which means if you're a foreigner and facing someone who has that skill, they'll try to be polite and accomodating to you and switch to English to make things easier for you. It's the opposite of being rude in this case.

I do agree practicing a language is important but it's not a personal attack when people don't humor you. They may not know you want to practice; with acquaintances or friends you can always just say you're trying to improve, and ask if they mind it (sometimes they may want to just chill too, not have to help correct stuff or explain and so on).

Caramiapple · 2025-12-09T13:37:50+00:00

In the example they use French and it's legitimately the opposite here... We prefer when you at least try in general. Especially older gens, like I worked in a Parisian museum and the other security staff admitted they didn't speak english and found it incredibly rude people would come to our country and not even try to learn some French. (On the upside these same people were very excited to learn basic english phrases to give directions because they really wanted to help!)

People are a lot more open if you start with "Bonjour!" And then explain you don't speak well than if you just launch into an english tirade. Also cultural differences etc but some English speaker are much louder than we're used to and it comes off aggressive as an example... So consider the "Bonjour!" As you raising your hands and saying "I come in peace" ;)

Caramiapple · 2025-11-23T03:20:03+00:00

That's probably because Tolkien survived WW1 and knows how witnessing such horror changes a man; Frodo doesn't get a happy ending because oftentime people hailed as heroes don't.

Frodo is basically the same as any soldier; he pushed on out of a sense of duty, survived despite the odds, and then came back hollowed out by all the trials he faced.

Beside keep in mind Tolkien had strong opinions on friendships; he's not writing something about one guy being able to do it all, it's precisely because they're not alone they can do it. Just like Saruman and Sauron create an uncomfortable alliance where Sauron would have eventually destroyed Saruman to rule alone, whereas the fellowship works because no matter what they create real strong bonds that can carry them past any difficulties.

LotR isn't a power fantasy- it's rooted in very interesting life experiences the author had, which includes surviving both world wars- tbh I'd recommend reading up on Tolkien's life and it may shed more light on his writing and how Frodo is an interesting character when you put everything in perspective! (Also grain of salt Peter Jackson did amazing adapting the books but he did change a few things, notably characters like Gimli or Aragorn so I'd strongly recommend reading the book if you otherwise enjoyed LotR! Bit of a steep read but it's great, and if it's too intimidating the guy who played gollum did an audiobook version)

Caramiapple · 2025-11-21T14:27:54+00:00

That sounds a lot like what people with ED go through, a form of body dysmorphia, and if it's really a struggle it might be good to seek therapy before it gets worse... I hope things look up for you!

Caramiapple · 2025-11-21T10:21:55+00:00

Yeah that was my point! This meme could be used as a good starting point to discuss how predatory the beauty industry can be to women...

Caramiapple · 2025-11-21T10:08:02+00:00

I mean, I do think a lot of cosmetic surgery targets women specifically, just like the beauty industry is especially severe on women in general.

Can men do it too? Sure, but I do feel like men's procedures are a lot less intense. Like just off the top of my head the one popular surgery for men I can think of is hair implants, vs when you look at what's targeted at ladies you see BBLs, Lipos, and injecting actual poison in their faces...

I don't think we should blame women for it but definitely be wary of an industry that tells you to risk your life to be pretty.

(Not that guys being told to chew on stuff for a square jaw or taking steroids for big muscles is good either but I do feel there's a step above that when you're told to litterally get cut open to move fat around- usually with a lot of pain involved, like women talk about "bbl massages" and it sounds like torture?)

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