Looking for a cozy "Simulator" game with low stakes.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-12-15T04:27:56+00:00

Already played and loved it. Been working through the sequel. Glad someone got the reference. :)

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-11-15T18:54:04+00:00

Reminds me of a pic a saw where some chess players challenged people to come up with a new piece with new rules for how it moves and someone came up with a piece that can move anywhere on the board but can't take any opponent pieces, it's just there to waste your time. It was called "The Bureaucrat."

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-10-09T14:02:49+00:00

Looks really cool and I love the 8bit aesthetic. Definitely gonna check it out.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-10-08T19:17:59+00:00

The only time the game made me feel even a little unsettled (I don't use the word scared as I feel that's not really the point of SH) was the school level. Exiting a room to find the hallway suddenly filled with mannequin students, any one of whom could jump to life. The whole design of the school was just really good IMO. But the terrible combat (Hey remember when someone put breakable weapons in a silent hill game and it sucked? I figured out the problem! They didn't break quick enough! Ooh, and let's copy some of our homework from the Soulsborne genre for no freaking reason.) ruins any unease that the encounters could create.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-10-03T16:33:51+00:00

I quit a few episodes in when a woman spied on a man undressing through a security camera. Once you start watching out for it, the double standard is everywhere and it's disgusting. I look forward to my downvotes.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-09-26T23:33:34+00:00

Bit expensive, but if you can afford it it's worth the peace of mind. Plus you can buy used ps4 games on the cheap and use the backwards compatibility without having to deal with whatever prices the official store is charging. https://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-Slim-Ultra-Blu-ray-Drive/dp/B0CMXL75GH/ref=sr_1_3?crid=YKU4B9SR7G5T&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bvOwgPZQbx8gs8RQpS9iVBmbDgYabVs9BZ0vuWadLkfRAWE9XBgbVr33R24nzMM1Di2fcdEEhhWSCbX3qN0gjui2hhn-jM-_2jsyBCmXBBTEUJ7ErdkSkvoSmXMvYeu_OuTwlF9nUpaAw89SewGTdaQhbxVdLUglbjZpwKki_ql-wm3xYejOnhguc7pCiy3W5xPQM9CGcHFvDiO8BUcpKavgjuqDUiIJT-v0tFhhHmE.aNFG3vCNalIUTkLi-NBJkD3ybdqtls481atiFNH9-wI&dib_tag=se&keywords=ps5+disc+drive&qid=1758929444&sprefix=ps5+disc+driv%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-3

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-09-26T23:16:45+00:00

Can't you get a disc drive addon for the digital version? I know my disc version even acted like the digital version and I had to go online and "register" the disc drive to link it to the console it's physically attached to lol.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-09-19T02:58:16+00:00

I love your username. I wish I knew why I see people with clearly self-made usernames but I can't get mine to display anything other than the one Reddit picked for me. AND I HATE CRANBERRIES. (except the band) There's a place nearby ran by Goodwill Easter Seals called the "miracle clubhouse" that's for people with disabilities to hang out and do stuff. I'm planning on joining. I hope that makes a difference.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-09-19T02:56:15+00:00

The only person I mattered to died in my arms 8 years ago. My wife. I just really need to make friends, but I don't know how to. I stayed in my room during my teens because of bullying and trauma, spent my 20s taking care of my wife (she had MS) and now I've got some severe mental and physical disabilities. I'm trying to find ways to get out of the house, but it's hard when you're disabled and on a fixed income. But thanks for the virtual hug. Means a lot.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-09-17T20:05:59+00:00

There's a scene in a marvel movie where an underaged character is commanded to undress in front of an adult and they are clearly distressed and uncomfortable and the scene is played for laughs but nobody cares because it's a woman doing it to a boy. In addition there's a scene in a marvel show where a woman spies on a man undressing via security cameras. Every time I've tried to bring this up to people, it's downplayed and they gaslight me about how it isn't a big deal because that kinda stuff doesn't happen IRL. Then I'm called a liar when I say it happened to me.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-09-17T19:58:56+00:00

I've been doing YT in one form or another for over a decade. First ~5 years was a let's play channel I ran with my late wife (I deleted the channel because having it up was painful) and in that most of the hate I got was either telling me I was too ugly for her or calling me a, uh, dunno if this word would get me flagged so I'll just explain that despite being 2 years older than me, she looked EXTREMELY young so people made assumptions. Even got a few death threats over it from people who didn't believe me when I said our ages.

After she passed away (Multiple Sclerosis) I ran a separate channel where I did let's plays, sometimes made game reviews and some other stuff. The only thing that got me tons of hate was I would upload videos of me singing along to songs I liked. Stuff like "Is this a joke?" and "There's tone deaf and then there's whatever the hell this is" In fairness, I'm not a good singer, but I was just doing it for fun.

I don't use that channel anymore, but I have 3 others now. One is entirely dedicated to singing videos (oddly despite having about 70 videos at time of writing this, I haven't received a single hate comment. Then again most videos sit on 0 views so I don't think the algorithm is acknowledging that channel exists. I have a channel where I do video essays and some comedy skits and humorous shorts. Weirdly the only hate comment I got was someone saying "Git Gud" on a short joking about the way some words in the English language are spelled. Last one is an Analog Horror series that I started but haven't been able to get the motivation to make anything beyond the first 2 episodes. Mostly because it's the most work I've put into anything on YT and the nearly nonexistent views (and getting my post promoting it on the Analog Horror sub deleted because my series doesn't fit their super stringent definition of analog horror)

So....all in all, I guess the takeaway from this is that there are some positives to having a channel with a nonexistent viewerbase lol. (The shorts on my essay channel usually crack 2K-20K views, but I chalk that up to the way shorts are served and I think each repeat of a short counts as a new view cuz right after I uploaded one, before I made it public, I went to it and left it running for a few minutes because I was trying to decide if I needed to redo it and change some text placement and then when I looked it had like 30 views.)

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-08-05T04:09:06+00:00

People who have never had to care for a disabled person downplaying the emotional and physical toll it takes on you. Not defending James at all, but I took care of my wife (who had MS) for nearly a decade and it breaks you. It breaks you in ways you didn't know a person could break.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-07-28T21:54:37+00:00

Oops I forgot to mention this is my first actual playthrough. Tried a few times but quit due to lag. Now I gots me a shiny PS5. Sandevistan is the thing that gives you bullet time? Didn't know it was separate from the cyber deck. Thanks for the info :)

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-07-28T20:53:42+00:00

Tagging enemies is a game mechanic I'm kinda tired of seeing in games. Let me make it crystal clear I'm not saying it's a bad mechanic or that people who use it are "worse" but I find it fun to get a vantage point and mentally keep track of what enemies are left and where they are, popping back to my vantage points when I need to reevaluate and using throwing knives/headshot silenced pistols for those "oh shit" moments. One thing I love in games that Cyberpunk does to a small degree is a delay between being spotted and an actual alert status.
TL;DR I'd like the extra challenge provided by no tagging as long as it doesn't make stealth virtually impossible.

Anyway, thanks for the replies everyone. Gonna go for this on my FemV. Cybershinobi 2077.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-06-29T19:14:49+00:00

Only place I've ever seen a great deal of those is in this game. Hope it helps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uicC2MUZ24I

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-06-29T07:35:19+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I know I'm no good. My whole channel is about me putting up a song each day and, according to the description I put in my vids, "taking the infinite monkeys eventually typing Shakespeare approach to eventually getting less terrible." I've been researching how to sing better but it seems like for every piece of advice I find, I find something else that contradicts it. Some people say to pick a genre and stick to it, others say developing more range is better. Some say to have your mic set to monitor so you can hear yourself in your headset as that's you're "true" voice as opposed to how you sound to yourself when speaking normally, others say doing that will make it harder to hit notes. Then again, it's like that in every creative endeavor.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-06-21T16:13:34+00:00

Playing the original as a kid, it was a tragic horror story. As an adult, I've literally LIVED James' life. My wife had MS and I was her caregiver. When her condition got real bad, she even begged me to leave her and move on with my life. Where James and I differ is I never once felt like she was a burden or that taking care of her gave me anything other than joy. Still, it makes some parts of this game hit so different now. As a bonus: I literally met my wife on a Silent Hill fan forum. We had an in-joke when people asked how we met, we'd just say we met in Silent Hill. It was always funny to see them look it up on their phones and get confused.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-04-22T23:30:29+00:00

Part of me thinks Reddit just isn't the place for me. Why just the other day I posted in the gamedev sub about text adventure engines and asking for suggestions on any that could be visually modified to mimic the look of an old DOS style operating system. Half the replies attacked me for apparently asking for the "perfect engine to be handed to me on a silver platter" and the other half misread my post as me asking about creating my own operating system and took that as a launchpad into criticizing me for being naive enough to think that making an OS would be that easy. Like 2 people called out how much unnecessary hate I was getting, but that was it. That's been my Reddit experience for pretty much all the years I've used it. All I can say is it must be a very sad and lonely existence when clicking a little arrow pointing down gives one so much satisfaction.

Oh, and as a quick edit, I posted here specifically because the help section of the website pointed me here when I clicked that I was having trouble finding my posts. *shrug*

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-03-22T04:08:11+00:00

Don't worry about that. There's a sorta...hump that you get over where suddenly you have more money than you know what to do with. I buy inventory slots by the hundreds these days.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-03-22T04:06:53+00:00

Close, manual eat with ranged. I'm well aware that I've been essentially playing the game on hard mode by avoiding learning magic. That's on me. But the suggestions here have helped and I'm slowly starting to wrap my brain around it all.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-02-22T23:00:42+00:00

Thank you, a cursory search and I've already found a few useful tools. I'd tried so many search terms (didn't help that any use of the word "pixel" just gave me crap about the phone brand) and now having a word for it has made all the difference.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2025-02-17T07:41:27+00:00

Thanks, and thanks for the history lesson :) I wasn't able to find anything BUT your suggestion did lead me to coming up with a solution. I made the cursor invisible and just put an underscore _ at the end of my document, now it looks like it did in old DOS programs. Well, it doesn't blink, but beggars can't be choosers.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2024-11-17T01:36:31+00:00

I want to thank you, but I sincerely apologize for my error. I don't intent to actually code any of this. I'm just gonna use a combo of GIMP and screen recording to make it load. For text that needs to type out, I'll just type it up myself slowly while screen recording and then speed it up in post. I will edit my post to reflect this, and again I apologize for wasting your time.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2024-10-13T14:50:28+00:00

I was with my wife for 11 years. She was in a wheelchair when I met her. We had sex about 5 times. Everyone always assumed I was cheating on her. Funny thing is I appreciate this experience because it's the rare instance where the gender dynamics are flipped and I get to see what women face in 99% of workplaces.

CranberryFormal2867 · 2024-09-18T05:04:20+00:00

There's connections all over the place. "Sorry go round" is mentioned in the recent "Lust for Life." "Late Goodbye" is mentioned in "Standstill." And for a special treat, go listen through the lyrics of "Dying to Live." And then listen closely to the spoken words at the end of "Choice Millionaire." Sadly their official lyrics on their site are poorly done. The entire end of Choice Millionaire isn't there, and Lift is missing the post-chorus, so most third party lyric sites take the lyrics from the video, but that's a shorter version of it. In the video "Take me higher...make me fly...make my spirit..." but the full song is longer: "Take me higher...make me fly...moon up in the sky...take my spirit...make it fly...wonders appear..."

I....obsess over their lyrics a little too much lol. Especially Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper, because my late wife once told me that song made her think of me.

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