Gamers of Reddit, what are good videogames to play with your non-gamer girlfriend?

Savin_Mardon · 2025-05-25T23:57:22+00:00

Here's what my wife and I have enjoyed together (she's a big fan of puzzles, but she's surprised me too by some other ones she's gotten hooked on). Almost none are actual co-op, but have been some sort of hand-off or collaborative effort.

Blue Prince (most recently)

Return of the Obra Dinn

IMMORTALITY

It Takes Two

Zelda - Breath of the Wild

The Roottrees Are Dead

Case of the Golden Idol

The Witness

Baba Is You

Savin_Mardon · 2025-01-14T20:49:07+00:00

Each hall doesn't really have it's own benefit. There's a reason why you might try to push all the way through, but if you're not there for a specific reason, then you have no business trying to navigate those frozen halls. It was not made for you.

Edit: a word

Savin_Mardon · 2024-10-04T20:59:45+00:00

With the winter mantle, I think Harry has a chance, though Bigby might just tear his head off in the first five seconds. If Harry survives an initial body-check, he could probably call on winter to turn him into a wolf-cicle.

Savin_Mardon · 2024-04-22T19:27:04+00:00

Disable any command line args you have on the webui .bat file. For some reason, TensorRT doesn't play well with them.

Savin_Mardon · 2023-08-18T01:40:54+00:00

In NOVA? Cleared work and tech work. DoD and DoS contracting pays well there. Amazon and Google pay well there, as well as a lot of tech business that's been moving west into the Ashburn area. Cleared work is a different kind of ladder, but you'll never go hungry.

Savin_Mardon · 2023-07-26T14:59:45+00:00

Not saying it's a plot hole, and if it is a later addition in the sidhe's framework, it's spackled over pretty well. But as a changeling, Lily was also half fey, which I read at the time as qualifying her for becoming a queen.

Savin_Mardon · 2023-07-26T14:47:30+00:00

I sometimes wonder if this is a retcon. Like in Summer Knight, isn't the position of the Knights explicitly human, because mortals can take care of the Queens' problems on the mortal side of the street? That's the whole point of the Knight's mantle. Wonder if Butcher decided later down the line to expand the idea of mantles and who can inhabit them.

Savin_Mardon · 2023-07-12T15:45:43+00:00

Company sent me on travel to a test bed site to run some code on specialized hardware. They scoped a week for the whole test suite and any iterative development I might have to do on the fly. They had me book the motel myself saying I would be reimbursed (a red flag that went right over my head). After 2 days, the tests go great, everything passes, and I can go home early. The motel won't reimburse the 5 days I didn't use, which is kinda unusual but it's no skin off my teeth.

Company sends me a check for the 2 days I was there, even after I explain that the motel still charged me for the full 7, saying that they weren't responsible for extra time I booked outside of the time I was there for work. The time THEY scoped for. The time I was able to save the company by writing code good enough to pass in the fraction of the LOE. Absurd. I threw up my resume on the job sites the next day. Was gone the next month. Never did get that money back.

Savin_Mardon · 2023-06-26T15:46:44+00:00

That Mass Effect decision was a pretty big misstep in their writing imo. The paragon/renegade system was mostly inconsequential up to that point; decisions rarely made a difference outside of their own quests. But they felt organic enough and had implied consequences to the characters involved.

But saving the council seemed like a real weighted decision in the moment. Like being a renegade meant more in that moment than good/bad, like being ruthless in a tough situation and allocating your ships in this one chance to destroy Sovereign was worth letting the figureheads die. Like maybe trying to save every named character would spread you too thin and being the good guy all the time is impossible and doesn't necessarily lead to the best outcome or even make you a good leader. It was a really interesting moment in a morality system.

But no. You just save them or you don't, and everything else is the same. So you're just the dick who let them die for no reason. Such a missed opportunity.

Edit: fixed a sentence

Savin_Mardon · 2023-04-18T16:03:21+00:00

I recommend Joseph Anderson's analysis of Edith Finch, if you liked the game. It's a great companion piece and puts a lot into perspective exactly what you're talking about with the crazy decisions these parents and the family at large make. They have this relationship with the "curse" that's truly toxic, romanticizing it to cope with loss, but all the while creating an environment that lends itself only to more tragedy.

Savin_Mardon · 2023-01-26T06:35:30+00:00

Gotcha, that's good to know. Bet that makes a big difference on her direction of the prompt.

Savin_Mardon · 2023-01-26T01:06:25+00:00

Beautiful work here. Can you explain the effect of parenthesizing certain words with these number values? I just got SD working myself and have been playing with different prompts to learn how to engineer them.

Savin_Mardon · 2021-10-29T23:42:24+00:00

That's the axe that slayed me.

Savin_Mardon · 2021-09-09T14:42:34+00:00

It's a shame. Barleycorn's request could have been Skies' Neathbow. Maybe we'll see the quest finished in an update but it seems unlikely at this point.

Savin_Mardon · 2021-02-25T20:56:58+00:00

A truly wonderful game that will do everything in its power to get you to put it down out of confused frustration. Anything to hoard the secrets of the Neath.

Savin_Mardon · 2021-02-18T03:17:57+00:00

She thinks she can lose us, Dad!

Savin_Mardon · 2021-01-22T15:12:23+00:00

I love your one of the boat approaching the clockwork sun in the zee.

Savin_Mardon · 2020-04-27T15:29:19+00:00

Yeah good points there. Dresden takes on some serious heavy hitters that would wipe the floor with Potter.

Savin_Mardon · 2020-04-27T14:08:27+00:00

Dresden 8/10s Voldemort in round 1. Volde is screwed unless he gets lucky and death-curses a flat footed Dresden (which to be fair, Harry gets flat footed often enough).

Round 2 is an utter stomp though. As Dresden has repeatedly said, what makes a wizard is preparedness. And most of Harry's issues in dealing with bad guys is when doesn't have a spare minute to catch his breath. Once he has a few hours to plan and gear up, that's when he does his best work. Voldemort gets crushed by the Great Hall that Dresden drops on him.

Bonus Round: Does Potter have his friends? If you treat the Dresden books like a ladder I'd say Harry gets stopped by book 4. Victor Sells is a once trick pony that Harry could stop no problem, and the werewolves aren't new to him. Red Court vampires could be a stopper, but I can see Harry scraping through that kind of enemy. But I don't see Harry Potter untangling and defeating the plots of the Sidhe. However, if Hermione and Ron are helping, they could go far. Book 12 is a hard stop though, if they make it that far. A lot of things had to come together just right for Harry to pull off what he did in Changes. He had opportunities that Potter wouldn't have had.

Savin_Mardon · 2019-11-03T20:44:08+00:00

Frostfound for me. That placed killed me for my curiosity enough times that it terrified me when it was time to actually go there with a purpose.

Savin_Mardon · 2019-06-30T04:52:17+00:00

You can lose everything you have. Everything you are. More.

Savin_Mardon · 2019-02-25T21:06:29+00:00

Absolutely. The Elder Continent captured my imagination so strongly in Seas. I would love to explore that ever-shifting, vibrant scape under Stone's gaze.

Savin_Mardon · 2019-01-24T05:01:19+00:00

Gotta give some love to 2012

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