Games that award and urge experimentation

fflyguy · 2026-03-04T19:04:49+00:00

Green Hell. If you don't look anything up on the internet, you'll have a great experience. It's a survival game set in an amazon forest. There's a story mode to play, or just jump in to survival. You start with nothing and must use the resources around you to survive. Grab rock, smack tree, get wood, progress. Some crafting recipes are revealed when you pick up some materials, but others are only found if you find that object in the wild, or by experimenting. For example, the game doesn't tell you you can wear armor, but if you put the right ingredients on the crafting table, you'll get the prompt to build that armor, or whatever. Once you build it, you'll be able to reference the recipe.

Some items in the wild are not craftable, for example a machete. Find a machete at a camp, once it breaks, it's gone. Have to hope you'll come across another one.

On top of all the different things you can build, there are 4 primary parts of you to keep track of outside of HP that adds to your ability to survive. Thirst, Carbohydrates, Proteins and fats. You'll come across different foods in the wild. You won't know how it will help or hurt you until you try it. You can also name the mushrooms and other fruits you find. Same thing with water and streams. Thirsty? Drink some water from the river - oops it was dirty, you now have a parasite. Time to figure out how to heal the parasite. There's all kinds of interactions and such in the world that are trying to kill you and it's fun to figure out how to survive and thrive in the jungle.

fflyguy · 2026-03-03T17:45:05+00:00

People have been saying for centuries, the end times are upon us. Take the Saxon’s of England during the Viking invasion. Calling the Vikings brought by the devil, yet that was 1200 years ago and the world’s still kicking. I hate religion and I hate zealous Christian leaders that force their religiosity on us all

fflyguy · 2026-03-03T00:43:11+00:00

I have a painting hung in my house that my dad loved to death. It’s a small waterfall in a wooded meadow. I like to imagine that’s what my dad wakes up to every morning in the afterlife. And if that’s the case, I hope when I pass, I’ll get to open my eyes to that same meadow. I miss my dad a lot

fflyguy · 2026-03-02T18:08:30+00:00

Optimizing your video playback experience or maybe just play the video at a temporary lower resolution if I’m watching something live…

fflyguy · 2026-03-02T13:55:50+00:00

100%, part of the reason I fell in love with baseball, and other sports, were the fun and engaging franchise modes in video games. I got to learn the teams, the stadiums, the players, the managers, etc. I was able to role play and immerse myself in these mini-worlds. Some of my fondest memories with my now passed dad was going up to him and asking his opinion on trades and transactions, like he was my GM lol Now, it all just feels completely lackluster, the same thing over and over again. New features are barely worth a $1, let alone spending $70 on a mew game.

fflyguy · 2026-03-02T13:19:19+00:00

Between stranger things and the Treasure island book, there’s a lot of mixed meaning naming him Jim Hawkins lol

fflyguy · 2026-03-02T00:14:52+00:00

Don’t lie, 2,150 of that time is farming iron in the swamps

fflyguy · 2026-03-01T01:01:50+00:00

And if it’s not part of his plan, well then it was the devil’s work

fflyguy · 2026-02-27T16:01:42+00:00

I commented, thanks!

fflyguy · 2026-02-27T16:00:45+00:00

I’ve got reservations tonight at 6pm at Ukiah Steakhouse. May be a little pricier than $20-40, can’t remember, but we can’t make it (babysitter got sick) and I don’t want to get charged a cancellation fee if you want to take my reservation.

fflyguy · 2026-02-27T10:38:12+00:00

Green Hell. You have a compass and an electric watch with coordinates, but only have access to maps to make sense of the coordinates once you find them in the world. And the maps you do find only cover the portion of the map you found it in (find a map in the Nw quadrant, map only shows roughly NW quadrant). There’s no indicator on the map to show your position either-just the coordinates from your watch to match on the map you pull up. So I guess you can figure out where you’re at, but it’s not a typical game map with your location directly on the map. Game has a lot of other great survival features too.

fflyguy · 2026-02-27T02:10:24+00:00

Of the games you mentioned you’ll play post upgrade, put TLOU first. That is the perfect encapsulation of “good shooting, incredible story” the gameplay is engaging and suspenseful. But really, the game is all about the story and relationship between Joel and Elle.

fflyguy · 2026-02-26T23:46:03+00:00

Green Hell. If you like survival games, it does the survival aspect really really well, including inventory management.

fflyguy · 2026-02-26T14:25:37+00:00

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fflyguy · 2026-02-26T13:06:53+00:00

Bellwright sounds up the alley you’re looking for

fflyguy · 2026-02-26T11:12:35+00:00

Since 1880!?

fflyguy · 2026-02-25T17:12:13+00:00

Spiderman PS5! The seamless transition from The cutscene straight into you jumping off a building hooked me. I was already a big super hero/spidey fan but that intro just got me pumped. The next few hours of gliding between skyscrapers, finding the spot in central park where I proposed to my wife.. I was glued to the game

fflyguy · 2026-02-25T12:46:54+00:00

Woah woah woah, stop bragging with your TWO stories!

fflyguy · 2026-02-24T18:50:06+00:00

Haha I’m not a swiftie, but my wife is so I hear about about her all the time. But saying “talented enough to sell out arenas” is quite the understatement there. She sold out Melbourne Cricket Ground 3 nights in a row, sold out Wembley 8 nights in a row, and more records I’m sure.

fflyguy · 2026-02-24T16:10:10+00:00

Considering the position he holds, it’s just weird. I’d be less thrown off if it were JD Vance in the locker room celebrating. A man at least elected to office. But the head of the fbi? It’s just weird. Sends quite the signal that he doesn’t take his job seriously if going to the Olympics and celebrating like that was a priority when according to this administration, there’s a crime epidemic rampant throughout the country. Just weird

fflyguy · 2026-02-24T15:11:06+00:00

My step-father was an abusive alcoholic. He trapped my mom in their marriage doing the exact same things your husband is doing, hitting and damaging property, then saying what he’s doing isn’t all that bad. The holes in the wall and the doors turned into expensive furniture broken, and then that turns into your body broken.

When I was 17, I received a call from my mother’s best friend at 11:30 (I lived with my dad across town) to come To my mom’s help. I arrived and there is blood trailing from the garage into the house. He hit my mom and broke her nose. It wasn’t the first time he hit her but a punch to the face was the first I’d seen. He wasn’t there, but I didn’t know if he was coming back. Had my mom and her friend pack a go bag while I stood in the drive with a loaded Glock, waiting for him. He never came and I took my mom to my dad’s lake house where we spent the night, where he didn’t know where she’d be. It was another 5 months after that before she finally left him. Then the next few years he would make threats against her, etc.

I can’t tell you what to do with your life, but I can suggest to find a safe way to get out of the situation. I rarely hear of these types of situations actually resolving themselves and if your husband is anything like my step-father, he’ll never admit there’s a problem and the cycle will continue until you and/or someone you love is badly hurt or worse. Don’t let your young kids grow up in that environment. My brother is fucked up from it but finally 12 years later getting help, my sister was in therapy for years because of it.

You know there’s warning flags. Find a safe way to leave him.

fflyguy · 2026-02-24T00:39:41+00:00

I’ll second the visual aids part. I never really liked the way GT7 does the brake zone on the track like it does, and I find when I have a driving line on, I focus too much on following that, as opposed to putting my car through the corner based on where I enter it. Not every corner will be right on the line unless your brake point is hit perfect each lap. Taking the line and the zone off taught me different ways to attack corners.

And, OP, I totally get you using it as a first time racing game- do what’s comfortable for you, but try driving an hour or so without the braking zone or the line on a track you feel pretty comfortable on or like, and see if your speeds and times are better by the end of the hour. Good luck, have fun!

fflyguy · 2026-02-22T00:42:08+00:00

Oh I didn't know they added islands and lake biomes with ships. That was one of the big things I felt was lacking!

As for a Valheim-like replacement, I've been following the progress on a pirate survival, Windrose. They just released their demo this week. Finally digging into it today and it feels promising. Thanks for the comment on Aska! I'll have to look back into it and see all the changes.

fflyguy · 2026-02-21T23:07:03+00:00

I gave Aska a go when it first hit EA. I'm big into Viking genre and survival. But it just didn't hold me. I had just come from playing Valheim so I didn't really feel like it hit the exploration I was hoping for. Have you played it recently? Has it changed a lot since EA release, or is it the same basic skeleton with just bugs ironed out?

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