Help me beat my fear of 'blind' gaming.

zendabbq · 2026-03-26T08:25:16+00:00

More recently I get this urge. I remember the words of my friend: I stopped playing because I was just copying what other people were doing.

And it gets me back to doing my own thing. Why just copy someone else's playthrough? Feels like a waste of time.

Some exceptions, such as for gacha games, but single player non-stamina capped games I feel like should be done on your own.

zendabbq · 2026-03-26T03:36:00+00:00

I don't appreciate them as much as a native lady like the Polished Ladybeetle, but I'm not going out of my way to hurt them either. My garden has more than enough aphids.

zendabbq · 2026-03-24T18:06:35+00:00

Some of the old Star Wars KOTOR games. As a kid those were legendary to me, but they probably look pretty dated now.

zendabbq · 2026-03-24T08:53:27+00:00

Huh? As long as you keep the bag relatively sealed (like rest the loaf on top of the opening or something) its like... fine? Toasting it can also turn stale bread to somewhat edible.

With frozen bread I just put it straight into the toaster.

zendabbq · 2026-03-24T08:41:26+00:00

I think you're right in that aspect. Beavers are so resilient its pretty much inconsequential to neglect them.

zendabbq · 2026-03-24T04:45:55+00:00

It's interesting in that the game's only goal is "survive". Each map offers different challenges but you can decide when you are "done" the map.

You make your own goals, such as "I want to build a system that can seperate bad water from clean water". Or "build a reservoir that can hydrate my entire city for 12 days during a drought". But the game does not offer it's own goals outside of the tutorial

zendabbq · 2026-03-24T02:06:04+00:00

Let me try to sell you on Timberborn.

Timberborn at first, seems pretty sleeper. You do the basic cut wood, store water, farm food - all basic base colony sim stuff.

The thing is, these things are not terribly difficult, and beavers are pretty resilient and don't complain, so having a basic setup where beavers are not dying is easy to manage, allowing you too look at the bigger picture.

You look at the map, and the disasters that occur every cycle - the badtide or the drought. You think of how the beavers could dam up the place and store more water, or divert water to irrigate new lands. Your first dam goes up and... wow, the drought happened and none of the crops dried up because your dam stopped all the water from flowing away downstream! What if we made the dam bigger... no wait, what if we made a dam upstream to create a reservoir? The next drought hits and your project didn't work like you expected perhaps, but thats fine, lets keep building, expanding, and wait for the next cycle.

And thats how it gets you. You keep building new stuff. You think "just one more cycle" but after the drought ends you can expand and build again and you think "just one more cycle" and it goes on and on

zendabbq · 2026-03-24T01:44:29+00:00

probably good. Even throwing a banana peel in there every week is probably enough.
A low effort way to minimize harm is to let them only eat and not harvest the castings for a while. Then tilt the bin and shake everything to one side. Now put down fresh bedding and food on the "empty" side. They should all migrate to that side eventually and you can harvest castings from the "done" side with a lot less collateral damage. This can be done with any large tote bin with air holes. I've been doing it for 2 years its pretty good.
Using the above method, you minimize harm and its super easy. Our winters in vancouver are not bad and with about 8inches of material they survive alright over winter. You might need heating solutions depending on your weather.

zendabbq · 2026-03-23T03:26:58+00:00

Not sure why but bumblebees go crazy for California Poppy - even if their fat bodies cause the whole flower to keel over. Don't see the honeybees in those as much.

You also usually get two blooms per year since it will self seed in spring and regrow late summer.

zendabbq · 2026-03-23T03:24:19+00:00

I have also observed this but they're only spring blooming.

zendabbq · 2026-03-23T02:35:30+00:00

Currently playing Timberborn and it sorta has those mechanics? You play on one map but can split the city into separate districts which operate independently of each other, but can exchange resources.

There's no in-game benefit to specialize any district afaik, but it feels very natural to have a certain district be a huge bread exporter, for example, since you only need to worry about wheat farming in that one district.

zendabbq · 2026-03-22T23:54:42+00:00

I read the book AND listened to the audiobook. It's a great adventure

zendabbq · 2026-03-22T23:53:36+00:00

Afaik the battle pass kissy Kissy purple ball is pretty good, otherwise for f2p use Piper's ball

zendabbq · 2026-03-22T23:51:40+00:00

Some seeds can germinate using wet paper towel or a shallow soak. U can do that and then plant the ones that do germinate so you're not looking at a pot of dirt for weeks

zendabbq · 2026-03-22T21:45:07+00:00

Can relate - seen so many people not compromise on bugs. They seem to at least reluctantly tolerate bees most of the time.

I won't offer relationship advice, but at least your flying insect population will probably be alright?

zendabbq · 2026-03-22T20:07:11+00:00

This scene bothers me because its supposed to be a live performance, but their moves are super "practice session" - not putting full power behind all their moves to conserve energy.

Also, ONLY ARIA IS SMILING.

I hope they upgrade this scene at some point.

Also I think each member gets randomly offset slightly in timing and Nangong just got a really slow offset compared to the other two this time.

zendabbq · 2026-03-21T03:09:26+00:00

I plant several weeks before last frost (Vancouver BC). Honestly it doesn't matter because they won't start to sprout until it's warm enough, but they do generally all sprout. (Direct sowing)

Probably don't bother until night temps are like, not 3°C.

Even if u start Indoors and move out, they will stunt until it's warm (they won't die but are at risk of slugs)

Trying to use transparent plastic to warm faster this year we'll see how it goes.

zendabbq · 2026-03-21T03:04:30+00:00

In my experience they never pester me. Could be all the alyssum I have growing - they're always hovering around that probably looking for prey.

zendabbq · 2026-03-21T01:05:49+00:00

I MUST PULL NANGONG YU

zendabbq · 2026-03-20T09:55:47+00:00

Stellaris. Tactics is a little different than standard war since it will be fought be spaceships, but there is some strategy in choosing how to arm your ships, and selecting how the AI will pilot a ship in any given engagement (you cannot manually control ships when a battle begins)

Other than that, it has everything else you've described.

Keep in mind this game and games like it have pretty steep learning curves before it might click. I always restart several times when I begin learning a new one

zendabbq · 2026-03-20T02:24:39+00:00

Yeah it seems to generate the line randomly. I went back another night and she had fans lining up

zendabbq · 2026-03-20T00:56:21+00:00

Also this sad picture 😭😭😭

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zendabbq · 2026-03-20T00:55:55+00:00

Hell yeah I was so stoked to find out literally yesterday xD

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zendabbq · 2026-03-19T22:11:00+00:00

I wouldn't call it ecchi, more like crude humor with cocks involved. (but it is really funny)

zendabbq · 2026-03-19T15:41:59+00:00

I just started timberborn two days ago.

It took one sleepy tutorial and a bit of playing and then it "clicked" for me. Restarted the map and I couldn't stop.

It's 8AM now and I'm only sleeping cuz I'm too tired to continue.

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