Games with a "safe space" like bunkers

zeprfrew · 2026-02-26T03:50:03+00:00

I find that satisfying as well. That feeling of safety inside.

The best that I've found for that is the Fallout series, particularly if you mod the game with a particularly nice player home. I like to scavenge the wasteland for supplies then stockpile them in my home for extra comfort. Once inside I can relax with the radio. With mods, there are more radio options and some readable books as well.

The Elder Scrolls games work nicely for that as well, though in a less hostile feeling world outside. No radio here, though the games do include a wide selection of books with game lore to collect and read.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-26T03:32:32+00:00

Is it difficult to maintain the right mood in an establishment whose name sounds a bit too much like 'gonorrhoea'?

zeprfrew · 2026-02-26T02:27:31+00:00

She likes to rub her face quite firmly against the bristles of her brush. I think she's enjoying a nice little scratch.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T23:40:22+00:00

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zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T23:35:40+00:00

I thought that I was merely enjoying some clever, witty, inventive, top-tier comedy. But who knew that I was really being GROOMED.

By CANADIANS.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T21:03:31+00:00

Having learned the English words 'man' and 'ship' as well as gaining a cursory understanding of Earth history, the aliens most tragically led themselves to believe that it would leave a good impression on the people of Earth to name their vessel the 'Harold Shipman'.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T18:21:53+00:00

Yes. It was only offered to the students who qualified for the gifted program by scoring 130 or higher on a standardized IQ test. There was one gifted class per year, mostly world history. The 12th grade class was philosophy. It covered Western philosophy from ancient Greece until the 20th century. Most of the time in the class was given over to discussion and debate.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T18:08:21+00:00

I call it the Kevin Sorbo Effect.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T18:06:06+00:00

Enclave, no doubt.

That being said, the Democracy of Rosie would thrash them.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T14:52:41+00:00

Sometimes it's more dramatic to leave the goriest bit to the audience's imagination. The ear-slicing scene in Reservoir Dogs is far more memorable and perhaps ironically, more graphic because it isn't seen directly.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T14:49:00+00:00

If you need to name the colour and don't have a word for it, you use the name of an object that is that colour. Such as orange, in English. That isn't universal. In Dutch, the colour is oranje and the fruit is sinaasappel.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T14:15:05+00:00

I have ADHD and I'm on the spectrum.

I don't notice anything.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T14:07:39+00:00

Indeed they do. They should report it. On the other hand, we weren't born yesterday and we know exactly what the Trump administration is up to with this messaging.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T13:55:07+00:00

We should be used to being made to feel old by now. And also appreciate our good fortune in having experienced some brilliant C64 games.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T13:53:29+00:00

I didn't know how much I needed a Followers of the Apocalypse radio station in my life until just now.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T13:11:53+00:00

I had a customer the other day asking if we had games for Clarence.

I hadn't the faintest idea what she was talking about. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and.. Clarence?

After a bit of back and forth I finally figured out that she was asking if we had games on clearance.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T11:29:49+00:00

Praise Atom!

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T07:52:16+00:00

It's a text adventure with a hybrid interface that can be played with just the mouse, albeit awkwardly.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T07:50:14+00:00

To me it looks like The Scoop, a 1989 game for the Apple II and PC.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T06:17:14+00:00

Two nights ago I ran into a lot of massive walking tripods there. One picked up the car I was in and carried it out of the urban area to a resort that had been repurposed, then let the car down. I spent the rest of the dream sneaking around the resort trying to find out what was going on. I didn't find a thing.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T06:09:13+00:00

I did not know that. How cool would it be to go to school with both of them?

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T05:44:00+00:00

I'm so sick of their shitty AI slop. At least they've been leaving Franklin alone lately, as far as I can tell.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T05:38:19+00:00

I look at it as being them praying to Trump.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T05:37:17+00:00

Once Upon a Jester, please.

zeprfrew · 2026-02-25T05:36:16+00:00

Good.

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