FTL is a great chill out game for me. The only problem is I’ve put in so many hours that I’ve practically seen everything! I looked into some interesting mods but just haven’t tried them out yet. When I think about it, FTL shouldn’t be that chill, but there’s a certain simplicity in the gameplay, and the ability to pause all the time, even during combat, gives me the ability to take my time thinking through what I’m gonna do.
Underrated chill out game, agreed, maybe I’ll finally get around to trying some mods.
The more I hear about No Man’s Sky now the more I’m thinking that perhaps this will be one of the games I can chill out to. I generally love space games, and the idea of just kinda flying around doing random stuff is already appealing.
I played this a bit on mobile and really enjoyed it, not sure why I stopped in retrospect, I was never able to beat it even once. Another one where dying isn’t a big deal cause replaying is part of the fun. Been thinking of checking it out on PC but just never got around to it
I tried Minecraft way back, so maybe it’s changed, but I don’t do to well in setting my own goals in a game. I liked Subnautica because there was an interesting story element and mystery that kept you engaged as you moved towards your goal of getting off planet. In the process of reaching the goal, yeah, I wanna make my base look nice, wanna build some cool things, but my overall actions were still being compelled by the storytelling and world-building of the game. I don’t see those elements in Minecraft but again, it’s been a long time since I played.
I’ve just become aware of Noita recently. It looks kind of insane in a good way, but looks really hectic and anxiety inducing. But what you’ve said is pretty convincing, maybe I can make the journey to death fun.
I’ve started rewatching old sitcoms for that kind of feeling, I know them inside and out, so it’s just there for comfort in the background while I do other things. I don’t think my brain can do this with old school RPGs though. I don’t think I’ve ever replayed an old turn-based RPG cause once I beat the story and/or get all the items, my brain is no longer motivated to pick it up.
I get like this in any sort of “real time passes” games, with some exceptions. If you have a limited amount of time to do a limited amount of things in game, my mind starts min/maxing what I should be doing every moment in game. In Outer Wilds the passage of time matters less cause you always start back at zero, what you gain each run is just knowledge, you don’t lose out and fall behind on any resources, points or whatever cause you didn’t do certain things that day.
I hear a lot about this one and it does interest me, but whenever I look at the Steam page I just don’t end up feeling it. What is it about the game that keeps you personally coming back to it?
Legit, fear of being “killed” by the system stops me from slowing down. One time in my life I quite a job due to stress without my next move planned out and it was real rough. I’d love to be able to slow down, to the point I’m finding myself missing the pandemic work from home life. I wanna leave my current job, but I need to make sure I have something else lined up first, and who really knows if that will be better.
I wanna ignore all the noise around me and just find myself, but I’m afraid of the wolf.
Yeah, I’ll admit, getting to fly business frequently as a child probably gave me an unrealistic view of what flying would be like for myself later in life. But except for one flight I randomly got bumped, I’ve only done economy my whole adult life and still can’t help but be in a good mood thinking about a flight.
I do agree about the airport hassles, having to go through easily two hours of bureaucracy and waiting before even getting on a plane is kinda crazy, guess I’ve just come to accept it to the point I don’t really think about it too much. I’m just looking forward to the plane, and maybe finding a little nook to wait in before the flight starts boarding where my brain can already start transitioning to “nothing’s stopping you from just shutting off” mode. Airplane mode also means I’m not getting any work texts or messages while I’m in the air, which has definitely happened on trains.
I came thinking I would say airplanes as well, though I know it’s likely an unpopular answer in this part of web.
Growing up fairly privileged, I got to fly a lot and always looked forward to it as a situation where no one can get mad at me for spending the whole time watching movies, playing games or reading books. Some of that childhood joy stuck with me, and I still look forward to a chance to sit back and read or zone out to music without any nagging work obligations (I refuse to purchase in air wifi).
So big agree, for transport I “really like,” it’s gotta be airplanes.
For more mundane day to day stuff, I do love basically anything on rails. Not having to think about maneuvering around other vehicles, just sitting and chilling, not even worrying about traffic delays. As long as you’re able to avoid the worst of rush hour packed trains, it’s just the best. If only every city could figure out their rail systems…
Best of luck! Not sure where you’re at, hopefully somewhere they got some kind of unemployment. In my country at least, there are no unemployment benefits that I’m aware of at least, so had to strictly figure out budgeting and luckily I had managed to keep some savings and was able to live with family.
I tried to do a bunch of personal projects, YouTube, a small company with a friend, but a lot of things just going nowhere. I pretty quickly got part time work to make ends meet, literally going to a place walking distance from my home that was related to but not quite the field I’m in, and while they couldn’t afford me full time that work got me into a financial position where I could keep my head above water, and I continued to do my own sort of freelance work in my field where I could get it
Honestly, I was really naive about how easy getting a better job would be. I had recently gotten my Master’s, had a good amount of experience from my previous job, so I thought I’d be in a shiny new job in a month or two. Month five was when I got the part time stuff going.
But I was kind of amazed at how, when I kept telling myself I got no money to spend, I found ways to not spend money, so I got WAAAAY better at saving during that time. But also, I don’t wanna go through that stress again where every little unexpected expense, car repairs, family emergency, etc, made me feel so hopeless, like if my value kept doing nothing but going down, what was the point of me doing anything?
Getting out of it was honestly a good amount of luck, my freelance stuff led to me meeting my next employer completely by chance and it just so happened they were looking for someone with my specific training. It was honestly kind of insane.
tl;dr:
Was naive, wish I had things planned better. Seeing all your savings drain away is soul-crushing. Think I learned about myself figuring out personal projects. Getting work feels like just luck of the draw in the end.
I love having really bizarre dreams, the weirder the better.
I had a dream where I was some kinda high ranking engineer on a super weird interstellar craft designed by my partner, and during the dream I was vividly remembering other missions I had been on, and that’s what really stuck with me when I woke up, the fact that I had memories of a past that didn’t exist, and somehow upon waking, those memories stuck stronger than the proper dream portions. This was at a time where I was dream journalling so reading back I can recall a lot of details.