Fuck cancer. Fuck Gullain- barre syndrome.

Make games. Bring joy.

Dragon kart > Dragon Kart

*fires up Crusader Kings*

Cc @poorsapadvocate.bsky.social because we never shut up about this topic

Again, Tales of the Shire probably deserves a shellacking, and I don't want to malign a piece that is far from thoughtless, but the criticisms that this genre draws are a little too clear in wanting something different from the games they keep asking for it from.

If you want your specific ideas of community care represented within a fiction, you gotta do it! Write or program it the way that represents your viewpoint! Criticism amounting to "why didn't *you* make it this way?" *when a game clearly succeeds at what it wants to be* is endemic to this discussion

I am very glad you engage with works like Citizen Sleeper. But what the fuck has that got to do with Stardew Valley, Walter? Or anywhere else? The labor of caring for community in the traditional "cozy" game is abstracted, the same way army logistics are made into little gold coins in a Total War