#non binary gamer

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I love being into a stupid but cute cookie game because I really look the kinda bitch that not only enjoys a stupid but cute cookie game but that I'll eat a whole family size thing of cookies as I play a stupid but cute cookie game

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Fields of Mistria / Cosy Blog

Fields of Mistria…wow, it feels like the game just appeared out of nowhere and there it was, suddenly all over my twitter feed and so I instantly went to buy it, and let me tell you, it was the best £11.79 I ever spent. 

This cosy early-access game is already incredible and I can’t wait to see what is added come full release. In this blog, I will discuss what I love about the game while providing constructive feedback on things I would like to see added.

Straight away, the character customisation is brilliant. Hurray pronouns! It has warmed my heart to see people feeling represented by having a hijab available along with a wide range of skin colours! I love that when in-game, you can change your appearance any time, you can also change your name, pronouns and town name anytime! 

The progression in Fields of Mistria feels well-paced. I felt like I always had a goal and that currency gain/spend was balanced. I enjoyed the experience progression system combined with how there is a mana spell system offering interesting perks and bonus’. I think my main feedback though in this area would be that wood felt really grindy and difficult to get, five wood from destroying one tree with how much wood was needed to progress, sometimes it felt like a wood chopping simulator. 

Further feedback about the experience system though, I would also like to see the purple experience orbs either consume to the player quicker or there be some sort of magnet maybe in the skill up section? I was often having to stop and go back to my previous location to pick up the purple orb and I feel I have wasted a lot of time doing that. 

I love the villagers! The game designers have done an amazing job creating these villagers, I literally love them all. Who are you romancing? I am planning to romance Reina! She is SO SWEET. I love her. I love the seasonal outfits. I love how you can see the liked and loved gifts. I love how you can find where someone is by looking at the map too! 

The cooking and crafting system being tied to skills is a cool feature! I do feel like the little scene after you have made something is nice the first time but it gets annoying quite quickly, especially when making multiple things at once. 

Speaking of crafting, the decorating in this game???? SO FUN AND CUTE!! I love it. 

I truly adore this game, I love me a cute fun farming sim to get hyper-fixated on. I hope you love it too and I can’t wait to see what gets added! 

[void-galaxy-shenanigans]

I think I accidentally figured out a way to explain what being demisexual demiromantic means for us. A lot of people mistake it as “oh, well, I like to bond with people I’m attracted to, so then I’m demi too right?” ....Well, no?

Because we don’t feel attraction, not for a while at least (example, it took ~3 years to wanna date our first boyfriend). I honestly thought we were asexual aromantic for a while there. We don’t get into friendships or start relationships //because// we’re attracted romantically or sexually. We end up feeling attracted later, & then people assume we were attracted all along.

People are pretty, but more in an “ooh, I love your style, your hair is pretty, I love your tattoos” way - aesthetic attraction, not sexual attraction. & people are precious & wonderful & adorable in a “you’re such a sweet person, I wanna cuddle & watch movies” kind of way - platonic attraction, not romantic attraction.

It’s not “oh, you’re the person I wanna spend my life with, let’s spend time together and bond!” (which is a valid but different kind of attraction). It’s not “I wanna have sex with you, so let’s go on a few dates and get to know each other!” (which is a valid but different kind of attraction). It’s not just “I wanna have sex with my best friend because they’re hot”.

It’s “you’ve been my best friend for months now and I think I suddenly caught feelings, my heart now races when you say my name and I can’t stop smiling when you text me and now I wanna be romantically/sexually involved [or both]??”

But that explanation seems to get a lot of “no yea I feel that I catch feelings while bonding with people too” from non aspec people.

But as an avid gamer....I think I might have found an explanation / analogy that sort of works / makes sense.

It’s like one of those story-driven RPGs.

You’re doing side quests & trying to do the main quest. And every NPC you talk to has dialogue options, and sometimes the dialogue options are greyed out until you get to a certain level of “favor” points or a certain “friendship/relationship level”. Like maybe (as an example, since what people view as romantic/sexual relationship progress varies by person) when you start it’s small talk or it’s talk of special interests, but more personal stuff & the ability to ask to do things like go to the movies together is greyed out, & then when you can ask to go to the movies or bake cookies or whatever together you now have greyed out flirting options, & when you can flirt you have greyed out “can I date you?” & “can I kiss you?”, & after you’re dating for a while you have greyed out “will you marry me?”, & it just goes up from there.

But the important thing is, those greyed out options cannot be clicked, and you don’t want to click them yet. A non demisexual/demiromantic person might try to click it & get frustrated they can’t flirt yet (or whatever else they’d like to say), but a demi person ignores the greyed out options until they’re now white/black/blue/whatever colour the normal text options are.

& anyone who’s sexuality is fluid (sometimes ace, sometimes not) (or greysexual/greyromantic, if I understand it correctly), those options will be available sometimes & not available others, or always available but sometimes they just don’t want to click them (& that’s okay). (& anyone who’s asexual/aromantic/both, those options are always unclickable/greyed out, or always available but not always appealing to click (so they just don’t sometimes or all of the time))

¿Does this make sense to anyone else?

~Nico

[chronicallycosy]

Dinkum, The Aussie Cosy Life

Dinkum is so underrated. I feel like I never hear anyone talk about it on my feed, but I love this game so much, so I want to give it the attention it deserves! Me and my bestie love playing this game, we are both autistic + adhd and love cosy games so anything we can play together for a joint hyperfixation leads to a fun chaotic time. 

Like Stardew Valley, Dinkum is worked on by one person, James Bendon! The game is still in early access and the developer is slowly putting out lots of love in updates. I have been playing this game for way over a year now and I love watching what new goodies are brought in.

The game feels most comparable to animal crossing gameplay but without the mass villagers. You spend most of your time harvesting, mining, metal-detecting, doing daily NPC requests, fishing and bug-catching. You can also explore, decorate, cook and care for animals. You make money and work towards creating a thriving town by inviting all the NPCs to join your island. 

Dinkum is based in Australia! Which I love. I feel immersed in Australian culture when playing. Prepare to get your ass beat by some alpha crocodiles and alpha kangaroos! One of my favourite NPC in the games is called Irwin, he owns the animal store. He is super wholesome and I love how the devs have honoured the legacy of Steve Irwin within the game. 

Here is Irwin!

This game is definitely a slow burner, I personally wouldn’t suggest going into this game expecting to get its full experience within the first year of playthrough. Progression takes time, especially if you want to enjoy the later game features. 

However, the game feels very interactive to play, I love the hand trolley and wheelbarrow and how you are moving everything around visually instead of it just going into the bags. 

There is quite a bit more quality of life I would like to see from Dinkum still in the future. I would love to see improvements to the levelling farming early game, NPC locations on the map, a sandbox/creative mode, the pineapple plant re-growing instead of destroying, and possibly animal automation? I would also love to see improvements to multiplayer, currently, it won’t recognise another player as living there, but it would be good to have the option for them to have more control over things.

As I mentioned, I’m currently doing a second playthrough with my bestie! We are slowly working on creating a bigger town with roads and larger farms. We are in the middle of moving everything over to the middle and it is so fun watching it all come together! 

I am excited about the future of Dinkum. It has such charm to it. There is so much potential there and I’m truly looking forward to seeing what the dev has planned! 

Chronically Cosy, aka Georgia :)

​P.S, James, if you are reading this, I have broken at least 10 dirt printers, I need emotional support. 

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base game nursery

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kids art room 🧡

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The Sims 4; Lovestruck

Oh hi? I bet you didn’t hear this from me first, but the new sims 4 expansion is out, Lovestruck! I am no reviewer, I just like writing up little informal blogs by having a thought dump about my feelings on CAS, build&buy, the world and gameplay. Also, I bought this pack with my own money, and even if I was lucky enough to be gifted from EA, no one could ever take away my honesty. 

Lets start with CAS. I love it. I’m just going to attach a screenshot showing all the new items that I love! If you want to see all items, you can check out all the new items in game by clicking on packs on the main menu and clicking on lovestruck. As shown below, you can scroll through all the CAS and build mode items added! 

Anyway…here are the items that I love and will see myself using! 

If I were to make a tier list, both the earrings, sunflower shirt, ombre oversized shirt and the ombre oversized jumper would be in the S tier. The earrings are my favourite and I love the colour range they come in. I think CAS overall is very solid and the tattoo of the crossing out of names is hilarious. There are no CAS items for kids/younger aside from some of the hairs crossing over. It is a little disappointing as a cute love heart printed jumper for kids for example would be fun. It makes sense they got nothing though given this pack is about adult relationships. 

Alright, onto build mode, again, I’m going to add a series of screenshots of the items I like then talk about my thoughts!

Build mode…build mode…build mode… where do I begin? First of all, the plant selection is chefs kiss, but once again, they have added in a plant where it is two plants joined into one item, WHY? Just let them be placed as individuals!!! I am still mad over the growing together plants too cause that set of four plants is so cute but placing it is a nightmare. Why do the Sims team hate us so much! Also, I am SO glad they added jacaranda trees cause they are one of my favorite trees! They are so pretty.

The new backsplash tile is very pretty but lacks swatches imo. I hope they add more backsplashes in the future. The new animal statues/plushies are so adorable. I love plushies and animal statues in my game so I will be using these a lot. I also love the curtain beads!! They are very hip and cute. The new artwork is chefs kiss and I love that we have new LED wall decals cause I loved the ones from the High school pack! Speaking of High school years, the style of this pack pairs well with Lovestruck! 

However, I am critical of the build mode selection. I wish the giant mirror was placeable on the small wall height. Considering they added no new doors and windows for medium or tall wall height, then we get some giant mirror that can’t even be placed on the lowest wall height kinda ticked me off. I also just wish we had…more. We got a lot of romantic-styled furniture, which makes sense, it is a love pack. However, we got this beautiful new world called Ciudad Enamorada, inspired by Mexico! It feels like we have barely any items in build & buy that represent the culture and style. Build & buy had so much potential here and it flopped. You can also absolutely say the same for create a sim, the clothes lacked representation of Mexican culture. I feel like if the sims are introducing a new world that clearly represents a location, the build & buy and create a sim should be following those representations. 

I think for the reasons above alone, I will die on the hill that this pack should have been a game pack similar to parenthood. The romance systems, the app along with romantic style build & buy and create a sim would have made for a great game pack. I had the same conclusion when growing together came out. I think the world of Ciudad Enamorada hasn’t been done justice and it would have been better suited to a different style of expansion. I think it would have been fine if we had more representation of Mexican culture, there is some, just not enough honestly. 

Whilst I am on the talk about the world. I think Ciudad Enamorada is gorgeous. There are a lot of pretty romantic spots to put down a blanket and get some cute moments. I love that you can travel via the bus stops, I waste so much time with sims running around trying to get home. Overall, there isn’t much to do in the world. I get why it is like this, and it is a common theme among all the words, I just wish worlds were more engaging. As for the separate areas in Ciudad Enamorada, Plaza Mariposa is by far the most gorgeous area. Vista Hermosa is pretty too but it feels like it is missing something. Nuevo Corazon, whilst it is nice to have more penthouses (even though I low-key hate them because taking screenshots on those lots is an awful experience,) that area has like…nothing in it, meh. 

One more thing I want to add, which may be a hot take; I hate the emphasis this pack puts on exercise and health = love. You don’t have to be ripped and the epitome of health to be loveable. 

Okay, I have waffled ALOT. Onto a random thought dump with some screenies…

Yeah…. Justice for the loners, please? I wanna just sit and watch the sky. Alone. 

Summary; Axolotls carry this pack. 

Romantic satisfaction is bleh, this could have been done so much better! Cupids corner is okay but where are all these gallery sims we were promised? All I have seen are the regular townies and the random generated townies. The dates suck, having to go through all the menus just to get to a specific interaction is boring. Especially when you need to complete so many just to get gold, it feels like the gameplay consists of just spamming out socials and doing nothing interesting.

Positives? Axolotls, cuddling is cute, some nice items, the new gift menu is useful, and a lot of the new animations are cute. 

I think I have constructed most of my thoughts? It isn’t a pack you can solely play alone, it is more of a nice background add-on to the game. So if you are looking for an expansion pack that really gives oomf to your game, this pack isn’t it. If you are looking for an expansion pack that adds more to relationships, I would recommend it, but I would actually recommend growing together instead if you are more interested in family gameplay! 

Okay, I think this sums up my messy brain dump! 

Chronically Cosy, aka Georgia :)

[conniemcmelonball]

This one is for my Terraria squirrellie pops who want a 27 year old non binary friend and also perhaps maybe a collab partner for Twitch

I'll be starting a new world soon with the intention of making adult friends and/or finding someone to do co op streams with every now and then.

If you're also an adult who struggles to find someone to dig virtual holes with, feel free to join my discord server (link via twitch) so we can coordinate the time and place to have a Terraria Stream. Please keep in mind this is my first time reaching out to find people and navigating the world of streaming/gaming, be kind and have a great day my friend!