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  • Dealing with a client at work who is going through this. Severely depressed, suicidal tendencies, will not exercise despite knowing it has helped him in the past. He knows what he needs to do, but we also know damn well that he’s going to go straight up to his room and play video games all day.

    Motivating is extremely difficult when it comes to severe depression. You can’t just point out what they need to do. Doing so will likely just deepen their depression because they already know. Getting people to understand that not every brain works the same or responds to the same kind of reinforcements is incredibly frustrating.




  • Abiotic Factor has been really fun for my buddy and me. Especially with the new update that came out last week. It’s a Half Life themed survival game.

    Others that get my vote:

    Valheim - Norse mythology themed survival game with Playstationesque graphics

    Phasmophobia - THE ghost hunting game(see also Ghost Exile, Ghost Exorcism Inc., Forewarned)

    Left 4 Dead - the original Zombie FPS series (see also Back 4 Blood, it’s kinda alright) PILLS HERE!

    Risk of Rain - Pretty tough shooter series

    Stardew Valley - A modern Harvest Moon, farming/life sim

    Don’t Starve Together - If you played Stardew valley in hell, but everyone’s name started with a W

    Factorio/Satisfactory - Resource harvesting and logistics sims. One’s isometric, ones first person, one has zerg rushes

    Grounded - Honey I Shrunk The Kids: the survival game

    Deep Rock Galactic - Left 4 Dead for Dwarves. ROCK AND STONE!!!

    Overcooked - cooking and serving game, lots of communication required

    Portal 2 - First person puzzle game, also lots of communication required

    Barotrauma - Submarine sim on Europa, requires marriage levels of communication

    Binding of Isaac - Roguelike shooter that’s sort of Zelda inspired, multiplayer was a little janky last time I tried it, but that was a while ago

    The Forest - Excellent horror survival series

    Starbound - Terraria in space

    Trine series - A modern Lost Vikings, side scrolling puzzles and platforming

    Subnautica 2 - A beautiful and terrifying diving/exploration game, original game has a coop mod 8 years in development, but it’s been very buggy

    Diablo - First and second games are still very solid experiences and there are some excellent mods out for both

    Escape Simulator - Literally an escape room simulator. Has workshop support on steam for even more puzzles.

    Green Hell - The Forest, but in the jungle, much more focus on the reality of being stranded in a place where just about everything is likely to kill you.

    No Man’s Sky - Space/planetary exploration sim

    Dead Island - another zombie FPS

    Dying Light - a zombie game with parkour

    20XX/30XX - Megaman X styled platformers with roguelite elements

    GTFO - Extremely hard, stealth based, alien FPS

    Most “Souls” games - Very fun coop summoning, if you don’t mind the sometimes extreme difficulty

    Goat Simulator series - Goofy exploration games

    Magicka series - Isometric action adventure games where you combine different elements to cast spells

    Barony - a true roguelike FPS RPG, voxel based, very hard

    Void Crew - Space sim, mission based, sort of Egyptian mythos themed, meant for up to 4 players but definitely possible with just 2

    Human Fall Flat - Puzzle/exploration game

    Half Dead series - Cube: the game

    Orcs Must Die series - Tower defense

    Dungeon Defenders series - also tower defense, but with class based

    Secret of Mana - One of the first action JRPGS, the remake has drop in coop just like the original, but I believe it’s couch coop, so if you’re not right next to each other, you’ll need something like Parsec to play it

    Have a ton more, but those are the ones I can recall having the most fun. Others have probably listed a bunch of them and I probably missed a few good ones, but hopefully a few of them are new.

    You could always tinker with some emulators for some retro coop games!





  • Ms Jefferies told the BBC she was once asked to act out a scene with a male performer involving a sexual assault with no prior warning. “I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.

    Imagine taking a role where nobody tells you there’s anything sexual about it and showing up one day and someone’s like “alright time for the rape scene.”

    “The what?“

    “The rape scene, you’re character is going to be raped and we need you to mocap it with this guy. Suit up!"

    Taking a job doesn’t entitle the studio to do whatever they want to you or have you do whatever they want. Standard guild actors will almost always have a nudity and sex clause in their contract. The same doesnt seem to be happening in the gaming industry for VAs and mocap actors, with studios hiding the degree of work behind NDAs to protect their projects and their asses.





  • That’s nice and correct, and I would love for the Green party to succeed, break the bipartisan dominance, and finally get a foothold in the government. However, at the moment, Trump needs to lose at all costs. At the moment, I believe all Stein is going to do is draw votes away from Harris and boost Trump’s ratio.

    Vote for who you want, by all means, but please, consider the impact in regard to the current political theatre.