Imo what’s key to a cosy game is that you choose within the game how much you want to challenge yourself. Take stardew, for example. My mum was content just farming crops. I went into the difficult mines with lots of combat etc. You can enjoy the game if you don’t do the hard parts, or you can do them sparsely, or all the time. You choose, and that’s what makes it so relaxing.

I’m not a hardcore gamer, but usually mostly into RPGs. But I’ve also got hundreds of hours in stardew and thousands in the Sims. When I play one of those, I’m always low key scared to grow bored because I LOVE those games and I know that there won’t be another good one right around the corner.

When I got bored of Skyrim, I played the Witcher, and when I got bored of that, I played Fallout. Repeat ad nauseam, because there’s more playable, entertaining RPGs out there than any one human could play in a lifetime.

With cosy games, not so much. When you grow bored of one, chances are, there won’t be another one that’ll be enjoyable to you at all, and you’ll have to hope and wait that something good will come out at some point.

I just lost my job due to some bigger firm buying the place. I’ll honestly prefer to live at the office (I have one at uni where I’m doing an unpaid thesis) or a friend’s couch again (like I did after a breakup) than move in with family. Everyone’s family dynamic is different.

That said, you don’t need friends to find roommates. There’s websites and social media groups to find them, usually. Have you considered moving a bit further away, where there’s better job opportunities? Hope things get better for you

Im enby and man do I wish they’d just go away and you could bring them back if you felt like it

Tbh my uni gave me a PC with no OS on it. I wasn’t going to pay for an OS for work so I installed Ubuntu. I liked it, so I also switched on my private laptop.

TLDR: it being free, then liking it

I learned to do some basic things like that with my left hand after developing chronic tendinitis in my right. Brushing my teeth or eating, for example. It’d be surprisingly easy if it was just moving the cursor, but it’s so ingrained that the index finger does the main clicking and the middle finger the secondary key that I couldn’t get used to it.

Not that whatever the British hunters do isn’t worse. But putting the same animal through that tremendous stress just for the fun of it isn’t exactly what I’d describe as humane either.

Of course complimenting fitness isn’t implying you’re only a body. But why do you compliment people in the first place? To make them feel nice. Let them know their good qualities don’t go unnoticed. And for that purpose it’s good to compliment a variety of nice qualities of theirs.

The last bit, I honestly wouldn’t know. I haven’t gotten the impression, but that might just be my peer group.

Nothing wrong with a physical compliment, especially if it’s something they chose or worked on. But it’s nice to know that others notice that you’re more than just a good looking body as well.

Even if you cant be bothered to figure out gaming on Linux, a dual boot works like a charm. I do all my gaming on the windows partition to keep it separate from work, to avoid distraction.

Finally rest. I’m exhausted. I’ll be in bed watching cartoons!

Wouldn’t even call it talent, but rather motivation. Pay minimum wage, you get minimum effort.