mastery, randomness, friends, and nourishment

there’s no clean way to start this discussion, so let us get our hands dirty right out of the gate:

I loathe “friendslop” as a term significantly more than I do the thing that is being gestured at with that term.

fully managed austerity space fascism, or: friendly fire isn't

habitual overthinker that I am, I often end up wondering what makes some games interesting/tolerable where similar ones fall flat. I recently got into helldivers 2 thanks to being gifted a copy of the game by a metamour, and it’s a lot of fun to play with my gf + her other partners, but I’m also like... not living under a rock. I’ve been paying attention to the state of the world.