Exactly!

No judgement, addiction is a serious thing but…

I also realise I’m giving a lot of time to games that, if only I could manage my time better I could give to much more worthwhile things, like helping people out in the world. So a month ago a few life circumstances came together, and I’ve signed up for a new education course. Rather than cope with all the new stresses of that at the same time as possible gaming withdrawal symptoms, I figured I’d give up the games completely, a month early. (And doomscrolling too, but that’s proving harder… proving it’s also addictive to me more than I wanted to admit!)

This doesn’t strike me as a healthy perspective on yourself

Check out these videos by Dr. Rachel Kowert

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpCuWV_BD38

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wjfoIbydLU

My point isn’t to refute your concern for your addictive tendencies with regards to video games but rather to gravely warn you that your fear and self doubt (which are valid) will be preyed on by a whole cottage industry of shitty people selling you fake solutions until you learn the actual science with regards to humans and games (digital or not) from people like Dr. Rachel Kowert.

“I have really acclimated to the ability to do violence as a CEO of a large company involved in music, I have especially enjoyed destroying the dreams of musicians who want to earn a living, but it isn’t enough what can I say I am a guy driven by the hustle. I want more! So I decided the killing needed to be more literal and started a shady as fuck Defense company!” - Daniel Ek

It it is sidescroller metroidovania with a beautiful nuanced artificial intelligence, creatures hunt, patrol and remember the player.

Does Rainworld count?

Blocky Survival, Your Land and Square One are all pretty chill, the nice thing is that they are all running collections of modpacks that create a minecraft+ experience, so it is a good intro to what Luanti and Voxelibre can be!

I don’t mind the vanilla texture pack, but I was starting to get bored of it I mean I won’t argue it is amazing compared to the obviously very mature world of minecraft texture packs.

I will switch between the ones I downloaded and edit with some recommendations if any stick out to me!

Also I like playing on the multiplayer servers, some of them are really chlll and I prefer to explore multiplayer servers with the vanilla texture pack (or whatever the server intends) and then switch to different ones after I see the landscape all the architects and artists intended in the right light first if that makes sense?

Heck yes!

https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/hub/

There is built in community mod and texture browser in Luanti as well so it couldn’t be easier!

Watch us :)

Voxelibre!

https://content.luanti.org/packages/wuzzy/mineclone2/

Lame, play Luanti (free and open source)

https://www.luanti.org/

The Voxelibre mod is probably what you want to start with if you want to have a Minecraft+ like survival experience.

Edit You can download Luanti from F-droid too… as in the Android store!!! The touch screen controlsk work great on a phone and I am pretty sure you can use a gamepad if you want too. Luanti/Voxelibre multiplayer servers thus are actually kind of awesome social hangout chatroom-esque spaces that are very chill and low pressure. Also… most of them that say they are family friendly are serious in their moderation around it (though of course, if you are a parent don’t count on it being 100% perfect at screening out annoying people).

Or Vintage Story

https://www.vintagestory.at/

is that like like a Moray?

Oh sorry I thought this was a Windows 11 jet for some reason I think these are still running Windows Phone tho

Did it start updating mid flight or something?

ahahahahahahahahaha

pre-emptive pikachu face strike

imagine if there were a plethora of them already lurking out there in the deep?

isn’t it strange then that you don’t already have an AI overlord then?

Why wouldn’t I?

I have nothing against the idea of people using gaming streaming services. I think it is awesome actually, I just can’t join into the positivity yet until we solve this existential underlying problem.

That is perfectly ok, you don’t have to tackle the world by yourself, thank you for providing me the public opportunity to show why you are so critically incorrect in your approach to things you love so the rest of us can evolve together :)

Just because we are leaving you in the dust doesn’t mean we won’t care for you, but my oh my you are taking out a big future debt on your soul by going through your life with an attitude like this.

It’s not the deep “bro”. Maybe Microsoft does have some underlying motive to reshape the gaming industry but I’m not going to think about it that hard.

I know you don’t want to, that was obvious from our initial interaction which is precisely why I am taking the time to try to get you to think about it harder or at least point out to others the folly in your shallowness.