Tribalism and intentionally underfunded education, plus propaganda to push back on whatever independent thoughts may start to creep in.

Sprout Valley and Chicory: A Colorful Tale are two indie games I adore a bunch but don’t get much mainstream love.

Cattails series mentioned! I’ve replayed those two multiple times they’re so cute and the gameplay loop is so soothing and fun.

Cat Quest series (which is more dungeon-crawler, not cat sim) is also adorable and accessible but doesn’t seem to be mentioned too often.

Thank you, and please do use it! Sharing is caring lol

My sibling in humanity, this is a meme community.

Taking things seriously isn’t the goal here.

DEI is a replacement word for the slurs they’re afraid to say out loud (for now).

Pajama Sam: You are What you Eat From Your Head to Your Feet was a favorite of mine as a child:

Also had to look it up but Elmo’s Preschool was a big feature of my under-5 PC gaming:

2nd grade or so was a lot of Disney Princess: Magical Dressup with some cute mini games and a LOT of uncanny valley jank lol:

And alongside that was the PC version of Battle for Bikini Bottom, with mini games instead of the platformer the console had, but I’m struggling to find any decent gameplay screen grabs.

Of course that’s all just PC gaming.

Anybody remember the Cartoon Network island flash games? It was like a resort and I could have sworn there were multiple installments.

Michael Scott

I didn’t know these existed until today but I can smell/taste it already ugh

Stale, sticky dust water.

No this is Lemmy

Burnout.

Grinding away at meaningless bullshit while all your needs and ambitions pile up leads to this feeling pretty consistently.

More like “I hate my job, but social safety nets are nonexistent and I need to eat food. On top of that I’m forced to spend my precious income on a machine that requires fossil fuels which are destroying the environment” but yes

A good multitool or Swiss Army Knife.

Mine was gifted to me a few years ago but it’s come in handy more times than I can count. Use it at least three times a week.

I don’t meditate regularly but mostly it informally involves listening to music, using a sensory/fidget toy or petting an animal to ground myself. Or box breathing in a pinch.

Basically anything that lets me hone in on being directly present in the moment with a small focus in my physical environment. *Edit: the main draw for me is something I can directly control my reactions and engage with, if that helps.

I pretty much only use it to calm anxiety spikes or dissociative episodes from bad changes in routine, or sensory overload before hitting a meltdown if I can catch it in time.

Something something materialist conditions.

Seriously though, you can’t do one without the other. Our climate is going to shit in a hand basket because of capitalist greed and hierarchies, and fixing either of those issues requires that two-pronged solution.

Also 9. Nice and relaxed in the summer weather ☀️

This reminds me of an HGTV show episode where the main couple buys an old house and while renovating they discover the entire insides of the support columns had been replaced by bee’s nests.

Something something the animals that do eat them will die and the whole ecosystem will collapse.

Or you’re Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch ¯\(ツ)/¯

Clarifying for anyone looking at my votes: I downvoted to help, not because I disagree.

We got you, OP!

The vibe is impeccable