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Cake day: November 21st, 2025

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  • Counterpoint: “get therapy” is often a shorthand stand-in for “Jesus fuck, do at least a little bit of work on making yourself slightly tolerable, please!” Which can be done through reading stuff online and actually thinking about it, watching videos on YouTube, etc. It doesn’t all actually require therapy, but a therapist is capable of pointing you in the right direction, and reassessing with progress, which makes it faster and easier.

    There is definitely some stuff that requires outside help to really thrive with, or that’s much easier to work through with help, but most of the therapy I’ve ever had was shit I could have found online. It wasn’t even applied in a particularly unique way.










  • Similarly, granular audio options that separate dialogue from ambient from music from system sounds. Definitely don’t need my ears blown out just to hear dialogue.

    I like having the background music very low, but not off, system sounds a bit above that, sound effects higher than system but lower than dialogue, which is maxed. And of course ambient sound levels really depend on the game and what kind of ambiance it has.

    Same thing with granular contrast/gamma/etc. Don’t just provide a few preset options, especially if they can only be set before you start the game (also they should never only be set from the main menu, never). Let the player choose whatever they want on the fly. I love playing with everything bright so I can see wtf I’m doing, I don’t give half a shit if the devs think it should be so dark it’s not navigable. I disagree.