WindowKill - $4.99

The most clever bullet hell I’ve ever played, best experienced on mouse and keyboard.

Windosill - $2.99

More of an interactive art piece. Very short but I still think about it years later. (Some of their other stuff is available online for free and is similarly enjoyable)

Magic Wand - $3.99

Like a surreal, jumbled mess that seems to parody a badly translated JRPG. Another short and sweet experience.

HYPER DEMON - $14.99*

Like a nightmarish fever dream. If you like old school FPS mechanics like rocket jumping and bunnyhopping you’ll feel right at home. This one is a little difficult to show people gameplay of because it looks impossible to decipher, but when you’re actually playing it and really start to get entranced, it’s an experience like nothing else. The way it gives you a 360 fov is an incredible mechanic.
*(It’s also 40% off for ~40 hours as of this comment, making it $8.99)

Chicory: A Colorful Tale - $19.99

My favorite game of all time. Adorable puzzle game where you paint the world, with a story about what makes someone an artist. One thing I really like about this is the open ended way it lets you approach creative tasks; It’s up to you to decide how much you want to invest, there’s no scoring system to gamify the art portions, which is very in-line with the story to me.
Edit: Oh, and a great soundtrack by Lena Raine!

I don’t see it here so I’ll mention Ty the Tasmanian Tiger! Really fun collectathon platformer. Played through the more recent remaster on PC and realized it’s very easy, but I spent a huge amount of time as a kid just running around the maps and hub area.

Honestly I get lazy and skip the pre-heat and fairness cup, then it’s even faster/easier than brewing in a pot!

Also tea people should check out [email protected]! The only tea community I’m aware of on lemmy. Though it’s super inactive right now; I should probably contribute…

Yeah I drink tea, now what am I supposed to believe in?

Tristan Newcomb? I get all my gaming news from him. His Donkey Kong Country review is great.

Transcendental Youth - The Mountain Goats

Title track and closer of one of my all-time favorite albums. The horns are just perfect and the lyrics are beautiful. Makes me think of those little moments of getting lost in something good during bad times, a short escape you know won’t last.

Yeah but you’d have to write it across like, 10 post-it notes along the top of your monitor. That’d get expensive!

Big mushy! Some kind of bolete? I really like the light and focus effect.

Idk someone could probably brute force it in only a few trillion years, I’d make it longer if you plan to be using Twitch long-term.

Looking up local stuff definitely seems best. Lots of good wildlife rehabs around me, that’s usually my go-to.

I spend 1/3rd of my life asleep, and the pillow would guarantee that third is good and memorable. Absolutely the pillow.

Even better!

Make it extra crust with pieces of crust as a topping and it’ll be perfect.

I just started using it casually, I mostly follow art stuff. Here’s a few of my favorites:

• enchantedbook - illustrations from old books, often folk tales
• pintoras - women painters, usually traditional art
• weirdzoology - weird zoology
• cazadoradehonguitos - mushroom photography (hasn’t posted in a month though)

Ohhh it’s connect four without gravity! I thought it was baduk and was wondering why they’d be mad when they’re going to win, but then I remembered you don’t place the stones in the squares.

I like the perspective, really cool!

Oh they’re really impressive, Overtime is another great one.

Awesome! The AI summarizer is very useful, and it gives quality search results from my experience with the free trial. $10 a month still seems a little high for a search engine, though I’m definitely eyeing it more now…

Hopefully we see more competition in the future with paid search engines, this seems to be new territory where everyone is still pretty unsure of the right pricing. I think $5 a month is going to be the sweet spot for me.

Their range is so impressive. I especially have been enjoying Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava! One of my favorite albums of the last year, and has some elements of jazz fusion/funk (though I guess you wouldn’t exactly call it a jazz album lol).

For folk I’ve gotta recommend The Mountain Goats! Specifically their earlier stuff, the newer is maybe a little less folk and more just indie rock (but also very good). The Sunset Tree and Tallahassee are what people usually recommend for the first album, but We Shall All Be Healed is my absolute favorite, and what I’m recommending.

This album specifically deals with themes of struggle and addiction. They have this very “everything is fucked but we push through” way about a lot of their songs that I just love. My favorite song off this album is Letter From Belgium. This band is an amazing source of emotional support through hard times and the community is fantastic!

“All of the songs on We Shall All Be Healed are based on people John used to know. Most of them are probably dead or in jail by now.”

You got it!