a peek into alternate universe elon where he's the head of a tech worker's union, making comfortable wage with his loving family and supporting his trans daughter's transition (he's genuinely happy and fulfilled)

To me, the correct way to play Minecraft is with a friend and pursuing silly, enjoyable goals.

Something I had a lot of fun doing is playing as "The Heart Tree" while my partner tried to support me. Essentially, I chose a tree I really liked, cut it down except for its lowest block (now designated "The Heart Block"), and I always would have to be touching or very close to logs which descend from the original tree.

I also had fun playing Modded Skyblock with my friend from high school, focusing on guiding progression and decorating (since I knew how to progress a lot better than he did), but not making too much progress personally.

To me, I intrinsically feel a drive to constantly chase progression, but ultimately find myself more fulfilled when I try and lay back and weave progression with genuine attention and enjoying the "unproductive" things, looking to make nifty floor patterns and building materials and interacting with friends.

Astro Knights hits a lot of what you want, and is a very solid game. It's not grand sci-fi, but it is sci-fi. It's a cooperative deckbuilding game about working together to defeat some giant enemy.

I think that both Astro Knights and Astro Knights: Eternity are good, but since you say you're just getting into board games, go for the original, it's definitely more accessible.

I also suggest Spirit Island, but it can definitely be hard to pick up. Quite complex, but definitely worth playing. If you want to, shoot me a DM and I can try and teach you it sometime?

to protect my cishet status, i make sure to refer to nobody as their preferred name or pronouns.

Whenever I refer to someone, I use gagging noises in lieu of pronouns and the word "skibidi" for names.

The way that the tools move with such certainty and without hesitation is the most amusing part of the gif to me. I suppose that applies to all surgery visualization gifs but the fact that there isn't even a pause for precision when going in with the scissors gives an interesting narrative in my head of the surgeon's process.

black and red pill are both probably the most powerful for self interested ends, but the orange pill and grey pills allow for the most reality bending of situations.

I'd probably go for the black pill, make good documentation of working somewhere and making no mistakes, then trying to sue the company that fired me if I can find a reason to.

If I were much braver, I could use the Red Pill to act as a technoprophet or to blackmail large portions of the tech industry (they just have to believe I can permanently black them out on command, the fact that I only have 100 of them is more than enough to make them believe it), but alas, I am not nearly brave enough to try and pull a stunt like that.

huh i am genuinely baffled as to why that was even in my clipboard anyways fixed.

i am terrified by the extremely high resolution image of donald trump

They did a one-shot where someone pulled a massive distribution of wealth to a population of people, though still within the bounds of self-interest.

(Edited to the correct link)

https://www.novelcool.com/chapter/Chapter-/4274990/

my partner likes it a lot because they play as carby and the game is forced to progress while they progress. As opposed to Mario, where my sheer gamer skill makes it so that they could technically do nothing and the level would complete, they like the game moving forward because of their inputs.

I think it's really good but I wish they worked on the effects and floaty feel of the game to make it CRUNCHIER. It could use tighter controls and better sound design. Compare Planet Robobot, super satisfying and crunchy game to play.