If you're looking for games with RPG style explicit stories, I'd recommend Chrono Trigger as the classic RPG choice with a good story. It holds up today and has good mechanics for an RPG of its age.

A couple of people recommended Earthbound and Mother 3. While I think the former's dialogue and overall aesthetic is a lot cooler, the second definitely has a more coherent story that's worth checking out. You don't need to play Earthbound first but you should because its probably my favourite game of all time.

In the same vein and clearly inspired by Earthbound, Lisa The Painful is worth playing. Lots more wacky dialogue and a really nice story. Off by Mortis Ghost is another "Weird RPGmaker" game which is a lot more surreal but could be fun too. Also I'm just going to throw the Hylics games in here. The story of those basically doesn't matter but they fucking own.

The Psychonauts games use an interesting narrative device of learning more about characters by having levels inside their minds. This also leads to really cool level design.

Coyo mentioned Outer Wilds but it's worth reiterating. This is a game about Xenoarcheology where a lot of the game is reading logs left behind by other people to try and piece together a story.

If you're into the environmental storytelling/worldbuilding stuff where you have to go out of your way to look for bits of lore there's a whole genre of souls style games and metroidvanias like Hollow Knight that you can go for.

If you want something extremely esoteric then I am going to draw attention again to Rain World. The game doesn't really have an explicit story but has a narrative that's told through the player's personal experience with the game and its mechanics which mirrors the games themes. This is the sort of thing that makes a lot of people not enjoy the game at all because it's very unfair (which is kind of the point, you aren't playing the main character of the world and so it's not really designed for you) and leads other people to write shit like this. I don't know of any other game that does narrative like this so its worth checking out (also for its extremely deep but alien mechanics and very "real" feeling AI).

Very old example of why this difference can matter for catching cheaters.

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One of the most powerful Posters on this site. If you're getting mad at this guys posts you're a loser. If hes trolling you're getting owned, and if he's not hes having a great time making posts he has complete conviction in. Either way he's in his element and ur furious.

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Actually I use the retry bind because vanishing is also comedy...

https://cfg.tf/tools/crosshairs/
This is a good site for previewing crosshairs. Crosshair outlines might be useful for your color blindness. This site has versions of the default crosshairs with outlines (3OL is circle, 5OL is dot).

Someone once told me that I play pugs in a way that "someone's getting airshot and it might be me" and this is a philosophy I think everyone should live by.

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Hmm, you claim that my inconsistency is a negative trait, but you seem to have misconflated "winning" with my true objective in this videogame *goes for four upward directs*... a grave error on your part I'm afraid.

all I fortell shall pass

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God I hope so.

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This is something I've never really understood. It seems like a really bad move for most governments to put a lot of restrictions on people which end up being really bad for their economies, and involves a huge amount of spending and also international collaboration, just for some idea of "control" that doesn't seem to really benefit them in any way. The only control that's being exerted at the moment is the ability to tell people not to go to public spaces which doesn't seem like something that would be in their best interest in the first place without covid. For this to make any sense there needs to be something more tangible that governments are gaining imo.

I think the reason this is done is because most people die of heart failure, brain haemorrhage, asphyxiation etc. it's often pretty hard to point and that and say "the virus caused the heart failure" or "the vaccine caused the heart failure" etc. I don't know about Finland specifically but I believe most places count vaccine deaths similarly as "people who died shortly after having the vaccine where there isn't some obvious other cause".

If we think that the two death numbers are at all comparable, then you've got 100 deaths with 2 mil vaccines (incidence rate of 1 in 20000, and it's probably lower because I haven't looked at the number of people who just had 1 dose, and the death figures might include that), and ~1000 with ~113k total Covid cases reported in Finland (incidence rate of a bit under 1 in 100). I don't see data anywhere for hospitalizations in Finland, but again the incidence of hospitalization with the virus has been significantly higher than the incidence of hospitalization after taking the vaccine in other countries.

Obviously there are a lot more factors that play into your risk like age, state of health etc. but even though the numbers we have are pretty ballpark, the fact that there's a 2 orders of magnitude difference means it's almost certainly safer to get a vaccine than get covid. It's pretty understandable to be worried about the severe side effects from the vaccine, but it's worth the risk in most cases. The only reason I can think that getting a vaccine would be worse for you is if you think your chances of actually getting covid are extremely low, and that can change pretty rapidly if for example there's a new wave in Finland.

I might do some reading on the breakdown of adverse effects per age group. I definitely know a few people in their 20s who have had severe effects, one who was on a ventilator, then got a pseudomonas infection in the lungs (fortunately there were antibiotics that worked) and who is still having severe breathing problems over a year later. That's anecdotal though so it doesn't mean much.

Not sure what you'd call it (soundscape maybe?), but Dean Blunt's "The Narcissist II" album does it really well, lots of sirens, firework sounds, weird clashing synths, and other odd sound effects that just really set a scene for me. The track "Direct Line 2" is a good example, but pretty much the whole album does it.