dianthus
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I am having SUCH A BLAST looking at everyone's little set-up, thank you so much for sharing! We all have such different ways of gaming, it's so nice to see.
Here's my little tour! Make sure to watch with the sound on, there's commentary~
I got really excited to show everything, this was really fun to do!
There's actually so much I forgot to cover in the video :D
Most importantly, the armchair and sofa are really light and easy to move, which means that if I'm more in the mood for handheld gaming (or, frankly, a much needed screen-free evening... or heavean forbids we have FRIENDS coming over?!) then in literally just five minutes the living room can look like this:
https://i.postimg.cc/XvwjhPTJ/20250218-164649.jpg
Also, the walls are a delicate green that looks really good and is very relaxing-- you need to picture it, but the outside has a very dark green forest and the wooden brown of the furniture, the green accent color, all go very well with the outside nature view. I'm not a minimalist by any means (I love my little things, as can be seen lol and if I could cover these walls with art I would!) but I love my restrained palette and that, even though we're living in my late grandparents' house with all of their things that we didn't choose, I was still able to create this green/brown/natural light atmosphere! That makes me feel super cozy & homey.
Oh! We have an A/C unit that's powered by an heat pump (it's that big white rectangle on the wall!) that we can control with a remote, and so it really helps getting the room to the right temperature. We're the sort of people who like to keep the room a little chill in the evening so that we can bundle up under plaids :D
Bonus night-time view:
https://i.postimg.cc/P5DygbKJ/20250218-180927.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/VvBr96FY/20250218-182249.jpg
While I love natural light, too much light can definitely be an issue! At night we almost always only use those two lamps. Isn't the little Totoro* lamp so cute?!
(*This was sold as an "orange cat" lamp at my local supermarket. XD Sorry, Ghibli Studio.)
So yeah! That's my little tour! I don't know if I managed to convey it in the video, but for me, cozyness is that homey, "I am safe and comfy at home with my little things" feelings, more than an aesthetic. Yet at the same time, I have carefully chosen (to the best of my means and abilities) and curated what's in my space and the way it's set up. Being able to live here, among things that were so loved by others before me, make me feel very happy too!
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My perfect social media was Cohost. I said 'was', because it had to close down due to lack of funds!
What I really liked about Cohost was that long-form content was encouraged! There was no character limit that I remember of, and if there was, it might have been several thousand words. It allowed for really in-depth conversations, I really enjoyed that part.
There were no ads, at all, although there were a marketplace where users were invited to post their own ads (like commission posts for artists). A fee on each marketplace "ad" and a subscription service was what was kept the site running.
Also, there was no algorithm. At all. Ever. People used tags a lot, and you could easy search tags or follow them. So you would just go from one person to the other, following them, and that would create your dashboard, and it would allow to discover so much I wouldn't have known before.
The pace was much slower. Because everything was long-form and there was no algorithm, if you didn't follow that many people, you could even go a couple of days without anything new,. It was great. No more mindless scrolling, but taking the time to think deeply instead.
I miss it so much, y'all!!
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I use Sam's SearXNG!
Oh yes, I know, you've never heard of it. SearXNG is free and open-source, which means that anyone can go check its source code and make sure it only does what it says it does. Users aren't profiled or tracked at all, and you can use the same sorts of filters and syntax searchers as you would everywhere else.
In terms of results, they are sometimes... a little interesting, but I've never been, you know, unable to find what I'm looking for. And I value my online privacy very much, so it helps!
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There are already so many great ideas!! I'm very excited for some of those.
I have one Big Idea that I think would be really good: a fiber art creation contest!! This is directly inspired by something another game, Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, did recently. You can find the terms of their contest here for example, and the winners here. As you can see, people really went off with plushies, needlework, sweaters, and more! I was a little disappointed that they ended up only rewarding professional-looking efforts, as they had specifically made free patterns available and encouraged people to try their hands at crochet and such.
Two other, smaller ideas that I think would work well (and be less work to set up lol):
design a backpack or other accessory for the player character! I really love the customization in this game, and I want more!!
design a piece of food to serve to the clients in the memory mini-game! If there was a higher difficulty with a rotation of items, it would make the game more challenging! this item could also be used as a decoration (coughs Catcus cake anyone? coughs)