Streaming for discovery and daily ease of use. Bandcamp to buy FLACs of my favourites. That’s what I do.

I’ve been using Qobuz for like a year now, highly recommend

Studio ghibli films are child friendly (mostly) but not for children explicitly

I love all of the soundtracks mind but everything since 2 has just been iterations of what we got in 2 (and i don’t mean that in a bad way), but they’ve never revisited the style of 1 and I’d love to hear elements of that brought back into the soundtrack of a future installment.

Since writing my comment, I’ve watched a video on paralives which coincidentally comes out in a few days and that is looking to be shaping up to be a spiritual successor to my theoretical Sims 3.5. So I’m excited to play that now haha. Hope their soundtrack is on point.

I enjoyed it for a time as a second screen game. Was great when not a lot was happening at work during covid.

Yeah as a fan of the series it’s annoying because there is no “best game”.

Sims 2 has loads of content, but sims only age if they’re in the current household so you end up with children that have moved out of their parents end up being the same age or older than their parents.

Sims 3 was arguably the best, even though it missed some of that “extra detail charm” that 2 had. But it had that awesome “open world” feel and all sims aged appropriately.

Then Sims 4 came around with the best Build Mode and Mood system out of the series that it now makes 2 and 3 feel not as good anymore. But then you lose all of the REALLY cool stuff 3 added to the series. 4 kind of feels like it pretended 3 never happened.

The best Sims would be a theoretical 3.5 combining the best out of 3 and 4. And then to go the extra mile they could add all of the extra detail flourish 2 has. (And personally also if they bring back the piano jazz of 1).

I was only half being sarcastic, I would’ve genuinely reciprocated if you needed me to. And yeah I did get the reference :3 enjoy your weekend too

Are you okay and do you need to speak to someone? I’m here for you if you do

What’s this got to do with what I said?

what you on about man, How did you come to that conclusion?

Even when two sides are bad, one is always worse than the other

Almost like a Super-LTS version of the kernel?

Would be a shittier hypothetical without boundaries because then what would be the point?

But at the time when they were trying to go independent it would’ve seemed a more accurate estimation of worth, it’s just weird that they kept that valuation and most likely added onto it by the time Sony was interested. But also Jim Ryan was obviously enamoured with the idea of live service games and Bungie already had a successful one running.

No because of the rules of the hypothetical posed in this post

Then you fail, you cease to exist

I think you need to read further than that…

Then you don’t survive, you cease to exist

“Hey this guy has sat here for 30 years and he hasn’t aged one bit!”

* ceases to exist *

There is the caveats they put in that you’ve got to make sure no one finds out you’re immortal or you’ll just cease to exist and can’t change history in any significant way or be met with the same fate