Gaming

I play Minecraft almost exclusively in creative, just building or terraforming. There's something really contemplative about it, and man is it pretty sometimes. I just turn on a podcast or something and make something beautiful.

Lately it's been Session: Skate Sim, with "hardcore" difficulty settings. I'm pretty terrible, but finally landing something reasonably dope is so satisfying, and just skating around the city is quite relaxing.

Otherwise my go-to is whatever GTA game I've got installed, and just driving around, listening to music, and watching the goofy stuff NPCs do.

I also do love me a good open-world survival craftathon, with a nice, exceedingly outrageous recipe family tree. Hunting down whatever resources I need to craft whatever thing I need in order to be able to craft whatever cool new thing, so that I can unlock more crafting recipes to start the cycle all over again, it's all so cathartic and easy to get lost in.

Valheim is very chill and fun. Good playing solo, and good playing with friends casually.

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Sometimes the other two in the trilogy but this is the one I've especially loved since childhood. One of the only games I've 100%ed and I've done so twice.

I'm probably the only one left still obsessed with Nidgogg 1.

MH Rise (Lance for tank mode) - fighting Melvor - idling Disney Dreamlight Valley - collecting Hardspace Shipbreaker - dismantling

The last couple of years my comfort games has been Ori and the blind forest and Ori and the will of the wisp.

Farm Simulator. I have no idea why, either. But when friends are raging about cheaters/bots/whatever I can tell them that I've never yelled at Farm Simulator

Lately, mine has been Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on the GameCube.

I could (and have) spent hours in Valhiem just noodling around surviving as a Viking