• Shattered Pixel Dungeon. So perfectly balanced and updated regularly, and COMPLETELY free. Also massively addictive for a long time.

• Occidental Heroes. Tricky but fun once you have the knack for it. Equal difficulty to SPD.

• Choice of Games/Hosted Games. These are platforms for publishing text based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stories. Not all of them are free, but they’re cheap and have huge replayability. Some of their leading CYOA games are the Infinity Saga (not marvel, lol, it’s like a Napoleonic war fantasy theme) and Creme De La Creme.

• I liked Merchant too but it’s a time hog and an idle game so its arguably built just to waste your time.

The worst part would be getting kicked in the balls multiple times at once

Nope, and if i didn’t die of asphyxiation or concussion I’d probably die of blood loss from a vast multitude of cuts and scrapes. Early 20s btw, not even a veteran in getting injured

Chad.

Sometimes people ask me for help with dirdctions and it feels good when i can help them or at least give them a bit of confidence by sticking around trying to help for a few minutes. That’s the first thing that came to mind.

I don’t know but my first assumption would be that thia ia just a symptom of the zoomer ghosting epidemic. Even in a professional context, zoomers a year younger than me have always displayed this incredible inability to respond to important text messages. (Can’t stop grumbling about this to anyone I know LOL)

If you want a really wild explanation consider that, if you’re really not supposed to be there, the police are catfishing for adults who want to date 17 year olds. They see you, check if you’re real, and have no purpoe to caffish you,

I do wish people wouldn’t treat a good university performance as essential to their self worth though

Honestly never. The problem is that if you have other stuff in your life that takes priority, like a family, you might not pull your weight OR you might not understand how to manage time. This can happen to people of any ages; kids with family issues or disruption in their home life see a dip in school performance, for instance.