In the case of Vekari, that fun comes with a safe environment to explore fears, trauma, and grief, rather than hiding away from those big overwhelming emotions. An environment that you explore alone, but with the knowledge that there are others

You can't hand emotional connection over to a machine

I would rather start an ongoing online text-based game and slowly add to the world over time until we eventually reach first person 3D entirely solo than ask an AI to do any of that for me, even if it takes years. Because this is more authentic, it connects with people, it's *fun*

We need fun.

I love being able to play with new mechanics and write puzzles for players to solve. I like to trick people. I like harmless mind games. I like solving the puzzle that is my code not working or not having a skill I need. AI has nothing to offer me, I like learning.

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I've been quiet on here lately because I'm actually in the process of moving 😅 So this event is up longer than normal! Keep Mariah Carey frozen a little while longer!

If you're able to complete the little event questline this month, post proof in reply for a free copy of Spores of Marrow + the base TTRPG rules if you don't already have them!

If you aren't really a gamer, more of a bookworm, but you enjoy choose your own adventure novels and having people to discuss your choices with, being a part of the story in a way you can't get from a pre-written book, and figuring things out before the characters do, Vekari is also for you!

If you are 20+ and miss the community of virtual world spaces, the puzzle events, the text-stories and adventures paired with mini games, and you also wish you could have a world like this to explore different fears and horrors in, then Vekari is definitely for you.

If you are looking for text adventure, weird horror, cyberpunk with the realities of control and disability, HTML puzzles, something free of ads and in game purchases, and something with the "this is temporary" feel of Unus Annus, Vekari is for you.

If you are looking for something so unprofitable you won't find a company making anything like it and it ends up having the most unhinged writing and choices possible, something that is nostalgic yet new, and is guaranteed to not have gen AI, Vekari is for you.

A Night with Nathan, for me at least, was not just a story in the movie and it did not start or end when the premiere did. It was a whole years long lived experience, and continues to be. It is incredibly human. I'm so damn proud of these guys for getting it so right, this is a must watch.