The literal honest-to-god reason for gender segregation in sport is men didn't like losing to women. So they made separate womens leagues and now its spread to everything.

pictured, man making a typo.

so much of it is stuff like that. "do you like people?"

And i'm just like.. y-yeah? But what do you mean though? I'm fine without people too. Is that atypical? whos asking and what assumptions are they making? and so on.

Yeah, exactly!

Like sure, i'm sad when people aren't around. But also 16 hours will pass while i'm playing Stationeers or whatever and the only thought in my brain has been a schematic diagram of an HVAC system and the code i'm writing, so y'know who's to say?

the idea of answering "never" is hard too, yeah. I think I picked it only once or twice out of exasperation and after trying to mind games what the questioner was actually asking.

Stuff like "Do you feel sad when you're away from close friends/family for long periods?" was awful.

Cause like... are we talking months? Years? Hours? what do you mean by away? What do you mean by sad? and so on.

I find it deeply funny that the formulation & wording of the test is likely to be infuriating to anyone likely to score highly on the test, due to its answer set being so absolute with over-broad questions.

The number of "what do you mean by that?" I asked in increasingly exasperated tones...

I feel like a short hand for the test could be "if you find taking the RAADS-R test infuriating, that's probably a positive result of the RAADS-R test."

Me going down the list and repeatedly throwing my hands up while say "but like... what does that MEAN exactly? No, what does that MEAN?! I don't even know how to answer this, it could be so many things. How is this so absolute while being so non-specific?"

Oh those are fun moments.

And that's what I mean. Sorry, just felt the topic deserved some specificity. Cause the statement "cozy games suck" can convey a lot of stuff i don't mean otherwise.

Nearly every "cozy game" built with the goal of being one, is at best a imitation of what people enjoy about the standouts.
Genres typically are defined around mechanics, so they've got a way to stand up on their own. but the "cozy game" is chasing a vibe. Most of them are kinda empty as a result.

my issue with the cozy game as genre probably deserves a little more clarification. The reason it being treated as genre bothers me is it's aesthetic treated as substance.

Minecraft, terraria, harvest moon & stardew valley are all "cozy games" but they were made as good games, not cozy games...

You don't want low stakes, you want low real emotional turmoil.

My comfort story is about the entire human race finding a way to outpaced the destruction of the entire galaxy.

"Low stakes comfy" just makes me thing of the term "cozy game" which is a similarly bad descriptor and category.