#Coming out simulator

[naoko-world]

At some point in my life I discovered the nick case website, which contain some games about social behavior and mental health among other kind of works.

Sometimes I don't feel good and I think about these games again. Well, especially one that I remember the most which is about anxiety and help to feel a bit better.

Adventures with anxiety

Adventure with anxiety is based on the native american belief that we have two wolfs fighting inside us: The wolf of compassion, love, understanding and generosity ; and the wolf of cruelty, hate, fear and selfishness. According to that belief, the one who'll win is the one you'll feed.

In that game Nick Case use a wolf to represent anxiety and how it can hurt us if we don't learn how to communicate with it. Actually we even play as the wolf, whose goal is to protect our human!

It's an interesting way to teach how to deal with anxiety while not saying we should reject it. The game is all about nuances : yes we should listen to it because the only purpose of our anxiety is to protect us, but no we shouldn't always listen to it and when it's wrong then the best way to deal with it is to try to reason with it.

Example:

My wolf: "Aaaah!!! They'll hate our post on the nicky case project!!! We should stop you'll be ha..."

Me: "Come on! I posted many things that people liked and..."

My wolf: "And sometimes people didn't like it! What makes you think they won't hate this one? Do you want people to hate you or laugh at y...."

Me: "OK OK I'll show it to someone else before posting it and they'll tell us if it's worth it or not. Do you feel better?"

My wolf: "Ah! You are thinking about that guy? Well, I can work with that."

Me: "Nice! It's settled then."

And this is how that game suggests to deal with the anxiety. A good one!

Well, to be honest in my head there was way more things about mental health, but in reality most of the interactive games are rather about social behaviors. In that category I can talk about some of them among the most interesting. Like...

The wisdom and/or Madness of crowds

That one is less than an adventure than a puzzle game. At each step you have a text explaining something about history or a fact about connection, and it makes you connect the heads with each other to see how an information or a behavior can spread.

More of an essay than a game as are most interactive games on the website, The wisdom and/or madness of crowds is a good way to understand how our connections can affect people and ourselves, how we can act good or badly depending of who we are around us. For example when among our friends we have half drinkers and half non-drinkers you easily starts to think half of the world drinks. Or when challenger was launched in 1986 despite engineers warnings and it killed 7 people because the big boss only listened to the other big bosses they usually agree with. Or when a fake news appears and you don't see many people refuting it.

You have all of these in it, and it's pretty interesting! Give it a try!

As another kind of game you can find there is one I found while looking at the list of Nicky Case's projects :

Coming out simulator.

Here we have one of Nicky's first games. A very personal one where they talk about their coming out, what was said, and what happened next. Well, half-what happened.

You know I'm pansexual and I made my coming out too but I had the chance to have tolerant parent (my mom said something upsetting though). So what was in that game... I wasn't ready for it. Like I wondered how we even could say things like that or act like their parents did. But they said it was full of things that was said so I believe them. Yet I didn't feel comfortable at all while playing.

But that game is worth playing! Because he was seriously well-made, and the start as well as the end was rather funny. Well, not entirely but you feel Nicky takes it lightly today and is more like "yeah it happened and now I'm good, everything is going well for me".

I'll just talked about another one. One I hesitated to shared but it actually is good so...

Nothing to hide

A big brother kind of game in which you live in a world where people agree to say they don't need a private life, that we should watch everyone 24/7 and that if someone isn't visible by the cameras so they are suspicious and must be arrested immediately. Thus in that game you must manage to be seen by them all along while trying to flee your father, the minister in that world.

The hardest of them all! Especially for my puzzle game skills that are pretty low. And worst: my skills at 3 am! Where I'm the most impatient!

But it's honestly an well-built world I wanna know more of and it's pretty fun to do. So it's worth a try! Just know that it's the demo of game since long dead, which I'm incredibly sad about.

With these examples you have an idea of what you can wait from that website. Well, most of what I didn't talk about are more essays like The wisdom and/or madness of crowds but they're all interesting in some ways. And it teaches a lot with the media of interactive stories.

#nicky case #games #nothing to hide #big brother #Adventures with anxiety #Anxiety #the wisdom of crowds #the madness of crowds #Coming out simulator #coming out

[cinamun]

Teleportation | Next

#ts4 #indya #black simblr #yes posting later than usual becaue I slept in like a boss #but somebody come look at this! #Darren is the man of steel #but he is PUDDING for his baby girl okay? #the way he was about to strangle the simulated life out of Jay tho #he can't help it #its instinct #be patient with the OG pls #ts4 story #sims 4 story #simblr #ch22

[exiledsummer]

especially when the new farmer in town keeps fainting from exhaustion and he has to stay up to tend to their dumbass

prompt:

#harvest moon #friends of mineral town #bokujou monogatari #doctor fomt #doctor trent #fomt #did i come back obsessing over 2003 farming simulator out of nowhere? yes. sorry not sorry

[evilkaeya]

Yuichi Kurosawa Cherry Magic could go head on with Dazai Osamu bsd on insane freak competition (obsessed with their partner category) and win probably

#him buying clothes according to Adachi's size before they even became friends is equal to Dazai owning 26 volumes of notebooks on chuuya #and kurosawa knowing adachi's ring size too?? talk about being down astronomically horrendous... #read the cherry magic manga today (from where the anime left off) and it was an experience #sure kurosawa is the greenest flag out there but he's nowhere near sane #and the way he's a jealous mf too... put him in yandere simulator he would do well there #AND he's the biggest loser too when it comes to adachi... he's so pathetic i adore him

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

I've been playing stardew non-stop. It's not even the new update (I'm playing on console) I just got excited by the talk about 1.6 and started a new save for the first time in almost a year lol

Tried romancing Shane for the first time and it's very sweet but also so so silly. local gay boy falls for the saddest, most pathetic guy in a 50 mile radius. more at 7

#i made valhim b/c i havent done anything with him yet besides turn him around in my head #and i figured a druid would be a good pick for the Gay Farming Simulator #i also finished the community center for the first time!! very cool very fun 10/10 #im trying to get as far as possible before 1.6 comes out on console #valhim reckladen #stardew farmer #stardew valley #stardew shane #stardew valley fanart #my art #digital art #digital artist #artists of tumblr #i wish shane didnt immediately go back to drinking once you get married :/// #at least there are implications that he's got it under control #but like. why cant he keep drinking sparkling water instead?? or joja cola??? #why is his room disgusting??? #he is still sweet though

[james-p-sullivan]

#this movie had the BEST opening #with phlegm being genuinely terrifying but then completely fucking it up #only to find out it was a simulation #and then ms flint comes in 'Alright Mr. Bile is it...?' #'Uhhhh my friends call me Phlegm...' #'Uh huh... Mr. Bile. Can you tell me what you did *wrong*?' #UGH I LOVE IT #genuinely my favourite movie i promise you i deserve this url #monsters inc #james p sullivan #sulley #mr waternoose #henry j waternoose #pixar #disney #disney pixar #yeah this is a reupload of a very old gifset #scheduled post

[starculler]

strap in for this week's fic flavor: the failsafe episode of season one of the young justice cartoon except the simulation just won't. fuckin. end.

(fics that inspired this at the end)

If I ever did sit down to make my own fic, I'd split it in 3 parts:

The Simulation: bits and pieces of the 40 years Dick lives after most everyone he knows has died

The Return: the immediate aftermath and healing from the trauma of having not-quite-actually lived a whole life only to wake up and find out it was all fake. nothing traumatizing about that whatsoever.

The Unintended Consequence: aka the twist I'd love to add and would hint to in the second part - finding out the simulation, through martian mind fuckery, pulled from the real world (and in many cases, from real minds). Dick meets a bunch of people he didn't think were real outside the confines of his simulated life. A bunch of rowdy, heroism-inclined teens across the years get to meet the sibling/friend/mentor figure they all dreamed up one night.

(actual idea snippets under the cut)

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Dick Grayson is 14 and most of the world's heroes have died. He planned a suicide mission that left him the sole survivor of a doomed team he helped found. The invasion may have been stopped, but is this really the price he wanted to pay?

The first face he sees in the infirmary is Roy's, and he has to close his eyes and just breathe for a few minutes because for one painful moment he'd thought it was Wally. But this isn't the world where his best friend miraculously survived alongside him. This is the one where he got his best friend killed and didn't even give him the courtesy of following behind him. Behind them.

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Dick Grayson is 27 and has lived longer without Bruce than with him. The invasion's anniversary is always a tough day for him, but that morning seems especially harrowing. He'll get shit for it later, but can't resist stepping out onto the balcony of the manor's master bedroom (Bruce's old bedroom) for a smoke -- his first since he'd promised to quit if Jason, just 15 then, did too.

"Bad habits tend to pile up," he'd said, a rueful quirk to his tired grin. He'd tapped the cigarette twice on the railing and added, lower, "and this one's especially nasty, huh."

He inhales, watches the sun creep across the horizon, and lets acrid smoke burn through his lungs for a long moment before blowing it out in a small cloud. His eyes water, but he doesn't cough. It tastes just as bad as it did the first time he smoked one, not even a year after the invasion and treading water as Robin proved insufficient.

There hadn't been enough heroes to go around then, and Dick had been trained by one of the best. It hadn't been fair, but it had been his plan that had ultimately stopped the invasion. His shoulders everyone's expectations fell on.

He takes another drag, then smudges the lit end against the rail he's leaned on when he hears a boot scuff purposefully against the roofing above him.

"Todd and Pennyworth will be upset with you."

He doesn't turn around. Damian doesn't jump down to join him.

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Dick Grayson is 54 and wakes up in a room full of ghosts. He hears his long-dead father-figure tell his long-dead team about a simulation they weren't meant to win. A training exercise gone wrong and only half a day spent under their mentors' careful, if slightly panicked, supervision.

He looks at his hands, watching the way his gloves crease when he flexes them in and out of tight fists. He looks at his team, their eyes a little haunted but shoulders slumped with relief even as they grumble. Batman's heavy, gloved hand settles on his shoulder and the weight of it is a nauseating mix of foreign-familiar.

He opens his mouth. Closes it.

Tears prick his eyes behind his domino mask, and he tells himself the suffocating, acidic void building in his chest is just some leftover side effect of the ordeal and not the grief-guilt of outliving yet another family (no matter that they hadn't been real in the end).

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Dick Grayson is 16-going-on-56 and well used to the coincidences piling up between his simulated life and the real thing. Some of it -- missions and villains he remembers cropping up -- he's marked for Bruce to review and sort as he pleases. Some -- security for the cave, team building anecdotes, and training regimens -- he's shared with the team. And some he keeps only for himself.

Tim is one of those. He knows it's not fair to the kid (so much smaller now than he ever was when Dick lived his simulated life), but he can't help being selfish just for this. Tim is the one kid he's sure he didn't make up, and if Dick's taken to babysitting the kid just to be near at least one member of the family he built for himself in the wake of the worst days of his life .... Well, anyone who says shit about it can happily stand in line to have their teeth kicked in.

Despite this, it still catches him off-guard when he sees a familiar face pop up in one of Bruce's reports.

Jason Todd, caught boosting tires off the batmobile, is nearly the same age now as he was when Dick met him. He stares at the words, but none of them really sink in beyond the kid's name and address. He's moving before he's even made the decision.

He's used to the world kicking him when he's down - lived it for 40 frustrating years. But he has Bruce again. And things with Tim have been so good. And he's always been selfish when it comes to family. If he could just see Jason. If he could just meet him. If he could talk to him.

If if if if if--

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Inspirations:

Circles in Shattered Mirrors by InfinityIllusion

Fine (But Not Okay) by CharlotteDaBookworm

Verisimilitude by mutemelody

#young justice #young justice cartoon #batfam #batman #dick grayson #thoughts and headcanons #the heart wrenching inability to cope with the fact that you've lived a fully realized life #you've loved and lost and loved again in the face of every unending tragedy #until you've forcefully carved out this one little safe haven for yourself #only to be thrust back to the beginning of one of your greatest traumas - esp one you're partly responsible for! #gotta love it #anyway i am and always have been obsessed with dick grayson and no one can stop me #the simulation was fake but some psychic bs means real world elements filtered in #cue several children with weird dream-memories of half-lived experiences and a massive sense of deja-vu #when they wade into the superhero world #all i can picture is the spiderman pointing meme but it's the batkids at dick lol #my favorite idea is that once Dick gets his grubby hands on Jason and Tim it's all over from there #he's pulling late nights and researching and scouring facial recognition databases until he finds his kids #(he blurs the lines a lot when it comes to considering them his siblings vs kids #on the one hand they're not super far apart in age bar Damian #on the other he hasn't been a kid in any meaningful way since he was 14 and he very nearly raised half of them in some way #(plus side to an au is that i can space the ages out more as needed compared to the show haha) #jason and cass are firmly siblings close as they are to his age #steph tim and duke fluctuate depending on how in trouble or injured they are #i will die by dick being damian's dad tho lmao #babs is more platonic life partner than sibling but very firmly family regardless #this is the dick grabs on to any shred of family he can with both hands and drags them in kicking and screaming if he has to au

[iamblueraspberry]

My Simulation assignment for my 3D Animation & Rigging class.

Yeet the boi.

#splish splash #this took FOREVER to make #i swear technology hates me personally #every time i thought i had things figured out #a new problem would come up #i had to scrap and remake this thing so many times #worth it #i'm so proud of how this turned out #my art #iamblueraspberry art #my animation #animation #iamblueraspberry animates #autism creature #tbh creature #tbh #yippee #pool #water simulation #3d animation

[joleneghoul]

Worlds most fucked up thing about rdr2 storywise is even outside of story missions, 80% of the time when a stranger grabs you its to tell you to leave. Get out of here. Live somewhere else. You dont want to die here.

Or its shown in picture shows you can see all the animals die because they didnt listen to the wind. Preachers at gravesides giving eulogies to nobody about how staying faithful to the wrong people can kill a man. So many of the npc missions you come across is you helping them escape or teaching others how to survive for themselves after loss.

But all of these encounters, since they are random things you come across, are always portrayed as something you can brush off as crazy ramblings of others instead of the overlooming dread and theme of the story itself. Ugh.

Idk just thinking!

#game abt outlaws? no sorry boom eldest daughter simulator #i keep noticing this lmao but the one the recently stuck out to me in my gameplay #is that one veteran with a missing leg who just yells about how much he hates his town and how everyone left him behind then you can #talk to him and amongst other things abt disability he tells arthur he needs to stop coming around here #because its a town that will ruin you and make you stuck #and arthurs like well why didnt you leave and the guys like ''well these are my shitty people! i cant leave''. something abt that hrmm

[bloodiegawz]

you're alone again. what did you do to prepare? how long are you going to lie to yourself?

#twst #twisted wonderland #twst au #twstsim #gawzdrawz #idia shroud #twst chapter 6 spoilers #<- kind of #i have many thoughts about him but mostly #forcing him into inescapable situations #to cope without his brother #to come to terms with everything he's gone through and made himself go through #ortho wandering alone in the simulation- one of the few who won't make it out #they'll never see each other properly again

[ranofthewired]

one(shot)

#(reblogging spreads my art around so i'd be really grateful if you did!) #niko oneshot #oneshot niko #the world machine #the entity oneshot #the world machine oneshot #oneshot game #oneshot fanart #hfjone #one hfj #hfjone fanart #hfjone the plane #hfjone airy #texty one #hfjone texty #one object show #osc #niko probably got there not knowing how or why; trying to figure out how the computer works and stuff #they accidentally send a group of people into the plane and panic; coming up with the whole game show concept #the world that niko resides in is probably run by the simulation of the world machine #there are probably some clues left behind by the author or some kind of predecessor #and though the world machine does prioritize niko's and the plane inhabitants' safety it's still deteriorating #meaning niko only has a set amount of time to send everyone back home including themself #and that's probably when they meet liam or whoever honestly #that's a lot for a concept i will never revisit again i know #i just thought it had a little potential can you blame me #LMAO #sketch #digital art

[origamiyoda]

visualization of the past 12 hours

#Gordon Freeman in Stasis Simulator #barney…………. Sniffles……….. miserably fighting for my life… #Leo yells #video #barney calhoun #<- Tag for me #I’m so Sick i feel terrible j need to figure out my fucking work E-Mail and tell them I’m not coming in tmrw

[doodles-with-noodles]

Today I was in an exhibition for space and they had an orbit simulator. Of course my annoying space obsessed fool ass had to go on it and tbh I expected it to be terrible because all books I have ever read say that it is a horrible thing and you get dizzy. So I was a little concerned.

They lied.

Cue to me having the best two minutes of my life getting turned upside down and spun around while strapped to that thing (although my sight was a little blurry). 10/10 would recommend and do again. Didn’t even get dizzy.

#shitpost #noodles open mouth and shit do come out #space #astronaut #orbit simulator my beloved #horrible my ass #all those authors just didn’t have strong bowels #also they had freeze dried vacuum packaged food exhibited. From 2017 #And a lot of original spacesuits and plans and size accurate models it was pretty cool #I got a t shirt

[nightmaretherabbitsideblog1]

Day #20 of drawing a FNAF character everyday till the FNAF movie comes out

Scraptrap/Afton 🧠🐰🔪

#my art #drawing a fnaf character everyday till the fnaf movie comes out #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #five nights at freddys #fnaf 6 #five nights at freddy's freddy fazbear's pizzeria simulator #fnaf freddy fazbear's pizzeria simulator #fnaf pizza sim #five nights at freddy's pizzeria simulator #fnaf pizzeria simulator #freddy fazbear's pizzeria simulator #fnaf scraptrap #fnaf afton #tw fire #tw body horror #tw eye contact #tw trypophobia #fnaf au #my au #change of heart au

[dayurno]

i usually think it's bullshit when people say 'if you like x character it's because you're like them' but lately in case anyone was wondering i have been listening to videos on marxist history while single-mindedly making a self-sufficient high profit farm on stardew valley without having talked to a single romanceable character. hopefully this says nothing about me nor kevin day

#autism gang we'll blow your eardrums out #sorry ihavent been answering asks my farm you see. my farm. #the petite bourgeoisie simulator got to me #i named my chickens andrew jean and neil but lately i have not been able to afford hay for them so they hate me #because i spent all my time fishing and i left them to starve mostly #but in better news my cat is kevin and he is well loved and i never forget to pet him <3 #i love kevin and non-kevins equally #this is where kevin and i part ways because he wouldnt let jeandreil starve....... but its not my fault i ran out of grass for my silo #sad! #i need some cows next but i'm waiting for fall to come around #i'm on summer 27? so just waiting really to terraform my farm #also no one asked but im going to romance penny. kevin im also doing this for us. older women <3 #txt #kevin

[daminini]

wake up honey time for your monthly simblr discourse!!

#every time i come on here i just exit out the tab bcs what do yall even b talking abt #t for teen simulation game keep in mind #yknow what idgaf lemme go back 2 building this apartment