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Jun. 18th, 2025 02:46 pmI keep getting reminded of stories from 30 years ago about wacky Japanese things like capsule hotels and tiny homes and restaurants that were basically fancy vending machines, body pillows and dating sims. The stories were framed as wacky and exotic, when we should have recognized them as coping mechanisms for a population that was close to its breaking point on some crucial need that society was no longer allowing people to provide each other. Leaders in the US should have arisen and hired Japanese expats to find ways to prevent the same things from becoming marketable here.
But it's too late and now dating sims are an actual game genre, they're all over Steam. But like all art born of pain and angst, there is at least beauty in it.
Recently, a game called "Date Everything" came out, in English, where basically every object in your house becomes a dateable character, including the doors, walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, appliances, etc. I haven't bought it, but I've watched Pumpkin Potion play it on Twitch, and it's a hecking masterpiece.
In popular science, the "Dunbar number" is the number of social peers a given animal's brain can conceptualize long-term. and the Dunbar number for humans is 150. and the number of characters in this game is 102. so to 100% this game, it has to become 2/3 of your entire social life.
But it's too late and now dating sims are an actual game genre, they're all over Steam. But like all art born of pain and angst, there is at least beauty in it.
Recently, a game called "Date Everything" came out, in English, where basically every object in your house becomes a dateable character, including the doors, walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, appliances, etc. I haven't bought it, but I've watched Pumpkin Potion play it on Twitch, and it's a hecking masterpiece.
In popular science, the "Dunbar number" is the number of social peers a given animal's brain can conceptualize long-term. and the Dunbar number for humans is 150. and the number of characters in this game is 102. so to 100% this game, it has to become 2/3 of your entire social life.
