I love you Stardew Valley I love you Stray I love you Untitled Goose Game I love you indie games with no microtransactions that understand having fun is the whole, entire point.
stray
dont forget to keep your mutuals active and healthy by taking them for daily w-a-l-k-s
I'm loving this new trend of people going to zoos and participating in animal enrichment. We use to observe large exotic animals for our entertainment, but the fact is that we are now trying to make ourselves equally as entertaining for them. It's interactive, completely parpicipatory and I would argue that eventually someone's gonna come up with something new enough that it expland ethologists understanding about how some animals think, problem solve, communicate and feel and I think its fantastic.
Human: play?
Aquatic creature from an entirely different branch of the animal tree: play!
it’s so stupid that you can’t think your way out of the mental health trenches. like you can know exactly what is wrong, why it’s upsetting you, and you can walk yourself through all of it logically and Understand it but your brain just responds like
Now this is what I mean (metaphorically) by "enrichment in my enclosure"
Otter enclosure immersive experience...