Inducing lactation so I can have cruelty free oatmeal

Camp is deliberately exaggerated bad taste for the sake of irony. Not to be confused with kitsch, which is full-sending tacky with complete sincerity, sometimes with the intent of being quirky. Rocky Horror is camp, Dogs Playing Poker is kitsch.

It's slop and I love it

Good game

Wot if yer mum was a Joker card

I mean twenty years ago, the synth music they're talking about was modern. Look at the Matrix, or games like Deus Ex. Their soundtracks are full of that shit.

Dirt_Owl discovering trends

Narrative-driven games are always going to have less replayability than management games that make plot secondary or eschew it altogether. Factorio and Rimworld leap to mind, and DF like you said before. 4xs like Civ and Old World are also represented here, though they are almost inherently imperialist by nature so the default formula would likely be modified somehow.

Even Hades' solution to that issue was kind of hamfisted tbh

Had a dream last night where I discovered the secret ice cream truck that only comes around at 3 AM.

Trek has always had better analogues for communism that that (IIRC the Klingons represented Russia and the Romulans were China). I assumed it was a hyperbolic mirror of the Federation itself - Superior technology and weapons to nearly everyone else, assimilating and homogenizing member races, slavish devotion to authority.