I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird

This is probably too old news by now, but after People Make Games's great coverage on Rockstar & union-busting, I wish they'd cover the Hoyoverse English VAs dealing with the SAG-AFTRA strike & how messy that was with no clarity on who was right. @chrisbratt.bsky.social

Infinity Nikki can be played for free on Android, iOS, Windows (via Steam) and PlayStation 5. infinitynikki.infoldgames.com/en/m/home #infinitynikki #infold #cookinggame #cookingminigame #cooking #gaming

As of the 1.11 update, Infinity Nikki now has a cooking mini game! You can unlock a Cooking outfit that lets you cook all sorts of meals with ingredients from across Miraland, and even cook for friends. #infinitynikki #cookingminigame #cookinggame #cooking #gaming #infold

And credits to @creatrixtiara.bsky.social for screaming about that long before I ever did, see creatrixtiara.itch.io/heres-your-f...

The Critical Distance discord recently had an excellent convo around Spec Ops The Line and similar and: there is in fact A Problem when art focuses on the complex moral woes of the agent of empire and not on the immense harm perpetrated by said empire as a system. So no, I don’t like Papers Please

Honestly I'm on @cookingminigames.bsky.social way more often than I am on my own account, but yes if you're at #MIGW and your game has anything to do with cooking, even minorly, give me a shout!

Everdream Valley has a cooking minigame! You will need to spin the pan correctly according to the directions shown on screen. #everdreamvalley #mooneaters #indiegames #gaming #cookingminigame #cooking #cozygames

You can't cook in Date Everything - but you can date various kitchen appliances and even the food! #dateeverything #indiegames #gaming #cooking #cookingminigame #sassychapgames

You can cook in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! You can cook using ingredients you farm or fish (or buy) and get recipes from villagers, events, or bottles. It's the first Animal Crossing game with cooking! #animalcrossing #newhorizons #cooking #cookingminigame #nintendo #gaming #acnh

You can cook in Cozy Grove and its sequel Camp Spirit! You unlock the ability to cook, as well as obtain recipes, through helping spirit bears as part of being a Spirit Scout. #cozygrove #campspirit #spryfox #cooking #cookingminigame #indiegames #gaming

Not a cooking mini game per se, but a helpful resource for your own cooking mini games!

KuloNiku: Bowl Up! is a cooking game! You cook up various meatball dishes (with actual cooking mini games) at your restaurant & even join cooking battles! #kuloniku #bowlup #gambirstudio #cookinggame #cookingminigame #indiegames #cooking #food #meatballs

You can cook in Fallout 4! Find or make a cooking station with a campfire, cooking spit, and stove. Thank you @eli-aleth.itch.io for the suggestion! #fallout4 #fallout #bethesda #cookingminigame #cooking #gaming #food

This worked out! As a bonus side-effect, if you might ever need "incredible, soft, ephemeral magical water painting-style" art - this thread is full of incredible artists that do exactly that. Give them a follow if you like their work.

We now have a Steam Curator page! Follow it to track the games featured here that are available on Steam - cooking games, cooking mini-games and mechanics, cookbooks, cafes, and other food goodies. #cookingminigame #cooking #food #gaming #indiegames #steam store.steampowered.com/curator/4568...

You can cook in The Elder Scrolls! At least in Skyrim, so long as you have the right ingredients and are at a cooking area, you can make all kinds of recipes near instantaneously. #elderscrolls #gaming #skyrim #cooking #cookingminigame #bethesda #food

You can cook in Kitchen Sync: Aloha! You manage a restaurant serving Hawaiian cuisine - choosing the menu, adapting recipes, befriending the locals, and getting to know your town. #kitchensyncaloha #lemonpeppergames #cooking #cookingminigame #hawaiian #indiegames #gaming #food

Pawsta is a cooking game! You make food from scratch in a claymation-styled world, such as kneading bread or cutting sushi rolls. #pawsta #coldsector #cookingminigame #cookinggame #indiegames #gaming #food #cooking #cozygames

You can cook in Persona 5: The Phantom X! While there isn't a specific mini game, you can unlock recipes to cook at home through missions. #persona5 #phantomx #cookingminigame #atlus #cooking #gaming #food #sega

Cooking Simulator, as you'd expect, is a cooking game! Besides the base game, there are DLCs to make pizzas, bunker food, cakes and cookies, and abject chaos. #cookingsimulator #cooking #bigcheesestudio #food #indiegames #gaming

I should really start adding hashtags to these posts. In the meantime, here's a master list of every game posted here so far up to 29th June 2025 (with hashtags) - let me know of any other games we should cover for cooking mini-games! #indiegames #gaming #cookingminigame #cooking #videogames #food

You can cook in both My Time at Portia and My Time at Sandrock! You assemble the cooking stations yourself and can experiment with recipes or gain recipes from quests, treasure chests, and befriending the locals.

Dosa Divas has a cooking mini-game! You & your sister fight an evil fast-food empire through mechs, flavour-themed elements, and home-cooked dosas (South Indian crepes - also known as thosai in South East Asia).

The Halo franchise does not have a cooking mini-game. What Halo does have is an official cookbook! www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-th...

You can also try this module for a TTRPG cooking mini-game using dice made by @prismaticwasteland.com www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/the-ttr...

You can now add a cooking mini-game to any TTRPG! Yes Chef is a playing card-based supplement that lets you turn your dungeon spoils into meals. Follow the dev (Andrew/Prey Species) @preyspecies.bsky.social prey-species.itch.io/yes-chef

You can cook in World of Warcraft! While the cooking activity itself isn't really a mini game per se (from what I can tell), cooking is a profession in the game and there are plenty of quests involved in leveling up your cooking skills and learning recipes.

The problem with dismissing things as too online is that the vast majority of the media, tons of people in power, and a massive chunk of the population are too online

Last night I read a bunch of posts from women with LLM boyfriends and it made me think of this section from Computers as Theatre

I know this is a millennial retirement village, but I can't emphasise how destructive it was to my sense of a shared political community as a teenager to see 150,000 people on the streets of Melbourne protesting against the war in 2001 and to be totally ignored. Not digging the 2025 rerun!

Baffled by the idea that Asians aren't affected by ICE, given that ICE was formed very soon after 9/11 and Middle Easterners & South Asians were targeted (and still are, 20+ years later).

Do you know of any official or fan-created food-related projects related to specific games? Cookbooks, cafes, YouTube channels, etc? Send them to me and I can add them to my posts about those games!

What Stardew Valley does have is an official cookbook! Featuring over 50 recipes from the game. Find it at your local booksellers, game shops, or libraries. You can even get a free sample at the link below: www.stardewvalley.net/the-stardew-...

Stardew Valley has a cooking mini-game! Well, it's more like you can make meals instantly based on the ingredients you own. There's not really any cooking _action_ so I don't know if it's a _game_ per se.

Coffee Talk doesn't have a _cooking_ mini game exactly, but you do make coffees, teas, and other drinks as a barista! Besides the usual cafe offerings, there are also drinks that Indonesians, Malaysians, and Singaporeans will recognize.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet has a cooking mini game... sort of. You can make sandwiches! Follow a recipe, or create your own with unique effects.

A first for this page, someone has been inspired to make an account based on this one! Be sure to give them a follow and repost so they can get the boost they deserve!!

Let's start with the games featured in the intro post. Kingdom Hearts III does have a cooking mini game!

Next game on the intro post. Venba is a narrative cooking game! You follow the story of an Indian immigrant family in Canada and cook up traditional Tamil & South Indian cuisine.

Last game on the intro post - the one this account's icon is from! Genshin Impact has a permanent cooking mini game, as well as plenty of limited-time events that involve cooking. The foods are inspired by international cuisine.

Another game from the intro post. Overcooked! calls itself a cooking game, but cooking is more like a subgame of the larger restaurant time management game.

New project! I love me a cooking game. Send me your suggestions :)

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

What an odd coincidence the The Guardian, The Age, the AFR and the ABC all had exactly the same case study of the same Melbourne lawyer trapped in Israel. Who happens to work for a firm whose senior partner runs a high profile Zionist lobby group.

Is there an account like @fishingminigames.bsky.social but for cooking? Tempted to start one if not but also don't want to step on toes!

If you're planning on doing s lot of protests you can get a cheap phone on backmarket and cheap esim from mint mobile and just put the few numbers in that you'd absolutely need to contact and set messages to disappearing

To be clear: 1. JD Vance while promoting America First ethnonationalism acknowledges our space program included German & Jewish scientists 2. Actual White Supremacist publishes fake quote of Vance omitting the part about Jews & Germans 3. Screenshot of Actual White Supremacist goes viral here

I understand why the way people behave online could make one wistful for an age where bullying and parasociality weren't turbo-charged. But we were so ISOLATED before the internet, especially if our interests were even slightly non-mainstream.