I was not aware people play Minecraft on pre-made maps? At least outside of adventure maps.
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The plot thickens.
I came here to suggest Urbek City Builder too. It could be right up their alley.
I've seen so many mixed opinions about this game and I can't figure out how many of these opinions are relevant to my playstyle and tastes in these games.
Where does Bus Bound fall on the various scales of vehicle simulators? Is it a complete accurate-to-the-last-decal vehicle simulation that in order to enjoy, you basically need a bus licence and a lifelong obsession with bus manufacturers? Is it a casual bus driving game like what Euro Truck Simulator 2 is for lorries? Does it have a management aspect, and if so, how deep does it go? Is it particularly moddable? Is it made for wheel-and-pedal players?
I think the game with the highest playtime for me is Final Fantasy XIV with around 1,2k hours. That's only Steam though, I'm sure Minecraft is way, way higher than that.
You know, growing up I always thought it was super odd for the 'gamer guys' I knew to talk about gaming as a hobby that boys and men are into by default and girls, and especially women, just wouldn't understand.
They mentioned or assumed it so casually in all kinds of contexts, as if it was just a fact about the world everyone knew or agreed upon.
Meanwhile, most of my girl (and later, women) friends played games. And not just the type of games the guys would look down upon, like mobile games, but established major gaming franchises like Final Fantasy, SimCity or Legend of Zelda. They wrote fan-fiction about Sephiroth, they snuck their little DS lite under the school desk to finish a section of Majora's Mask, or they spent weeks at a time meticulously crafting a storyboard in Sims 2. I never understood why the cultural image of gaming at the same time only included guys and maaybe one pick-me-esque 'gamer girl', when most girls and women around me actually were super into some games.
I eventually realised that these 'gamer guys' just never interacted with the girls I knew. Their entire world view came from the internet, from movies and other cultural sources. That was an eye-opener.
It makes me angry and sad to see games with a traditionally female userbase, such as The Sims, to be lumped into 'casual' genres, when I never knew a single Sims player who had a casual relationship with that game. They were typically much more intense about these games and fandoms than your average male FIFA/Call of Duty/Battlefield players, but the latter count as 'real gamers'. It's really just misogyny.
I would also want to add that many of these terms are regional and subculture-specific.
In the specific part of Germany I grew up in, a 'joint' was any smokable rolled cigarette-like object with cannabis in it. Nobody used any more specific words like 'blunt'.
Then talking to people one town over, they looked at you as if you were from the moon if you called anything a 'joint' that didn't have tobacco in it. To them, a 'joint' was exclusively a mix of cannabis and tobacco, and a 'blunt' was cannabis-only.
Then there's people who add weed to pre-bought cigarettes, people who insist on using leaves, filters and no filters, tobacco or no tobacco, and so on. Most of these terms are really regional.