The obvious answer would be Black & White and its sequel, which for many is the definitive god game. You’re an untouchable god interacting with your world and physically manipulating it with your hand, but you also have a giant animal familiar that you raise to also interact with the people. You create miracles and either help or terrorize the population into following you. Not much combat if that’s what you’re looking for, but it’s a unique game that unfortunately has not seen a worthy successor in 20+ years.

The rare xkcd I find charming and relatable rather than charming and arcane.

Call it whatever you want, but all I see is a weirdly unexpected avenue for potential solidarity against a major arms manufacturer. Hell, I’ll call it woke if it helps turn Americans against the fuckers building bombs.

Is there a Voyager 1, uh…emulator or something? Like something NASA would use to test the new programming on before hitting send?

I kind of wish all forms of popular media could just, like, agree to defund a bit. Just step things down a few notches. There’s just too much money involved for anything truly unexpected to happen in these industries.