Something I rarely see mentioned is that America has historically had a culture of individualism, exacerbated deliberately by people in power in order to reduce the risk of popular uprising. For generations, the American people have been convinced to view their neighbor with suspicion: always lock your front door, if you don't someone will break in. Don't go outside at night, you could get assaulted. Don't tell strangers information about yourself, they could track you down and kill you.

The most insidious propaganda aimed at the American citizen is "you are alone. Protect yourself, protect your family. Anybody could want to hurt you so treat everyone as if they plan to."

The worst part is that this works even if you're aware of it. In a culture where everybody has been taught to look at each other with suspicion, it becomes very hard to find community with people who have been isolated for so long they refuse to listen to your message.

Slightly less urgently: the ability to react to system messages

Consider: Two buttons

Slap fight: clicks regenerate. Clicking the button starts a five second timer. During the countdown, clicks work as normal, but after five seconds the button is locked to whoever pressed it last for five minutes before it can be pressed again

Ohai that's my name

What about making a list of stackable modifiers, and before the game starts everybody selects a set of modifiers to vote for.

conway's game of life but buttons

Please and thank you.

I'm not sure what I was expecting, following a glimpse of Grail's coattails through the ether, but this seems a hospitable place. My name is Solace, a ruby dragon. I'm still new to this understanding of myself, but it's nice to meet those gathered here.

Thank You, but my soul has always been dragon shaped. It's my interminable meat prison I'm looking to trade out.

It's not good for me as I am, but smoking is a pretty reliable way to center myself and chase away some of the wrongness. Besides that, I keep a small hoard of books, stones and other things I consider valuable.

I'm always on the lookout for a healthier alternative. VR has promise, but our headset broke a while back and we haven't been able to get it fixed yet. There's a game called Resonite I used to play where you can create anything.

Personally I would follow the feelings. There's no rules that say you need to craft your identity from a single source, and if it feels right to have horns I would explore that.