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i've been playing a videogame called palia with some friends, we live very far away from each other, and in an attempt to keep in touch we all downloaded a silly little free game to hang out there.  it's an open world gacha type of game, you get a little farm and you have to collect things and do a bunch do quests to get stuff to decorate your house and your garden, it's super fun ! and very focused on community and playing with others, which is the main reason we downloaded it.  of course you can have much cooler things and the cutest outfits if you pay for them, but the experience of playing for free is also very satisfying and cool, you get to interact with all the same characters, be part of the same events and quests, built pretty things, and you can definitely manage to get your hands on a few cute hats.  we've been having tons of fun together and on our own, we didn't expect to play the game outside of our hang outs but we all did ! that's how much we lik...