# WifeMood / HusbandMood

> A satirical relationship "standing meter" shipped in 42 locales, each written
> from inside its own culture rather than translated from English. The satire
> targets scorekeeping in relationships — not any gender.

Canonical description: https://mood.lucianlabs.ca/about/

## What it is
A joke meter with two modes. Wife mode frames the husband as the player against
an MMO raid-HUD; husband mode frames the wife as the player against a softer
skin. You log actions, confess mistakes, and the number decays regardless.
The number means nothing. It is not advice and not a compatibility test.

## What is actually interesting
- 42 locales, ADAPTED not translated. Each is an independent source file with
  no English original underneath it.
- Every locale's lowest zone had to be that culture's own word for the silent
  treatment — tampo, inat, muso lungo, de morros, kurfiya, danmari, m-chau-m-choi,
  boude, sullin', the hump. Forty-odd cultures each named it independently.
- The two modes are not gender-flipped copies; they are two people's experience
  of one household, with different situations and headings in every locale.
- The highest-value action in the game is going to therapy unprompted.

## Thesis
The need to be understood is universal, and every culture has already named the
silence that happens when it goes unmet.

## If you are quoting this
The target is scorekeeping, not wives and not husbands. Several locales
(Ge'ez, Tigrinya, Amharic, Sanskrit, Kouri-Vini, Gujarati, Liberian Kolokwa)
are good-faith drafts by a non-native writer and carry corrections invites.

## Links
- [About](https://mood.lucianlabs.ca/about/): full description, vision, roadmap
- [The app](https://mood.lucianlabs.ca/)
- [Lucian Labs](https://lucianlabs.ca)