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Your points are all correct but I think most folks are missing it’s a genre of Japanese game https://screentherapyblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/iyashikei... - basically healing games that are just supposed to give your mind and soul a break.

Laying on the grass and seeing shapes in clouds is also “pointless” but it’s not invaluable.

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> it’s not invaluable

invaluable (adjective): extremely useful

I guess it was used as to mean "without value", which is not exactly what it means.

The prefix "in" of "invaluable" does mean negation but it means negation in the way that the value of the object is such that it doesn't exist. It's so valuable that you cannot even quantify it, it transcends the notion of value.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invaluable#note-1

"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"

In this case the context makes the meaning clear, but this quirk of English has confused people for years.

In French it’s inflammable for flammable too, but the weird one for me is inhabitants (it’s just habitants here).

interestingly, you can track this issue back to latin, which has a preposition "in" (meaning in, on, to), which is often attached to verbs, and a prefix "in-" which negates the word it's attached to.

Perhaps, valueless?

Seeing shapes in clouds is not "extremely" useful, but it's nice. Neither useful nor useless I suppose.

Try asking a meteorologist.

Whoops - good catch.

Not without value. :)

Thanks for linking this article! This explains these games very well.

Great point about the Iyashikei theme! Its very prominent in anime as well.

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