Recently bough an e-ink reader for this exact reason. I’m reading for the first time in almost 10 years and I am falling asleep way quicker and getting better sleep than i have in a loooong time. Best $100 ive spent in awhile.

9x9 keeps people from being overwhelmed. Its the size of a chess baord, so its familiar to those people, and easier for teaching someone the basic life and death stuff. There are so many extra things you have to worry about on a 19x19, that it can just be a huge barrier to all but the most serious beginners.

Most importantly, it’s faster. 9x9 games can be played way faster than a 19x19. I can’t convince my friend to sit for 45min to an hour and a half while we play a 19x19, but a 10-15min 9x9 I can definitely pressure them into lol.

What’s the saying? If you can’t tell if it’s ignorance or malice, it’s probably the former?

however, with all of these points, even if it is ignorance, the lying about encryption (even though I don’t really use it) is upsetting. That plus the other lies I’ve seen them pull is enough to make me consider switching to something else.

Got any recs? Lol

Ah, that would make sense. I could definitely see that being annoying, especially considering the sheer number of users on that instance.

What’s the reason for defederating from them? Aren’t they like the original Masto instance? What kind of moderation issues are going on there?

Fair point. I can’t really think of any games that have done that, either. Interesting that there haven’t been more physics sandbox style open worlds, come to think of it…

It took me 3 attempts at starting The Witcher before I eventually got through it. I had just came off of Dark Souls 3 combat, so the combat in Witcher was especially clunky feeling. Eventually I moved into a new home, had nothing else to do, and proceeded to do nothing but play the game for 50 hours until I beat the game lol. I would say the story is worth it, but I agree that its kinda tough to get into.

it’s pretty cobbled together, but ive got a docker swarm that runs the following:

• Portainer to allow for fairly easy CI/CD worflows with Gitlab
• Plex Stack
  • Plex
  • Radarr
  • Sonarr
  • Jackett
  • qbittorrent
  • VPN
• Deemix for downloading music
• Authentik for SSO
• AWX for my automation
• Budibase for a local Go club I run
• A discord bot setup with CI/CD for a friend
• Foundry VTT
• a gitlab runner for local CI jobs
• An comic strip to RSS scraper I wrote
• MongoDB for Budibase
• Nextcloud
• Onlyoffice server
• PiHole
• Shlink URL shortener
• Traefik and Caddy for reverse proxies
• Uptime Kuma for basic monitoring
• Minecraft Server
• Ark Server
• Frigate NVR

On its own Pi4 I have Homeassistant

What things would that be? Im trying to think of something that hasnt been replicated / improved in another game, but I am drawing a blank personally.

Embarrassing 😭 lmao. Set it up too quickly. Well ill move it over and update the links

Sure, I can give it my best shot! I may be a bit biased myself toward the CoS, so that’s worth keeping in mind.

The Church of Satan is the original form of satanism (They consider themselves to be the only form of satanism). They are based on the teachings of Anton LaVey, who wrote The Satanic Bible in 1966. It is a religion formed on individualism and ritual, treating yourself as your own god, and generally has a philosophy that they adhere to. Generally, the church does not take any form of political stance itself, leaving that up to their members to decide where each of them reside. It is a religion that can apply to all spectrums of someone’s opinions.

The Satanic Temple, is a leftist political activism group. They are the ones who are suing in all of these court cases you hear about. They take a very firm left stance on human rights in general, which I can commend. But in terms of an actual religion, their philosophy is pretty thin, with their tenants consisting of pretty common sense notions.

My personal issue with TST is the alleged accusations of their founder, Lucien Greaves, and a friend of his, being pretty bigoted individuals. From running a eugenics website for several years, to running a podcast where they spew hateful remarks at pretty much anyone you can think of. Also, the recent allegations that the administration is covering for sexual abusers, and have been hitting people with SLAPP suits when they come forward.

If you’re interested, you can read up on someone who is getting SLAPP suited by them here