Endymion_Mallorn

This would be great - if there was a Discord/Meetup-style instance so that it could be started for free and communicate with other local communities. As is, I can’t justify the cost, or the time. Plus, I’m in a densely packed area, and each group would want their own space. So as of now, this can’t be a Meetup killer.

As someone who’s mostly been in the digital domain since childhood and had to learn early on about the difference, it’s one color system, it’s just that they’re doing different jobs.

I would say SteamOS if you can run it. Otherwise, CachyOS.

Moulin Rouge. No competition in my mind.

Absolutely not. Kids should be kept away from social media as it exists now. Frankly, kids need to be supervised on the Internet as a whole, because there’s so much dangerous shit out there to hurt them.

Flails are weapons for demonstration, not real fighting. Use a mace or poleaxe instead.

So they’re like the President.

Assume that the government can track anything with a MAC address or ID.

Everything in the world is propaganda or advertising. You have a choice to believe it or not.

Thank you for confirming Endless Sky! I’m glad it runs well on both systems.

That’s a really wide question. I’ll give you my list of answers.

Here are my top three:

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon, a roguelike descended from Pixel Dungeon. It’s strayed quite far afield from the original PD, but I think most of the changes are good.

• Mindustry, a hybrid tower defense and systems-building game. I’ve heard it compared to a game called Factorio, but I’ve never played that, so you’ll have to take it with a grain of salt. Sorry.

• Forkyz, a crossword app, which is a fork (appropriately) of a game called Shortyz. It allows you to download daily crosswords from bunches of sources for free and play them at your leisure.

• Chip Defense, a tower defense game themed around computers. It’s really fun if you like computers and/or tower defense.

• Space Trader, a text-based game heavily inspired by Elite. Travel a galaxy, trade goods, blow people up, complete quests, buy a moon.

Here are some games on F-Droid that I’m not going to link, because i don’t know how they do on Android, but I love them on PC:

• Luanti, which used to be called Minetest. It’s an open-source voxel building game engine (like Minecraft). It’s very scriptable, and you can build a lot of stuff with a little knowledge and looking at examples.

• Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based hex-grid strategy game with day/night mechanics and multiple campaigns, both included and downloadable. And it’s got multiplayer too!

• Endless Sky, a spaceflight game which borrows heavily from the Escape Velocity series. If you like the concept of Elite, you should check it out.

• OpenTTD, an open-source version of the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but so much more.

I live in NJ. Whenever I’m not hearing traffic and the like, I get spooked.

This one was the NY Times.

Fair enough. That’s part of why I prefer to use different software to access magazines and threads on the Fediverse.

The challenge is that a lot of people came to the Fediverse (especially the Threadiverse) because of what they perceived as overactive moderation. Mods here are often discouraged from taking action unless it’s extreme.

We had that briefly, but it’s been decreasing steadily since the 1870s.

I doubt that America as we know it can survive, period. There needs to be a change - whether that’s about wealth classes, political beliefs, or various -isms. We can’t use a system that was intentionally broken to fix things. The words of slavers from 250 years ago are too weak. The way that things have developed across the regions of this massive, unwieldy, federation needs amendment.

Unfortunately, right now the pendulum is swinging hard in one direction. There’s no meaningful fighters on the other side. So us little people have to cling to hope - and that hope is increasingly looking like it has to come from force, and from the barrel of a gun.

It means Multi User Dungeon. It’s a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.

Because a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.

We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.