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.

Ahh that makes sense, ill have to play around with it and see what I can get out of it with those settings, thanks for the tip! 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

I was playing with this the other day! It seems really cool. I’m much more familiar with blender, so im going to try and get the vox files exported as OBJ’s or something from MagicaVoxel.

Really sweet photo! How difficult was it to get your lighting settings right? It didn’t seem very intuitive when I was messing around with it lol.

Edit: Wait I just realized youre the one who made the vox uristi tool lol! awesome! thank you for the hard work :)

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…

There are two distinct things I could want when searching for stuff on [Insert Search Engine Here]:

• Niche “Expert” Opinion: If I am trying to figure out what maple syrup to buy, I am not going to go to someone’s advertised maple syrup blog with sponsored posts and a bajillion ads. I am going to go to r/maplesyrup. While they might all be snobby dudes with highly opinionated takes, I at least know it’s from people who care enough to be angry about maple syrup on reddit. And most of the time, they give good advice that will point me towards an informed purchase.

• Troubleshooting: Reddit has great troubleshooting threads imo. If I threw my issue into the search engine, and I didnt get a Stack Overflow response, I could add reddit and someone will have at least asked a relevant question before. Sooooooo many of my issues have been assisted in the people asking questions on reddit.

Both of these things I think needs to be replicated elsewhere, especially the Niche “Experts”. I would love for my searches to end in “lemmy” or “kbin” or whatever ends up winning, as long as its a federated platform

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.