Nice, I never could seem to get into the reddit version of this community.

I’ve been stalwartly inactive for many years now, though I was lucky enough to have a fantastic upbringing in a very chill ward with amazing people and some friends I retain to this day. It was one of the smaller wards in the area and a tight-knit group of genuinely kind people. I went AWOL on my mission and dreaded being ostracized when I got home only to find nothing but support from my ward (including my parents), so it looks like I won the lottery there somehow. It was a really powerful moment when the stake president tried to convince me to go back out to a local mission instead and my mom immediately said no on my behalf. That proved that I was more important to her than this religious tradition/obligation.

All that said, I got exposed to more “traditional” wards and church members after I left the nest. Various things the church was doing, the “I’m more spiritual than you are” contests of members, and certain doctrines kept not jiving until I finally decided I was completely done with it. I learned about a lot of the weirder stuff about the church later and that made me glad I decided to seek my own path for spirituality while remaining agnostic religiously. I was really fortunate to grow up in the environment I did, but I’m glad I’m out of that scene now even if I miss the social aspect of that ward I grew up in.

Figured I’d share a story from a staunch exmo who actually had a very positive experience with the church growing up, but still eventually found reason to leave. It’s too bad, because it seems like there’s so much potential for genuine good and community if they dropped a bunch of the hypocritical judgment, prejudice, and cultish control practices. I’m still hoping to find a spiritual (but not necessarily religious) community someday that feels like that ward from my youth.

I’m frankly impressed it didn’t just boil down to “pray and ask the spirit to tell you that the church is true.”

I love this so much. I need to break out one of those gameboy studio tools and take a crack at a game of my own.

I’m excited to be a part of this community! I only started browsing Reddit a few years ago (a coworker wouldn’t stop talking about it) and posted maybe 10 or so times in that time because it just seemed like a sea of undulating noise. I don’t recall a single username from there. Things feel a little cozier here and you seem like an honest and communicative admin so I’m optimistic!

Part of me wonders if this is just me getting older and well into the “back in my day” stage of life when I worry that things are getting significantly worse. But it really feels like this poor country is in a serious backward arc and I’m genuinely worried for my kids.

I was surprised to see your post as the only result doing a find for Angband in this thread. I’ve played it casually for decades and never beaten it. Got a level 50 dwarf priest right now that I’ve been puttering around with, not really sure what to do in order to prepare for Morgoth, as I’ve never encountered him before.

I haven’t loved the direction of DCSS in recent years as it seems like there’s been a huge focus on removing things for being “not interesting”, but it seems like it really boils down to “not interesting for veterans who are interested in a low turn count run through the game”. And I’ll never forgive them for removing the chance to meet up with friendly angels in the Abyss if you’re a TSO follower. Apparently they’re always hostile now? That was such a cool touch, and I struggle to understand why its’ better to take away those neat little potential experiences. Ah well, still a fun game to play now and then.

Right, I was actually hoping it would go through so I could potentially lift my boycott of ActiBlizz that I started during the Blitzchung incident and only solidified as more information came out about the horrible things going on at Blizzard with some of their employees. Weirdly enough, I really want to play Heroes of the Storm again.

Didn’t know about that sub on Reddit, but I’m interested to see what goes on here.

Lynx is a text-based browser typically used from the terminal. I prefer the Links browser myself (another text-based one) but they’re both great for simple web browsing and avoiding all the distracting images and javascript nonsense. Also a great way to test how accessible a site is to the visually impaired who use screen readers.

I don’t see them natively on the play store or F-Droid, but you can install them through Termux (handy terminal environment for android). You’ll probably need to install openssl first. In termux, type pkg install openssl and accept any defaults. After that’s done, do pkg install lynx (or links, or w3m - I like them better than Lynx, but it’s fun to try them all) and just fire it up by typing lynx once it’s finished installing. I enjoy seeing which sites work in text-only mode and which don’t. The number is steadily decreasing, as you might imagine.