I just look in my garden furniture.

Yeah if they run it that brutally, it’s going to go bad.

But usually there is a lot of difference between how sub-companies are treated both based on how they are currently doing and how strong-headed their management is.

I have a Steam collection just for that purpose, called “zone-out games”:

• Factorio
• Euro Truck Simulator
• Viscera Cleanup Detail
• Satisfactory
• Space Engineers
• Hardspace Shipbreaker
• Rift Breaker
• Monster Train
• Jupiter Hell
• Vampire Survivors
• Dorf Romantik
• DOOM (any)
• Nethack

Some advice I want to give is that “games that require a lot of skill” is only a temporary blocker. If you enjoy a hard game enough to play through it repeatedly, it can become a podcast game. Many people play Bloodborne or Binding of Isaac to audiobooks, and roguelikes are generally like this.

That in mind, I have a list of games that are valid podcast games but I haven’t built enough familiarity with them yet:

• FTL
• Binding of Isaac
• Terraria
• Risk of Rain
• Against the Storm

I’m least worried about The Escapist, as the editor-in-chief for the past few years Nick Caldera is running it with integrity. It is the only game news site I am happy to pay a subscription to.

No, that was pretty much how email worked for a long time. And IRC.

I remember someone even making a song “I am going to ban your domain” to the tune of “they’re coming to take me away” to mock sysadmins who took this drastic measure too quickly.

Some university servers would block all email from abroad except for some whitelisted servers. My school blocked emails from another school because the students were badly policed and would just harrass other schools.

Some domains were universally blockdd because they were used by spammers and scammers.

This mostly softened into spam folders and increasingly sophisticated filtering, which is dominating today.

Maybe I’m wrong about this, but it feels to me like most people coming over from Reddit are viewing federation as multiple people helping run parts of a larger single site instead of viewing each Lemmy instance as its own entire community and site

I think you are right, and I think a major contributor to this is how Lemmy is communicated. We are inviting people to a concept when they expect to be invited to a place.

“Join Lemmy!” indicates Lemmy is the site. A site. One coherent system. Then “and pick a federated server” just seems like random frustration.

“Join <the instance I am using>! It’s on Lemmy so you can easily contribute to the communities on Beehaw, lemmy.ml, toupoli, … without creating separate accounts there.” is how I think we should go about it.

It’s like, come on AntiWork, you had one job. Or none job. You know what I mean.

Airdrop spiders on the loud party down the road.

This is how you died

World of Warcraft - I barely played it but that hint was an instant refresher :)

I hope the fake engine noises are a voice recording of someone going “vrem! vrem!”

Valid answer, but was thinking Satisfactory as it has a prettier landscape.

Was thinking Satisfactory yeah :)

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Feminists cancelled by plumber union

Your soundcard works perfectly!

Spore?

Death Stranding?

Shadow of the Collossus?

Cover gorgeous landscape in concrete