Real vanilla is also very expensive, so having an exotic and expensive flavour as the default is pretty weird.

And then you have ASML who sell the foundry equipment that makes the steel.

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They still had to buy new hardware, because the newer Windows version didn’t support the old hardware anymore.

Still nothing compared to Roman design. Penises, penises everywhere.

There’s a funny candle holder in my local museum in the form of a naked man. I’ll let you imagine how the candle is being held up.

PS: The German word for candlestick is “Kerzenständer” (candle + stand). However, “Ständer” also refers to a boner, so “Kerzenständer” is the best description for that object.

There are a few more settings you can tweak than your standard messenger (e.g. message bubbles or timeline), but the day-to-day interaction should be fairly similar. Chat rooms allow you to chat with any number of participants. Matrix doesn’t really differentiate between “direct” chats and group chats, as you can always add more participants later. Spaces are a way to organise rooms, like a folder.

There are many different types of bridges, but the most seamless one is a type of Man In The Middle (MITM). You give the bridge full access to your other services, which allows them to copy everything to Matrix and vice versa. Naturally, this circumvents E2EE as the bridge needs to access and manipulate the content somehow (E2EE only exists up to the bridge, not the whole way to your client). The bridge can theoretically do anything, as it is a MITM. However, because most bridges are open source and you can host them yourself, the risk that unauthorised parties can gain access to the data is fairly low. If it’s hosted by a third party, you have to trust them that they won’t abuse their power.

Generally, the games that have a larger up-front price are good. Bonus points, if they were ported from PC or consoles and don’t track you.

I don’t know how to categorise these types of players. If it were a board game or TTRPG, they would be casual players (e.g. the people who only heard of Monopoly), but the average playtime would make them hardcore gamers. It’s weird.

Mods are great! I’m really interested in projects like Skywin or Skyblivion. Recreating the whole modern Elder Scrolls franchise within Skyrim is just crazy.

I also like to switch between games, depending on my mood. Although, currently I’m mainly playing Cyberpunk 2077 again.

PS: I prefer the story and setting of Oblivion to Skyrim anyway, but Skyrim did improve the mechanics of the game significantly.

Is it the competitive multiplayer aspect that draws you in, or is it something else?

You just inspired me to play Stardew Valley again 😄

Honesty, it’s just a matter of framing. Don’t think about the things you’re missing, think about the things you could do. See the enormous amount of content as potential adventures you can choose to have, instead of chores you have to complete. If you miss things, that’s okay. I love games where I discover new things years later. It makes them feel much larger than they actually are.

There’s https://sepiasearch.org/ for global video search. It’s a search engine, run by the developers, that indexes every approved instance. So if you’re only interested in watching videos (and don’t mind searching for them), then it’s even easier than other Fediverse services, because you have one central place you can go to for all your videos.