I’d like to think Firaxis and Sid Meier still hold water for Civilization at least, but I do get your point. Most of the games I go back to now and enjoy are nowhere near the ballpark of “AAA”.

Dang. This is almost my list as well, and the ones that are different I can totally see why they could be on someone else’s list. I like your taste in games.

• Outer Wilds
• The Return of the Obra Dinn
• I’ll bunch the Mass Effect trilogy together here
• Super Metroid
• The Last of Us
• Bioshock: Infinite
• Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Oxygen not Included
• …
• …

I know it pales in comparison to most others here, but that Star Wars theory about Jar Jar Binks being the ultimate Sith mastermind instantly popped into my head.

I get quite a bit of flak from my colleagues for paying for search, but I kid you not, I don’t regret splurging on a Kagi subscription at all. It’s personally less stressful for me, having to wade through less cruft, and I think I even work significantly faster because of how I use it.

It’s sad when you think about it. Search was such a good experience in the past.

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Steam streaming is pretty cool too, I use it very often.

My guess would be because of the physics sandbox + lego builders aspect of it.

I actually thought the organization stuff is pretty good, coming from keepassxc myself. The way we have it set up is that each of the members of our family all have VW accounts, and we have a common organization shared among us for stuff we all use (e.g. home devices). It’s all in one installation, so it’s pretty convenient. I don’t think I can do the same as easily with keepass.

That being said, keepass is a really solid piece of software. I’d recommend it myself.

and/or Vaultwarden as a selfhosted alternative.

I’m admittedly not as knowledgeable about it as I’d like, but I also have a similar system. A primary encrypted Linux partition wuth a dualboot into Windows for times I absolutely need to go into it (which admittedly has been coming up less and less).

What I tell myself is that, sure, in the best case that everything works as I’d like, the rootkit can never bleed into the Linux side of stuff, and I’m really only ever at risk when I’m actively on the Windows, and even then if Riot remains a good citizen, nothing will happen. It’s an (increasingly) small window of vulnerability.

Thing is, I’ve seen complete systems go down because of “small windows of vulnerabilities” before. Catastrophic failures, more times than I’d have liked. Who knows, maybe someday someone manages to exploit that window and use it to, for example, piggyback into your home network and access your devices. I dunno, call me paranoid.

In my head, installing something like a kernel anticheat is really not worth it. It’s a huge over reach of privilege for so little gain for the user. And frankly, I don’t trust Riot to be a good citizen with that much privilege on my machine.

I’ve been having difficulty joining private trackers as well, but mostly I’ve just been trying to apply to a few that I think I’d like to join. Don’t quite understand why I don’t get an invite though. I maintain a perma up seedbox, and wouldve thought that was mostly what’s important for private trackers.

As someone who’s having a bit of difficulty finding great incremental games, would you mind giving aome recommendations?

As a (not quite so recent) migrant to AU, I got my first notice of rent increase earlier today, and hooboy. I really don’t want to have to move again, and I’m really starting to warm up to where I am, but I most likely will have to if my landlord doesn’t agree to my request to reconsider. Bummer.

That sounds like something I’d very much enjoy! Thanks for the recommendation!

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