Starting off my week with a crown on a molar that decided that chewing wasn’t really an activity it wanted to participate in. Heartened by how my team performed on last Friday when I took a day off, and there were some escalations/failures.

I used to do this with Gentoo, and it was always a blast! Glad that you’re having fun “rolling your own!”

That looks fantastic!

Thanks for sharing! I appreciate it!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for your ideas! I appreciate it!

Why shouldn’t work be fun? Why is there an expectation of misery in exchange for living?

Why shouldn’t work be fun? Why is there an expectation of misery in exchange for living?

I kind of feel like a weirdo for not chatting a lot, I guess?

I used to do rough carpentry back many years ago, and now that I’m trying to make something that I care about, I’m reminded of just how much planning, prep, and care people need to put into their hobbies. No more, “hit it until it fits” in my garage!

I think cheddar on top of apple pie is a pretty common thing, but American cheese sounds off.

I don’t know. Windows 7 was widely considered to be the nadir.

Gosh! This takes me back! What a great game!

I bought the various flavors of Gameboy just to play the slew of those games.

I also think an interesting question is about how they are formed. The flavor of a forced settlement (prisoner transport) versus an opportunistic settlement (rich resources) is going to influence a lot of the behavioral patterns of the people.

I tend to play a lot of the old text-tile games that I cut my teeth on back starting with Angband. Any of those variants are enjoyable, but I pretty much stick to Zangband (Angband adding in the work of Zelazny) and frogcomposband (It’s a mouthfull, but FUN).

It’s kind of the defining line between “community as a product” and “community as a platform.” What is offered and provided is a platform for all of us to work together to build and sustain a community. What we’re used to is the other type, where there has always been a drive to monetize the experience. It’s like the fallacy that content creators owe their audience anything other than the content they’ve already provided. The people here running and moderating the community have my respect and admiration, because it’s not something I’d willingly step into, knowing the unrealistic expectations of most Internet participants.

I’m currently working on a miter saw table, and getting prepped to install/level the casters!