Kicking my way through Ultima I, a partner gave me two more weeks to beat it and I think I can probably do it in one… day… if I get my mind into it.

Also trying to beat Guardian Tales in the same two weeks since it’s been on my phone so long. I want to get it off my phone so I have more room for other things, but I feel like I’m far enough into it I shouldn’t just toss it away without completing it.

The classics are good, Crazy 8’s, Go Fish (which is better reversed, where you can see other people’s hands but not your own), Egyptian Ratscrew, President/Scum, and so on, but I genuinely enjoy Mao the most.

Between the simple quality of the base rules and the fascinating depth, deduction, and memory puzzle as the game progresses… It’s wonderful. Sadly, too many people choose to play the game as an inside joke or gatekeeping game, whereas the game is best played with a more teaching role at heart. Still penalize for failure to follow rules, but enunciate why and be deliberate about it, so they have a chance to learn from their mistakes, or others’!

Some other community members have picked out good introductory episodes that don’t have too many in-jokes, especially because with all podcasts they get better as they go on and so the earlier episodes while not bad are not as good as the current stuff. However, my suggestion would still be to start at the beginning and work from there. It’s not the sort of podcast you have to stay up to date on or else you’ll miss out, so just take your time with it, let it fill in the lulls between your other podcasts’ releases, and you’ll catch up in no time!

Ooh! That looks doable!

Haha, am I still a comment leaver if I’ve only ever lurked the show? It’s been fine so far, looking forward to the advances in sleep spaghetti…

Is there a service that is only email? Most of the offerings in those packages are either too much bloat of applications that are unnecessary, and/or are too expensive for what they actually would provide that we would use.

I’d much rather keep using the tools that we’re used to and have set up than move to a different ecosystem, especially one that tracks a lot of the data we use with it

I mostly listen to the Rooster Teeth podcasts, so here goes:

FaceJam is a podcast that nominally is about trying every new (limited time) fast food creation to see if you should try it too, but it’s more a comedy podcast where they talk about their encounters with staff/public at the restaurant, tell jokes about fast food, etc. 10/10 would recommend.

RTP (their official rooster teeth podcast) is something like 900 episodes long, but all of that can be discounted if you want for their more recent (i.e. like four episodes ago) change of hosts and format to three incredibly funny comedians and writers who just wanna tell you their jokes, and they nail it. 9/10

Lastly, if you just want something bonkers the fuckface podcast is a podcast with three hosts best described as a lot of Lore About Nothing. It goes in wild tangents and has some of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in it, but it’s quite funny… Albeit hard to look up or talk about with others.

I’m not terribly worried about a service seeing my traffic, the initial concept was for a self-hosted server to run a business email and site and some tools on, but I can’t do email through my ISP without paying an arm and a leg, and my business doesn’t make enough for that…

Thanks! I’ll look into that