I'd probably be lying if I said anything else but Minecraft. I have been playing it from when I was nine years old throughout my entire childhood and teenage years several hours every day, until I eventually did lose interest. I met my partner on a Minecraft forum.

I found that I don't actually mind the concept of social media, I just mind these tired old paradigms like endless scrolling, like-dislike systems, and so on.

I have taken to going to forums, writing or reading blog posts, commenting on content, when I get the urge.

Heya,

something really cool happened to me the day before yesterday.

I came across a random book in public, which I thought was kind of weird. It was Jane Austen's novel "Emma". I picked it up because, honestly, I decided I want to read Jane Austen because she is considered one of the classics usually and I have never read anything by her (not even Pride & Prejudice!).

I opened it up, and on the first page there was a sticker that said something to the effect of "This book is not lost or discarded, it is on a journey! Read it and then put it out to be found once more."

Apparently there's a thing called BOOKCROSSING which is kind of a mix between geocaching and take-one-leave-one libraries. You register a book at bookcrossing dot com, it gets assigned an ID, you put some information on/in it that explains the game, and then leave it in public somewhere. And when people find it, they are encouraged to register their find online using the ID (which notifies you) and leave a comment, then read it and send it on its merry way somewhere else. That way the book travels the world.

I thought this was super cool and a nice hobby to have. You can even go on little deliberate hunts for books; on the website it says roughly where there are still "wild" books to be found, and you can follow the steps to see where it leads you. It ought to be a really cool feeling to leave a book somewhere and get a mail a few weeks later that someone picked it up, read it and left a comment on it! You kind of made someone else's life a bit brighter.

I enjoy option 2 the best. I think in number 1, the distance between content and gif is a bit too big, and in number three the gif is too wide.

I want to kind of try them out though but I don't know where to start.

On the bright side, waiting so long after a game's release to play it makes things much cheaper. Getting into "the classics" now probably represents one of the best hoursOfEntertainment:moneySpent ratios around.

That is very true! On the other hand I have been keeping up with SOME games, so they still feel like old games to me now. D:

But seriously, do you have any recommendations when it comes to popular games that hold up? No matter how much of a no-brainer it feels like. I enjoy things I can immerse myself in, but cannot relate to most fantasy. My favorite settings are futuristic or contemporary things, or media with something totally unique in it.

Can confirm that it works well in the text based browser Lynx.

Oh I absolutely love the Duck comics! They were my childhood!
Did you have the Scrooge McDuck biography? I DEVOURED that as a kid.

Thanks for the suggestion! It seems really good on the privacy front, and now my browser doesn't nearly crash every time I try to load a video.

Keep in mind though that because of the commitment to stick to only ethical software that respects your freedom, some website features will not work. For example, the 3D on melonland.net won't work. For some people (like me), that kind of commitment is a feature, but others will most likely want ALL of the internet to work out of the box.

Basically every single well known game!

I used to be a big pseudo-intellectual hipster as a kid and disliked everything that was popular, so I haven't even played any of the great hits. I want to kind of try them out though but I don't know where to start. Because I haven't kept up with mainstream gaming media either, I don't even know what any of them really are. Deus Ex? Detroit: Become Human? Dragon Age? Chrono Trigger? Final Fantasy? All just names to me.

Omgosh! I just noticed its totally broken on chrome and chrome-based browsers! Uggh I wish everyone would just delete chrome so i would not have to figure out how to fix this

I am happy that this implicitly confirms that none of us use a Chrome-based browser because noone mentioned that issue before.

Pale moon. But I'm considering a switch to another Firefox based browser since pale moon is very slow and lacks support for some more modern css/html features.

Try LibreWolf. =)

Vesuvius

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You forgot the 11 paragraph story

If you're as upset about that trend on recipe sites as I am, check out Based.Cooking for completely ad and design free good recipes.

These images make me happy and I don't know why.