I’m not voracious by any means but recently I have been enjoying combining a book with my other hobbies. Sitting outside tending the grill? Grab a few pages. Going on a weekend camping trip? Might as well bring a novel along. Change of pace / scenery from hectic daily life also seems important to this.

Sorry, I don’t use wefwef. In the main browser, you can navigate to the community and the “block” button is right below the “subscribe” option.

Near as I can tell, there are certain communities that have a “rule” that every time you browse that community, you must post something before you leave. This leads to a lot of low effort shitposting that I guess some people find fun but I just blocked those communities so my /All feed wasn’t cluttered.

I don’t love this example because enjoyment of the object isn’t really a cost. If I buy a book or a videogame or a movie, the time it takes to enjoy the media is the value, not the cost.

If you’re talking about maintenance and upkeep on your car, that is a different type of cost that has to be weighed against the cost and time expenditure of a bus pass or whatever your alternative was.

In other words I feel like this is a catchy phrase that kind of falls apart once you start to dig at it.

I feel like there’s a lot more to this than “pay it twice”. If you’re talking purely in dollars, then you’ll want to consider maintenance and upkeep over the expected lifetime of the object and compare that to alternatives. Additionally, everything has an opportunity cost because no resource is limitless and you could have allocated it elsewhere. Finally, emotional and other intangible benefits are something that most people have a very difficult time quantifying.

If you want to say “consider more than just the purchase price” then I’m with you.

I have an awful 1.5 hour commute to work. Ideally I’d like to be fully remote - but my company insists that isn’t going to happen. My second choice would be convenient, safe, and affordable public transit - but my city insists that isn’t going to happen. Autonomous cars wouldn’t be a perfect solution but it would be a heck of a lot better than the road-raging humans I have to deal with now.

Four Roses is probably my favorite bourbon. In 2017 I spent days driving around Central Kentucky looking for every individual store’s barrel pick program so I could do this full 10x taste myself the hard way. These days, the barrel picks are even harder to find so I’m glad they have made it easier!

This is hugely personal to your own interests. Personally I am subscribed to communities around news, science, gaming, whiskey, and my favorite sports team. You can always use the community browser to look for something specific or just keep an eye on the “all” listing to see if something catches your eye.

I prefer when areas are designed to be handled by higher level characters rather than always scaling with the player like Skyrim does. My ideal is when said scaling is somewhat subtle like in Elden Ring - there’s an intended route, but if you go somewhat out of order it’s not the end of the world and player skill matters more than a few levels anyway. I guess we’ll see how much level matters in this universe.

Like a lot of new users I’m only here because Reddit killed the app I used. I don’t like the official Reddit app. But if I’m honest, it’s still a better experience than Lemmy right now. You can’t deny that Lemmy has less content and more warts.

Like any early adopter, I’m here for the potential. For what I hope this can one day become. That’s not something a majority of people care about. If/when Lemmy reaches parity for “normal” users, attitudes will change quickly.

Ok so help me understand here. The root post is Beehaw complaining that their four admins can’t handle the new influx of users. But isn’t that the entire point of moderators? Shouldn’t each community be responsible for dealing with trolls, etc? From what I’ve seen of Beehaw, they’re attempting to have the same handful of admins moderate every single community, which was never going to be sustainable and IMHO misses the entire point of this sort of experience.

I agree that 95-110 is usually my sweet spot. I know nothing about this company and grabbed the bottle on a whim but they don’t seem to offer a stronger version.

Is this community interested in review posts? The Bear Face Triple Oak recently blew me away, especially at the ~$35 price point.

Edit: also maybe someday I’ll figure out how to do a cross post that looks cleaner than how this turned out.

You had Evan Williams - did you like it? What about it did you like or not like? Do you want to keep with that sweet corn and caramel flavors > try bourbon. If you want something with more spice > try rye. If you want more of a malty or bready flavor > try a blended scotch.

All that to say, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer to this. The more you can tell us about what you like and don’t like, the better we can tailor recommendations.

I find this very disappointing, not because I’m hugely attached to Beehaw (although their large gaming community has dominated my feed this week). But rather because the first response to whatever adversity they were facing, real or perceived, is to take the nuclear option. The biggest drawback to Lemmy as opposed to Reddit is the over fragmentation and the lack of quality content, so intentionally increasing those challenges feels short-sighted and bad for the ecosystem as a whole.

Cheers, I’ll remember that for next time.

The way I see it - does the game have a final boss? Or a difficult climactic ending sequence? A meaningful resolution? Then I did the part that matters, and feel fine saying I beat the game. The side quests and collectible junk usually is just busy work that wouldn’t pose a challenge, I just don’t have the time or interest.

I never could get into Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis. I generally love grand strategy and play a ton of things like Civilization but for some reason Paradox’s maze of menus and mechanics never seems to click for me.

I have wayyy to much money in Warmachine minis - a hobby I loved that the WotC lawsuit starting killing and the pandemic more or less finished off.

I also have dabbled in creating my own stuff for board games such as Gloomhaven.

I suppose I’ll believe it when I see it. Thanks for the context though!