Even with a 5.1 setup, I feel like I don’t get enough dialog out of my center channels in most shows/movies without everything being unbearably loud.

I have high hopes for Lemmy sticking around. The explosion in users around all the Reddit drama will likely have some of them stick around, which will be a net positive. It may not be good for “doom scrolling” any time soon, but it’s really nice to see some lively conversations in communities that are just starting to really blossom.

I’m alternating between Memmy and Mlem. They’re both great but I also prefer Memmy at the moment. The ability to tap on a picture and have it go full screen is just so useful.

I’m by no means an expert, and have a similar amount of play time. I opted to push through the main story since all quests scale the same and you need to get to Act IV to unlock the horse.

I’m just now doing some of the 50-100 stuff and while doing that I’m going through and getting some more of the flavor by doing side quests in the areas that I’m spending time in.

I think the federated nature of Lemmy/kbin will be what keeps it going. It’s not an all or nothing approach but rather many pieces coming together to make something truly interesting. I’m sure there will be plenty of growing pains and drama, but the Lemmy-verse is a community built by the community.

That's a tough question! I would have to say it's a toss up between MechWarrior 2 and the original Half Life. I spent so many hours customizing mechs and tearing stuff up. There was something magical about the first Half-Life game though. So good and led to so many mods that I played for such a long time (CS, TFC/2, DoD).

I’m seeing this issue primarily with communities hosted on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world. Admittedly, that’s a lot of the active ones at the moment, but for some of the smaller ones I follow, they seem to show up.

Private and federation are mutually exclusive concepts. Private instances are ones that intentionally don’t federate - like a private company community that’s locked to their intranet. For self hosted Lemmy instances you just need to close registration. Then since no one can apply, the only use case for email becomes the Forgot Password button for if you forget your password and at that point you’re better served with a password manager.

I've been using ionos.com (formerly 1&1) and so far their support has been great and the price is pretty good. They originated in Europe, but have long ago since moved to the US and have datacenter in both the US and Europe. I chose them because I wanted something cheap with unlimited bandwidth and this ticked those boxes.

I remember having such high hopes for DEMIGOD which this was the box art for. Definitely haven’t thought about it in a long time.

I loved that series when I was younger. Sadly, I stopped following the series at the end of The Riftwar Legacy, because I think that was the last book out before I started reading some other series. I’m definitely planning on jumping back into it once I finish up with The Gentlemen Bastards series.

Yeah, I definitely can and likely will at some point, but I used to not need to. Oh well, I don’t think things will change any time soon.

This sounds like a great idea

US, Colorado - no need to filter or boil the tap water here. One of the benefits of living at the base of the mountains I suppose

I'm a fan of just straight up Debian, so I went the https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible route on my VPS with Debian 11 stable.

That sucks! We got hit pretty bad up north a few weeks ago

Oregon Trail for sure at school, but I also remember playing The Secret of Monkey Island on our Tandy at home alongside a Wheel of Fortune game.

In some places outside of the US you get charged for still (aka tap) water

Viewing this post on my own instance as well as a few other non-lemmy.world instances shows only 18/19 comments. When I look at it on lemmy.world I see that it has 31. It goes up to 32 when you include this comment so it looks like it probably isn’t a problem on your end.