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  • We played Expeditions, the successor of Scythe and really enjoyed it. Expeditions is a completely different game from Scythe, except that its design is very similar. Unlike Scythe, it is not very strategic but a very tactical game. We played it the second time now, but got a rule wrong, leading to really easy accomplishments of quests (I guess they may be called like that in the English version). I’m excited to play it a third time, and am very interested in playing it with a third player, as I only got to play it with my wife yet.



  • We seem to have something in common: there is a serialisation form, we strongly dislike. But what I cannot understand is: why the heck would anyone torture anyone else to read or even write XML? XML is the absolutely worst configuration language I can imagine. I mean: when is something an attribute, when a tag on its own? What is even a list? And don’t forget to include a full HTTP URI for the namespace, otherwise the tag is not defined.

    By the way: all valid JSON is valid yaml as well. So in theory, you can use yaml as JSON with comments.




  • This. Is. Exactly. What. I. Wish. For. A. Very. Long. Time.

    Nowadays every news site has paywalls. I’m willing to pay for good work, but if I pay a single news provider, I’m missing too much. Nobody is willing to pay for every publisher. Even if an article is just a few cents I neither want to be annoyed with the payment process nor do I want to manually keep track of how much I spent for news in a month.

    We really need a platform providing a news flat rate, aggregating most larger publishers.



  • For me, it’s Ubuntu as well. Canonical continuously integrates stuff to make the whole distribution more complex and hard to maintain. Without going into much detail, Ubuntu always tries to do things where there is a good standardized way different. Why the heck do we need yet another containerized GUI application environment (I’m looking at you, Snap!); Why do you develop lxd, when there is systemd-nspawn, docker and podman?!