Burning Wheel hands down.

-“Artha” system for codifying character goals into skill development. Characters pursuing their goals is the primary means of progression. 👌

-Lethal and unbloated combat.

-Many types of magic with very diverse play styles.

-System for resolving in game in character arguments that tie into other systems.

The whole system is very thoughtfully produced and the systems all relate and tie back to Artha and character development.

The setting is very pulp/dark fantasy.

My playgroup will be returned to the game soon and offer for years to come.

My favourite is Burning Wheel from the same devs.

I think you can also use Jitsi as a plugin from within Matrix

Definitely, even better if you can try during a free weekend or get it half price on a sale.

Amazing with friends, on your own or with randos.

So many organic ways to interact and communicate with other players. Seriously cool, unique and worthwhile experience.

Sea of Thieves.

There has never and will never be any pay to win. Everyone has access to all weapons at any time, no unlocking, just pure skill.

Up to 4 players on your team (ship) open servers with other players all sailing around all the time. You can get in an organic fight over treasure, or matchmake for ranked battles.

All of the progression is cosmetic based.

The devs have been adding content constantly since launch that fleshes out the game systems and makes for more interesting interaction.

I come back to this game all the time. Highly recommend.

HelloChinese for Mandarin

…We’ve all been doing that for years.

Snowden implicated Google and Apple in 2013.

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So does ChatGPT, and I can’t run that offline…

XMPP is a tried and tested e2ee standard.

There is mention of e2ee voice and video chat on the site.

Signal Private Messenger is free open source, works on everything. Your grandma could use this.

I have slowly migrated all of my friends and family to this over the last few years.

All of the big ‘encrypted’ messengers like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger use the Signal Protocol under the hood but insert their own shady business and tracking defeating a lot of the purpose.

There are other perhaps more anonymous options like SimpleX or XMRchat but they are not practical nor needed for most threat models.

Matrix is not quite mature enough but is a better option than discord for gaming communities.

Signal everyday. I would not recommend Telegram. DYOR.

My APAP machine has a sim card and unless I am careful to not disable airplane mode every time I start it up, it will send all of my health data to company that I have signed no agreement with.

I explicitly declined to agree to the privacy policy of the company that sold it to me.

If I find my data in a breach, lawyers will be involved.

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I’m holding my breath for Deadlock to bring my MOBA and shooter field groups together.

I got back to Grim Dawn all the time.

I’m excited for Fangs of Asterkarn!

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I sold my switch as soon as the original SD was announced. Just got my OLED in the mail and couldn’t be happier; easily the best console experience I’ve ever had.

It provides security to the network and gives them more power over the price.

These work perfectly on any chromium browser like Brave fyi.

This is how I buy all of my single player games.

If anyone hasn’t tried it, highly recommend ‘demoing’ Outer Wilds.