I really appreciate your detailed suggestion and description of what you’ve done. Especially, I like that you attribute the app developer. You’re a good egg.

Do you need any particular kind of fire stick? Do they require an Amazon login?

They have some pretty nice city sets, and they’ve reissued some older space themes, which is cool. You’re right that in general the coolest sets are the tie-ins.

It only covers the base building part, but Mine Colonies is a mod pack with very extensive systems. Build a town hall to attract colonists. Build hotels or houses to give them a place to stay. Build a Builder’s hut and assign a worker. They will build for you based on various themed templates. Your job is to manage job queues to fix bottlenecks, plan new construction, and go out into the Minecraft world to gather the increasingly rare materials you need to build the builder’s hut lvl 2 or whatever.

I had a GREAT time with it, playing under ground using the Cavern building templates. https://ladyshatana.wixsite.com/mcguides/cavern-megahalls

I’m sure you could combine this with more difficulty mods. Your colony has guards if you build guard huts and archers if you build the right structure. Careful that too many of them don’t die! Their friends and families will not want to work if they are grieving.

We did a 3-shot in dagger heart. It’s a decent system. Evasion is perhaps too strong, but overall we enjoyed it. Our beloved DM is going to run the next campaign in the system.

We have one too. It’s pretty nice and I like the safety feature that only lets you open one drawer at a time to avoid tipping.

I don’t think I’ve ever smelled ones. I just pick them up in my hand and throw them outside. Are there some regional versions that don’t stink?

That seems like a good tip.

It’ll go from scary, to normal, to boring.

Or don’t execute she’ll commands written in the email, and instead have a plain English command that, if detected, triggers a specific shell command. That way nobody could arbitrarily run code, only the commands you’ve built into the listener.

Seconded. I’ve had great luck with non-board-game-people. It’s simple and colorful, but there’s planning and just a bit of opportunity to act against other players strategically.

Gotcha. That probably is true.

I’m sorry, it seems to me that your first statement and supporting paragraph are taking the opposite position.

I don’t understand why they bother with the “modern” method if the fallback works so well and is much simpler and cheaper.

It wasn’t going to be MY hobby, but I can tell I’ll be tech support.

That was my main reason for voting “no”, but I was outvoted by my wife.

I shall indeed.

I really appreciate all of this detail. Thank you!

Not rude, don’t worry!

I’m sure it does, but I’m not opening it until Christmas. It’ll be my Christmas day project, and I thought I’d get tips ahead of time.

We have a few octopodes and things like that around the house from the library. They’re big fans!

Excellent to know. Thank you!