Tried any Jack McDevitt? I like both of his main series (Alex Benedict and Priscilla Hutchins ones). Remember enjoying deep six, chindi, and seeker in particular. He has a unique feel which I think I saw someone describe as science fiction archaeology which I think is apt.
I’ll plug the [email protected] community. Two months in and last months read was Iain Banks Player of Games and this months is Winter World by A.G. Riddle. Usually have a vote thread 6 weeks before the end of the month to pick a new one.
Maybe do a series of horror movie watch parties for October instead?
But battling the small community issue in printSF and Detroit Lions. Makes me miss Reddit.
Would be interested in this. US east coast time.
Ouch, Goff deserves better. Better than Fields and Jones.
Did some Googling and found this article: homebrew academy
Reading it it might make sense to kill off the yeast before trying to boil off the alcohol. Maybe use a still so all of the water vapor is captured and flavor retained?
It’s not too late to start the drinking game. Soooo good.
Seconding that that’d be fun. I’d also be down if we wanted to try and put together a race season depending on the number of people, time, and program (ACC, Automobilista 2, etc.)
As of the other day the series was on sale at GOG. ~$30 for 0 though 6.
New to the series and started with 0 and been enjoying it.
Haven’t played but from another thread I saw about that game awhile ago was to try and play co-op to start. Was told it can be very difficult initially playing solo.
World of Tanks is similar too. A little faster paced perhaps but doing the right thing in the right place is a 1000% more important than reflexes imo. Never played in clans and it might be different at that level.
Commented on something like this the other day. Official votes should be limited to its own community with only active votes. The slate of votes would run at standard times (i.e. Sunday to Sunday). The agora could be used for discussion and meeting a threshold for a topic to clear to be put on the voting slate.
What about automobilista 2?
I think we should come up with a fairly simple algorithm that uses an exponential for different factors (age, posts, etc) to weight a vote. Should be designed so that it will cap at a certain value (ex. 6 month old account same weight as 14 years all else being equal).
I think we should do some data science on the first couple of votes or maybe even automate that on all votes so we can better understand how the community at large is responding to a specific question. That is if you have a vote and no matter which way you cut it 80% said yes, cool. If you have another that’s swings around a bit maybe it needs to be better fleshed out to account for everyone’s point of view.
Not a data scientist myself but a related field and can help with some of that if need be.
I think the vote posts might be better off in their own community outside the agora, like c/pollingplace or something. Discussions and topics that meet a threshold here are moved to that community and voting goes for a week. Each week the current slate of pending votes is posted and voting can occur with upvotes and downvotes on an aye, nay, and abstention comments inside the post.
Can a mod/admin/whatever pull who upvoted what? Somehow Lemmy is tracking it since it knows what you’ve upvoted. But it might make sense for the first couple of votes to do some real data analysis on them (who/what instances, age of account, average post quantity voted which way) to determine an algorithm that minimizes brigading while allowing everyone a voice.
Agreed. Kinda leaves you a Lemmy nomad which doesn’t feel great.
I was all for Aye but you do make a good argument. Especially since I was thinking of spinning up my own instance for just me. On the other hand it’s not that difficult (at least right now) to just spin up an account here to have a vote.
I do think it makes sense that the people who call their instance home get to call the shots though.
For example: Beehaw. Their admins defederated sh.itjust.works because they wanted to. Fair, idk but their choice.
Edit: looks the Dude has a similar opinion. https://sh.itjust.works/comment/296455
Fair. I kinda generalized it all under “voting rules and regulations”.
Very fair. Good luck finding a new book