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Hmm. How would I check that? Did my instance defederate?

Edit: Apparently we're federated. Still can't see any recent posts, though.

Is that one still active? The most recent posts I can see are two months old.

Welcome back, 2007, close enough!

Reminds me of trying to place fences in Planet Coaster.

I totally want to get it now.

I wonder if there's horse oil for snakes.

I don't think this is a list of priorities like the title claims, it appears to be ordered by disapproval, unless I'm missing something.

My father is declining, my father's declining, my fathers are declining, my fathers' declining.

Aye, 'tis my father's declension.

Perhaps they just did not share their hobbies and interests with you at the time. Were any of them actually close friends with you?

None of the girls and women I know who are into gaming are really 'obvious' about it to strangers, partly because of the stigma and the resulting interactions you'd get, and partly because there just isn't too much to talk about that you can't already talk about online in your communities. Especially if most reactions to your gaming hobby you'd get from boys would be ridicule, weird creepiness and/or condescension. We usually kept it to ourselves.

Besides, if they played games like The Sims, it's pretty obvious they were really into gaming. Sims is an incredibly complex and time-consuming hobby for most people – modding, worldbuilding projects, family legacies that take hundreds of hours of playtime. I know not a single Sims-playing woman who is not at least temporarily obsessed with that game, hasn't modded it to shreds and hasn't spent a three-digit amount of money on its expansions.

I'd say that the average Need for Speed gamer is a much more casual gamer than a Sims player. But because the latter are mostly women, we were treated with the same condescending "it's a kid's toy" type attitude boys actually thought we had toward their games.

I went back to using in-game communication and social features and I can't believe we stopped doing it. It is so much more immersive to hang out in, say, a guild hall to chat with whoever happens to be online, than to be available 24/7 in an outside app.

I would also want to add that many of these terms are regional and subculture-specific.

In the specific part of Germany I grew up in, a 'joint' was any smokable rolled cigarette-like object with cannabis in it. Nobody used any more specific words like 'blunt'.

Then talking to people one town over, they looked at you as if you were from the moon if you called anything a 'joint' that didn't have tobacco in it. To them, a 'joint' was exclusively a mix of cannabis and tobacco, and a 'blunt' was cannabis-only.

Then there's people who add weed to pre-bought cigarettes, people who insist on using leaves, filters and no filters, tobacco or no tobacco, and so on. Most of these terms are really regional.

I came here to suggest Urbek City Builder too. It could be right up their alley.