According to some people on the fediverse, the Kagi forum thread that is linked in the toots I posted above and seemingly nowhere else.

From a non political standpoint: I tried Kagi last year and it was ok but I didn’t get the big deal. And because I’m not in the US but the UK if you try searching where’s my nearest garage or stay the nearest result came up as 150 miles away. So it’s one of those things I’ll maybe return to it once it’s developed a bit more

The sources I find are solely from mastodon threads, and date from this month and the Brave thing. This is the best thing I’ve found

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111707573907442638

It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?

I play all sorts of different games though, some where you’re not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don’t feel like it’s that big a deal

I finished Consider Phlebas on my commute - I still don’t rank it quite as highly as the others but it came to life more at the end. My favourite bit was when Horza was trapped on the cannibal cult island. Completely irrelevant to the plot but some excellent wtf storytelling!

I only noticed this comment now, I’ve been reading the Culture series too - I enjoyed the world building in Consider Phlebas a lot but after a while I just wanted it to finish. So I skipped on and read a few others in the series then came back to finish it.

The Player Of Games was brilliant, enjoy!

I’ve been reading The Culture series by Iain M Banks. I gave up on the first book a while back, which I’ve heard is quite common, but I plan to go back and finish it.

I’ve just read The Player Of Games and Excession and both are exceptional.

I had no idea of this - I just googled it and it’s almost exactly like something out of the book.

I really enjoyed Yellowface, it’s a great read and a bit of a black comedy in places!

In my experience in my specific part of England that holds true - Aldi definitely seems a lot cleaner

What if this is the afterlife of a religion we don’t know about from our previous existence?

I don’t think you can have a rational reply to your question - it’s all head canon

The worst thing to do would be an inorganic botch job on here to fill a gap when there’s no need, you can read that content elsewhere.

Anyway, it’s not an automatic guarantee of engagement or interaction. It’s purely a hack move.

I’m happy to use Reddit if I feel I can’t find anything to read on Kbin. You are allowed to use both you know?

I mean yeah I vape, that makes sense because it wasn’t the nicotine itself which was killing my lungs.

Apparently nicotine itself is as bad for you as caffeine, the worst thing about it is it’s insanely addictive without giving much of a high or anything in return…

That’s a very black and white way of putting it. As long as you’re an adult who can tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and you’re not spending hours obsessed with it I don’t think it’s unhealthy. The way you phrase ‘avoid it completely’ makes it sound like you’re going out of your way to avoid it already.

(I think the problems are coming through with the generation being ‘brought up on porn’, and thinking real sex is like it is in the videos online but that’s a different story really.)

Can cigarettes be used in a healthy way? Eh, only in very specific scenarios

Gonna have to bite and ask what very specific scenarios smoking could be healthy?

I mean that shows the self-awareness that he knew that that was part of the humour really!

Summer Lightning was one of my favourites. You can’t go wrong with that one.

I do quite enjoy Wodehouse for Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings although one unemployed summer spent a lot of time binge reading them and they become quite repetitive!

Have updated comment above 🙂

If anyone wants the Radio Plays I can share a Google drive link

EDIT Here you go

Includes original radio series and the noughties radio series (adaptations of books - not as good but has the original cast and is entertaining)

The 70s records - essentially the commercial version of the first radio series - has the Disaster Area sequence in the for ‘Black Ship’ instead of the shapehifting aliens.

The Dirk Gently radio series with Harry Enfield. Inferior to the books but the most faithful adaptation.

Paywall free link

I mean I do think that whatever encourages people to read is great, but I know I’m getting old when I read in the article like this:

Filming themselves finishing a book in a single day against a backdrop of hundreds of them on shelves is all part of the performance, and viewers will be extra impressed if the book looks thick.

And just think “wtf?”

Tbh, I think the first two books are the best and it finishes perfectly for me there. It feels like that’s where he was on a roll creatively and his heart was really still into it. That might not actually be true, but that’s how it feels.

Douglas Adams himself didn’t like the third book although I still like bits of it. The fourth and fifth I don’t enjoy much - they’re not bad books, just not very funny.