I’d like to think these are just some of the universal things of what makes a community fulfilling and fun, as I was mostly trying to abstract some of my favorite things about being Jewish from the faith component.

For some people, it’s important to have rules!! Of course you need the standard social construct rules, but the less necessary ones are important too. I think they give structure and consistency to people, so even if they’re arbitrary, it fulfils that need and as long as isn’t disruptive to society, I don’t see the harm. Plus, knowing someone also follows the same rules, rituals and holidays you do gives you instant rapport with them, so it aids in building a sense of community. Polite people outside of the new religion will also be curious and interested in hearing about these rules/rituals and whatever reasoning could uphold them, and the followers likely will enjoy explaining them, so this helps them build friendships outside of the religious group as well.

Tho it’s crucial that others aren’t ostracized for not following the more arbitrary ones and that those that do follow them don’t feel any actionable feelings of superior devotion or what-not. I think you can ostracize people who violate rules that relate to already well established social constructs (theft, murder, etc), but not the more frivolous restrictions and behavioral requirements we’d invent here.

The most fun parts of religion are the camaraderie and intricate, abstracted rituals that used to serve one purpose but now serve a different, often symbolic one.

So lots of that. Spaced out throughout the year as to give followers a way of marking the passing of time and a reason to call out of work at regular intervals.

Oh, let’s toss in a lil religious specific language to aid as a group identifier and how about some arbitrary rules/guidelines that aren’t strictly enforced and vary by region but give those rules loving peoples something to grab onto.

Oh oh oh and unique cuisine! Food goods made in certain ways at certain times, with some slight variation so followers could have techniques and recipes to share and mild, inconsequential things to disagree and hold frivolous, memetic arguments about.

The details don’t really matter all that much, as long as it can serve as a way to find community and camaraderie in new places, reinforce solidarity with your fellow humans, and give some rituals for timekeeping and distraction from modern life.

Streaming is just cable

Buddy I ain’t saying shit here to feel virtuous, I’m pointing and laughing at a fool

Also you’re a fucking bigot, you shouldn’t feel welcome here or anywhere else! Go crawl in a hole and rot!

Naw I’m a decent human being and you can’t say the same about yourself.

You violated community and site rules with your post and now you’re shitting your pants over it by making a multiple post hissy fit about your bigoted trash getting rightfully removed.

For someone who calls themself old geezer you sure act like a fucking baby 🤣

You didn’t post news, you posted some transphobic meme you found funny.

You’re an ass and your content wasn’t fit to read.

“Wahhhh wahhh people hate my bigoted rhetoric” - u

Hey Googoo, I ain’t gonna watch YouTube if it got ads

The Pope and the Church aren’t friendly to the LGBT community?

Color me shocked!

We remember the tall people who make these jokes and when the lean times come, it will be you begging us for the food in our larders. We will remember then, too.

Once. It took like 15 min and I did it while grocery shopping.

I’ve never really seen an issue with the standard glass beer bottle in North America, is there a superior bottle shape that I’ve been missing all my life?

I think you should try it. I think an hour is appropriate for a lot of the story beats if you have a decent memory, though maybe an hour and a half would be better suited to some of the more involved parts. A lot of this is affected by your reading speed. There’s a lot of reading.

For what it’s worth, I also played it in bursts, but probably something like 2 hr sessions. There’s a lot of rough, serious material in that game and I found it a lot to process at once, so I took breaks between sessions fairly often.

I find many beers impact the flavor only just a bit, but a Toasted lager makes a great loaf.

It’s a nice way to use up beer you didn’t finish or don’t like and it’s a super easy recipe.

Beer bread is like a simple soda bread; you can do it however you like and it usually turns out good

I save mine and make em into bread

I’m less concerned about how these are deployed against soldiers as I am about how they’re being provided to police departments as they are in the US.

I’m not so sure I’d call myself a “tankie”, but I’d like a $12k new car and if it were an EV, even better. I recently paid more for a used car! Cars, like everything else, have gotten so stupidly expensive. It would have been nice to see one thing actually become more affordable because I know wages ain’t gonna increase accordingly for a long time.

Aren’t those subjective things? It’s easier to measure something like chess skill or whether or not someone can do complex math, but harder to quantify someone’s morality.