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You already knew лудис from люде :)

Yeah that one caught me off guard too. Any idea why? The only reason I can think of is that it's very easy to confuse with `substring`.

I've used it for a personal project blog and I'm really happy with it. I wouldn't call myself a heavy user though.

Awesome, that's really good to hear! Happy user here - I was recently on the lookout for a simple hosted blogging platform for a personal project, and write.as fit the bill perfectly.

Will PRs for WriteFreely generally make it into Write.as?

Is that after they left beta? I noticed quite a few outages, but that was while they still had the big beta disclaimer on things. I've not had any trouble since.

I once played a Mulatu Astatke album on a friend's Spotify account during a social gathering at his house, and he complained his discover weekly playlist was mostly African music for the next couple of months.

The discover weekly algorithm seems to latch on to outliers, I guess.

I have to agree. This sort of hatred kind of made sense 150 years ago when it was part of a liberation struggle, but it's just plain racism at the moment. People should be better than this.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Bulgarian who's lived in the UK for the past decade. Most Bulgarians who have lived in Bulgaria their whole lives would probably disagree with me.)

That's a leftover thing back from Ottoman Empire times. There is not a lot of love for Turkish people in Bulgaria.

So the situation isn't great but it's been not great for a long time.

It feels weird to say there's no conflict in Eurogames.

Power Grid is pretty relentless and brutal - there's no violent aspect to it, but you can mess your opponents pretty badly, and it still hurts.

The only time I've managed to get my girlfriend to swear at me was when I stole the line she was clearly trying to build in Ticket to Ride.

Small World kind of sort of does that.

The game simulates the rise and fall of civilisations, and a key part of the game is knowing when to call it quits with your current civilization and start playing with a new one. You skip a turn whenever you do that, so you can easily shoot yourself in the foot if your timing is off.

I recently stumbled upon a webcomic called Drugs and Wires. It may have more comedy than you'd expect from the subject matter, but it builds an excellent dystopian world.

I've read various William Gibson books and generally enjoyed them, but I find his dense writing style exhausting sometimes. I think a comic written by him could work pretty well.

It's one of my favourite horror novels. It's really good fun if you're into that kind of thing.