Top 10 tips for 2025
I was thinking about this, but I think for now it will be too much with my schedule. Maybe in the summer.
Hey guys, I’m interested in running a new version of @b4us/@b4ca/@b4eu. The last games were not incredibly fun because it was solely based on land area. I want to make it based more on the real world, and strengths and weaknesses of each place. It’s definitely gonna have a little bit of a D&D style, so it won’t be just stats though. Some questions:
What region do you want to do? I’m thinking America and Canada, or maybe Europe.
What statistics and data should be used to give each state its strengths and weaknesses? It can’t be too complicated. I’m thinking it should be limited to 3 different stats (like population, industry, and terrain), that we use to balance each state out.
How should it be more fun?
How should it be more strategic? In the last game, every place you invaded was basically equal, so there’s no reason to go in any specific direction over another.
Most importantly, would you play this?
I took the SAT today. It was pretty easy, except for the very last math section. I had to guess on three of those. I had a homeschool friend in the room with me, so that was fun.
I have smart lightbulbs in my room, they’re not very good if I’m being honest. If I ever want to have mood lighting, I can do that though. I also have a HomePod mini that never works, somehow it can’t connect to wi-fi.
also i live in like the least smart home unintentionally. our TV is over 10 years old, so it doesn’t any smart features, and pretty much every machine in the house is single purpose. kinda neat. apparently our airfryer has an app though.. i have many questions
i love my watch. it’s a casio g-shock something something, and it tells the time and date, accurate to the second, and does literally nothing else. no notifications, no “take a moment to breathe”, it’s literally just a simple non backlit display that tells the time.
i think this is also the experience people have with mechanical watches but for me, time is not fractions of a circle, it is a number. i can’t read analog clocks 
Hey guys, I’m interested in running a new version of @b4us/@b4ca/@b4eu. The last games were not incredibly fun because it was solely based on land area. I want to make it based more on the real world, and strengths and weaknesses of each place. It’s definitely gonna have a little bit of a D&D style, so it won’t be just stats though. Some questions:
What region do you want to do? I’m thinking America and Canada, or maybe Europe.
What statistics and data should be used to give each state its strengths and weaknesses? It can’t be too complicated. I’m thinking it should be limited to 3 different stats (like population, industry, and terrain), that we use to balance each state out.
How should it be more fun?
How should it be more strategic? In the last game, every place you invaded was basically equal, so there’s no reason to go in any specific direction over another.
Most importantly, would you play this?
Time for me to take their place on the leaderboard…?
One of my friends got an Apple Watch and he uses that to text, but he’s blocked from messaging anyone outside his family. On the Apple Watch, if one of your friends completes a workout, you can reply from the notification. So whenever I workout, even though he’s blocked from messaging me, he can still send me a message using that workaround. The funny part is, I can’t respond back 
I started reading the trending page on Mastodon every day a while back, and took the political compass test again to find that I had moved further leftwards and towards the libertarian side. I don’t know the exact numbers, but it was a big shift.
I guess this tells you something about how the information you consume changes you.
I just took the political compass quiz to compare my results from today to those of January 2023.
In January 2024, I was 3.0 inside the left wing sector and 2.1 inside the libertarian sector.
In January 2025, I was 4.25 inside the left wing sector and 1.6 inside the libertarian sector.
So I’m now more left wing but slightly less liberal.
Country hot takes (in order of how hot they are):
Every possible country should join the EU and NATO
Let Kurdistan be independent
Let Kosovo be independent
Let Catalonia be independent
Let Greenland be independent
Let Abkhazia and South Ossetia be independent
Let Somaliland be independent
Give Washington DC to Maryland
Move the Idaho/Oregon border (Greater Idaho movement)
Northern Ireland should join Ireland. All other UK independence movements should not move forwards, however
Let all Canadian provinces vote to join America
Merge Liechtenstein into Switzerland, San Marino into Italy, Monaco into France and Andorra into Spain. Or let them join the EU. Either option.
Make a single country out of the EU (like a United States of Europe)
This has been an absolutely wild couple of days in the wasteof community (offsite mostly) - I can't speak for everyone but I’m quite tired and tense because of it. It also distracted me from doing homework. So I’m probably gonna not log on for a few days.