Now that we have a mod team in place for The Agora, this is our next priority. We're working on some preliminary guidelines based on previous discussions/votes that we'll be discussing soon.
For now, just know that we share your concerns. We want everyone to feel represented here, not just a vocal minority.
People keep giving Bethesda a pass for their nonsense, so they keep acting like clowns. Simple as.
I can't speak to NZ, but even a normal tank dehumidifier should have the option for a drain line. It'll usually be a hose fitting hidden above/behind where the tank sits, so you can run a line to whatever household drain is nearby. And if it doesn't already have a fitting, it's usually pretty simple to add one.
It can make placement a hassle since you need to be near a drain, but you'll barely need to touch it beyond setup. It's a huge upgrade from dumping the tank constantly.
Whatever you want to call the genre that Vampire Survivors popularized, Brotato is one of the best of them. The concept is inherently stupid, and they lean all the way into it. It's also only $5.
I enjoyed them all, but Asylum was my favorite by far. It struck a perfect balance between being a tight, contained experience, while giving you a great set of tools to deal with things as you saw fit. It was claustrophobic in a great way, and you felt like an apex predator when you figured out how to work within the constraints.
The rest of them feel excessive in comparison, both being too open and giving you too many tools to work with. I never felt like I could get into a "flow state" with them like I could with Asylum.
This feels like a gross overreaction to the situation. Sure, I don't love the fact that TD has a tiny presence here, but I fail to see how that should be cause to defed a large instance. Especially when that community just popped up recently, only came to anyone's attention in the last day or so, and (to my knowledge) hasn't caused any real trouble other than the Agora mod vote thread getting a bit spicy.
I'm sure it's something we'll need to address internally, but it's just one item on that list. And for now, it seems like a low priority item.
If you want some really wild old storage tech, a normal VHS cassette could hold 3-5gb of data. But we didn't have any use for that much storage at the time, and CDs were taking over by the time we did, so nobody bought the VHS storage hardware.
I go through phases, but lately I've been mostly using a Hario Cafeor. It's basically a stainless mesh v60, and it produces incredible coffee once you get used to its idiosyncrasies. Anyone who prefers metal filters over paper should give it a try.
I'll probably try it eventually, but I don't have high hopes since Edmund isn't involved. SMBF was awful, and this looks like a similar mess.
Consider this another vote for Ubuntu or any of its variants. They're beginner friendly, and established enough that you'll find plenty of resources written specifically for them. Linux Mint is another one I'd recommend for beginners, it's designed to "just work" out of the box and be an easy transition for Windows users.
Then it's just down to using it some. First and foremost, leave Windows installed until you're comfortable with whatever else you end up trying. Whether you partition, or make a bootable USB drive, or even just a VM, use some kind of temporary space for practice. The terminal is a lot less intimidating when you aren't learning in your main environment, you can go break things and see what happens.
So far, we have a captcha on account creation now and it seems to be working (from what I've seen, anyway)
It'll be a tough balancing act though. Relatively frictionless sign-up has been great for us, and anything that deals with bots will also affect that. Whatever else we may end up doing will need to be carefully considered.
The honest answer is that we're still trying to get The Agora running, and a backlog developed in the process. We are working on it, it's just going to take some time to sort through the old votes. We've been focused on cleaning up the process so we don't have this problem moving forward.