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You weren't an ML, but made some excellent communist content none the less. Hope they're alright.
EDIT: Upon looking around, I found their Patreon. It appears she's taking a brake from and or retiring from YouTube due to mental health complications.

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Zelensky Calls On U.S. To Send Totally Psycho Marine (www.theonion.com)

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KYIV, UKRAINE—In a desperate plea for aid in the continued effort to expel his nation’s Russian occupiers, sources reported Friday that President Volodymyr Zelensky had called upon the United States to send a totally psycho marine to assist in Ukraine’s war effort. “You know, one of those expertly trained, one-man-army guys who carries an arsenal on his back and has killed so many people in combat he’s now cold, unfeeling, and completely insane—you gotta have at least one of those to spare, right?” said Zelensky, specifying that the ideal candidate would be a wild-eyed shirtless muscleman who functioned as a completely self-sufficient killing machine and could take out hundreds, if not thousands, of enemies all by himself. “In order to get the upper hand against Russia, we’re going to need your most batshit, balls-to-the-wall ex-special-forces guy. He’ll have a crazy name like Razor or Bloodhound or something, and he’ll always be blacking out and waking up covered in blood with a whole village dead around him. If he has a personal score to settle with the Russians, that’s great, but the most important thing is that he just kills and kills and kills and kills—sometimes using a cherished hunting knife that belonged to a fallen comrade, even though a gun would be faster. Honestly, he can kill a few Ukrainians too, if he wants, just so long as he gets the job done.” At press time, the U.S. Marine Corps had reportedly agreed to send “the craziest motherfucker” it had, just as soon as he had applied his face paint, donned a necklace of severed human ears, and stopped in for chest wax.

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I've Been Thinking of Starting a Minetest Server (lemmygrad.ml)

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Minetest

What is Minetest?

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Minetest is an open source voxel engine, designed for the creation of games in the same vain as Minecraft. In doing so it has a preinstalled, built in game, and vary mature modding API, that allows for the easy creation of mods/games. Furthermore, Minetest's built in game is in a mature state, that is fun to play with or without the aid of mods.

Why Minetest?

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The reasoning behind why I chose Minetest is as follows:

Minetest is Open Source
Minetest requires few system resources to run properly
Minetest's main game play loop is that of building/construction, a desire I imagine most of us would like to be able to play with more.

What is Open Source?

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Open Source software must make the source code for it freely available, and allow the recipient of it to distribute that source code accordingly. Furthermore, that copy of their source code may be modified by them according to their wishes, without the need to ask for permission from it's original creator. These principles, enforced through the software licenses that use them, have allowed for the community driven development that created the likes of Lemmy, Linux, Android (Largely), VLC Media Player, and more have lead to stable and largely enjoyable user experiences for all of us, in a secure, community driven manner that benefits all of us.

Why Open Source?

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The attributes described above allowed us to build our community around this wonderful piece of software (Lemmy), even without prior consent from it's own creators, or being kicked off for being "dirty reds".

Is Your Computer Fast Enough to Run It?

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I've gotten the game to run on a laptop with a single core Intel Atom processor with 1GB of RAM, so in all likely hood, you should be able to get this game running on your machine.

The Cons of Me Doing It.

Their are a number of things that could go wrong with my being responsible for doing it however. For example, as I am an Amerikkkan, it is entirely possible that this will be taken down, especialy seeing as the only way I would be able to afford to do this is via a $100 credit I have received for Linode, an Amerikkan cloud provider that would host my server. Furthermore, I am inexperienced with hosting anything online like this, so my ability to correct for DDoS attacks, trolls, and other internet shenanigans would be minimal, leading to long and frequent down times. Finally, as I would be operating this server alone, when I am sleeping or unavailable for work/school/etc any problems in the server would permeate while I'm unable to correct any of it.