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Being bored is not a bad thing. If by being bored you mean 'not doing something' and not being 'busy' because then it means one can start thinking by oneself. Something that seems to be severely lacking in our so modern and so constantly busy societies.

If you want to know what are my usual activities, beside welcoming boredom, I would say: read, write, paint, go out for a walk (that's amazing too, for the body as well as the mind), spend time with my spouse, making stuff with my hands.

But it has kings and queens and knights, armies of pawns and thick towers to defend them during merciless battles. It also has bishops, but I much prefer the French name: les fous aka the crazy ones ;)

It's a beautifully deep game, and it's refreshing to be able to pour time into something with staying power that people of every age play all over the world.

So much this :)

Would chess count?

I mean chess is not not popular by any stretch of the mind, a lot of people around the world are playing it every single day and that won't go away anytime soon, but I'm always surprised to see so much more excitement going on around a new version of This or That video game that people will play for a little while before switching to a newer version than for chess. Despite its apparent simplicity (and lack of visual effects), chess has remained a challenge for the smartest among us, and will keep on being so no matter how much better computers can be playing it.

Neither Tuta or Proton will neatly integrate with Apple Mail if you want to send/receive encrypted messages. At least the last I checked it required for Proton a separate client that was not bug free (can't remember for tuta).

If you don't care about encryption, you may want to consider the Swiss Infomaniak.

They have a cloud offer which includes cloud storage (1to base), calendar and email, plus the online version of MSOffice, all being hosted on their Swiss servers.

I may have missed something, here so to make sure:

1. Do you want a wiki specifically, or are you looking for a tool that would allow you to easily create and manage some worldbuilding bible, be it a wiki or not a wiki?
2. Isn't LibreOffice able to export to MediaWiki (Wikipedia)? I have not checked, and never used it, but I think it's there somewhere.

the best thing it can do is just make a document look good,

It can also help you write the actual book, worrying about the document 'look' aka its formatting is optional (and if done properly, using Styles, it's almost 100% automated) ;)

Wouldn't a word processor do trick? you can add links, images, refs, notes,... and have as many pages as you need (edit: and search them, add a table of content, and so on). LIbreOffice is most certainly already installed on your Linux distro and is also available for Mac and Windows.

C'est pas hyper technique mais est-ce que vous connaissez un logiciel (ou un site) pour dessiner le plan d'un appartement facilement ?

Un crayon et du papier + une photo/scan avec le smartphone? Tu pouuras même annoter le plan, sans changer de crayon, pour le rendre encore plus informatif ;)

Imho, any kind of fiction is imagination, dream, escape, and is without limit. The setting and the 'reality' it's based upon may change in one form of fiction compared to another but that doesn't make them different (or less daring) anymore than, say, me changing clothe.

So to answer your question, I think fantasy like most other literary labels is mostly a term coined to allow a few people to shine a little more than they would otherwise do, and maybe to help publishers create/manage more niche markets. And since it works quite well, it started being used by readers to feel assured that they would get the kind of 'imagination' they're used too.

I love reading fiction a lot more than I care about reading any genre... despite having my own favorite genres too, don't get me wrong. My bookshelves are a mess of various type of books and genres and the only semblance of order one will find in it is how much I appreciate one author compared to the others ;)

I don't think any country has 'a view' on the way to speak their language. I mean, would there be a law, some rules and sanctions against accents?

People may have their own opinion on the matter but that opinion will vary widely from one person to the other.

My opinion, which was already mentioned in another comment, is that anyone making fun on someone speaking a foreign language can (and should) go funk themselves.

We should welcome those kind of efforts instead of mocking them, and we should also be happy to be encouraged to speak more foreign languages ourselves. I say that as I a French that's poorly speaking a few languages and would love to speak a lot more.

No, but why would I want to watch another of those Americans pretend they're a super hero saving the world while they only care about shoving their shit deep down our throats and then make us thank them for that?

Not knowing what usually makes you cry and what kind of movies you may enjoy, here are the first movies I know make me cry. Me being a a 50+ years old dude:

• Somewhere in Time
• The bicentennial man
• Love Story.

And those are from Ghibli:

• When Marnie was There
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
• From Up on Poppy Hill
• Only Yesterday
• The Red Turtle
• Porco Rosso