u/Malaclypse5

I finished Enderal on June 25th, 2022. I still haven't replayed it.

I’ve been thinking about starting a new playthrough lately, but there’s something holding me back.

Enderal is one of those rare games where the first experience felt impossible to recreate.
I went in completely blind, got attached to the characters, the world, and eventually reached the ending with Calia on the island after everyone else was gone.

When the credits rolled, I just sat there for a while.
Not because it was perfect, but because it felt complete.

My worry is that replaying it might somehow change that memory.
Not that the game would be worse, but that I would no longer remember it the same way.
The surprise, the emotions, the feeling of discovering everything for the first time - those things only happen once.
At the same time, I know a second playthrough would probably reveal things I missed the first time.

For those who replayed Enderal: did it change how you felt about your first playthrough, or did it make you appreciate it even more?

I'm seeing more and more draw.io schematics in this sub that are incredibly complex and clearly well thought-out. A few years ago, that was my goal too.
Making elaborate, good-looking graphs and network diagrams was the thing.
But a few years wiser and many containers lighter, I've come to appreciate that simplicity is key.

I now host the bare minimum of containers and VMs to meet the demands of myself and my "customers" in my case, my family and a handful of small paying clients.

Many of you who keep expanding your setups have likely only ever had to maintain things for yourselves, and I respect that.
But the moment you're maintaining infrastructure for someone else who's paying you to keep things running, your mindset shifts drastically.

For me, the magic of self-hosting was the discovery and the learning.
The logical next step was to take that knowledge and build a network infrastructure with services I know inside and out, things I can fully control, whether that's my own software or open-source projects I actively maintain.
After all that, my personal takeaway is this: once you become truly self-sufficient, the natural next step is sharing that knowledge with others and making a little money from it.

That said, you absolutely don't have to go down that road. Hosting your own stuff and being happy with it is a completely valid place to land, no judgment whatsoever.