Are you able to, say, wget 1.1.1.1?

Maybe it’s just DNS, since it’s UDP based there is no state, although some firewalls do detect requests and treat it as pseudo-stateful.

Ironically, stowman is a bash script whose only purpose is to wrap git and stow so that you only need a couple of very simple commands in order to manage dotfiles, the automation (i.e. the synchronization task) doesn’t seem to be a part of stowman.

Sadly I don’t have a modern equivalent of this game, but I have to say I am really into it since I do kinda enjoy the medieval ambient/theme.

Have you considered Medieval Dinasty?