Lawyer up, delete Facebook, build the gym

I refuse to believe he has the same attack and durability as The Wall

I know bit ideas are your bit, but preemptively doing someone else's bit idea irl is just taking things too far

This quote is a match that burns away all the happiness in the room

If she was the female lead in a deaf production of Swan Lake, she’d be a gal, Odette

Slurring my speech after drinking two-thirds of an O'Doul's

You have failed us, Elon. For this, you must die

(explaining sex to a pole) imagine an ice cream,

nobody wants to work anymore

That's helpful and reassuring, and I appreciate you sharing it! I hope that it was helpful to you at that point in your life.

Just read back through this and realized I sound approximately 130 years old

Our ten-year-old is nervous about identifying as "therian" and "otherkin" (these are Dad-is-confused quotes, not scare quotes). She's acting like a dragon, putting shiny things in a hoard, making a nest in her bed, occasionally growling instead of communicating actual important things. I've listened and been supportive (I hope), but I need to talk with her more about it at length once I do some research (which she has suggested).

She gets these concepts from Scratch (ostensibly a coding platform, actually a BBS for tweens) and her very online friends. I don't yet know how to approach it in a supportive way, but mostly I'm just upset that what should be a time in a kid's life where they're following their own imaginations, interests, and emotions to wherever wild place they may lead has turned into a time where you feel like you have to shoehorn yourself into This Strictly Defined Identity right this instant or else you're a person without a clique. And it's not the old prep/nerd/jock/goth/etc dynamic, it's gotta be something deep-seated that will feel like a betrayal if you ever give it up.

Like, the only thing she's really told me about this is that "some people call themselves therians and say they choose to be therian, but those aren't real therians". Gah! I want her to just experience being and exploring for a while without labeling and gatekeeping.

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is fun and charming. You can link yourself to a wall-climbing spider and get basically anywhere on the map way too early! You can run around on the treetops! You can sic crows on your enemies to steal their rupees!

The environmental and dungeon puzzles are great for playing with family as everyone gets to suggest various combinations combination of tables/beds/boulders/trampolines/decorative shrubs to get you where you need to go.

I think that’s a solid plan as long as the copay is reasonable

Let your indictment be your excitement at the theme park of success

It's gonna be "Edge" as people start to suffer cloud and subscription fatigue. When "services" revenue begins to flag, companies will try to get customers back on the hardware treadmill

(This is obviously just my wishful thinking)

You're still gonna get Tutorialized™ every time there's a new type of Pikmin or new mechanic, but eventually, it runs out of things to introduce. Everything after that is unfiltered good stuff. There are some tough challenges, but as always, the greatest challenge is the knowledge that you can probably just barely fit one more thing in today if you time everything juuuust right

I introduced the kids to Vampire Survivors which means I had to demonstrate Vampire Survivors so now I’m back to playing Vampire Survivors.

In turn, my daughter introduced me to Monster Train, which is just as good as everyone says and a great fit for tablet gameplay.

We try to get the kids' friends from public school over every so often and let them play out in the yard. Our oldest daughter's friends came over last week on Friday, and the rain forced everyone inside. I asked how their days at school went, and one of them said that she didn't go to school because she felt sick that morning, but she's just fine.

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So my oldest daughter has COVID for the first time now, everyone is wearing masks around the house when we're together, and I get to have a fun talk with her friend's parents.