It’s okay.

A little weird on a post where someone’s talking about what an asshole their kid is, but no worries.

I’m glad I never had kids.

There are still a few dozen active persistent worlds. They all have different flavors. Some are role-play focused and some more hack-and-slash. Some are high magic and some low. You kinda just have to try a bunch out and see which shoe fits.

If you’re logged in as the DM, you basically have a cheat menu that allows you to spawn monsters, items, placeables, etc. It’s pretty darn cool.

I run a weekly campaign on Neverwinter Nights and this week was the annual Halloween event. After closing the evil portal I introduced the players to ‘Gertie’, basically a character I made that’s an amalgamation of all the weird grandmas you all met when trick-or-treating as kids (using the game’s Sea Hag model), and she asked each adventurer: “Now what are YOU supposed to be, little boy/girl?” and made one of them kiss her on the cheek because he was “so adorable”.

And then she gave them bags of candy.

That turned out pretty funny with how the various party members reacted and played along with the gag.

You could build your own spreadsheet using LibreOffice Spreadsheets.

I’ve been meaning to do it because my diet doesn’t change much, and it would just be easier to track it myself.

These are not the people who raised me or the values they raised me with.

Agreed. The version of my parents that I loved is already dead and gone.

Anytime they bring up politics, I just tell them we can’t discuss it.

If they press the matter, I say the same thing, except the second time I add: “…because it’s going to make me hate you.”

They’ve been borrowing my car to drive for DoorDash since April 2024 and still haven’t figured out that this government they voted for is really fucking shitty.

Oh, there are also some helpful mods now.

There is some difficulty, yes, but you can read the guides on Steam to get some help in mitigating that. I’ve died hundreds of times playing it, but some of them are legit funny, like the time I used a wand to summon a black hole, not considering that it might suck my wizard in too.

I find it to be great fun.

Finally playing Silent Hill 2, which is scary as heck. (Try playing it with the sound off and your controller vibration on for a bit.)

Still playing Noita a lot.

Also DMing weekly campaigns on Neverwinter Nights.

Holy crap, that looks fun!

Jeanne D’Arc and Silent Hill Origins were pretty good.

That’s what you get for procreating.

Most libraries have really neat summer reading programs.

My local libraries gives entrants a free book just for signing up, and a prize for reading five books over the summer. (For grownups the prize is a pint glass.)

I’d also chalk it up to convenience.

The Fediverse requires effort.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t actually looked at the stats for accepted penalties in the NFL. If you had, you’d know the Bills and Vikings are actually getting much more help than the Chiefs.

But that’s okay.

You can be wrong. :) The rest of us know your team sucks of their own accord.

The Kansas City Chiefs vs the rest of the NFL.

I’m glad I lived to see my team’s villain era.

Skeptical Enquirer

Yeah, mine was an alcoholic for 25 years but inexplicably quit cold turkey one day when I was a teen.

I think it’s just a ton of undiagnosed, untreated mental illness. My mom’s mother was abusive and her loving father died when she was a teen. My dad’s dad died when he was eleven and he became the breadwinner for his mom and siblings, and didn’t stop working for another sixty-five years. (Well, he drives for DoorDash now, so I suppose he’s still working, but it’s a far cry from roofing.)

I actually feel a little bad for my dad. He worked his ass off his whole life and has almost nothing to show for it, but somehow, could never put his foot down when it came to my mom and adding more kids to the family. In most other countries his lifetime of work and owning a business would have meant a comfortable retirement, but not here. In America, no one gives a fuck.