We did ours as soon as we had the documents, around mid Feb. Despite how incredibly awful everything is lately, there’s still child tax credits and daycare credits from smarter times. No reason to procrastinate that, especially as we can invest it in a long term fund for the kids.

What, were they waiting for me? I just put CachyOS on yet another computer (which I won my wife over by making a custom theme in KDE Plasma, hehe). We’re not going back even if Copilots fully gone, it’s just not a good OS.

I usually just share, because my 4yo daughter is a logical little imp and since I’m like 6x her size, I tell her I’ll give her a little but I still get most cause I’m bigger and that always works.

My two year old, though, I’ll just say no more and let them cry. Gotta learn early, I guess. Lol

Win the cyborg over by accident with my overwhelming charisma and together we overthrow the BBEG.

Of a high school of 600 people, they all know that one kid who is dating their AI, just like we knew that one kid who was emotionally attached to his anime body pillow.

If neither, Nuclear Fallout Friday…

True. I think Tetra mod might let you, at least. Although I think you need something for the binding still so it’s not 1:1, lol

This is correct, mostly because apparently they already knew Strait of Hormuz was an issue. War is off the table if it hurts economically.

But bombing school girls? I could see it not stopping them. They just wouldn’t be as inept to waste missiles on it; it wouldn’t stop them if there was a strategic reason. They’re not much better than Israel, if our actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are any indication.

A few mods let you do this. You shouldn’t, but you could.

You knew exactly the game I had in mind, haha. A little yellow paint might have gone a ways with that one… but you know, not literally yellow paint. Lol

I play so many old games I practically forgot about yellow paint, but the last AAA I played didn’t use that or minimaps, and despite being mostly linear, it was an absolute chore in an overly detailed environment.

Ya don’t need literal yellow paint like in some games (although I know there’s reasons for that) but lighting is really a nice way to do it. And in either case it’s better than waymarks and big ol’ arrows pointing the fastest route to a quest target, I still want to use my brain a little after all!

As I tell my students jokingly, inside you there are two primates: a chimp and a bonobo.

One or two students laugh because she remembered chimps are bloodthirsty assholes and bonobos just want to fuck. Their both our evolutionary cousins, though.

At the end of the day, both are sides of human nature but the strongest side seems to be cooperative, not competitive, since tribe survival is so important (including with other tribes). Greed might be “fit” occasionally but typically isn’t worth the risk of alienating the tribe. A lone human is typically a dead human.

Until capitalism, anyway.

It is hopeless…

Because it’s the fucking red coins BEFORE you get the that star so you need some fancy jumps to get it and no matter how hard I try I can’t seem to do it and ugh I’m never gonna get that sweet RA badge-- hopeless.

It’s kinda like the founding of Australia - we get a ton of exiles who were wrongfully prosecuted by the Reddit government, but we also get a fair share of degenerates and murderers who also got banned and ended up here. There’s even a native Lemmy group who was here before Reddit shed users and they really don’t appreciate it to say the least.

A little unfair since Chevron is often 50 cents to a dollar more, but it’s still pretty bad. 5.60 a gallon at the cheapest. We still tax our gas though.

I wish the industry would just adopt standards like what RetroAchevements already does that prohibits both ends of the spectrum. Excessive achievements (as well as multiplayer) get subsets, progression achievements still exist but mostly to track “beating” a game. Nothing too easy, although April 1sts “Baby Mode” set for FF8 was fantastic. Lol

Having a standard made it higher in my mind than Steam achievements. Technically PS and Xbox have set rules too but not nearly as well thought out (e.g. what classifies as a Bronze vs Gold) and still allow some real unoriginal bullshit lol

Yeah, I always thought that was neat since it’s mostly a happy accident from needing to allow freed slaves citizenship. I much prefer that over some sort of bloodline metric.

One of the best examples is a healthy family.

Hell back in my day we straight up set fire to our wooden shields just for fun and an excuse to go ruin a gate guard’s day by smashing all his pots.

I’ve been reading books from that era and can also confirm people were very similar back then, too. It’s almost like history repeats itself.