This looks really cost affordable and efficient, but I’m not sure my wife will go for the DIY aesthetic.

What if you like your family more than your job? Hustle and bustle of the work/school week (even an enjoyable one) makes it incredibly hard for me to spend time with my family outside of weekends.

As a parent, I will always want my kids to do better than I did.

Emulator + GBA games

I think I licked a toilet bowl? I pretty much stopped playing truth or dare when I was like 12 though.

Ah I remember this phone. I remember when it finally died and I replaced it with an Android 2 that was R2-D2 themed. It still had a physical keyboard because I very distinctly remembered not wanting to use a touchscreen keyboard for everything.

I don’t know the specifics behind it, but even if VPN does work, or accessing TT through a web app instead of an app, that’s still 1-2 hurdles for the average user to jump through for their fix.

Some people will just not bother and then peace out to instagram reels or YT shorts or just drop off that kind of social media.

It fully depends on how many users are “savvy” enough to navigate those hurdles and how badly they want to navigate those hurdles.

In my experience when you’re working with a dedicated user base and you make a significant change, you can expect to lose around half your audience. Barriers to entry are probably going to increase that number, but obviously this is anecdotal evidence for future events.

I was under the impression that the TT creator fund was very minimal anyway. Or at least it was gutted recently and used to be somewhat okay.

Totally agree. I think she craves them because breastfeeding puts her at such a calorie deficit.

I prefer water, but my wife really likes Body Armor. Specifically a Tropical/Pineapple flavor.

In no particular order:

• Mass Effect 2
• Pokémon Colosseum
• Kingdom Hearts 2
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Super Smash Brothers Melee
• Ocarina of Time
• Ratchet and Clank
• Uncharted 2
• inFamous 2

I realize I included a lot of games that were sequels or part of a series, but these are my favorite of the series in general.

Honorable Mentions:

• Pokémon Emerald
• Mariokart 8
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Mario Galaxy
• Sonic Adventure 2
• Splintercell
• Final Fantasy 7
• Halo ODST
• Halo 2

Eragon was my first foray into proper swords and sorcery fantasy after Harry Potter.

Are the books really that bad in your opinion? By no means do they reinvent the wheel, but I enjoyed the magic system and enjoyed the aspect of Dragon + Rider and that relationship we see between the two.

I haven’t read much other Fantasy besides LotR and Stormlight Archive, but I enjoy the Inheritance Cycle.