I like mine too. It’s rather heavier than I expected, but still solid.

I mainly use it for emulating games on my phone, along with streaming games from my Xbox.

I have never seen someone mark a shortened year with a hyphen like that. Usually it’s with an apostrophe.

But yes. The Water Wars will be fought by corporations.

Aw man, HBO was the only streaming service I kind of liked.

Was it mainly for Studio Ghibli movies? Yes.

Can’t wait for the price hikes to continue.

Right, this whole thread is about swearing with words that are perceived as too offensive to use nowadays. My context is about swearing without using offense words for my kids.

I’m currently reading through Wheel of Time, which is significantly more modern than I realized.

It’s on the reading list, but I’m trapped by flows of Air currently.

I tried swapping to the curses from Bluey personally.

I still really like “Aw, biscuits.” But I’ve been swearing for so long it’s hard to replace “dammit” in my vocabulary and also have been very active in making sure my oldest (8) knows that swearing is generally frowned upon in polite company, which I am not.

Edit: I’ve also find mild success in swapping in English swears with Spanish, Japanese, Rosharan, and Firefly swears. Gorram and Storm it live on in my speech. I also quite like “Damnation!” but that one’s a real swear word so it’s hard to use.

I haven’t read Earthsea, but I have heard nothing but great things about Ursala K. Le Guin.

Oh how I miss using my hacked double unkempt Dirty Harold with double nuke turrets from Axton. Was a great time.

In single player games? Yeah.

Save editors for Mass Effect to unlock squad mates early for spoken lines that I would have never heard earlier, cheating in rare candies on emulated Pokémon games or making Pokémon shiny too.

I recall using something similar for Borderlands 2 circa 2012/2013 to get certain guns to drop with the right parts as well.

We just finished the majority of shopping and presents are so expensive nowadays.

Yeah that’s how we do it for the parents, in laws, and our siblings.

About how much did you budget for kids under 10 or so? Just curious more than anything.

I think they want to play this close to the vest because of potentially having to navigate tariffs.

I wonder how much money the Switch 2 lost on release due to tariff fuckery, at least in the US and Canada.

It was alright, I liked season 1 well enough.

Come on, son!

Oh I forgot about this one. Also really enjoyed it.

I’m not well versed on Law & Order, CSI, or anything like that, but I don’t think so.

I also really like Monk and Elsbeth. I like my procedural dramas as long as they have a wacky Sherlock type, I suppose.

I should really read Sherlock haha.

Psych is always my go to cozy show.

When I was a kid, my sister and I would watch the Macy’s Day parade all morning while my mom cooked.

After that we would probably throw on some football games in the background (mom’s the sports fan in my family).

We would go see the aunts and uncles and my grandparents — either side, we rotated between maternal and paternal off and on — and hang out there for a few hours around 3-4.

One of my uncles fried a turkey when that came in vogue, and my mom would always make mashed potatoes, while my aunt would make Mac and cheese. There was also this pineapple casserole with cheezit crust. It sounds weird, but the sweet and salty and crunchy go well together. It’s kind of like classy stoner food haha.

We also had rolls. They were these flaky layered rolls that I love a lot still. I recall peeling them apart layer by layer to eat them. So good.

I can try and remember more stuff, but that’s mainly it. We had more dishes, but they were like green bean casserole and stuff, so kid-Minions doesn’t associate that with Thanksgiving so much. I eat my veggies now, though.