i posted about having this experience on reddit a year or two ago and people were pissed? but yeah, empty shelves and barely any employees. it sucks, because i used to enjoy going there to see what’s new.

i thought you were serious. and then i thought you weren’t. honestly, now i’m not sure, but i’m impressed either way.

what the heck… you’re really super into amazon, huh?

for my own gaming purposes i would agree, but i have seen my son do some very interesting stuff with borderlands 2 and payday 2 builds.

what humourless parenting. sorry, but “red and white striped paint” in the context of a happy and healthy relationship is very unlikely to be traumatic.

i’m not even young people, and i have been fully rocking super wide-leg jeans this last year. i love them all over again!

i’m often sorry i had kids - not for myself, because i love them, but for them.

i’m glad they’re not interested in having their own kids, and i hope they are able to stick with it. and hopefully none of them/their partners ever needs an abortion.

i’m reading your comments and i don’t have an answer for you. you sound really discouraged. i hope you will find a reason to stick around, and i hope it gets better for you soon. ❤️

based on memory, so a little vague, but examples - access to various merchants in Bravely Default required you to have passed others. i remember this because i was sick with flu and spent a couple days with my 3ds and my daughter’s running/“passing” each other repeatedly so i could unlock everything.

to the best of my memory, some turn-based rpg’s (Persona? SMT? Etrian Odyssey?) would allow you to access customized personas/demons/teams? others had made available. like maybe someone had a really great high level persona (basically a pokemon) with a really great selection of skills on it and you could use it instead of trying to build the same thing yourself, before you might have normally had access to it.

so the latter type thing was cool and fun, but i didn’t get many of those. the first example is a situation where the game doesn’t really fully work without spotpass.

edit - you could visit houses of people you had passed in animal crossing and buy their stuff, too. so you could see how other people decorated and access furniture you might not have access to yet (seasonal, Gracie).

https://youtu.be/ukAkG6c_N4M?si=6LbXPPh1nd1JB1cr

https://youtu.be/8F9gzQz1Pms?si=FiI1Ox2nVKalwUdg

never did link my account to an email address. so that’s an email i never got. 🙂

if i could parent my oldest kid again, i would let him struggle more and fail more.

the inevitable rude awakening was ROUGH.

edit - grammar

the only time i ever lost a paper/document (at 13, for social studies), was on an apple IIc. then i rewrote it. i cried A LOT.

it has never happened since, and writing is a significant part of my job. i learned the hard way.

amazingly, chemistry has given us the ability to have a better quality of life, even when our brains work differently.

when she’s 25 and benefitting from meds, she may resent it if this was not an option you explored with her.

fair enough. i appreciate your response! i think i had misunderstood your meaning.

i mean, it’s cool that your family supported your niece by giving her time and avoiding assumptions, but that doesn’t mean that children never have a sense of their gender or preferences, never have political opinions, or aren’t affected by politics.

look at Greta Thunberg.

if your niece had wanted to advocate for herself in a political way, how do you imagine your family would have responded? would you have been supportive?

i can’t give you a source for “most people,” but personally my out-of-pocket is $6k for myself, $12k for my family. about the only thing covered before that number is met is yearly physicals. i pay about $500 a month for this (after my employer’s contribution). dental separate, no vision.

but… if you really like your shampoo, why not buy $35 worth at once?

been free for two or three years. i haven’t missed a thing, as far as i can tell.

wow, wtf. what a scam.