No, mckids is a NES game. I played it when I was little and remember enjoying it. It had a gravity mechanic that was unique. AVGN did an episode on it.

And locally if you join a club. If there aren’t enough hams for a club there may be at least one you could seek out as an Elmer.

Hobbies. I got into ham radio for this very reason. It’s also adjacent to my job (IT), and it’s one of the quintessential “hobby hobbies” like stamp collecting and model trains.

When I think of vanity plates I think of the guy who registered his as “NULL” in the hopes that he could avoid traffic tickets by looking like a database error. But he ended up showing up every time anyone’s plate number was missing, so it showed him as having thousands of traffic violations.

Is that sort of thing relevant? I take the bus all the time and have never felt in danger (except for one time when the driver went off on another bus driver, but I just noped off the bus before it could escalate). Yes there are interesting characters, but if public transit were more common perhaps the crazies would become less predominant.

Around here there is a whole police department dedicated to monitoring public transit.

Played the demo. Liked it but haven’t gotten around to buying it.

I think the ray tracing drew a lot of people in. It certainly did me. I think it also rides on its reputation as a big-budget spiritual adaptation of the SCP Foundation.

Never played this game but I’m aware the same devs are involved with Pokopia in some way. Makes me worried.

It’s like they saw Minecraft’s complete and utter lack of direction and decided to overcorrect.

Any pokemon game after gen 2.

I started in 1999 with red. It was a childhood-defining experience. I spent all summer with my nose in that game boy. Keep in mind I had to use a loupe mounted in a glasses frame and had to hold the screen an inch from my eye, so the ergonomics weren’t ideal, but the experience was compelling enough for me to bear through it. Then I got gold in the summer of 2001, I think, and was blown away. It was an upgrade in every way. I personally think the series peaked with gen 2. To be absolutely clear I am not a “gen-wunner” or whatever the word is. I just think the combination of the game itself and the zeitgeist it created for those first few years came together to make something unrepeatable.

Gold and Silver came out while Pokemon was still everywhere, but by the time gen 3 released, the craze had ebbed. Yes it was still popular but it was no longer in everyone’s mouth. I was also in the latter half of high school, and most of my friends were no longer into it. I bought the game, so it’s not like I thought I was too old, but it just didn’t feel the same. They removed the day-night cycle and the calendar functionality. It felt like a downgrade.

I’ve tried several times since to rekindle that feeling I got in 1999. The closest was with Pokemon Go in 2016. For a few weeks it felt like the late 90s again, with everyone and their dog talking about Pokemon. I actually beat Pokemon Let’s Go, but I think the nostalgia is what kept me going. Tried with the first Legends game and just couldn’t stay interested. Ditto with Brilliant Diamond.

There has to be a word for not wanting something but wanting to want it. That’s how I feel. (Of course the nice thing about being a conlanger is I can make the word myself 😁)

sdC CB qGr qGrbfrp
0     sdC-0   CB-0   qGr-0  qGrbfr-p
[1sg] yearn-A want-A play-A video_game-3D
I miss wanting to play that video game.

1sg = 1st person singular (0 means it's dropped)
-A = authoritative verbal mood (-0 means a null morpheme that isn't pronounced)
-3D = 3rd person distal noun suffix ('that video game')

Vampires don’t suck, they scrape and lick

Texan here. 2 years in HS was required when I was there. I took Latin.

Update 2

This was for a chili cook off my family holds every year. I won.

Not hitch hiking per se, but when I was living in Mexico for my last semester of college a guy passing in a car saw me out walking and offered to give me a ride. He dropped me off at my destination which was a few blocks away and that was that.

I can’t offer much other than to say I hope things get better for you. My childhood wasn’t that bad in spite of my blindness. Sure I couldn’t drive, but my friends couldn’t either. I didn’t have a job but neither did my peers. It was as I got older and my peers started becoming independent that the resentment started to brew.

I’m also dependent on others including my parents for transportation, which more than anything is why I feel the way I do. I can’t go anywhere without asking them. While they try to be accommodating they have their own schedules and I have to plan around them, so I don’t feel like I have my own life. Asking for help also feels too much like asking for permission.

('Murica) At my age (40s) my parents owned a home in the suburbs. I still live in that house with those same parents so that should tell you the bulk of it.

I feel very resentful that I never got to spread my wings and just be an independent adult away from my parents in the same way my brother and sister have. I think I get along well with my folks and there are financial benefits to living in someone else’s house, but I can’t escape the fact I am their son, and a certain amount of paternalism seeps into our interactions sometimes, despite the fact that I’m the same age my father was when I was 10. I mean things like demanding rather than asking that I attend some family gathering, or insisting I wear more formal clothes to said gathering, etc. It doesn’t come up often, and I think they’re aware of how it makes me feel and try not to do it, but it still hurts when it does.

When I bring this up to them (or many others for that matter) the reaction is usually “Oh but that’s an American thing, wanting to cut loose at 18. It’s common in many cultures for adult children to live with their parents.” But I’m an American with American parents, who grew up watching American media, and I’m surrounded by Americans, so I measure my success vs other Americans, and especially when I was a kid, an adult living with their parents was an object of ridicule.

Of the three of us, my brother is doing the best materially speaking. He owns a house. My sister I don’t think is living paycheck to paycheck, but she isn’t rolling in money either.

Update: It turns out I had more time than I thought to make the chili. Since everyone had a viscerally negative reaction to my use of bloody mary mix, I swapped it out, though I’m not sure my substitution will fare any better, namely V8 juice and tomato paste.

te golpeo a través de internet!

A handheld 2 way radio. The cell network is the first to go even before a disaster since the lines saturate with people calling out.

Boil them and crack them at the big end. Unless you’re a little-endian heretic

Yes. You have no other choice when you’re blind. I prefer unlabeled keyboards.