lol I’m not exactly young but tbh I never bothered setting up mobile deposit bc I can count the number of checks I’ve gotten in the last 5 years on one hand so it never seemed worth it

tbf I woulda looked at you like that too. Getting a check is a pain in the ass. Now I have to physically take it somewhere to get my money? No thanks. Cash or app only.

If I’m ever in a situation where I have to view or *shudder* create something in powerpoint, I’ve failed for that day

*on my way to spend $1000 on a $100 off-brand Android set-top box with fuckin GETTR as the homescreen*

I’ve always liked the in-depth answer myself. Because, if she’s actually curious, she listens and we have a fun back and forth talking about whatever she asked about (we got to talk about refraction and diffusion when she asked why the sky was blue and she actually retained it and told others about it) but if it was…

This is pretty much exactly my method. There’s no way I’d survive if I hated pretend play so I always twist it in some way, sometimes just to see how far off track I can go before she gets mad at me. Then I ease off just a little and she’s happy and I’m not in misery.

+1. It’s got way more power than this tool too.

/r/fifthworldproblems and its spinoff /r/fifthworldpolitics were very much my shit in their heyday.

I expected all those tough questions: why is the sky? what’s rain? how do trees grow? that kind of thing. I was excited for that. What I was not expecting was being asked the same easy question 6 times in 10 minutes because she didn’t listen to the answer.

Feeling really sorry for the states that ranked Casey’s as the best coffee. That stuff is only a step above the sludge they serve at mechanic’s shops.

SAYER and Kakos Industries need mentioned too. SAYER is flat-out horror where you’re an employee at the megacorp Aerolyth Dynamics being spoken to in your head by an only slightly evil AI. Kakos Industries is a dark comedy about the company Kakos Industries who helps you to Do Evil Better.

The first time she helped me cooking that wasn’t just me cooking with a tiny pair of hands.

Yuuuuup.

That’s one place where I think my state/school excelled. In Kansas, there’s a literature award specifically for children’s books called the William Allen White award. Every year, my school would post a list of nominees/winners. If you read enough of them and did something else that I can’t remember, you got to go to…

Counter-counterpoint: odds are your delivery person makes less than the person making the food (if they aren’t the same person) and has to pay for upkeep on their transportation. They need that tip. (Plus, cash tips usually don’t get reported to the IRS.)

Eh, it still works with streaming, you just have to set a time/event they have to be up by in order to get their show. For example: with my 4-year-old we have the rule that if she’s up and dressed before I go to take my morning shower, she can have a show. If she’s not, no show. It works pretty well as long as she…

Not too surprising. That’s exactly how I treated online games when I was a kid. Sure, I’d be “playing” StarCraft for hours, but most of that was just spent chatting to my buddies on there.

I’m better than Elon Musk because at least I *haven’t* made a big, fuckoff tunnel that does nothing but siphon resources from projects that would actually be good for the public and make traveling less efficient, which in America is a pretty big fucking accomplishment.

The rules are clear: you’re a father now.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was my first introduction to the sort of creeping horror that sticks with you long after you put it down and for that, it’ll always have a special place in my heart.