Eh, I’m going to give it a chance both because I loved Animal Crossing and because I have played FTP games that were balanced enough that you didn’t need to spend money if you were willing to spend time.

Man that story took me back to when I was reading Busted Tractors and Rusty Knuckles.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think distracted driving laws can be applied to pedestrians, which is what we’re talking about.

I think both the demographics and geography are working against us. Relativity few kids in the neighborhood and our house is on an odd little dead end with only 5 houses on it, so I suspect that the few who do trick-or-treat our area don’t bother with our street because they don’t want to walk that far out of their…

A couple of years ago I was waiting to cross the street and a guy walked up next to me while texting. He glanced up for a second, didn’t see any cars and just kept walking. I swung my arm out and nearly clotheslined him to stop him from getting taken out by the speeding car that had been hidden by a parked van during…

I play Pokemon Go, which is allegedly the most distracting phone thing ever invented and yet I have no difficulty lowering my arm to my side and fully engaging while crossing the street.

Can we also ban texting while you’re waiting for the light to change, not seeing the light change, failing to start crossing with everyone else, standing there staring at your phone like a moron until everyone else is clearing the crosswalk and the cars waiting to turn are starting to move, then starting to cross?

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You want sad? In 20 years of having our own place together (7 in an apartment, 13 in our house) we can count the number of trick-or-treaters we’ve gotten on one hand.

Stupid kid didn’t realize that you have to wait until you’re a full on cop with union protection before you do stuff like that.

I had a bunch of collections of older Peanuts comics back then and have good memories of reading them, but yeah his output during that time was kinda meh.

As a kid back when it first started I thought it was funny, but you have to realize that back then all I had to compare it to was stuff like Wizard of Id, Andy Capp, Family Circus, Beetle Bailey, Ziggy, and Cathy. Next to that lineup Garfield looked like distilled comedic brilliance.

Yup. Same thing I’ve heard about floyd mayweather and boxing. Some people claim his matches are “boring” to watch because he’s a very calculated, defensive fighter and wins on points instead of brute force. But he’s there to win, not get his face smashed in for your amusement.

One of our neighbors has a black walnut tree, and it’s a yearly tradition to not only find walnut shells all over our walk from the squirrels eating them, but to come home to whole walnuts crammed into the spaces in the metalwork on our outer door because some enterprising squirrel has decided that he’s found the…

Three “animals in the walls” stories.

Different library systems have different policies (source, 20 years in the biz) and some can be really unfairly strict IMO. My system caps late fines at a flat 6 bucks for adult and 1$ for children’s books. Lost book fees are removed as long as you get it back within a year and you just pay the late fee, and if…

It reminds me of when I was working at a group home for developmentally disabled adults and would watch football games with one of the residents. He’d get angry and frustrated when one team would have a good lead going into the last few minutes and would just run out the clock in order to win.

Check out their website. On the bottom in small type is a note.

I remember back in the early 80s reading my parent’s copy of “The People’s Guide to Mexico.” (Basically a travel guide for hippies with minimal resources.) and their advice for a vehicle to take was flat out “Beetle or Beetle van/camper.” because no matter how bad it was or how far out in the sticks you were, you…

I can’t recall the name, but my favorite at the time (early to mid 90s) was a PC space exploration and trading game that came with a star map and among other things, a cardboard doohickey whose use wasn’t immediately apparent. Every once in a while in-game you’d be asked to place the doohickey on the map, oriented to…