My boomer dad: you probably won’t get anything because I’m paying [i.e. using my retirement] to take care of my [100 year old] mother

Me: that’s understandable

As a steam deck owner - I am definitely interested. I’m currently rocking a 90° adapter I got with an aftermarket charger.

Steam Replay

I went ahead and backed it. I am slowly amassing everything I need for a complete shell swap (and other bits and bobs to mod my deck - last things needed are a bigger SSD and a SSD enclosure to clone the drive/use the original as external storage). If this gets funded, I’ll just wait until I get it in May and just not have to worry about detaching the stock screen and reattaching it to the new shell. If this doesn’t get funded I’ll just order a replacement screen from ifixit.

First one:

About ten years ago my husband got a job and our health insurance changed providers (very common here). My second child needed a refill on his control inhaler for asthma. He’d been on the same one since he was initially diagnosed at 2 years old. Insurance denied covering that brand (which was older and therefore cheaper) until he tried expensive brand. Expensive brand was $80 out of pocket, and I am still livid that they fucked around with his health like that. The only way they’d consider covering the original one was if we tried expensive brand and it didn’t work. For a six year old. With asthma. Thankfully, it did work but it still pisses me off.

Second one:

Shit happened and my kids and I ended up on state Medicaid for almost a year. My state privatized it and they declined to cover every. single. visit. and now, years later, I’m still fighting for them to retroactively cover visits so I’m not on the hook for thousands of dollars.

To grow the veggies bought with the food stamps. 😉

Seriously though, you can buy seeds and bulbs for growing food on food stamps. I can’t remember if live plants are covered - it’s been a few years since I’ve needed them.

Kiddos have been playing Space Engine on my account, but otherwise this is what I’ve been playing lately.

You could be like me and buy it on android, gog, Xbox, and steam (twice as I paid for my kid’s copy and then my own)… Although, tbh, all those copies were purchased over multiple years.

First got into it when Amazon offered it as their free app of the day. Gosh, that’s been a while ^^’

I’m one of those who would gladly pay for a retro rom if I could legally get it from the publisher/developer. Thanks to GOG and abandonware sites we still have access to a lot of msDOS games… Fuck me, I guess, for wanting to play the games I didn’t get a chance to play during my childhood on various game systems.

I use the Logitech Pop keyboard and their MX Ergo trackball mouse. Found a case for my keyboard, and it’s slightly wider than the deck.

I played the demo on my deck months ago and don’t remember having any issues. Enjoy!

They were considered to be a weapon.

It has one human-looking eye and one horse-looking eye…

When I was 14-15 I wanted a wallet chain, but they were banned at my school. I made one of of safety pins that looped down past my knees. Somehow my linked safety pins were ok…

Those eyes… Can’t unsee

My elementary school was an old Timex watch factory. It was a “temporary” building that ended up lasting 13 years. The only windows in the building were in the office and kindergarten wing. Last I checked, which was over a decade ago, the building had been turned into a firefighter training course.

So, school being a prison? All I have to do is remember my elementary school days.

I agree. My first thought was “that’s a great hell hound.”

My favorite is the 4th one - the one with Sailor Moon and the double headed axe in the hedge maze. Seems the most on par with the homicidal ghosts at the Overlook.

Yeah… It’s weird to wrap your head around. Didn’t have a special night down in the southern bible belt but they do here in the midwest.

I’ve only ever broken one bone… And it was the tip of my second toe on my right foot.