Holy shit. If this article is legitimate these people are morons. Luckily the governor, state, and house are all democratic controlled.

Jesus wept.

I’m sure there’s a personal finance thing around here somewhere!

Personally, I’d work on making sure I have a cash safety net. Something like 6 months expenses in my favorite high yield savings account.

After that I would pay off any loans with a high rate. If the rate is <5 percent, it may be worth putting that money into a 401k or investment account. If it’s above 5 percent, I’d consider paying it off early. The idea being that if it’s a low rate then you can invest that money and earn a higher return than it would cost you.

Aside from that, I’d do my best to max my 401k contribution to take advantage of those sweet tax benefits. If nothing else, make sure you’re taking advantage of any employer matches.

Again, awesome work on the job!

Congrats and well done! Take some time to celebrate! (And then max out your 401k if you’re in the US and you haven’t already)

Not sure what your situation is, but I’d be willing to bet you could find a group of players online that’d be thrilled to have a DM! Either way, good luck with being productive and the therapy!

I’m super interested to hear how your therapist convinced you to be their personal dm!

I went through this with my kids around the same age. Mostly they just like looking at them, trading them, and talking about which card is more powerful than another.

I showed them how to play and they played with a few of their friends, but, they enjoyed talking about them more than playing.

(Honestly I didn’t really enjoy battling with the decks in that battle academy set)

Just wanted to point out that this doesn’t sound like a disaster. It sounds like they had a lot of fun with your gift. For a 9 year old, I call that success.

Left the house for a walk in the rain with the wife. Lots of mountain bikers were out!

The brother line of laser jet printers has served me well. I almost never need to print in color, so I have the black and white variety. The toner lasts for a long time and it doesn’t dry out between uses. You can find relatively inexpensive toner cartridges for them as well.

I’m one short. I’ll have to enter into negotiations with the wife!

I’ve had Cosmic Encounter sitting in my game collection for about 12 years unopened. (I got it shortly before I had kids… which changed my life drastically…). This is good motivation to open it up and give it a play!

I’ve been playing Evolution with the family which has been fun. Aside from that I’ve been playing mostly the base game of Star Realms with the wife.

Did you end up deciding on trying any games?

Hope you enjoy your future game sessions!

Hive / 2 players / Requires basically zero setup. Game is easy to pickup and a bit strategic

Star Realms / 2 players / Requires shuffling, separating some cards out and dealing out a few cards. Rules look daunting at first, but it’s pretty straight forward after a few games. There’s a mobile app if you want to try the digital version.

Fox in the Forest / 2 players / minimal setup

Play these with my wife and they’re all good for a relatively quick game. We’re not a big fan of largely random games and prefer something a bit more strategic.

Hey… I don’t have any actual advice for you. Sorry you’re going through a rough time. This too shall pass.

I’ve definitely unplugged it in a moment of panic and that worked.

I felt the exact same way. Great style. The actors nailed it… the first act felt like it had a solid direction… and then they forgot where they were going for the rest of the movie.

Why was Barbie being in the real world an extreme crisis just for it to be no problem at the end of the movie?

The mother daughter relationship felt shallow and forced.

Why were the Barbies intelligent but also immediately brainwashed?

They could have cut Will Ferrell and the entire board by the end of the movie as they added virtually nothing to the plot except Will Ferrell jokes. Why did they even go to Barbieland? What did they accomplish? Why were they chasing them just to leave them alone? Did I miss major parts of this movie or something?

In our first game of Dead of Winter, the person setting up the game made a mistake and introduced too many betrayer cards. We ended up with 2 out of 4 of the players being betrayers… making for some really confusing conversations.

Was a fun game despite the absolute chaos.

I don’t see a problem with it but there’s definitely a stigma associated with it. (At least in the US) I think folks who pay are seen as not being able to find it elsewhere which may make them appear as not desirable to other people which then may make your partner question if they’re making a bad choice. Unless you happen to be in an area that has well regulated sex workers, I imagine people might think that you’ve been exposed to STDs which may give you a perception of being “unclean”.

I don’t think you should have to lie when finding a partner… but I do think telling them this (at the beginning) may be problematic for you for a lot of people.

I’d love to see sex work well regulated, protected, and normalized in the US but I don’t think we’re there.

Fuck that robber