I’m pretty familiar with the city I live in. Maybe will look up the route before I go if needed, but I have not had to do that often.

“And i own it forever”

We are not talking about the PS2 or even PS3 here though. These new games do not fit on a disk and require constant updates and connection to servers. Any game that requires you to connect to the internet, even if you own the disc, you don’t really own. They can shut that down anytime they feel like it.

See, how is anyone supposed to want to go to a sports game or concert anymore? It wasn’t bad enough that the prices are so inflated, now they stalk you like big brother the second you approach the entrance to the building.

Convienent that his dad had just died then and he was burned out from playing into June every year.

What about just a flip phone. Then they can take the battery out when they don’t need it.

Yeah, I am not buying one of these for my kids. Some parents are complete control freaks. I don’t want my kids to always think I am watching them.

I remember when Xbox 360 was a seen as a sick console. Lots of my friends had one. Then the Xbox One was a boring box and I knew almost no one that had it. We all got PS4s.

Now PS5 is a dumpster fire of high prices or terrible live service games and Xbox is still losing again some how. Microsoft is honestly an embarrassment.

Just wait until you get to that season where he is talking to Daryl from the office the whole time. They lost me on that one. Did not make sense.

Don’t date people at your workplace. It is never a good idea.

I set up Jellyfin and my wife and kids love it. We have no streaming services now.

I have not watched the makeup content, but I used to listen to true crime podcasts. As I have gotten older it has become impossible for me to listen to these though.

So often they will glorify the killers and try to humanize them. Then the victims are just regarded like pawns in their story.

After a while I really thought about what it would be like to be these victims and it made me sick. These aren’t scream queens in a horror movie where it is all made up just to scare you. These people went though hell and agony and that should not be used as “content.”

These were people’s kids, siblings, parents, grandparents, etc. They were loved and innocent and had their lives brutally taken away for no reason or fault of their own. The fact that they are treated as “tallies” or just numbers and names on a killers spree is beyond disrespectful. I can’t imagine seeing my family member that I loved being wrapped up in this content when it must already be so painful that they are gone.

Now I can’t listen to the true crime murder stuff. Sometimes I will listen to scary stories in the woods or something, but nothing where it is glorifying killing. It’s not good for my mental health.

No I don’t think I would be actually. People have turned to Google for health advice for a long time now. Ai is the next logical step for them.

I find it useless for even basic tasks. The fact that some people follow it blindly like a god is so concerning.

I did have bad years in school as a kid because of bullies as well. I used to dwell on it a lot. I did conselling some years ago because it was affecting my confidence still and I am glad I did.

Something that has helped me recently:

“The only thing that is guaranteed is that nothing will stay the same.”

The solution is to leave Reddit

People will get killed in these things. I don’t trust a computer to drive me safely home. Give me a train or a bus instead driven by a real person.

I am a dad to two young kids. I know other guys my age that are recent dads and some of them do seem to struggle to adjust. I hear about their wives complaining about how they are constantly golfing or still going out a lot.

Another commenter here mentioned that having kids changes you and I 100% agree with that. I don’t drink now, I drive like an old man in the name of safety, I spend almost every night at home with my kids and I take them out on the weekends, I cut my hours at work so I can help my wife more often, I don’t watch sports because my kids won’t sit still long enough to watch a game and want to play. My life now is about these kids. I used to think that people that based their lives solely around their kids had no life, but now that I have these kids I appreciate the sacrifices you make to be a parent. All of these changes I realize are better for me too.

You can talk philosophically about how to raise kids, but I think the number one quality of a good parent is being present for your kids and being willing to adjust your life to what they need. Growing up the number one thing I noticed about kids that had bad relationships with their parents was their parents not being around, whether it be work or whatever else. You gotta be willing to dedicate your time to kids over all else, and if you can’t do that, it will be hard to be a good parent.

Not good enough. Google showed their hand and they will try this garbage again at a later date

The new stadiums are another factor that really is ruining sports for me. In my city they are building a new one for the hockey team and it is mostly paid by taxes. So our property taxes are going to sky rocket to build this thing and then they will jack up the game ticket prices so we cannot even afford to go to games.

They sold it to the public as this was going to be a community building, which is such garbage. Am I going to be able to go down there when no games are happening and skate on the rink? Of course not