Berttheduck

Such a great game. We really enjoyed our time with it. The boss fights were harder than I expected but quite manageable after a few attempts.

Yup yup. This is perfect. Sends me right to sleep.

Oh definitely it’s terrifying how good the algorithm is at sucking people in and dumping them in an echo chamber where only those awful views are normalised.

I mean that’s kinda fair enough. Gotta be a boundary somewhere right.

Not anymore. I dunno exactly when it happened but after I left for uni I no longer see eye to eye with my folks.

They raised me and I feel they did a good job: respect others, be kind, help people, everyone is equal. All the good stuff.

Nowadays though my dad has gone hard into conspiracy theories proper tinfoil hat stuff, moon landings fake, vaccines cause autism and have microchips, fluorinated water causes something, COVID was a Chinese plot or fake or just flu (despite half his kids working in healthcare and telling him first hand experiences). He’s gone proper racist Britain for the British bullshit, hates immigrants and anyone not white. He’s dragging my mum into it as well but she’s not exactly innocent in her views either. I’m glad they live at the other end of the country now so I can choose how much I see them, holidays used to involve staying with my parents but now we camp kinda close and just have a meal out together a couple times.

I struggled a lot with coming to terms with the huge change, our relationship used to be fantastic especially with my mum, could talk for hours about anything. Now we have a very very narrow range of safe topics and I have to say no I’m not talking about that with you quite regularly.

I even debated cutting contact because of some of the horrible stuff my dad was posting online, fortunately he’s stopped that and now just consumes the hate instead of tagging me in it. I decided that I wanted to keep my parents in my life but set some firm boundaries and just don’t engage with any of the delusions.

Hence talking to the doctor is a good place to start. It gets complicated medically because you can’t force people to do things (even if they would be a good idea, like carers) unless they are unwell enough to not be able to make their own decisions.

I’d think a GP review and maybe some psychological support may be needed. From what you’ve described it sounds like she’s self neglecting which could be an indicator for other health and mental health problems which she could get help for. She might need carers or a cleaner or something. There’s no harm in reaching out for some support.

It sounds to me like she’s probably not coping and is becoming defensive because of it. I suggest you reach out to the health services you have access to to see what support she can get.

In the UK her GP would be the best person to talk to or you could reach out to social services.

Be excellent to each other and party on dudes.

A good reminder to be kind and enjoy the time I’ve got.

I played this for a few hours on a laptop a decent number of years ago. Such a weird game. I had no idea what was going on in the story despite all the exposition. I’m pretty sure you are in a cult but could be totally wrong. There were a load of options for gear and upgrades. It was definitely interesting and had potential. I think I stopped playing and didn’t finish it because I didn’t really understand why I was doing anything and I think I struggled to recognise any of the characters between scenes, if there were any persistent characters.

I love the little orb thing it’s very cute ☺️.

I love that game, I’m bad at it but it’s a really chill experience. Until it all goes wrong.

That was cruel and unusual. I was excited for a second there.

I always enjoy a monkey’s paw type deal. I hope your players enjoy discovering how it all goes wrong.

Don’t leave us in suspense like that, what’s going to happen with the wonder?

This sounds like an amazing project and a great way to spend time with your kid. Good for you.

I work in healthcare and it’s an append-i-cectomy not an appen-dectomy. It should have the i pronounced. The Americanised version is just lazy.

Yeah it’s animal abuse. In the wild the snake hunts and the prey has a chance to escape. The prey animal has 0 (or very close to 0) chance of escape in a tank with a reptile. It’s just cruel and unnecessary.

I’d draw the line for anything not an insect personally. Insects I’m pretty sure don’t have enough brain to be terrorised.

So you got to go on a short cruise where they returned you unharmed to your original destination.

That’s definitely not human trafficking but the situation you put yourself in could have very very easily gone that way if the people on the boat wanted it to and you were lucky you came out of it unharmed and free.

The things we do as teenagers eh.

Taking your idea a bit further you could Schrödingers cat yourself, buy a bunch of lottery tickets and set up a radioisotope decay triggered death machine with the escape being you select a winning lottery ticket. In theory this means you’re getting out of the box with a winning ticket.

You could also do the same with basically anything you want to happen, go into the box with the escape condition of “the world becomes a better place” probably need some more defined variables but maybe not.