HatchetHaro

the empire state building one was the most frustrating. luckily it’s near the end of the game.

i almost gave up on it.

then i just decided to talk to it in cantonese and that worked.

one log makes planks, two planks stacked on top of each other makes sticks, then diamond pickaxe crafting recipe you can google lol.

if you reset the puzzle, the object you have to find is then the cat guitarist or the chillies sign.

huh. the bot went really stupid and straight up didn’t block me at all.

socially weird for sure, but honestly if it’s legal and they’re both happy, why care? besides, he’s supportive of you, so why not at least do the same to him?

unreal engine game developer here: it’s your fuckin’ responsibility to debug and optimize your game, not unreal engine’s.

Replace sex with alcohol and maybe the issue will be more obvious for you. Knowingly providing a minor who is not my child with a “safe place” to drink is actually a larger liability.

Trying to compare safe sex with alcohol consumption is wild. One is actively harmful to the human body (and even more so to a developing one), and the other is not. I’ll let you guess which one is which.

There many places to have and enjoy sex. The key is not telling them to go fuck in the car or a pubic bathroom. It’s far more likely it will occur regardless. I have walked into my kitchen and interrupted oral sex.

Not worth the trouble, wouldn’t allow them in a bedroom door or no door ever.

So you know it would occur regardless, but you also don’t want it happening behind closed doors. Given those constraints, the kitchen scene is only natural.

This didn’t result in high fives but insteads discussions and and me informing the other teen’s parents. To be clear there was also no punishment.

Discussions on safe sex, great. Discussions on privacy, cool, though you could have just offered the privacy they needed. Informing on the other party’s parents, oh boy; unless you actively know their parents to be knowledgeable and reasonable, you may have placed that teen in danger. They were lucky to not have been in any trouble.

The condoms are the safety net.

I have made it very clear to my children that I cannot know because then I am legally required to intervene.

Condoms are a safety net against STDs. Sexual safety extends beyond protecting against STDs, and you, as a parent, are responsible for that. If anything goes wrong (e.g. emotional discomfort after the act, physical discomfort, broken condom, etc.), you would want to be the first person your child approaches; this “I cannot know” mentality is actively harming that.

My state has zero exceptions around this.

I am sorry to hear that. However, based on that and your previous statement about walking in on oral sex between (I presume) your then-underaged teen and their then-underaged partner, you were complicit in helping those juvenile criminals avoid legal persecution by not informing law enforcement.

To be clear, I’m just making light of your heavy focus on legality and liability.

It’s a nuanced approach. It’s possible they are being used for water balloons.

You are making excuses to justify offering condoms while still disallowing sex. Water balloons? Come on now.

And before you quote me on “disallowing sex” and say that you’ve never said that, saying that you “cannot know” or else you “would intervene” is very clearly doing that.

My state has laws that I do not agree with but which I must abide by.

The entirety of your arguments have been rooted in concerns about legality and liability. With that in mind, are you saying that if your state does have a Romeo and Juliet law, you’d be fine with offering a private and safe space for your children (I.E. their rooms) to have safe sex with anyone they want within the confines of that law?

Morality vs legality is an entirely different subject that I’m not going to delve in right now, but based on that statement, it shows which one you value more.

I am approaching the issue without emotion or judgment.

“I am being logical” is such an overdone excuse used to justify arguments. It’s also a highly reductive mindset to use in regards to your children.

I literally said others are free to choose their own liability risk which you chose to ignore.

Oh, I’m not ignoring it. It’s just that being free to choose my own “liability risk” does not automatically exempt me from giving my own opinion on how you are dealing with this issue.

Or you can get another kitchen scene. Right in front of your salad.

Your feelings on the topic are not going to sway me.

Fun!

Then you’d just be discouraging sex in your own home. Congrats! They decided to do it in the car or public bathroom instead, without your knowledge, and without the safety net you could have provided if anything went wrong.

Contributing to the deliquence of a minor is broad law.

You should check the local statutory rape laws applicable to you. In many places, there’s an exception if both people are close in age and are both willing.

The main worry is how the other child’s parents would react were something to occur. Also, your co-parent if they not on board with your decision.

There’s something called “talking with your partner”.

I’ve definitely done the talk, “box of condoms under the bathroom, no questions asked, give them to your friends if needed” but that is vastly different than tossing a box of condoms at a minor and telling them to have fun.

Sounds very hypocritical. I mean, why are you disallowing it in your home when you already offer condoms “no questions asked”?

You need to understand that giving permission is not encouragement, and that withdrawing permission is not discouragement.

You may not want your kids to have sex, but if they understand the risks and still want to, the best thing you can offer is safety and privacy.

it’s not as easy to monetize open-source software, and even solo devs gotta eat.

until UBI gets implemented worldwide, expect people to continue wanting monetary returns on their work.

same as you would anybody’s hole: just pull out.

Nintendo’s ABXY makes the most sense to me among the modern controllers, but imo nothing beats their Gamecube’s ABXY layout.

No one has mentioned grip paddles/buttons yet and I really want those to be standard.

maximum aura ngl

I hate how they keep redesigning the Gorn to use as villains/monsters/enemies. Star Trek Online nailed the design imo.

“Were it so easy.” - the Arbiter, Halo 3

ehehehe

pedants*

Only when you’re gaping.

Back when I was in the US like 5 years ago, I’ve been able to stretch my meals out to about $40 per month.

You can make a flavourful cheesy-pasta (not actual mac-and-cheese) with some pasta, some chicken bouillon, a tablespoon of butter or margarine, and a slice of processed cheese. For protein you can buy cheap chicken franks and chop it up, and for veggies I like frozen peas and frozen broccoli. Get store-brand for the cheapest possible options.

I was so stingy that I was able to stretch one box of pasta out to 11 meals, and I still looked forward to each meal.

To keep myself from going insane, every grocery run (every three weeks) I rewarded myself with a gallon bucket of store-brand ice-cream and two packs of store-brand chocolate sandwich cookies, all of which I completely devoured within one week.

I lost hella weight and felt really good about it. Unfortunately, I’ve gained it all back now.

ChatGPT-generated images are getting yellower by the day LOL