I bought some for my daughter to learn and you’re right, it’s not cheap.

It didn’t go the way she wanted it to go so she threw it away. I really wish I had been able to keep it so she can see her progress one day.

This about me and my kid ain’t it? :p

Me too. God bless the Appalachian mountains.

I’ve probably met more mouth breathing, lead paint eating morons (myself included. As a matter of fact, at one time I was a t-1000 Liquid Metal mercury from 50 thermometers in my hand moron) than most people will ever encounter in 10 lifetimes. I can count on one hand just how many of those people were truly bad people.

If I have a visibly heavy load at work, it can be annoying how many people wander up and say, “hey ‘ere buddy. Yew gawn need inny hep wittat? I’ze just checkin’.”

Open the hood of your car and you can summon an entire neighborhood. For real, need directions in the Appalachians, just stop somewhere with houses, open your hood and spend a few minutes staring at your engine.

Well that’s not the part I’m talking about. I’m talking specifically about the leadership.

I’m an atheist who attended AA for years and I never worked the steps. The old heads definitely start to put the pressure on you after awhile though. “Yer higher power could be the universe.” Well, yeah, but it specifically says god.

AA got it right as far as that goes. Leadership revolves.

AA would be one of the biggest organized cults on the planet if the founders hadn’t thought of that.

Now, not everyone can be a leader, and those who can’t won’t generally volunteer. So, what you end up with in a small community is a handful of leaders who don’t agree on everything and therefore represent the needs of the people in the group a lot better.

Whether we like it or not, positions of leadership tend to happen naturally. As long as we hold sacred the fact that there is no truly central leadership, it shouldn’t devolve into a cult.

It might just be a part of our nature though. When you enter recovery they give you a list of places to avoid (they gave me one anyway) because the revolving leadership has fallen apart and a single personality has taken over.

My kid. Good lord.

I have her in therapy so that’s something I should bring up next visit.

I like you, Maven. You’re alright.

I just found the one I have and it has an ARM processor. :(

I have one. It’s one of the higher end deals from a couple years ago (for a chrome book). I have been excited to work on it every time I’ve seen something like this posted.

I CAN’T FIND IT! Gaaaaah.

I seen the damn thing a thousand times. I wasn’t looking for it. Now? Gone. Nowhere.

Does this shit happen to anyone else?

She said no!!! 😭

I’m on the leaderboards for pinballfx. Every time I get closer to the top 3 my wife says, “Talk to me when you’re number 1.”

Does this mean I’m good at sex?

Should I not be playing the native Linux version? Or am I just an idiot who doesn’t understand how the game works?

That one that give me good memery. I like good memery.

I can get behind that.

Oh definitely the one on GameCube. The controls were absurd.

I haven’t played the new version, but I had just beat it again on GameCube a few months before they surprise dropped it on the switch, so I wasn’t really interested. I thought it was the trilogy when it popped up on my screen and I was so excited, then immediately bummed.

Been playing Prime 2 on Primehack and that controls perfectly, I just don’t much care for the game. I really want to. It just doesn’t grab me like the first one. That’s coming from a Metroid fanatic who routinely replays all of the side scrollers haha. I just did it again like a month ago.

Metroid Prime.

I adjusted and learned to love it.

My wife uses Facebook every day.

She’s a very family oriented person and she’s gonna be wherever they are.

She’s the kind of person who wakes up and calls her mom, then her grandma, then her sisters every single day. Hell, she even talks to her nephews every day and they’re toddlers.

There really isn’t anything that compares as far as that goes.

I like you. :p

I guess it really depends on lifestyle and career and age of children and all that.

I get really stressed when I disengage from my family for too long and can’t see what’s going on around me.

I’ve played VR at work. It’s fine for single player games where I can pause and come back. Multiplayer games get really frustrating though when every 5 minutes you’re being pulled out and you can’t just jump back in.

I love VR. I just can’t seem to find the time to fully immerse and escape.

I agree with you on shooters. I am insanely good at Pavlov and when I jump into something else (non vr) it just feels so restrained. Moving around and actually feeling like you’re firing your weapon is a big deal. I’d like to get something to attach my controllers to at some point with some weight so it feels even better.

When I got my oculus quest I played it as often as possible. That’s the problem though, it just doesn’t make sense to play it almost ever.

If I were a teenager or someone who lived alone I could really get into it. The problem is disconnecting entirely from everyone around me for a game.

With my Steam Deck or my Switch, I can put my kid on my lap and play. I can sit it down easily and help my wife with a chore. I can walk around at work in my downtime and play.

VR is awesome. I absolutely love it. I just don’t have time to fuck with it. I would imagine that’s the case for most people.