My 19yo daughter and I were having breakfast at Disney World the other day. Not vacationing, just visiting for a meal. She made friends with a 3yo in a Belle dress who gave her a hug when we had to leave. She starts work at WDW in just a couple of months and I think she'll be alright.

Polymarket exists. People bet on everything these days.

If you aren't a big consumer of shows and movies, just use the free services if they fill the need for you. Personally, I've purchased hundreds of movies and TV shows on disc and digitally over the years. Jellyfin lets me put them all in one place for my whole family to access. No need to try to remember what service it's on or where the disc is.

So close.

In the late 80s/early 90s, my parents wouldn't let us have a game console, but somehow trying to bed hookers in Leisure Suit Larry was okay for their pre-teen. IDK.

If it's the humor that made LSL good for you, the Space Quest series is an easy leap. Or Freddy Pharkas. Plus lots of Lucasarts games like Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Maniac Mansion...

The Police Quest series is my favorite. PQ1 is easily in my top games of all time. Followed very closely by the first Gabriel Knight game. I went to New Orleans years back for work and the best thing I got to do was look out over Lafayette Park and St Louis Cathedral from the same vantage point as in the game. Maybe silly, but it was a really fulfilling moment.

Oh, I always really liked the Quest for Glory games too, though I don't think I ever finished any of them. Maybe I should work on that this year.

Retro games from my formative years:

• Super Mario RPG
• Forgotten Worlds
• Any Sierra adventure game from the EGA/VGA era
• Animal Crossing

Newer games:

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Fallout 4
• GTA5

I realize those are divisive entries in each of their franchises, but they're the ones that hit for me and just let me wander off and do whatever I feel like.

Funny, I was just going to say that these characters should look foolish, but instead they look cool as hell.

A few months ago, I walked into the grocery store and Dio's Holy Diver was playing. 40+ years on, the music and content are pretty tame, but it was still a surprise. I don't think RJD ever figured in that happening.

Gamecube. Player and disc run about $230 now.

So you're saying maybe it's time for me to re-evaluate just keeping my GC collection in storage.

Isn't MK in this scenario doing the same thing? Trying to put pressure on their family to use a piece of software they don't know and aren't comfortable using?

I mean yeah, MK's take is more informed, but sides are likely to see it as the other side trying to get them to cave.

Anyway. Rereading, "Signal is better opsec" when your 92yo grandmother wants to plan Thanksgiving is cracking me up.