But more than anything, it's the social stigma and taboo of coexisting with kids in public that really bothers me

Having your kids with you in the workplace was literally how we evolved as a species and handed down knowledge for millennia

But now that we work in office buildings that's a bad thing

75 hours in like... a month... with a single post launch content update

it's insane

It really bothers me how adjusted people have become to games treating them like an employee instead of a paying customer

We're really lucky because we're a dual income household and I WFH

But if I didn't we would be absolutely COOKED by daycare costs for our youngest all because god fucking forbid they put play areas and subsidized daycare facilities in work or retail spaces

I just carry a ton of trauma as a parent because you literally have to "prepare" an entire away from home assortment of shit to make up for the utter lack of child-friendliness in the world.

Meanwhile, they literally make toddler seats for toilets that have dual seats for adults and kids...

It's genuinely challenging to bring young kids ANYWHERE

Most restrooms don't have accommodations for kids, so you need to bring a travel potty with you everywhere

There's no safe play areas in like 90% of stores, INCLUDING STORES FOR KIDS STUFF LIKE TOYS

Daycare costs like bruh holy fuck!?!!!!?!?

I just have a serious disconnect from people like this because most games I'll play for like 20ish hours unless they're really cookin and then maybe it'll be like 50

And I literally cover games for a living lol

It feels like this trend of gamers that only play a handful of games a year started with Call of Duty and now everyone expects every game to be some sort of forever experience where it's all they play and they never get bored

Unless the game has an infinite skill curve like CS, that isn't realistic

I really just want the classic iPod OS on a modern device with a good headphone output and that's basically it

Just crazy how Apple perfected the music player over 20 years ago and everyone is still reinventing the wheel for no good reason

I did some hardware upgrades like a new battery and SD Card storage for my iPod Classic, and while it works just fine, the RockBox software feels like it was designed by an engineer with no UX experience and the headphone output is kind of crunchy by today's standards.

Same guy was one of the executive producers on The Care Bears Movie too lol

I worked for a guy that was an executive at Hasbro and Mattel in the 80s and 90s, they had to deal with Trump for Real Estate stuff back then and as he recounted to me, Ivana would do all the business talk while Trump could barely sit still and pay attention, let alone contribute to the meetings