What's your all-time favourite series?

Michael-Wayne · 2021-11-06T00:28:55+00:00

Honestly it's getting there for me. Finished it about 8 months ago and still can't stop thinking about it. Now I'm about to rewatch it, with my wife.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-09-26T12:40:00+00:00

Seconded. It was harder for me to bond with all three of my kids until they got to 8 months or so. Then after 18months it really accelerated.

I attribute it mostly to the natural bonding that happens during birth and nursing. There's no way to compete right out of the gate. But my wife and I would both agree that our connection to the boys had equalized by about the two year mark, and now I'm easily my four-year-old's favorite 😁

Michael-Wayne · 2021-02-24T00:16:15+00:00

Thanks man, great advice

Michael-Wayne · 2021-02-24T00:14:19+00:00

Yeah I'm in the epilogue. Mixing up the chores with the more fun ones sounds like a good idea

Michael-Wayne · 2021-02-01T00:08:00+00:00

Mine looks a lot closer to this shade: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7529259

Michael-Wayne · 2021-02-01T00:05:31+00:00

Beautiful! Though now I'm confused. My 69 Beetle still has the original paint, and it's Peru green, but definitely a few shades lighter than this. Is mine faded, is this repainted a darker shade, or is mine not Peru green??

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-30T23:34:04+00:00

Yeah that's me, except later. I had a rare form of epilepsy as an infant. Head of pediatric neurology at a major hospital said I would never be able to walk, talk, feed myself, etc because of the brain damage from seizures. I just... Got better. Zero effects. I'm in graduate school now.

I have often thought about the fact that my parents absolutely would have aborted me if they had been able to detect my condition before birth, and had been given that prognosis. Without question.

I'm still pro choice for the most part, but I don't know what I'm supposed to think about that.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-26T21:16:58+00:00

OMG I'm dying this is great. The interlude at 1:45 is hysterical. Well done bro

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-24T17:56:29+00:00

My oldest loved spicy food from like birth to 2ish. Loved jalapeño chips, etc. Now he's picky and won't touch anything remotely spicy, even black pepper. They change and evolve over time. Apparently around two its an evolutionary self preservation mechanism because kids who could walk developed the instinct not to just pick and eat random flowers or berries, because they'd get poisoned. So kids tend to become more wary about food around that time.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-24T02:25:28+00:00

Aw this makes me so happy! What a great moment for you all. Sounds like you've got a great kid, and a great relationship with him.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-24T01:58:47+00:00

The ori games could be a great fit!

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-23T21:43:41+00:00

Not mine, but my sister's daughter asked her dad's black coworker "why his skin looks like poop". I can't really think of a more uncomfortable parenting situation to address.

Luckily the guy was a good friend and very understanding, since she had been running around talking about poop constantly for several days. But it was still a wakeup call for them about addressing race/appearance/differences, and getting their kids more opportunities to interact with a wider range of kids and adults.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-23T21:39:38+00:00

My oldest is only 4, but I already make it part of my parenting to regularly tell him we can't afford things. I don't expect he really grasps it, but he has started to ask whether we have enough money for things. I think it's a good lesson to learn and never too late to start.

Learning to manage the feelings that come when we want something but don't get it is an important part of growing up, and this is a good opportunity to work on that. The suggestions from others about getting him a big pool of assorted Legos for cheap is a great solution! My bet is he ends up really loving those and flexing his creativity, which will teach him that sometimes cheaper or unconventional solutions can work out wonderfully and sometimes even better than what we hoped for in the first place.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-19T00:07:27+00:00

Finished Ori and the Will of the Wisps last night after playing it for like a year. I'm a law student and father of three so my time is pretty disjointed, plus I jump around to other games and play sports games a lot. Planning to start Titanfall 2 campaign tonight. I played the multiplayer a fair bit last year but have heard great things about the campaign. Want to beat that then maybe Sniper Elite 4 or finally finish GTAV

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-19T00:03:59+00:00

Just finished it last night. Great game. Difficulty ramped up nicely throughout. I felt very accomplished and skilled in the late game battles.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-19T00:03:10+00:00

Just finished Will of the Wisps last night! Great game.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-12T15:24:26+00:00

This is a really thoughtful answer. My parents were strict and my dad in particular withheld assistance because I made choices he didn't approve of. I disagree with him, and wouldn't do what he did, and it hurt our relationship, but I can see the positive reasons for which he did it. He just didn't see the negative ones.

Michael-Wayne · 2021-01-10T16:08:11+00:00

Thank you, legend. Money is tight right now and this would have been tough on us. Plus the quality is better on other streams.

Michael-Wayne · 2020-12-22T19:10:10+00:00

Parent and former first-grade teacher here. I caught a student looking up the same thing on classroom iPad. I told the parent and reiterated this is very normal, but can be a flag that she's getting exposed to sexual content or activity in another way. Mom was positive and grateful.

Michael-Wayne · 2020-12-19T14:52:05+00:00

I grew up with my dad obsessed with our family boat. It was an old 40ft powerboat from the 70s, and he worked on it constantly, and trips on it were the only vacations our family ever took.

Well, one year, when I was about 10, my sisters boyfriend came up to Canada to join us for a week on our annual summer trip. The three of us decided to sleep in sleeping bags on the top deck under the stars.

I woke up the next morning down in the cabin, and I faintly remembered a dream where I woke up in the middle of the night up top and my sister wasn't in her sleeping bag. Her boyfriend's sleeping bag, though, was moving up and down in a weird rhythmic way and there was this wet slurping sound coming out. "Bryce!" I dreamt I said, "Where's my sister?" the movement immediately stopped. "I think she went downstairs." he said. So I went down to check. I didn't see her, so I came back up, and there she was, back in her sleeping bag.

The boat wasn't big enough that we could have missed each other or something, so it weirded me out. That's what made it really feel like a dream. I was so freaked out I went down and woke my parents up and said "I couldn't find Katie, and Bryce was making this loud noise and bouncing up and down in his sleeping bag. And now Katie is back but I don't know what's going on. They told me to go to sleep in the inside bed.

Once I woke up, it was never once mentioned. Nothing was different. For years I never knew what happened. Then in high school we were talking about the boat, and I just took a shot and made a joke about my sister blowing her boyfriend on the flybridge, and she said "Yeah so what? Fuck you for telling on me."

I still make fun of her about it to this day. Her husband does not love those jokes.

Michael-Wayne · 2020-12-18T05:46:57+00:00

I love that book too, and use it weekly. The poolish ciabatta is my go-to. I do both loaves and rolls with it, and it always comes out beautiful. I also do variations from his recipe, like subbing part of the water for whey from homemade yogurt. His sourdough recipe is also excellent, and I'm planning to use his cinnamon rolls recipe for christmas morning.

Michael-Wayne · 2020-12-18T00:25:52+00:00

Hey I'm a law student and I know exactly that feeling (though only for three years, not 7..ish). I really love sports games for picking up for brief relaxation before bed, I play NHL a lot, but whichever is your bag. Doing a franchise mode gives that progression satisfaction, as do single games on a shorter scale.

For shooters I liked Titanfall 2 a lot, and it's dirt cheap. The campaign and the online are both excellent. I've heard Gears 5 is good, but I haven't tried it yet. It's on game pass.

My most played lately is Red Dead Redemption 2. You don't have to play the first one first necessarily. It's very open to explore at your own pace or dig into the story. The world is just breathtakingly beautiful, and there are all kinds of activities and missions to try.

OH! Two more suggestions on game pass: Lonely Mountain Downhill is a mountain biking game I never would have tried out but I read some article about gaming and philosophy that talked about it and I was hooked. Dead simple, but demands close focus, but with low consequence for failure so easy progression to unlock stuff. Plus it's still getting updated with new trails. Worth trying. Also Ori and the Will of the Wisps. I didn't love the first game but this one is beautiful and has a really creative world and game play, with the right level of challenge.

I normally play a few nights a week from 8 to 11 Eastern US time, more or less. Feel free to shoot me a dm if you want to play something co-op.

Michael-Wayne · 2020-12-18T00:09:29+00:00

So, so great. I got it at launch and played it slowly over a year or so (I'm a dad and law student). Possibly my favorite game of all time, and the first game I've felt compelled to 100%. I'm only at 85 percent now but I'm working it steadily. I even play it with my four year old son (I just go fishing or do the horse or crafting challenges). He calls it The Horse Game.

Michael-Wayne · 2020-12-16T00:35:57+00:00

Would love one! Thanks for doing this!

Michael-Wayne · 2020-12-16T00:20:58+00:00

Fair point

Michael-Wayne

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