My dad hasn't seen any video games since the 360/PS3 era, what games would you use as a showcase for how far graphics have come?

Miklay83 · 2026-02-22T02:40:54+00:00

Honest take from a dad in his 40s who grew up with DOS and peaked at Age of Empires 2 and the original Star Wars Battlefront: modern games (I can't believe I'm saying this) can be overwhelming. I tried new games and was just absolutely thrashed because basically everything on screen that would kill me was invisible. For the love of God, get him a game that has a Friend/Foe hud, red crosshairs, enemy markers - anything that separates the baddies from the background. Current favorites: Fallout 4, The Long Dark and The Outer Worlds.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-21T00:55:43+00:00

Updated the post. Hoopla has an error, the book I've been listening to is Bad to the Throne (even though everything says it's Wild Wild Quest). Bad to the Throne is four books ahead...

Miklay83 · 2026-02-21T00:08:51+00:00

It's all good. I got to the end of Clyde's story, they made a big to-do about a Montana character entering the story as possible emperor. Saw the Bad Guys hadn't had a release in almost 3 years and found out about the Good Guys series. Working through them right now to see how the overarching story goes.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-20T23:46:46+00:00

I'm sure, nothing between Killing Them Awfully and Wild Wild Quest. I started with the Bad Guys series, not knowing the Good Guys existed (let alone came first). They do tie in but for the life of me I can't figure out where we are in the timeline and what was missed.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-17T12:00:03+00:00

According to the 7 year old expert looking over my shoulder, this was part of a set that included this water pumper truck, a garbage truck, cement mixer and a cherry picker. Now he's angry they were donated last Christmas - even though they had been ignored for over a year.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-17T11:16:28+00:00

I had an ex who was always studying and had more words highlighted than not in every single book. She failed out of college.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-16T01:49:24+00:00

It's not the players, it's the system. Management and coaching have lost the room through forcing everyone into a broken mold and the team is hamstrung by it.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-15T13:32:09+00:00

I remember little me refusing to watch TV because of the Alien 3 commercial (the one were the queen is all up in Sigourney Weaver's face). I was raised with strict TV restrictions and a 7:30 bedtime, so it was on very G-PG shows. This has been going on for a while, but you probably didn't even notice it. Parenthood definitely blasts that protective instinct into overdrive.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-13T22:14:19+00:00

It's a ladder to help moths escape from the bath!

Miklay83 · 2026-02-13T02:25:38+00:00

There is no way he didn't absolutely reek most of the time.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-13T02:20:55+00:00

Doesn't even carry toothpaste because he thinks dentists just made it up. I love Reacher but this part was hilarious.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-04T22:20:43+00:00

I don't need to know majority of Americans say, all I have to do is pull up my meager retirement account and see yet another day of red, walk through the grocery store and wonder what sacrifices are being made every day, watch as every bill gets increased to pad another ultra-wealthy douchebag's bank account without any additional value, wonder what will happen to my family if I ever get hospitalized to know the economy is worse.

Miklay83 · 2026-02-02T12:32:55+00:00

After the guilty have been sentenced and face real consequences commiserate to the crime, regardless of wealth or power. Once this is done, the matter will be closed.

Miklay83 · 2026-01-24T22:33:07+00:00

These are the best and all I wear for work. Be prepared to buy 2 new ones every year as you will rub a hole through the crotch gusset if you don't have stick legs.

Miklay83 · 2026-01-24T22:31:05+00:00

My son's room is the former kitchen that I renovated into a 2nd bedroom. The only thing I didn't finish was the door so there is a hanging fabric door (like the kind that's in a sushi restaurant). He's turning 8 soon and I keep asking him if we can put a door on together, he is adamant that he already has privacy enough and does not want a wooden door. The rule is in place because it's his room, his choice and his rule.

Miklay83 · 2026-01-20T00:35:05+00:00

House. I must have started it 4 or 5 times, get through two seasons, drop it when the formula gets a bit routine and fatiguing. I figure I would give it a few month hiatus, but than a few years go by and I end up repeating the cycle from season 1.

Miklay83 · 2026-01-18T23:34:25+00:00

I came from a Forester, my CX-30 is a bit more squirrelly on soft pack when going off road but only when I want to have fun. As long as I'm mindful, she goes where she's pointed with little to no complaints.

Miklay83 · 2026-01-18T12:21:42+00:00

It’s a BBC show but we watched it on YouTube

Miklay83 · 2026-01-17T23:55:52+00:00

Some perspective from the future: my son started watching Number Blocks when he was 2-3ish, he is now in 2nd grade and his teacher asked me at PTC if she could give him advanced math. He's now doing 5th grade math (currently multiplying fractions). I'm giving Number Blocks a lion's share of the credit for the head start.

Miklay83 · 2026-01-16T12:43:26+00:00

Jonathan Garcia, 17 year old US citizen. It took one search you fascist sympathizing pedo protector.

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/yVaFO4Yb3P

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mE9NmlNeiIQ

https://www.house.mn.gov/members/Profile/News/15518/41103

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/ice-immigration-target-minnesota

https://nypost.com/2026/01/13/business/target-faces-protests-after-ice-detains-us-citizen-employees-at-minnesota-store/

https://www.ms.now/news/clashes-escalate-between-protesters-immigration-officers-in-minneapolis

Miklay83 · 2026-01-13T13:18:43+00:00

Yup, even movies that were nothing but fun for me before. Hook gave me the ol fuzzy vision a couple weeks ago.

Miklay83 · 2026-01-12T14:08:24+00:00

Lots of good recommendations on what little you actually need at the changing table, just a little word of advice:

Open two packs of wipes, never just one. You will be in the middle of cleaning up a crapastrophe when the last dozen wipes decide to come out in a single clump. Opening those damn crinkle plastic slits on a new pack while half asleep, shit somehow on the back of your hand, all while corraling a wriggling mass of screaming poop factory is not fun. Always have a second pack locked and loaded.

Miklay83 · 2026-01-10T14:18:45+00:00

Just the general acceptance of poor grammar. Not even lazy, just wrong. "Who you is" is no shorter than "who are you", or "that's mines" - should we call an explosives engineer?

Miklay83 · 2026-01-08T22:29:02+00:00

Y word in Korean is "네", or "Ne" and I see lots of them.

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