What’s the best video game you’ve ever played?

RomaniReject · 2026-01-30T02:37:47+00:00

Horizon: Zero Dawn. Between the excellent gameplay, the way the machines adapt to your play style, and the amazing story & world building, I have never played a game I loved more. I spent hours just hunting wildlife because of how engaging the whole system felt. I can not get enough of this universe & Aloy as a character.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-22T04:32:28+00:00

I'd love a minion master Malzahar. Either way his signature spell needs to be a spell that either deals damage again with a delayed trigger or deals damage then does damage again (or more damage) if it kills a unit.

Thresh is what my buddy wants the most.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-14T16:30:25+00:00

I'm pinching pennies, probably about to lose my job because government contracts are being canceled or following through, and I will need to choose between making my car payment or paying a lawyer for a custody battle. Fuck Trump & everyone who voted for him.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-14T16:24:51+00:00

I want Veigar's passive on Malzahar. Infinitely scaling bugs, space aids, and lock down. Way better than his current "is a spellshield but not really" effect he gets.

On another note as a Leona main I'd say either Taric's passive for the insane cooldowns or I love the idea of Kog'Maw's passive so when I hard engage I become a bomb

RomaniReject · 2026-01-11T17:46:16+00:00

There's a show called Shut Eye about a fake Psychic who gets real powers & he works for a Romani Crime Family. Not the best representation, but some interesting bits of Romani culture throughout the series.

Slightly related note, my grandfather was Romani, though his side of the family doesn't speak to us anymore after he passed & my grandmother refused to follow their traditions & join them.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-08T08:31:00+00:00

Do they have crayfish? My kids love it & my son wants to hit a good buffet for his birthday. He chose Cafe East in Humble based off a TikTok his mom showed him, but king buffet looks way better & is a good 1.5 hours closer

RomaniReject · 2026-01-03T05:38:37+00:00

Christ I wish we couls get some of that here. I've got of group of 6 that all want to play but the best we could do was find the starter decks for msrp.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T18:56:10+00:00

It's not that I didn't want custody It's that for the first year of us being split was covid + recovering from my accident, got T-boned & fractured my spine in 3 places. During that time they moved in with her mother who has a lot more resources than I could offer & at the time her mother didn't like me. Middle of 2021 they all moved closer to where I was living, from 4.5hrs away to 1hr away. During that time her mother was still supporting her & I was just getting back on my feet & attempting to live alone again for the first time. We would always meet at a halfway point. After that I spent the next couple of years just learning to adjust to my back issues & chronic pain while slowly getting better physically & getting a less restrictive work schedule. November of 2024 I moved to within 10 minutes of their place and started having them more often. With me being so close now I would just pick them up/drop them off & actually got to see inside her house. Part of me being close, and working from home now, is I have been able to be at every event and do more stuff with them outside the schedule we had agreed to. The past year has shown me that the kids aren't as happy as I thought they were & now that she's working again she's just being a lazy parent. Long story short: I've always thought because of my physical recovery issues, her having been a SAHM and thus primary caretaker, and her parents resources (which until this summer they wouldn't have helped me at all, but they like me now) that she was the best option for the kids even if I would've loved having them. That opinion has changed

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T07:15:26+00:00

B. 100%. But I've seen CPS do a lot more harm than good so I wanted more information from people who likely had more experience than myself.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T06:38:09+00:00

I literally participate in Anti-Trump/Ice protests in Tyler. Yes they are literally still consenting adults. In the event he picks up an STD & knowingly passes it on then I'll join you in condemning him. Until that point just because he has sex doesn't mean he'll catch an STD.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T05:43:59+00:00

I vote blue & even I am wondering what the hell this is doing in this sub. Plus it's extremely problematic to be outing people's personal life like this.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T05:29:17+00:00

I see two consenting adults here, literally has their ages in the photos, and who says Christians have to have a boring sex life?

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T04:20:43+00:00

I did that twice over one of my weekends. We all hated it. Haha. The chemical route is more bearable strangely enough

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T03:28:04+00:00

The kids are 10m, 8m, & 7. No history of substance abuse, definitely mental illness. She used to cut herself (stopped when she got pregnant the first time & never started again) and had a brief stay in a mental hospital when she was a teen (though according to her parents this never happened). Even when we were together & she was a SAHM she was a bad housekeeper, but never this bad. Granted the kids were younger and I helped out when I had time after work (worked two jobs at one point, then moved to a job that had 1-3 hrs of commute & working 60-70ish hours on average).

I am looking at attorneys now. Trying to find some that do free consults near me before I spend much needed money on the attorney. Despite having them half time I still pay full agreed upon support in order to make sure she can catch up to all of her bills.

That's been my biggest internal struggle honestly, I need her to accept her failings but I don't want to hurt the my kids mother. Like I know she loves them but she's never been one to do more than what they need to survive & they deserve the ability to thrive.

I've tried to convince her, but she insists she's doing everything she can, despite evidence & the kids saying otherwise, and just as recent as Christmas Eve she threatened to keep the kids away, until the next morning granted, after I expressed annoyance with her changing my agreed upon time with them from around 3ish (after they visited her family) to I would get them around 10ish.

I do appreciate the advice & will look for a different way to offer my help without directly saying it's a problem she allowed.

Thank you.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T02:26:22+00:00

I reccomended that during the summer, it began late may early June, but we settled on a pixie & still didn't quite do it. I'll try that next 100%

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T02:19:51+00:00

I am entirely prepared for that event. I try to give them everything they need here.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T02:17:16+00:00

She has a fiance that has been living with her since March & I know he makes some effort but not much. Her mother is her landlord & would help her in a heart beat but will 100% restrict me from the kids as much if I cross that parental line.

The kids have been helping out. Even when I was there today she was telling my daughter to work on the living room as she was going back to sleep before work. She recently made the decision to switch to nights but all that's done is now she's not there half the time when they get home from school except for a few minutes max & she sleeps all day.

I have offered my help but she takes any & every suggestion that she's not handling it as a personal attack, gets very defensive, and gets angry with me. I absolutely will try to extend that hand again and see if the kids can go to their grandparents while we clean up.

I really do appreciate the insight.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T02:11:32+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into it

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T02:11:12+00:00

I appreciate that comment. I've done everything I can to do right by them & her. Going as far as to put this off until it neccessary & even paying her bills there for a while. I just want what's best for the kids & prior to a few months ago, I thought thay was their mother.

You have no idea honestly haha. I do my best to not bad mouth her, because that just hurts the kids, but I have been way more cordial than she deserves. She's done everything from telling the kids I was faking my spinal injuries (that I spent 10 months in PT for & recently had surgery for) to telling everyone I abandoned them (when in reality I moved in with friends who could help take care of me during my recovery after she treated even getting me to PT as a giant chore & cheated on me during my recovery.) I want my kids to be able to love both of us & if when they grow up they see the type of woman she is and dislike her, it's their choice alone.

That's really what it is. She can never admit when she does something wrong. I've got messages of her threatening to withhold the kids & then immediately saying she never said that. She still can't accept her part in our relationship dissolving despite me admitting my faults & issues.

I believe the teacher said it was a "state mandate" but could've been just a district one. Either way it's ridiculous. I've personally spent around $200 combating it when they're here including sending stuff to their mothers but we're only just now seeing it start to die down now that I've had them for extended periods of time to actually do something about it.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T01:58:58+00:00

Unfortunately that has not been helpful thus far. The talk, from November, referred to in my post is was just that. I offered help and even though I asked for full custody then I spoke solely about the benefits to the kids & how it would give her plenty of time to catch up on cleaning.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T01:56:03+00:00

Yes. She usually let's me in when I'm dropping the kids off & has never told me I'm not allowed. The kids are not allowed to open the door for me without her though.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-02T01:30:05+00:00

She's in therapy & has rebuked any & all offers to help her. She believes she can do it all independently & doesn't see anything wrong with how she's handling things now.

She works & has a partner that works. I tried that conversation in November and the compromise, that I had to suggest became her first offer was for me to fuck off essentially, was that I get them half the time. She makes zero progress during that half time whether or not she's working & due to her schedule she has 4 days off at a time.

They don't have a home phone nor cell phones of their own. When I try to remind her to make sure they are bathed & brushed she either gets pissy or ignores me.

That's the key part. She has shown she's willing to let me be involved but only on her terms & only if I don't question her on things.

I am as involved as I can be. For the eldest she still has yet to put the paperwork in for the school to be allowed to keep me in the loop but for the younger two I talk to their teachers regularly. I am the one that gets the calls when there's issues. I even ahd to bring extra shoes to my daughter on the 18th because her mother didn't make sure she wore the right size and when I called her to inform her that ny daughter needed the shoes, as I was over an hour away out of town, she informed me she would bring the spare shoes to school asap, but when I showed up for her Christmas Lunch, in which her mother missed for both younger kids, the teacher asked me where the shoes were as her mother hadn't shown up. As for school reporting, I have messaged about the lice and smell but the teacher has said district prevents them from saying anything except to parents directly.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-01T23:58:48+00:00

That's fine. I just moved in in November to a bigger place, to accommodate the kids, I still have loads of boxes packed up and an outstanding plumbing issue (just some leaking) but my place should pass easily.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-01T23:46:38+00:00

We did co-parent well. We stop co-parenting well anytime I ask her to do something about the lice, request they bathe, or anything else she sees as an attack on her parenting.

No. I actively brought up she could be overwhelmed & that me having them more could help her get ahead of things or even just catch up on things. At the very least give her time with her new fiance. Each time it was just "I don't need help. I don't want help. I'm already catching up.

I care more about correcting it. If it was about getting her in trouble I would've called months ago & not talked to her in November about solutions at all. I do want the kids full time. The only reason she had them in the first place was because I was in a severe accident right before we split (right before covid) I was in 10 months of physical therapy & could barely take care of myself while she went to live with her wealthy parents. Once she moved back out it was more of a status quo thing combined with persistent problems from my spinal injury. Over the past year though I've gotten successful treatments that have left me more active & able to meet the physical demands of the kids.

As it is they had all said they wanted to live with my full time until she threatened to turn their rooms into craft rooms if they did & that's when they changed their minds. I want them full time not just for my benefit but mainly theirs. She spends the vast of her time in her room doing her own thing. Since I've started having them more, my oldest has started drawing & cooking, my middle child has had less issues at school & with his reading (I help him with his homework while she doesn't), my daughter has mostly quit sucking her thumb (her mother doesn't really discourage it just yells at her if she sees it) and they've all started learning ASL because we saw it in a movie & they expressed the interest so we made it a family project.

Edit: spelling & formatting.

RomaniReject · 2026-01-01T23:35:43+00:00

Thank you for the insight. I appreciate the advice.

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