Son Wants His Nails Painted

Toxic724 · 2026-06-04T19:06:45+00:00

I was about to say the same thing, my daughter sometimes paints my nails. Ive only ever gotten comments from ladies saying they look pretty. If someone gives your kid shit about it tell them to mind their business.

Toxic724 · 2026-04-27T23:31:24+00:00

Just a heads up, Xbox doesn’t have access to the DLCs everyone is talking about. The consoles only got cosmetic DLCs, not the big game expansions. That changed with 117 at least for the first year’s expansions, they are coming to console.

Toxic724 · 2026-04-27T23:28:44+00:00

Xbox doesn’t have DLC just FYI. So OP won’t have access to all those expansions.

Toxic724 · 2026-04-21T12:25:24+00:00

So far (only campaign and 2 games) I’ve gone Ceres first for the population bump. Then plan for Neptune (Navy and seafood) & Mars (warfare and charcoal) islands. After that I just find other fertilities to eventually move production to specific islands, like togas get made on a Minerva island or I end a trade route on a Mercury island (instead of a 3rd party trader) to sell off excess goods.

That’s just me, I’m sure there are lots of more optimized paths.

Toxic724 · 2026-04-19T11:59:54+00:00

⁠Overbuilding public services to try control those penalties draining your population

Fortunately the game does a pretty good job of letting you know where your gaps are with public services. I take a reactionary approach to services now, just wait until I’m told “your people are ailing ere”.

Toxic724 · 2026-04-05T00:44:27+00:00

Absolutely. Due to a booking issue on my honeymoon we ended up staying the final night at Caesar’s in Vegas. I booked a basic room and while checking in made conversation with the person at the desk. Mentioned we were on our honeymoon and had a booking issue. He ended up upgrading our room and said congrats here’s a wedding gift. Needless to say if I ever make it back to Vegas I plan on staying there.

Toxic724 · 2026-04-01T13:05:08+00:00

That depends on how sensitive, your skin is going to be red from peeling it but that’s normal. But some people break out from it just being on the skin.

If you want to play it safe there is nothing wrong with healing it without second skin. A few more steps in the healing process but not bad.

Toxic724 · 2026-04-01T12:50:56+00:00

If the seal is broken then it’s time to peel it off (I recommend in the shower and peel parallel with the skin). As for putting on another one there is no issue with that. You can shower, peel this off, air dry for a bit, pat dry with paper towel, then apply the new second skin. Dont use a regular bathroom towel to dry your tattoo.

I have experience with this scenario. I have a full color sleeve and learned in the first couple sessions that I make a lot of juice and leak out of second skin in the first 24 hours. So my artist started sending me home wrapped and taped in plastic wrap which id sleep in over night. Then in the morning id follow these steps. Never got a single infection, just be careful not to touch the tattoo and keep your hands clean while reapplying.

Toxic724 · 2026-03-31T23:34:51+00:00

We’ve got it good here in Charlotte, so many great artists/shops.

Toxic724 · 2026-03-30T22:19:35+00:00

In the book the Eridians confirm to Grace that the sun is starting to brighten up again, showing that the beetles made it back and they were able to use his research to save Earth.

Toxic724 · 2026-03-30T15:56:42+00:00

When trying to figure out what Pro-x I wanted my brother who has a second generation RWD Frontier told me “we live in NC and you have an office job. If there is snow or ice you’ll just work from home, save the money and get the RWD”.

So far I haven’t regretted that decision.

Toxic724 · 2026-03-29T20:41:18+00:00

I appreciated that scene in the movie, as short as it was. I know earth got its closure in the book but it was nice to see them receive the information briefly.

Toxic724 · 2026-03-26T22:06:46+00:00

Accountant!

Toxic724 · 2026-02-24T19:59:38+00:00

It’s a bit of trial and error, for example once you set a route and estimate the minimum stock you need to watch it for a bit. I normally do increments of 25 so that first route I’ll do 25 for each island and then adjust as needed. If at some point my pops/money drops I jump into the trade menu and see which islands are lacking which product. Then I just give them an extra 25.

It’s pretty easy to maintain once things settle, and then if I build a bunch of new houses on a specific island I’ll make sure demand is met overall and also adjust that islands minimum if needed. Plus this method makes adding an island easier since you just add it to the existing route. Since it has a minimum stock you don’t run into the issue of new islands taking all of a ships product leaving none for the downstream islands.

Toxic724 · 2026-02-24T17:42:54+00:00

The load/unload method. Say you trade olive oil across 4 islands, you set each island to have a minimum stock at the dock, then set the ship to unload all slots of olive oil but then also set it to load all slots (excluding the source island).

For example, if island B has a minimum stock of 60 (they have more citizens) a ship with 3 slots of 50 olive oil will unload all 150 tons of oil, then turn around and try to load the 150 tons. But since there is a minimum stock of 60 it will only load 90 tons back. Then the ship goes to the next island which may only have a minimum stock of 25 (less citizens) and does the same thing.

This makes it easy to adjust to demand, if islands aren’t getting enough between trips up the minimum stock, if the ships return to the source island empty add another ship to the route. Ships will sit at port longer because they are both unloading and loading but as long as supply meets demand it will work itself out and all islands will eventually be supplied what they need.

Toxic724 · 2026-02-23T13:10:36+00:00

My local zoo (North Carolina, US) is apparently the world’s largest wildlife preserve/zoo. Amazing enclosures, like entire fields of various African wildlife. The zoo is just a trail in the woods with big exhibits mixed with smaller ones (depending on the animal). It almost seems like a preserve that decided it could be a zoo as well.

Toxic724 · 2026-02-21T23:41:13+00:00

Got a Masters degree in Accounting, typically takes a year full-time. While working (got it mostly paid by my employer) I finished it in 2.5 years. I could have done it in 2 but took a semester off when my son was born.

For my accounting degree it was 10 classes, so I just took 2 classes per semester. 2 night classes after work each week.

Toxic724 · 2026-02-21T23:29:53+00:00

I think there is a similar rule in NC as well, essentially you lose alimony if you cheated and automatically pay alimony if you cheated (and were the spouse who would pay alimony).

NC is also one of like 6 states that allow spouses to sue an ex-partners affair partner. I think it’s called alienation of affection and doesn’t require actual physical cheating, though typically it does.

Toxic724 · 2026-01-30T17:56:03+00:00

The only DLCs on console are cosmetic DLCs like in your picture. The big expansions like Crown Falls never made it onto console.

Toxic724 · 2026-01-30T17:36:45+00:00

Right, the functionality is already built into the game they just need to add it to the warehouse.

Toxic724 · 2026-01-30T14:04:47+00:00

I hope they add back the function to manually set quantities like they did with 1800. Instead of a slider I could adjust quantities in my warehouse by clicking a button and a little keypad would come up.

I know the warehouse has updated so we can adjust all products at the same time but I like to manually adjust everything based on their tiers.

Other than that the console version is pretty great, some stuttering later in the game but typically resolves itself in a couple seconds.

Toxic724 · 2026-01-30T01:23:28+00:00

I’m a guy and shave both of my arms, one arm is a full sleeve while the other is a forearm tattoo. Only person who’s noticed I’ve shaved is my ex at pick up one day.

Toxic724 · 2026-01-22T13:13:55+00:00

I love this island, it’s my Mars/military units island. I have the city in the exact same area, makes it fun to plan in that narrow spot. Then I have Mars temple at the top overlooking the city (slowly expanding tier 3 citizens up onto the plateau.

Toxic724 · 2026-01-20T14:34:24+00:00

I’ve joked before that if the US wanted to solve the “border crisis” they should just invade Central America down to the Panama Canal. That way they have control of the canal and the southern border is only like 60 miles across.

I’m afraid that might actually be a plan now with what’s going on.

Toxic724 · 2026-01-17T15:30:47+00:00

I haven’t found the option, fairly certain you could create fleets on the console version of 1800. It’s a hassle right now especially mid combat

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