Loquat
3d ago
Minecraft Dungeons - it's basically Diablo, but Minecraft. My older kid loves original Minecraft (and we will be required to all see the movie soon), but the main reason we got it is because it allows 4-player couch co-op so our whole family can play together.
Both kids have picked it up pretty quickly, but I suppose I should have anticipated that the younger one would be weird about armor. She's already the type to have "fashion emergencies" IRL, so naturally she cares a lot about what her character's armor looks like and very little about what it does, despite our efforts to explain build optimization to her.
Loquat
5d ago
While I admit there are individuals out there who would happily try to rationalize the idea of adults fucking kids 12 and under as somehow necessary and helpful for the kids, I still have enough faith in humanity to believe nearly everyone would see through it, so it would never become popular enough to add itself into woke orthodoxy.
Loquat
5d ago
Trans activists successfully convinced a sufficient number of leftist normies that some kids are inherently trans, those who are know it at a young age, and that those kids will suffer terribly and kill themselves if forced to become physically normal adults of their birth sex, therefore the mastectomies and such are actually necessary medical care.
A lot of normies are still uncomfortable when confronted with the details, though, hence the euphemism of "gender-affirming care".
Loquat
5d ago
Per Google, DQSH first started in 2015 in San Francisco. The first big national-news-grabbing fight over trans bathroom access was in 2016 (North Carolina), but there had been several state- and local-level squabbles over trans issues in the years before.
Loquat
5d ago
If you have a really fantastic marinade that you want to use as a sauce, put it in a small saucepan and cook it down to a thicker consistency.
Loquat
10d ago
What kind of self-policing do you have in mind here? This guy in particular was upset over Israel killing civilians in Gaza - you don't need to confine yourself to Hamas-endorsed sources to come away thinking Israel's gone too far, the UN Human Rights office has publicly claimed the majority of Gazans killed are women and children, and there have been multiple reported incidents of Israeli forces killing aid workers, seemingly deliberately (latest example here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/middleeast/gaza-aid-workers-killed-audio-intl-invs/index.html)
So if a dangerous potentially crazy person were inclined to be sympathetic to the Palestinians before the war started, simple honest reporting of the above would be likely to set them off. Would you suggest not reporting on foreign wars? Because that seems unworkable to me.
I've seen that in a few different games, but yeah, Minecraft Dungeons doesn't seem to have anything like that at present.
Of course, in our case, such a feature would only solve half the problem...
Halfway through level
"Wait, wait, I need to change my armor."
"What? Why do you need to change your armor?"
"I don't know! I just do!"
More options
Context Copy link