Foolish fool, I can expand a single sentence into several pages!!!

Clearly it’s a 🪟

Anything from 6 or so years before your PC fabrication ought to be easy to run at a fast framerate.

Dwarf Fortress was unplayable before they added actual graphics to it

OBJECTION!!

The ASCII graphics have a charm of its own, even if it skews the horizontal-vertical distances due to characters being 8x12

Just cheat at the game. I miss when games bad built-in cheats for these situations when you just couldn’t be arsed

I suspect it’ll do so while also claiming that Haiti was always wrong and much better when it was their colony

I recommend installing TrackerControl on your Android phone. Get the one from f-droid for full access to all features

Given how easily you can steal/fake other people’s voices with current tech, that sounds like a lost cause

Back in mah day, internet time was super limited (dial up). Having a hard restriction on daily internet use, like 2 hours tops, would be a good starting point, in my opinion.

As others mentioned, no phones or tablets, not before 14y. I’d also completely block Roblox, TikTok, Instagram, xitter and Facebook. The kid can learn about those things from friends, but at home those things will be off limits and explained as mind control programs (a bit hyperbolical, but not entirely untrue)

For games, I’d create a small (~10), initial catalogue of curated games and let the kid play. After some months, give old magazines or show some screenshots of older stuff, or let them use their internet time to check for interesting looking titles, and let them choose one or two to add to their collection. If the game sucks, well, too bad, lesson hopefully learned.

Having access to the entire digital world at all times can really mess up our senses of “how much that’s worth”, because there’s just so fucking much everywhere

Beets, on the other hand, are iron rich (but taste horrible in my opinion)

Well, did you learn or did she also threaten to throw sardines at your funeral?

Mothergunship is a FPS roguelite, where you get to build awesome-stupid looking guns between runs, getting temporary upgrades while blading everything. It often goes on 80% sales on GOG and Steam

Others mentioned brotato and vampire savior, there are several similar games like them nowadays, you can check their tags to look for more on Steam

Elder Scrolls Morrowind has janky as fuck combat (hidden dice roll to check if you actually hit) and the only way to get better is with higher numbers in your skills and attributes. You can use magic and potions, both of which you can make yourself, to boost yourself to godlike levels

Dynasty Warriors 8 offers several weapons for the characters, plus it lets you equip skills to make some actions better, like higher attack and higher attack while mounted. As soon as you learn how to block for quick camera turns, you’ve mastered the game

Kingdoms of Amalur has awesome combat and plenty of upgrade paths to experiment with

I’ve downloaded several winged reptiles

For Palworld, a new island takes 6 months, per the article. Probably talking about Sakurajima and the big southern one. That makes sense, since it’s not just putting stuff there and calling it a day on the first finished thing, some level design has to happen so the place makes sense and doesn’t feel super boring to explore.

Here’s to hoping they burn down the plantations for good measure. Fuck Chiquita

Solution: bring a cheap plastic chair as part of your luggage

In a way, piracy can fix that problem too, since pirate servers existing for ongoing games means they’ll never actually die, unless the server source code gets taken down and nobody archives a copy. I mean, WoW Classic only happened because a private server running vanilla got too big, despite Blizzard bullshit of “You think you want it, but you don’t” and “We don’t have the code to roll back”.

Star Wars Galaxies, Phantasy Star Online, City of Heroes, Warhammer Age of Reckoning all still exist and can be played, despite being “dead”, thanks to private/pirate servers.

Gotta save up for some hard drives to download and keep my GOG games, plus some pirated totally legally acquired titles

The only time the kid did mediate the fight with “Let’s get ready to rumbleeeeeeeeeeee”, a lawyer burst into the house with a lawsuit.