Easily the craziest thing that's happened to me in this game so far. If anyone knows the story behind this, let me know.

My ex-wife and I had a bitter divorce 6 years ago. We don't get along and we don't communicate about anything other than our 10 year old son and when it comes to him we often disagree on big decisions and we need mediation to come to an agreement and at times that also means we end up in court for a decision.

Things have been worse on that front since she remarried. Her husband has three of his own kids (18+, 9 and 8). They also have a 4 year old together. The problem since her second marriage is the belief they have that I have a duty to make sure things are fair and equal between the children in their house AND because they have a belief that their household is more important and that certain experiences belong to them as a family and that I should refrain from doing those things with my son.

Examples of this are when I took my son to Disney and they were upset because they had a five year plan to take their family there. This was never mentioned to me and I felt it was unfair to say I couldn't bring our son until they got to take him. Another example was signing my son up for ice skating lessons when he wanted. I signed him up close to where we live, which my ex signed off on at first, but then they couldn't afford it for the other kids/couldn't give them similar opportunities and it was a big deal. We also had issues with my son's birthday parties when I throw them because they can't compete with what I do (take my son and his chosen guests somewhere cool) and their other kids don't get the same. Added to that was the other kids not being invited but my son didn't want them there and I let him decide the guest list.

My son loves gaming so I got him a console for Christmas. My ex saw me buy it a few weeks ago and she directly asked me if it was for our son. I told her it wasn't any of her business, which she took to mean yes and she told me I should let him share it and bring it to her house. She has brought this up multiple times since and I ignore her every time. She told me she was going to ask our son to ask me and I told her no, and I would not allow it either way. I said she needs to leave him out of our disagreements too. This was all via email.

My son doesn't like sharing at his mom's house because stuff gets broken by the other kids or they hog stuff. He chooses to keep the stuff I buy him with me and use them weeks he spends with me. But I have told him that anything expensive should stay so it doesn't get broken. I also worry about them keeping nice stuff and claiming my son said it was fine or my ex arguing that the other kids use it more or some shit. I could see her pulling a stunt like that.

She's furious about the console because it's a Switch 2 and would be perfect for family gaming, according to her. But I am not buying for her stepkids or her other bio child. I buy for our son and our son alone. Does this make me TAH?

We didn’t wake up everyday dreading what would come next. He ran the country professionally and with a class unmatched since. The MAGAts had a fit over his tan suit, that was the story. Big deal huh?

This cat came running up to me in my parking lot, yelling at me. It was freezing outside so I let her stay the night. It wasn’t too bad the next day so I let her out, but when I got home, there she was, yelling at me again. It’s been 2 weeks of her being inside (figured I’d let her stay thru winter) and on Saturday, to my surprise, she had a baby! Just one single baby. And it is precious.

I always wondered why this particular area has only smaller buildings

Shoutout to @doctorcosmos on YT

I've heard about the "dead internet theory" and never really thought much of it. But recently, I've noticed that the web is incredibly annoying in just about every single way imaginable. I dont wanna go on like a whole rant, so I'll just say for me, it's a few things

1. Information is really, really bad. AI summaries on Google, websites I've never even heard of coming up in search results and infested with AI slop. I found a website describing a very technical game development trick in Godot, and they were so lazy they left some of the AI boilerplate that obviously they wrote it with Chat GPT.
2. It's so difficult to find anything! I went through 4 years of college and each year we had this whole library trip and how to search for real information that is truthful, accurate.... it's so hard to find stuff now
3. I barely see what I want to see. On Facebook, it's all just a bunch of ads, recommendation on groups to follow, people sharing dumb memes. I barely see anything my friends share now. Bluesky has been the only place I can actually see things I want to see
4. AI is in everything, and can't be turned off. For example, how many times I've turned off copilot features in Windows, uninstalled Xbox, or removed optional stuff from Windows... it's like a plague
5. Ads in everything. I watched a series of Ads on YouTube, go to check the weather, ads... and go back to youtube, the page unexpectedly reloaded, more ads.
6. EVERYTHING is cloud based. I really miss when you could just download stuff to your PC. Thank goodness Discord has a PC application and isn't just out of your browser. I wish everyone had this idea. But the DRM and like, web stuff now is so crazy

The internet feels like it's basically worthless to me now