Pure strategy favourite: Terra Mystica, as long as you are happy with a fairly rules-dense game.

Pure chance favourite: Snakes and Ladders

20 years on my partner and I still quote The End of the World occasionally.

So a whoosh from me it was.

I’m guessing that English is not your first language? To talk shit about someone means to say negative things about them, it doesn’t necessarily mean using any swear words.

That or you were joking, and I just whooshed myself.

Chaining someone to a job sounds more like indenture than strong labour laws.

Actually strong labour laws let employees choose to work for a different employer, while requiring the employer to have a valid reason to dismiss the employee.

Have those workers tried being friends with rich people?

I also lost quite a bit of respect for Penny Wong when she wasn’t willing to condemn this at the outset: Israel’s order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Though to be fair, Dutton was never going to be a better option.

Since that’s Charlie Chaplin doing a mocking parody of Hitler, what do you want to stop? People making fun of Nazis?

I’ve heard that it’s so addictive that people who stop using it will die from withdrawal in a matter of days.

But the next pope may be far more conservative than Francis, who by Catholic Church standards was unusually liberal.

This made slightly less sense before I remembered that manga is supposed to be read right to left.

Responding aggressively to a post asking why it appears that American culture has become more aggressive and hateful is not helping as much as you think.

My most notable one was Subnautica.

I enjoyed it enough that I completed it 3 times: firstly in normal mode, then in hardcore mode, then with the Deathrun mod.

Ah yes, nature’s ghillie suit.

Next they’re going to tell us that a bird sharpening its beak every thousand years wouldn’t wear out a mountain made of diamond.

It really depends on the kid and the complexity of the message. Young kids are still learning the intricacies of the language and building a vocabulary. Not talking down to them helps build those skills up. But at the end of the day, if the message is not getting across, it’s the fault of the communicator.

Plus it’s an annoying flex to say “see how amazing my kid is? It’s all because of me!” Some kids just pick up language easier, some kids sleep all the way through the night earlier, some kids toilet train easier, etc. Usually it’s better for parents to quietly take the little victory rather than treat it as a reflection of their amazing parenting skills.

Wrong place to leave a habitat for bugs.

Fulifilling your dreams is all about the power of persistence folks! That, and having a friend willing to invest almost $70M in your dream.

But isn’t chocolate toxic to cats? You win some, you lose some.

So the caption is really: “man convinces 5 clearly less enthusiastic friends to play board game.”