barrbaric [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • (Disclaimer: I do not have children and never will unless something goes horribly wrong)

    A lot of it is just being physically present at home. The general consensus I’ve seen from parents is that until the youngest is over 10, they need supervision, so at least one parent is going to have to be there at all times. This obviously gets exacerbated if eg the parents split up or have work schedules that don’t line up. Some people can get around this with daycare or family help, but a lot of people don’t have enough money or eg retired parents who can do childcare.

    There’s also kids doing their own hobby stuff. If Timmy wants to play soccer, well, that means that the parents have to take him and are now losing their own Thursday nights and Saturday mornings. From what I’ve seen, a lot of kids will have 2-3 such activities. The parents I’m friends with generally are only free like one night a week until the kids hit their mid-teens and become more autonomous.

    All of this is likely made worse by horrendous infrastructure design in the US that necessitates having a car everywhere but major cities.







  • Continuing to grind away at Warframe, but steadily running out of things to grind for. Currently, I need to get 2 specific rare parts from relics from Scare-o Kiteer so I can build two of the same gun and then combine them (magnus/akmagnus), but that’s super mind-numbing so I’m mixing it up with other stuff. The real problem now is that, of 82 items I have yet to master, a full 50 are vaulted primes, and the other 32 are real sicko shit so it’s starting to be slow going. The 6 Kuva weapons I’m still missing are probably some of the easier things, with the more annoying ones being stuff like Sigma & Octantis (log in for another 150 days) or the Braton Vandal/Lato Vandal (obscene droprates in an extremely boring mode).

    Other than that, getting back up to date with Vampire Survivors. Just about wrapped up the Castlevania adventure and then I can start more seriously checking off stuff from Saga and then Ante Chamber.

    Also won my monthly 40k game in Tabletop Sim. Thank you Shining Spear Exarch for making like 6 consecutive 4++s.