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I need to re-cap my childhood Turbografx, so my toddler can experience some family Dungeon Explorer. She's the age I was when my parents bought it.

Shawnee Smith as Amanda in Saw (2004)

Well, without any context it is hard to say. In very general terms, I have a little advice.

Find a job you don't hate. You're going be spending a lot of your time there, if it sucks your soul out you will never be happy. I think this is a super important one.

Don't acquire needless debt. It's so easy to fall into the buy now, pay later mentality. Especially when Klarna and Afterpay are shoved down your throat with every online purchase. It's a slippery slope.

Quality is much more important than trendy. Sure, there is stuff that is quality and trendy. But you don't need to buy a Le Creuset when a Lodge will do just as good.

Get a cheap hobby. Maybe there is a little up front capital to get started, like for tools or something. But if the rest of it is cheap, you'll be able to do it more often. One of mine is restoring antique fountain pens. I needed a pen press, a buffing wheel, jewelry pliers, sac shellac, some 100% talc. But broken pens and sacs are cheap, so it is something I can do anytime for a few bucks. The detail work is soothing. And consumes hours.

It gets increasingly difficult to make friends after you're out of school. So, hang on to your closest ones. Make time to keep seeing them, even if you don't feel like going out.

I don't know how young "young" is, but I think it's pretty normal to feel that way in your early 20's. It's a time of big changes. And don't compare yourself to social media. It's not real life.

I need NX. If we could get that working, and if IT let me have Linux on my work PC, I would be so happy. My CAD station runs considerably worse on Win11, and the drivers for my favorite spaceball don't work on it.

About 120 GB a month. Luckily, data is unlimited.

Yeah, parenthood is stressful. I have less personal time. A loooot less expendable income. But when I pick my 3 year old up from daycare, and she's so excited to see me, you'd think she hadn't seen me in days, my heart just melts. It's so interesting to hear her take on things. The stories she makes up with her toys. Hear her describe what's going on in her abstract scribbles.

She loves music. Michael Jackson, The Wallfowers, and Sam the Sham are surprise favorites at the moment. Aside from the soundtracks to Frozen and the Little Mermaid.

Seeing her get excited about things that we take for granted brings joy back into my life. Even something mundane like a Spirit plane coming in to land by the airport by us. She was so excited because it was yellow. Ford Fusions are "Shark Cars" and she always loves pointing them out. Putting stuff on the checkout conveyor at the grocery store. Turning on light switches. Riding Sandy ar Meijer.

Now, she's getting into board and card games and it's so cool to have family game nights. Primarily dominoes and Uno. I have a ton of weird vintage board games in the basement I cannot wait to bust out when she's older.

I could go on and on about why I love being a dad. The day she was born, from the moment I held her, I knew that I would fully be capable of killing someone. As long as I am alive and capable, I will do everything in my power to keep anyone from harming her. She is everything to me.

Oh, yeah! They had a play button next to the tray button, and a headphone jack with a volume wheel. I haven't thought about those in forever.

I daily a Dell Precision 690 in my living room.

The source material isn't even 25 years old. Right? Right....?

The last Intel I bought new was the Pentium 4 630. 3.0 Ghz, with hyperthreading. That's thing was a fucking space heater. And I loved it. But everything new since then has been AMD.

Antique. I'd say mission style furniture. My father in law used to do restorations. But it really isn't my scene at all. My ideal house would be all mid-century. But I also like more modern contemporary furniture.

I have an extending table, too. It's 4 person, extends to 6. But that puts the legs right between your legs when you sit on the sides.