Kevo

I know exactly what you're talking about with the burnout and decision anxiety for new games that take hours to complete a tutorial or have paragraphs of menu text. It's not exactly the open world you're talking about, but I found Hard Space Ship Breaker to be a great alternative to that. It's got excellent lore and storytelling while still being a very simple game. Think power wash simulator, but breaking apart spaceships in a space trucker stop. It's simple, and each "day" is a hard 15 minutes, so you'll always have a stopping point in a reasonable time.

Not exactly free, but if you dont know how to cook, or only eat the same like 3 things, meal kits like Hellofresh and others usually have pretty big sales where you can get food for pretty cheap. It's a bit of a scam because they say like "17 free meals" but they don't tell you its spread out over like 10 weeks. So your first box is half off, next one is 40% off, and so forth. BUT, you get to keep recipes that they send you, and then you can just get groceries from the store for like 50% - 80% the price.

Or if you already know how to cook and just want to dove in to recipes, they're all free online at https://www.hellofresh.com/recipes , I would recommend browsing through when deciding what to eat for the week.

And it shows up on the AOD now, and you can't get rid of it. Plus, they changed smart select to some "draw on your screen" bulletin that takes an extra button press to get to, and it works worse than the version before at auto sizing to what you wanted.

They also changed the options for app grid layout to remove the 5x5. Now you just have 6x4 and 6x5. Plus the colors of the icons changed, and the default weather widget changes. I had my home screen in a way that I was used to, and now it's all over the place. I feel like everything that was OK before got a huge downgrade, probably to make room for AI bullshit.

Yup. Avoid it if you can

Melatonin is a sleepy rhythm game. Exact color scheme you're looking for, fun sleepy night time aesthetics. Not exactly in it for the plot

Do not. Great game tho

Sounds like this dude, consciously or subconsciously, can't get over the fact that he sees OP as "his", and he doesn't like the idea of sharing her with people from the past. Depending on how old you are, 5 isn't even that much for a body count, so i agree, him freaking out over that is a red flag. 18 is definitely more, but again, thats all dependent on how much you tie emotions to sex. Some people need a long emotional connection before they have sex, some don't, and there's nothing wrong with either. But being upset with how someone choose to use their body before they were dating you is childish and possessive IMHO.

If you like the guy, then you like him, but it sounds like a long distance relationship with someone too insecure and controlling to be in a mature long distance relationship. Lying is bad, crossing boundaries you two have set is bad, don't do those things. But taking people's money for talking on the internet causes no harm. Getting dick pics sucks, and I'm sorry you had to go through that, but if your BF blames you for that, he's an idiot. Unless you said "please show me a picture of your penis", nothing you did caused dudes to take pictures of their junk and send them unsolicited to strangers on the internet.

Looks really good, maybe a little well done, but nothing wrong with that if you like the taste. But those fries look immaculate if you hand cut them!

Paw-er supply

The extremely attractive and benevolent socialite with seemingly limitless wealth from mysterious sources that they are going on fetch quests for (which is about 60% of thr campaign) is actually a shapechanged amethyst dragon who is plotting an ascension ritual and is the big bad foe the campaign.

Also the seemingly benevolent order of monks are in actuality a cult for a far realm eldritch entity (a fact that only the highest ranking 5 members actually know), and the tattoo of a third eye all the acolytes get will actually anchor that entity to the world so it can come through and try to take over... but that's next campaign.

Surprise surprise, that's a similar time frame the last attempt at this gave. Apparently the they never got too far off thr ground because they had to divert resources to help against covid

I've never raised children in any capacity, but let me give my opinion as a former child myself. I think there's a lot of pros and a lot of cons to having a smart phone as a child. First question is financial. If you can't afford it, probably not worth it. Second most important I'd say is if you feel you can keep your kid safe on the internet, primarily with things like parental controls and what not. There's obviously lots of other points to consider, but if you decide to go with it, it might be good to have it be something your kid earns. Doing well on report cards, working on a personal goal, doing extra chores for a summer, stuff like that. Make a goal and have phone privileges be the reward. And make sure they know it's technically "your" phone, and is a privilege, not a right. You can take it away whenever you want if they haven't earned the privilege of using it