I went through public schooling in the south. There were still desegregation laws on the books for the school district I was in. The junior and senior high schools I went to both boasted pre-ap and AP programs that any kid in the county could apply to be apart of. Only about 100 kids were accepted per grade in junior high... Y'all, they shipped in the white kids. (Disclaimer: not all who were a part of the program were white, just the majority of them.) They shipped in the kids from the surrounding white flight areas. Twenty plus years later and it still makes me shake my head.
Almost daily. I have treatment resistant radial styloid tenosynovitis so when that flares up nothing is easy to play.
Initially the games were those on the lighter side, but now I've moved on to more graphically intensive games (sometimes having to tweak settings, sometimes not).
When I want a bigger screen I bust out the dock and set up the portable monitor I bought for it - and, depending on what I'm playing I'll either get out the mouse and keyboard or the controller.
I don't have a set space for my setup so having the ability to pack up everything is a huge plus.
I have the 512GB LCD model and recently put in a 1.5TB SD card and am loving being able to install bigger games. So far I haven't noticed any real lag vs it being installed on the internal SSD. That may be an option for you.
When funds allow I will be upgrading my internal SSD to a 2TB, but, for now, the SD card works fine
The demo was fun. Apparently I'm a mediocre heartless monster.
I just had parent rage remembering how my oldest's 1st grade teacher wanted to hold them back just because their handwriting was "awful", and their 2nd grade teacher decided to put all the talkative kids away in their own section so they "wouldn't disturb the good kids" because THEY ALL TALKED TO EACH OTHER! This was also the same teacher that wrote "did you even study?" on a second graders spelling test when they came home with a D (that particular week had been so hard).
Sorry for ranting, but this was prior to oldest being diagnosed with ADHD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia. Sometimes the teachers just see flaws and lable the ND kids as trouble makers or lazy instead of thinking they need extra help. Occupational therapy helped so much with their handwriting, medication and psychotherapy helped with the ADHD, and blue light filters helped with the dyslexia.
I'm sorry you went through all that as a child.
As a mom of a mtf child, it has been hard to reprogram my brain that they are no longer my son, but my daughter. I still love them, support them, and they will always be my baby. This internet stranger is very proud of you and wishes you the best going forward. 💛🏳️⚧️
Where the Heart Is is the first movie I thought of
I'm pretty sure my grandmother still has my grandfather's radio. It looks like one in the picture.
I remember us having an Atari computer along with some Compac computer running DOS in the late 80s. The computers I grew up with were models that we got for free from my dad's workplace whenever they upgraded. We ran Win 3.1 until about '98. Win 95 was prevalent in the house until the mid '00s. Due to my dad's job, we always had a computer of some sort in the house.
The computers in my elementary school's computer lab were Apple 2es - in the 90s.
I didn't get a cellphone until around 2004/2005, and then it was a hand-me-down from my older sister. The Nokia 5110 - the brick, complete with extendable antenna.
I am anemic and bruise easily. It's a quick blood test, but it's easily rectified if that's the cause.
I appreciate this, and now I'm just waiting for it to show me family library games when browsing the store. I have games on my wishlist that another family member owns. A flag that says "family library" would be appreciated - similar to "in library" and "on wishlist."
- I don't see it when I browse the store on my steam deck or the mobile app. Unsure if it would show this to me on the desktop app.
I just bought myself a pair of parachute pants! They're not nearly as loud as the wind breaker suits of the 90s and early 00s, but I love them.