They actually do hold it in reserve! They mainly use it when instructed to do something they don’t want to, like cleaning up.

“Please pick up the mess you made before getting out any more toys.”

robotic voice “Yes, Maker. Cleaning up.”

They’re a great kid with a lot of personality.

edit: Line breaks. I always get those wrong.

Hah, nice.

Calling you “Dad” only out of earshot is sweet in a teenagery way.

It is pretty cute. They only started doing it recently, so I’m not sure where they got it.

It makes me think of Dresden Files, wherein the protagonist lives with a cat named “Mister.”

My 5 year old has recently started trying out various different titles. I’ve been (by their choice) Dad, Daddy, Dada, Papa, Mister, and probably a few more including (occasionally) my actual first name. I do like “Dada” because I remember when it was their only word and it was used to express excitement at my presence, but I don’t mind any of them because whatever they call me, they’re calling me with love. As long as I can tell that they’re referring to me, I’ll always respond. I agree with you, though; I certainly don’t want the relationship depicted in the original picture.

They sometimes called their mother “Maker,” which is kind of an interesting choice IMHO, but the mother has pretty much the same attitude about it that I do. I call the kid “Little Bean” sometimes and plan to continue doing so no matter how big they get. Also, as a related side note, I got a lot of mileage out of all the bean memes on Lemmy back when that was the thing.

Lunchtime doubly so.

Your entertainment area looks lovely.

What field?

While you’re not wrong, it seems like you could have shortened your post to just the first three words.

What an interesting linking strategy.

Also, I have to assume you’re Jerry Smith.

Username …

… Nevermind.

I don’t know anything about this game, but I’m tired of that one guy spamming it in the comments of RCE videos. The description makes it sound pretty cool despite that.

I prefer DDG to either as well, but in terms of search quality … Don’t they use Bing search results?

I can’t comment on the comparison, as I didn’t play most of those, but I will comment on Sands of Time:

The premise of the game is that the protagonist is recalling a story. He narrates your actions as you play, but you can fail. If you fail, you can die. If you die, the narrator says things like “and then I died. No, wait, that’s not right” and you can rewind time.

I always thought that was pretty funny.

That sounds a lot like the Prince of Persia series.

No idea whether they’re any good or not, but there are already at least two Tintin games.

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, based on the film

and

Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh, based on a book.

While I don’t disagree with anything you said, I think this comment descended into nihilism with alarming rapidity and I hope you’re okay.

Oh, I should have gotten that. Thank you for explaining.

Sorry about Daniel.

I don’t know this reference, but it looks like Power Rangers.

Back when I researched this (which, as mentioned previously, was a long time ago), it was just the SSID. Possibly (probably) they were also collecting the BSSID but I don’t think they were publicly admitting it at that time.

I love my wife extensively and for many reasons, but her respect for privacy concerns is not among them.