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my dad is probably on the autism spectrum and is very much in his own world about everything. He's generally very sweet but he used to get frustrated a lot and just generally acts like a huge dummy when it comes to any sort of social interaction. this sort of worked when my mom was around, but when she split he was responsible for raising three kids which he was just completely unequipped for. my sisters have a lot of anger towards him, mostly because of what he failed to do. Personally I've made my peace. we get breakfast every week and he likes that. He'll tell me all about whatever physics or philosophy problem he's obsessed with and we'll talk about politics or other subjects he likes, like military history and his football team. when we were little he used to make up all sorts of silly songs about our pets. All of us kids continue that tradition with our own 
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dad just randomly bringing home a modem and aol install disc for our system 7 mac  the first website we visited was hamsterdance.com
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Oct 22, 2020 20:37
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my dad is vaguely thinking about upgrading his dual 2009/10 imac setup
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Oct 25, 2020 20:31
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my dad collects scale models but never has the time to build them, so he always has this huge stash of kits of varying degrees of rarity kinda same with hex-and-counter wargames. he keeps telling me about the latest one he is looking at but I don't think he's actually played one in a really long time. I should do that with him but we can only play quick small games we could finish in an afternoon because his wife would (understandibly) lose it if he left up a like 6' x 6' monster game for months Ive recommended a couple of good wargames he could play on his computer but that just doesn't interest him
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Oct 30, 2020 22:32
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when my dad would play the star trek 25th anniversary game he had me help out in space battles by letting me control photon torpedoes and the button that made the tactical view fullscreen so he'd say "onscreen!" and I'd press the v key (I think) and hammer the space bar when the torpedoes loaded while he controlled phasers and damage control with the mouse
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Nov 5, 2020 06:41
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a few weeks ago, i suggested that my dad and I play a wargame. he appears to be getting comfortable with the idea; he just set up a game and showed it to me, but did not mention actually playing it with me. it looks pretty cool. its set in january 1945 - one player controls the red army, and the other controls the western allies as they race to conquer germany. what's cool is that the soviet player also controls the western german armies, while the allied player controls the okw forces on the eastern front, giving each player the opportunity to slow the other down.
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Nov 15, 2020 06:39
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:that sounds interesting, what's the game called? can't remember now - I'll update when I see him next week
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Nov 15, 2020 22:39
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:that sounds interesting, what's the game called? https://shop.decisiongames.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=3003
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