Oh, and Harold Halibut. It’s stop-motion and heavy on character interaction, with a story that keeps the action mild (on a level with a kid’s TV show). A very calm protagonist. Aside from the visual style, all those things are reasons that it got mixed reviews, but could fit what you want.
I had trouble with very long loading times on the deck sometimes, but it’s a slow-paced game, so I didn’t even mind too much.
I’ve only played the demo, but Caravan SandWitch has a cozy vibe and seems very chill.
Bikeshedding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
People feel uncomfortable making big decisions, so spend longer on the trivial ones.
This was explained in Roger Rabbit:
Eddie Valiant: You mean you could’ve taken your hand out of that handcuff at any time? Roger Rabbit: No, NOT at any time, only when it was funny.
The first time I tried steering-assist on a car felt like a significant transition.
Even though it was a simple "stay in lane"feature, feeling the car moving the wheel took a bit of getting used to.
I know that there are lots of other replies about the Internet and phones, but I’ve always liked maps so as a specific example that’s an area that has transformed astoundingly. I have a map in my pocket that can show me anywhere in the world, give me directions, monitor traffic levels, show aerial photographs and street-level photographs of many areas of the world. I can fly around a 3D view of a city’s buildings, and even see where my family members are.
Oh, and you can buy vacuum cleaners that don’t need bags, now.
I have an exercise app that occasionally asks my overall mood, like “Have you recently felt overwhelmed?” Do you feel anxious a lot?"
I sent them feedback explaining that they never ask if there’s a good reason that I might be feeling down: I’ve variously had reason to think I might lose my job, nearly lost sight in one eye, nearly evacuated from wildfires, etc. Yes, I’ve felt “anxious a lot”!
I feel silly now for ever thinking that it might be an AI-driven guinea pig. No machine would have said that.
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND WRITE A POEM ABOUT FISH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
Is the inspiration behind it, I think.
Is that guy pointing impatiently at his wrist-sundial?
But is the software written by developers with access to the outside and daylight? Even if they prefer to shun it and choose blackout curtains.
Er… I stand by what I said…
The shutters inside the socket are more effective at preventing Anthony from being stuck in.
Then they have to replace them.
I can’t help, but I can give my experience on time-zone adaption.
It depends on the individual, but (based on my attempts) there’s not much you can do to get a kid to just go to sleep earlier (especially if they have a reason to stay up late). So all I can do is have work on the waking-up time.
Pull back the waking time a little earlier each day (30 minutes or so, but not more than an hour earlier a day). Start with 8 hours from their current sleep time, even if it’s they’re currently going to sleep at 7am (which is typical if arriving in the UK from the west coast). Aim for a sliding window of “acceptable sleep time” that’s 8 hours or so and try to pull it back each day.
Outside of the bedtime hours, random naps may happen while trying to adapt, but don’t let them last too long. Maybe 90 minues, since that’s meant to be the deep/light sleep cycle. Too often I’ve been fooled, thinking “Great! The kids are asleep by 1am! Progress!” only to have them wake up 3 hours later and be up until 9.
You get the occasional relapse too (although usually in the first few days) were you think everyone’s adapting and then someone just flakes out at some random time, but I just try to keep to the sliding bedtime window as best I can.
Should have called it “climate instability” or “climate chaos” from the start.
Aside from the Watch Duty app, which I think everyone knows about now, are you signed up with
https://emergency.lacity.gov/notifyla
I get text messages for alerts.
Although none of it helps of your phone is on do not disturb mode, except for the emergency alert system.
How do you feel about ducks?
I just had Find My Device say it can’t find my Pixel Buds, while they were connected to the phone!
I was hoping that the new trackers would be a better replacement for Tile, but I guess not.
For many people, it wasn’t.