Bloons Tower Defense 5/6 are great for kids. They do have microtransactions but they don’t nag you to buy anything, and everything is easily obtainable just by playing. Also, nothing that you can buy is “content.”

If you’re able/willing to download ROMs and emulators, the first handful of generations of Pokemon games are great for touchscreen/mobile. My favorite was always Pokemon Emerald (GBA) but you can easily emulate all the games up to about X2/Y2 (DS) on any modern Android device. (I use “MyBoy!” for the GBA games, but PokeMMO is good for combining both the DS and GBA games into more of a mobile game experience rather than an emulator experience, if that makes sense. Everything is just easier, and probably a lot more accessible for a primary school kid.)

It’s also worth noting that girls like a lot of the same kinds of games boys like. 🤷‍♀️ Just give her as many good options as you can find and let her decide what she finds fun. Me and my sister had a blast playing CoD Zombies on our aunt’s tablet when we were kids.

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A year or two ago I tried using it for Bnet and Diablo 2 but it had a lot of issues… I’ll have to give it another try

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People with the last name “Ford” in shambles

Learn to parry

There are so many fun glitches you can learn in that game. I highly recommend trying some, it’s a blast. Some easy ones:

Power crouch stabs - Link’s crouch stab has no damage value, so it ends up using the value of your previous move (regardless of if it did damage to anything). The deku stick’s jump-slash does massive damage, so if you take one out and jump slash the air, you can then spam crouch stabs to do massive damage very quickly. It will one-shot almost any common enemy, and can defeat bosses in less cycles than should be possible. Ghoma can be defeated in 1 cycle by doing this.

Infinite sword glitch - If you interrupt Link’s crouch stab, the game will fail to turn off the sword’s hurtbox and will do damage every frame while Link holds it. You can interrupt a crouch stab with pretty much anything Link can interact with, like reading signs, picking up a bomb, or talking to Navi. And you can apply the deku stick jump slash damage to this glitch for even more damage.

Leaving the forest early - There’s several ways to do it, but the easiest way is to walk against the wall to the right of the Kokiri kid and get as close as possible while facing away from him. If you crouch stab the wall to push yourself into him and press A to talk to him during the brief moment you’re inside of him, Link can pass through… But he will still block you from the opposite side, so to get the rest of the way out you have to roll under the kid while he’s falling from the high end of the passage wall.

A lot of Balatro, lol. I wish it was on mobile, though…

I just modded my Switch, and tomorrow I’m gonna try to get Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom dumped and working on my Deck

I’m too lazy to memorize alt codes

Douglas Adams was such a brilliant writer. He was taken from us far too soon

Spicy going in, spicy coming out

It’s Twitter, dude. You’re limited by character count

I actually never knew this lol. Thanks for the PSA, because I was one of those people

The thumbnail has Gumi vibes

And utterly unsurprising

Fifi La Queso lmao

CS is a lot simpler to learn, I think, despite the similarly high skill ceiling. Getting good at CS involves a lot of the same skills as boomer shooters, just without the bhopping, rocket-jumping, memorizing/tracking respawn times for items, and stuff like that.

That, and in boomer shooters (at least in 1v1s / 2v2s) there’s the issue of your opponent gaining so much momentum that it can be hard to get the items/resources you need to turn the tide back on them. But in CS it’s relatively easy to turn the tide the next round with pistols or cheap SMGs.

It’s pretty sad. I’m pretty sure it’s because of the crazy high skill-cieling. New players come in, get their cheeks pounded, then leave because getting good at the game is a lot of work. The number of skilled players grow and the number of lower-skilled players shrinks until the game is all but dead.

I still play Half-Life’s multiplayer occasionally. Quake 1 was always my favorite, but now the closest games we have that aren’t dead are Quake Live and TF2 :/

Eh, mostly true but there are good ones. From Software has a great track record, for example.

Definitely an exception to the rule tho