Quoted from my mother:

"A month or two ago, I purchased these napkins at Dollar General. When I opened them up to use them, I noticed that they just had weird shapes on them. Through the packaging they looked like they had flowers or something like that on them. So fast forward to a couple days ago, I bought another pack of these napkins, again from Dollar General. Just today I started to pay attention to the images on them...... what the HELL are they? Grubs? Turds??? What's your take on these weird napkins? Love you, Mom xoxo"

My wife thinks they're meant to be mitochondria and bacterium that failed or ran out of ink while printing and inevitably wound up at Dollar General.

I think they're either turds or croissants. Maybe both!

My daughter (6) is one of the brightest and most articulate children I've known. She reads better than some adults I've met, and she is able to grasp (with guidance) Talisman 4th Edition. She often games on her own, playing titles like the Gen 1 Pokémon remakes on Gameboy Advance, Spyro Reignited, Wobbly Life, Untitled Goose Game, and Little Kitty Big City.

With the long Canadian winter approaching, I'd really like to kindle that flame she has for Talisman 4E and introduce her to some other fantasy tabletop or deck-building games. Pokémon TCG might be a fun one to learn with her (and can help her understand MTG when she's older).

What other games would you recommend for us to pass the time this winter? Even better if my wife can jump in with us (she is also an experienced Talisman 4E, Valheim and WoW Classic player).

I don't know D&D/Pathfinder rules enough to DM, but I do run my daughter through little verbal role-playing adventure sessions sometimes that she has a great time doing.

Thanks in advance!

I'm having trouble with the audio volume in Stardew Valley mobile. With wired headphones, the audio is very loud, but if I'm using Bluetooth (and I've tried multiple pairs), the audio in that game sounds as though it's capped at 50% and it's not a comfortable experience. My physical volume is at 100% and I've checked my Earfun settings to make sure everything is as high as it can go. My old Anker Soundcore earbuds had the same issue, but enabling 3D Audio in their settings seemed to fix it. My Earfun Air Pro 4's don't appear to have that option.

What's perplexing to me is that the audio from literally any other source is perfectly loud. Spotify, YouTube, other games.. It's fine. But I boot up Stardew and it's like playing with a wax blockage in both ears. Again, this is not an issue at all if I switch to wired earbuds/headphones.

Is there any way for me to amplify volume in general, or to apply amplification specifically to that app? I feel like I've tried everything to no avail. Volume booster apps have done nothing, Androids native Sound Amplifier does nothing, and I've enabled dev tools and everything.

I'm at a loss.

I seem to encounter this often while using Sync, and have so for the past couple of years. Not sure why it's taken until now to ask about it. The issue is always as shown here. I'll open a post, even one that I've interacted with and have received replies, but despite my efforts I can't get it to actually display the comments. This seems to happen completely at random, and perhaps as often as 1 in 8 posts. Comments work completely fine elsewhere.

Clicking "View post" via the prompt at the bottom makes no difference.

Any ideas?