NON-TOXIC GAMING

I don't personally celebrate Father's Day much. As a dad of five you might find that strange, but I lost my dad on a Father's Day years ago. It sort of took the magic of the day of its sails for me a bit. Working on that, but that's a personal hurdle for another time. On his gravestone is a quote that I've taken to heart (and am paraphrasing here): Wherever you go, leave a trail of friends and improvements. It's like one of those philosophical golden rules. No, not that  golden rule Jafar. The other one : " Do to others what you would want them to do to you." When I so eagerly joined NTG I had an ulterior motive: make the Internet a better place, especially for my three girls. These people know what they're doing and if they'll have me, I know I can help with that. Lara here, clearly sees the Internet as it is right now. From  @legallylara I'll be dating myself a bit, but I remember when the Internet barely was there. AO

The last weekend was an impressively busy and positively amazing one for me. Without going into personal details too much, it closed a project that was thirteen years in the making. With how immediate and 'now now now', 'buy buy buy', and 'go go go' (*cough* Warcraft dungeons, looking at  you) the Internet cynically is sometimes, it was reassuring to see seeds planted in 2004 online finally blossom and start me on a new path in my life. From Chroneco This all goes back to how you use the tools given though. Are you flinging Junkrat grenades at conversations, Lúcio healing auras, or Reinhardt's shield? I read a recent article that tried to blame the platform snapchat as the root of all evil for a horrific situation . I have very little understanding of snapchat, but I recognized it and my knee-jerk reaction was to respond on facebook to the relative with the "but not all..." arguement. I never posted my response. Why not? Because I