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My bickering in-laws are impossible to be around. Now they’ve ruined my daughter’s birthday party.

My bickering in-laws are impossible to be around. Now they’ve ruined my daughter’s birthday party.

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband’s parents get along about as well as oil and water, but last weekend their bickering caused a major upset for our 6-year-old daughter “Alicia,” ruining her birthday party at our local kids’ fun center/arcade. My father-in-law went to …

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Spiritfarer devs’ next game is about cool swords and bickering families

Spiritfarer devs’ next game is about cool swords and bickering families

Nicolas Guérin of Thunder Lotus, best known for 2020’s Spiritfarer, likes viewing things differently. “Maybe it’s my contrarian nature, but Spiritfarer was meant to be kind of a counterpoint to what death is usually perceived as, which is gloomy, dark, terrible,” he told Polygon recently over video call. “But there is a silver lining. There is some way to talk …

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