You’re twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You’ll be leaving for Grandma’s in about a half hour, and she’s lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is no headphone jack. Google Play complains that the device isn’t certified or whatever, but that isn’t going to stop you from downloading apps from third party websites using the family computer. Plus, you have one great advantage: F-droid is installed and ready to rock.

You must hurry, because you wont have an internet connection once you hit the road. Quick, what apps do you install? You have 128GiB’s at your disposal.

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Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

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Silly premise, but you have found a use for Bluetooth headphones I guess.

Anyway I probably install Librera FD for reading epubs, then go on AO3 for suitable materials.

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Slightly off topic, but I absolutely hate AO3’s formatting. I much prefer fanfiction net.

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Download as epub then use pandoc to convert to whatever. I’m throwback enough to prefer plain text.

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Shattered Pixel Dungeon and/or Hoplite. Or maybe an ebook reader.

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The only games I play on my phone

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this is the way

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Doesn’t matter, if I’m 12 then it will always be the wrong thing.

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Awh, self esteem is important little man, don’t beat yourself up!

All or nothing thinking, also known as “Black-and-White Thinking,” is a common cognitive distortion that manifests as an inability or unwillingness to see the shades of gray, or the more complex picture. In other words, you see things in terms of extremes – something is either fantastic or awful, you believe you are either perfect or a total failure.

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I needed to read this today thanks.

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A tablet, you say? Seems like a good reason to finally try Unciv.

And maybe Organic Maps if the driver needs help navigating.

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Unciv works perfectly fine on a phone if you feel like risking significant amounts of your time (:

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I found it uncomfortable on my phone’s small screen.

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A much more mobile-friendly 4X game is Polytopia. Doesn’t look like it’s on F-Droid but the apk is available: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/midjiwan-ab/the-battle-of-polytopia/

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