Hello @mcslim82! This is @traciyork from the @ocd (Original Content Decentralized) curation team. We noticed you shared your first post here on Hive and introduced yourself to the community - congratulations and welcome! Your story sounds a little familiar, but I'm in the Northeast, my husband used to work as a com tech (semi retired now) and our 3 kids (in their 20s) are living with us at the moment. I need to borrow your strategy though, as my son hasn't shown an interest in Splinterlands yet (doesn't help that I haven't given it a go yet...lol). I keep telling him it's an awesome community as well as game, but maybe if I get him a spellbook it will seal the deal! :D
Speaking of community, we have many different ones here on the blockchain, devoted to all kinds of interests. Here's a link so you can check them all out - Hive Communities. I see you already found Splinterlands, and you might be interested in the Hive Gaming Community as well.
Also, as Hive can sometimes be quite confusing, the newly launched Newbies Guide is a growing repository of useful and easy to understand posts about how the Hive ecosystem works.
Please be aware that Hive is a bit different from other social media platforms since you are monetizing your blog, so it is important not to include content that you don't own without sources (and it shouldn't exceed 50% of the post). For more information, check this post - Why and How People Abuse and Plagiarise by hivewatchers.
In addition, since you're new, you may run into an RC (Resource Credits) error when trying to comment/post because you don't yet have enough Hive in your account yet. For assistance with a temporary delegation to get you started, be sure to check out the Gift Giver site.
If you have questions, feel free to hop into the OCD Discord server and we'll do our best to answer them, and again welcome to Hive!
Hello! Thank you for the comment and the information. I'm still learning quite a bit about this community so that information is quite helpful.
My son is 15. Technically he is my step-son, but I still claim the boy! :) He is always locked away in his room playing some game or another. He loves trying to find cheats in every game but he loves strategy style games. Games that make him have to think. So this fit the bill. He came to me wanting to build a computer and I told him if he came up with half, I'd chip in the other half and build it. When I told him just playing this could earn him some crypto, he jumped on board. I made a wallet for him that I hold the keys for. Gotta be secure in this day and age. So far he hasn't played much. But it's a start!
Thanks again for the comment. I didn't think this first post would gain any attention. This only makes me want to continue this what I'll now call a series of blogs about my experiences not only in Splinterlands, but the Hive Community and my growth in this game and in Crypto.