Flamekebab
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- Comment on Members of public to be selected for ‘honest conversation’ about MPs’ pay 1 day ago:
Oh it used to make my blood boil to learn my MP hadn't even bothered to show up for a vote or debate. It still would but I don't keep track of it anymore. It's your godsdamned job, you over-entitled fucks. I don't give a shit if you think it's dull - you wanted it, you got it, now get your arse onto those benches and represent the interests of your constituents. If you don't want to do that, fucking resign.
- Comment on Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes 2 days ago:
Options for renters are sorely needed.
- Comment on Members of public to be selected for ‘honest conversation’ about MPs’ pay 2 days ago:
Making everything about money turns out to have been super bad for society.
As in we seem to treat money as the ultimate form of success. Sure, we pay lip service to other things, but in reality we don't really acknowledge other accomplishments on the same level.
You see it in the way the culture sector is expected to make a profit, rather than the goal being to make culture. Much like healthcare - you put money in and get a healthy population out. It's not supposed to make money!
I'm thinking that if a successful career as a politician was based more around improving our society, rather than being a great way to make pots of cash, then the goal would be to have a memorable (positive!) career in politics.
Putting money on a pedestal is such a fucking lie. It's essentially a boiled down version of the classic advertising lie - "Buy this thing and you will be happier" (perhaps not stated as such but that's the general pitch). Satisfaction and contentment isn't something that can be achieved by ticking a box - it's a journey and a learned way of framing one's life. There's plenty of ways to spend money to reduce negatives, and money can definitely lubricate the gears of life towards happiness, but ticking the boxes won't actually unlock those things.
You don't wake up one morning after achieving whatever tickbox and suddenly become a different person.
"I've got my PhD, now I'm satisfied with life!"Doesn't work like that! You can't flip a switch in your brain and change the way you've been interpreting your situation.
It'd be lovely if it did work like that, so I can see why it's so easy to get people to buy into it. It's an easy answer to a difficult question.
Instead I think we need people chasing after different needs. The need to make a positive difference (and be known for it), to make a contribution to our culture, etc.. There's a bit of ego about it but that's humans for you. Use that lever for good!
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 days ago:
What a soundtrack!
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 6 days ago:
That's an interesting way of phrasing "has actively enabled corruption for decades".
- Comment on UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace 1 week ago:
No, thanks.
- Comment on The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun 1 week ago:
I was fortunate to find something that I have enough skills for but I absolutely agree on the polymath thing. One would think that it'd be a useful skillset to have but I don't think most businesses can grasp the concept. As a result my employer doesn't receive anywhere near the benefits they could from me.
- Comment on Historically love sugar 1 week ago:
Yeah, I always found it weird when people would act like they have it so cushy. On a material comfort level, sure, but on basically every other level it sounds awful. You couldn't pay me to put myself or my children through that.
Footballers who get paid a packet and can then vanish into obscurity if they so choose? That sounds like the good life.
Hard pass on the gilded cage thing. I'm no monarchist, so now that the single nationalised granny initiative is over I'm wondering whether we'll keep them. Inertia will probably keep it going for a while yet. Transitioning away from them seems like it'd probably somehow be even more expensive and troublesome than living with them. A bit like trying to totally rid a large building of mice.
- Comment on Historically love sugar 1 week ago:
Whenever I hear "King Charles" I think "Who? That can't be right".
- Comment on Majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035, study shows 1 week ago:
Added to an effort in schools to introduce children to a wide variety of sports or exercise based on them finding enjoyment rather than meeting some specific gov goal.
Gods, this rings a bell. My relationship with sports is terrible because there was basically never any effort made to make it fun. I played what I had to and was at best okay. I've not been involved in sports in over twenty years because it doesn't fit into my world.
That's not a desireable outcome!
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 week ago:
- Comment on UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities 1 week ago:
👏 Tax 👏 the 👏 rich 👏 you 👏 neoliberal 👏 fucksticks👏
- Comment on Overseas-trained dentists working in McDonald’s as millions lack NHS dental care 2 weeks ago:
There aren't any NHS dentists near me. My pregnant wife is entitled to free dental care in principle. In reality I have no option but to go private.
Healthcare is the cost of doing business and results in a healthier society both physically and economically. Gods forbid we tax the top end of society.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 2 weeks ago:
I enjoyed Wasteland 3 a great deal too.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 2 weeks ago:
I rather enjoyed Gears Tactics a few years ago.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 weeks ago:
Godus.
I know lots of people hate it but taken in isolation it's okay. I found its aesthetics charming and its pace generally pretty chill. It wasn't good but it wasn't terrible. Low medium perhaps but I have comfortable memories of listening to an audiobook whilst playing it.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 weeks ago:
Thank you! I felt like I was the only person on the planet to think that those games only hit the dizzying heights of "okay, fine at a push". They're perfectly serviceable and not much more.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This makes me seriously question the level of testing required to get a licence where you are. By that I mean that by the standards I'm used to you were wildly under prepared for driving on the open road and shouldn't have been put in that situation until you were ready.
It took me three attempts to pass my driving test. I could actually operate a car just fine for all of them but it wasn't until the third that I was actually ready to be on the roads unsupervised. There is a lot going on and until you've built up the experience and habits to do it safely it's... A lot.
I think I was also 19 when I got my licence but didn't really drive at all until I was in my mid 30s. I always lived places it simply wasn't necessary. If if stayed there then I doubt I'd have ever got a car. I find driving incredibly tedious.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 2 weeks ago:
Honestly? Not really. My best memories of gaming were in my 20s in my student flat. Lots of Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
I played games in the early '90s and don't have much nostalgia for most of the games themselves. The late '90s had the PSX and N64 and whilst Mario Kart 64 is probably the best in the series I can't say I feel most of the games of those platforms were "the best".
I think I would say that the best games are the PC games that came out between 1998 and 2002. Those I can genuinely enjoy today.
I cannot say the same for much that came out in the 1980s. Most of them entertain me for about thirty seconds, without hyperbole.
Once we get past the early 2000s I'm hard pressed to find any games that I think are truly "the best". 2007 was pretty damn good as was 2009.
When it comes to gaming with friends any game can be good. The game is practically just a framing device. I've not made many friends whilst gaming. I've gamed with friends but mostly I've found that people either just want to be arseholes or are extremely serious about playing online. In person I've found that the skill disparity means that it's a complete crapshoot. I played a lot of Mario Kart 64 over a ten year period and don't have any outstanding memories of it being the best thing ever (I think it's the best MK game but that's because the others are worse).
Mostly I like games that I can use as escapism. Exploring fun places and getting away from the day to day. I've rarely had all that much fun gaming with other people. Exceptions exist though - playing through the recent TMNT game with my teenaged niece was a blast. Playing KeyWe with my wife was also great.
- Comment on House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference 2 weeks ago:
I'm surprised they've not gone full mask-off on the whole fascism thing. They're anti antifascism but simplifying it is a step too far?
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 2 weeks ago:
Apple
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Children in England growing up ‘sedentary, scrolling and alone’, say experts 3 weeks ago:
It turns out that decades of neoliberalism eliminate third places, optimise business models for dark patterns, and impoverish the majority of society.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 3 weeks ago:
I can definitely see the appeal of being able to do stuff with the information, and I doubt I could sit down and make a list of every game I've ever played. However my memory is pretty good for this sort of thing. It's very rare for me to lose objects as I have a database-like memory for that stuff.
Amusingly this means that if someone else moves things then I'm comedically awful at searching for whatever it was, and if I move house or re-organise then it takes me a few weeks for my brain to record all the new data. Until then I'm a clueless idiot.
Oh and as I said in another comment - time is my nemesis. I often don't know what day of the week it is and anything beyond about a week and a half into the future has almost no meaning to me. It's not a very useful trade-off!
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 3 weeks ago:
The tradeoff is that I'm terrible at time. Anything beyond about ten days in the future is almost meaningless to me.
- Comment on Is that how this works? 3 weeks ago:
Put the apostrophe down and no one gets hurt.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 3 weeks ago:
Reading the comments - am I the weird one for just remembering?
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 3 weeks ago:
Can I get paid to state the bleeding obvious?
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 3 weeks ago:
When I've driven an automatic I could only manually set the gears for first and second. I'm sure that's not universal as nothing is, but I can only speak to my own experience.
I would usually use fourth when decelerating up to a junction and then switch directly to second as I get close, as an example.
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 3 weeks ago:
Esoteric? I've only encountered a handful of automatic cars in my life here in the UK. Having a licence that only covers automatic has historically been rather limiting here. The only person I know that has that has dyspraxia.
For me the appeal of a manual transmission is in engine braking. When driving an ICE car I barely need the brakes because the majority of my speed management is through engine braking. Fortunately my electric car has the option for pseudo engine braking - and it charges the battery too!
