javiwhite
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- Comment on Fallout: London modders still have no plans to port it to next-gen Fallout 4, unless a console version becomes possible 1 week ago:
Friendly reminder that gog ship the suitable version of fallout 4 goty, as well as the folon mod. No need to run any downgraders or manually pull files from steam repos; just download the base game, then the folon mod; run it, and you’re good to go.
The fact that you’ll own the content rather than a license for it is a nice bonus too.
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t surprise me that it’s a rehashed comic book idea. It has all the markings of one. I found this which was apparently published in a playboy magazine of all places, not sure if it’s a retelling of the comic book or another rehash of the same idea, but it definitely seems like something that inspired the film.
- Comment on Anon makes games 2 weeks ago:
Whilst an average film overall, the movie ‘In Time’ has an interesting concept for currency set in a near future sci fi dystopia.
Humanity has cured aging, and everyone stops aging at 25. Then their clock starts; indicated by a tattoo like digital clock on their forearm. Everything is paid for with time taken off their clock, once it reaches 0, they immediately die. Jobs pay employees a time salary etc, and the rich horde and manipulate the time markets to concentrate their wealth, and keep the poor from achieving the immortality they horde.
I enjoyed it, and I’m sure plenty others did, but there’s no denying that a rather large suspension of belief is required.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 weeks ago:
You think oxygen is your ally, but you merely adopted the oxygen. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see carbon dioxide until I was already a man!
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 3 weeks ago:
Glad to hear we’re not the only country with an imperial hangover! Our experience is pretty much the same. Bathroom scales, gym weights etc all have both kg and lb on them. Over time society here does seem to be shifting more toward metric; most people tend to know their height in both these days, whereas 20 years ago it would have been predominantly ft rather than cm.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 3 weeks ago:
Do you think lbs change depending on what we’re measuring? A lb is a lb here too…
I’d argue a comprehension of both metric and imperial is superior, as well as provides insight into which the inferior measurement is, but you do you mate.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 3 weeks ago:
Actually we use both. For example, body weight is (traditionally) stone and lbs, but parcel weight is usually kg.
The same is true for length; height in feet, but stuff like room measurements in cm.
I think the only area where we’re actually consistent is traveling distance? All signs and gauges are in Mph rather than Km/h. In fact the only time I can think of someone talking about distance in kilometres, is to do with sports (IE a 5k/10k running event).
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 3 weeks ago:
Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.
I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.
- Comment on Point taken 3 weeks ago:
Old people burning,
old people burning,
put your hands up.
- Comment on The duality of man 5 weeks ago:
When is it ever about anything else?
- Comment on No brainer 5 weeks ago:
Getting your tackle out; a war tradition almost as old as bonking someone on the head with a metal object.
Less practiced by armed militias and moreso ‘crackhead locals’ these days; it remains an incredibly effective tactic.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 1 month ago:
UT stands for Ubuntu touch ;) I’m already on a Linux phone. I’m talking about app development.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 1 month ago:
True. Being mindful of which brand you buy is becoming ever more important for those of us who are privacy focused.
Volla, Jolla, fairphone, pinephone etc… are good examples of companies that ship phones with native Linux support. You can buy them preloaded, I haven’t heard any ruminations of these bootloaders being locked away, but admittedly don’t know their stances on the subject. Locking down the bootloader to the point where it doesn’t seem worth it seems to be more of a mainstream approach though for sure. (I still remember trying to get lineageOS on my Motorola… Just, wow).
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 1 month ago:
Ubuntu touch is Linux based also, which is my choice due to newer hardware support over postmarket. (Currently running a volla quintus) Though I can see myself moving over to sailfish, as the default browser in UT is morph based, and creating web apps can be something of a pain due to unsupported browser issues…
All of these OS’ suffer from a lack of app development though, hopefully this Google nonsense helps change that, though mass adoption is usually the precursor to app dev, hence my pie in the sky comment.
- Comment on Buying bread 1 month ago:
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 1 month ago:
Hopefully this means we see an influx of development for Linux based mobile OS’.
I realise that’s a very pie in the sky dream to have. But damn it, I just want a native Firefox browser on UT.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 1 month ago:
Somewhat related story; my middle name is Peter, and I had seemingly misheard it, as for the first 6 years of my life I thought my middle name was pizza.
- Comment on THIS is true wisdom 1 month ago:
Should crosspost this to !wiseposting@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon is Banished 1 month ago:
Sure thing. Here you are :) Image
- Comment on Anon is Banished 1 month ago:
Ahh banished, The local cleric being replaced by a villager called ‘Demon’ remains one of my only steam screenshots.
- Comment on wypipo 1 month ago:
I questioned it a few years back on reddit and was told it’s an old American saying for white people, and its apparently from the sound a whip makes rather than the biscuit.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 2 months ago:
if purity is the reason you do nothing, instead of doing something, then you’re part of the problem.
I’m always happy to talk about routes of how we get to a better place, but if you’re just wanting to argue then I’ll pass.
So long as it fits your world view you mean; else it’s inflammatory language like I’m ‘doing nothing’ or I’m ‘Virtue signalling’ and being ‘part of the problem’, but of course, I’m the one looking to argue.
I already established a very obvious talking point for a route to get to a better place, and it starts with the tribunal kier and his cronies refuse to have, but that talking point was brushed over rather than addressed so whilst your words fit the bill, your actions certainly do not.
The one thing we can agree on is that this conversation is pointless. Our priorities clearly differ greatly, to the point where a separate party just makes sense. You can call it pissing in the wind, or a waste of a vote, doing nothing etc… but that’s exactly how I view voting for labour in the next election; they’re going to bleed votes to reform and SNP, and then you’ve got the left wing voters who want to see actual change, rather than this Tory lite approach to politics jumping ship too. The only people left will be the centrists; and that’s never going to win an election.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 2 months ago:
actually doing something that has an impact is not virtue signalling. We fed over 8k people last year, and that’s much more helpful to the working class than failing to get elected.
Nobody is suggesting feeding people is virtue signalling, stop with the strawman already. I’m suggesting that pointing to your work at a food bank and then banging on about “being morally better” and “virtue signalling” in the very next breath is laughable.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 2 months ago:
There will always be tension between where ideology, and hopes of a better world, meet with what is currently achievable.
So an independent investigation into our current involvement in Gaza isn’t currently achievable for what reason? What part of a better world are we missing, where a supposedly democratic nation, can’t carry out an independent check on it’s public offices?
This is just pure virtue signaling.
As the trustee of a food bank
Pot. Kettle.
The idea that by purposefully throwing away your vote is somehow morally better than voting once every 5 years for the lesser of two evils is asinine in the extreme.
Call it whatever you like, but what’s asinine is to keep voting for the same party, and expecting different results.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 2 months ago:
Do you truly believe kier beat the Tories on his own merit, rather than the Tories self imploding? Even after winning, he had around 1m less on the popular vote than Corbyns loss in 2019… Why? Because voter apathy and a general disdain for the tories handed labour the last election, rather than them winning on their own merit.
The only reason I and many other people voted for Kier was exactly as you said, 14 year of tory regime has decimated the countries welfare, and intentionally so… But the countries complicit nature In the bombing of children in Gaza continues, if it wasn’t for good ol’ Jeremy there wouldn’t even be an inquiry as labour have rejected the bill to hold an independently run tribunal to investigate the governments complicit nature in the Gaza genocide and that is just too big of a pain point for me. I refuse to have the blood of innocent children on my hands, even if it means life at home gets easier.
This is ultimately how democracy works right. Labour pretending to be the left wing option of the UK has left many voters disenfranchised… Now, labour can own up to being the centrist party they’ve become, and those who want the lesser of two evils can continue to vote for them… The rest of us who want to see real societal change, can try a new approach.
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 months ago:
Ant
- Comment on it's called speedrunning, my dudes 2 months ago:
“When life gives you a frog go through the anus” - Aristotle, probably.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 2 months ago:
Yeah agreed, that was a question clearly posed to rile up the moderates in the party, knowing how he would respond with his hardline anti-war stance.
Whether or not I agree with the statement, I judge his character higher for that response; unapologetically honest, to a fault even, and stood by his beliefs. That is definitely evidence of him being a poor politician; had he less integrity, he may never have been ousted… But equally, with less integrity; he’d probably end up just another Blair clone like Starmer.
It’s no different with the Ukraine Russia situation. Corbyn is calling for de-escalation rather than war with Russia; which will inevitably be spun into Corbyn being Pro-Putin in the media rather than anti-WW3. Sure he could keep his mouth shut, and play the game, but why should he? The country is tired of politics. “Nothing ever changes”, “they’re all the same” are common complaints citizens have… So maybe we should stop voting for people based on their capacity to be dishonest, and instead look at the people who seem to have some integrity.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 2 months ago:
The material he gave them was campaigning against Zionist activities in Gaza way back in the noughties; before all the genocidal stuff happening now, and his defence was anti-zionism </> anti-Semitism… which I think in today’s light is a very obvious statement, but back in 2019; the average person wasn’t aware of what was happening in Gaza, and so the papers ran with the antisemitism angle.
I get what you’re saying about playing the game; he could have been dishonest and claimed that the parties issues with Israel’s warmongering was actually antisemitism, apologised and given an empty promise about change, to which no-one would bat an eye (a politician lying is a politician breathing etc…), but that’s the exact problem with politics… Corbyn was a breath of fresh air in an otherwise toxic environment; unapologetically honest, and cantankerous when it comes to people pussy footing around an issue, and this is exactly why the media dogged him so heavily… they couldn’t buy him, and he was gunning for their owners hoarded wealth. If it wasn’t the anti-Semitism angle, they would have found something else to try and beat him with.
Even now, he’s attempting to force the UK to address the ongoing British involvement in the Gaza genocide; ofcourse the Tory lites rejected any investigation, which in itself is reminiscent of Blair’s labour and Iraq.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 2 months ago:
This is exactly my point. The antisemitism angle was pushed so ferociously by the media, that it caused people such as yourself to act against your own interests.
Tell me, do you still think ousting Corbyn was the right move? Are we in a better position now under Kiers labour?
