fakeman_pretendname
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- Comment on Kiribati 4 days ago:
Got you.
Kirrab ass.
- Comment on Kiribati 4 days ago:
Are you pronouncing the “bass” bit like the fish “sea bass” or the instrument “bass guitar”? (e.g. ass or ace)
- Comment on :3 4 days ago:
What the left image shows as two people’s arms, could be interpreted to look like naked bumcheeks/buttcheeks when the image is upside down.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 1 week ago:
Any vowel is permitted - so fack, feck, fick, fock, fuck and controversially fyck are all valid.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
Makes you think of what could have been, if they’d done the new Fallouts as tactical/Turn Based RPGs, rather than first person shooters - although the new Wasteland games do a pretty good job of filling that niche.
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 2 weeks ago:
I do appreciate that the listed recipe is “relatively quick and simple”, but I’m not convinced by “literally the same effort”.
If it was, then why would anyone buy the millions of frozen/boxed/packeted “just put it in the oven for 30 minutes” or “just put it in the microwave for 2 minutes” meals? They’re not buying them for the high-quality taste, surely?
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 2 weeks ago:
Massively cheaper and almost certainly better for you, yes - but arguably not as low effort as “beep beep beep, ping”.
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 2 weeks ago:
Your “no effort” meal, sounds like a lot of effort to me.
My low effort meal is “open packet, put ready meal in oven or microwave”
- Comment on DAE name their characters by their official name? 2 weeks ago:
I either use the default names, or give them “standard English older bloke names”. The grander the adventure, the more un-grand a name they get.
Things like “Ian Williams”, “Neville Smith”, “Terry Phillips”, “Frank Jones” etc. The sort of names that would work for the City Council’s Road Maintenance Department.
- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 3 weeks ago:
I can confirm they exist, as one of the places I sometimes work has one - the base unit has a button for 70°/80°/90°/100°.
However, despite probably drinking in excess of 50,000 cups of tea in my life, I’ve only ever seen one of these kettles. The others have all been either “normal electric kettles” as you described, those always-on-water-boiler things you get in offices, or very occasionally, a traditional “put it on the hob or camping stove” kettle.
- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s 50% this, and 50% “boiling water repeatedly all day is simply less important to them”.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the Steam Deck is actually pretty good for this on most games.
On a computer, you can, I suppose, set up a keyboard shortcut to pause the process, but you still think “this should just be part of the game in the first place”.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 3 weeks ago:
Not being able to pause or save at any point.
I’m a “grown-up” these days, but I grew up with games and they’re part of my life, and I love them - but in the larger scale of things, they’re still toys. The requirements of a pet/partner/child/phone call/doorbell will
alwaysnearly always outrank them.“We don’t let you pause because it’s a simulation and and you can’t pause real life so it means the game is more realistic” = piss off
- Comment on UK hospitals bracing for once-in-a-decade flu surge this winter 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think the rules have changed, so more likely an admin issue than a change in eligibility - I’d probably contact them.
- Comment on "I hope we have an LGBTQ+ president" 4 weeks ago:
Wes Fucking Streeting? He’s even more right-wing than Starmer!
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was just having a little joke - I actually have quite a lot of respect for his various environmental/social/other projects… but it’s still quite funny to get a medal from your mum :)
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 4 weeks ago:
Is the “Queen’s service order” (presumably from his mam) basically just like when my mum gave me a sticker for helping do the washing up?
- Comment on ‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the minds of 16-year-olds 5 weeks ago:
In a way, I think them saying he’s dead as in ‘irrelevant’ and ‘just a meme’ is probably better than him being dead as in ‘not alive any more’, at least for the time being.
Nobody’s going to try and make him a martyr of anything, just sort of ignore him and occasionally laugh at him.
That said, I feel I wouldn’t be too upset if he expired in prison.
- Comment on Temu: UK artist's anger at finding work on site without permission 1 month ago:
Just a few small questions, out of interest - would you buy art if it was significantly cheaper, or free? Or would it just be so low on your priority list that it would never be important enough?
If it was very cheap, or free, would you take “whatever was on offer”, or would you still have very particular tastes in what you liked?
- Comment on We will not follow legal requirements, faith school tells Ofsted 1 month ago:
Another way of saying “We will not follow legal requirements” is “We will break the law”.
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 1 month ago:
Working fine from mobile phone, Yorkshire. 4G Talkmobile (using Vodaphone’s network). Loaded immediately.
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 1 month ago:
Attempt to set the new world record!
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 1 month ago:
9 Cadbury’s Cream Eggs
- Comment on CNC 1 month ago:
There’s openra.net which is an open source “all the Command and Conquer games” engine, which may be of interest?
- Comment on transformations 1 month ago:
Okay, that was actually pretty cool.
Thank you :)
- Comment on transformations 1 month ago:
I don’t know what that is, so I’m going to try and deliberately avoid it unless recommended otherwise.
- Comment on transformations 1 month ago:
Now I’ve got that “Grace Kelly” song by Mika stuck in my head for the next few days.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 1 month ago:
Couldn’t they just… have some (more) public toilets, or have any existing public toilets open for more hours?
- Comment on Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK 1 month ago:
Sadly it’s not just inflexibility of Universal Credit - the base rate of Universal Credit isn’t high enough anyway, but you’ve also particularly got elderly people on state pension only, people with disabilities and people with children.
Surprisingly, the majority of food bank food apparently goes to households with at least one person in work - though this might not be “old style” work where you have set hours and wages and rights, but instead “zero hours” or “flexi hours” or “our company considers you self employed” etc.
Huge increases in gas costs are one of the biggest contributors - children, the elderly and the ill couldn’t manage to just switch the heating off all winter. Ridiculous house price/rent increases are also a massive factor.
I’m also a little unsure about a nationalised supermarket - but there are probably some solutions in this direction that would work.
- Comment on Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working? 2 months ago:
It’s not the fairest assessment - It has delays as “trains more than three minutes late”. Not ideal, especially when you’re changing trains, but 3 minutes rarely makes a difference, compared to the 10/20/30/40 minutes late ones.
A few years back, when working in places “two trains away”, I was getting trains 10-20 minutes late every day, which normally meant missing the connection.
By my own experience, Northern and Transpennine have had fewer cancellations and fewer noticeably latest.
However, Northern are still shit at sending a two-carriage Sprinter as a commuter train that needs 3-4 carriages for everyone waiting to actually get on.