Bruncvik
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- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 1 week ago:
One side of my bedroom wall was a built-in bookshelf. We’re talking about 4m in length and 2m in height. Some shelves had double-stacked books.
But you are right; the logistics are nearly impossible. I moved out of my parents’ house in the mid-90s, but they still keep most of my books there for me. I have my own house and family now, but my wife threatened divorce if I “cluttered” our house with all the books. My hope lies in my kids inheriting my love for reading and bringing over my books themselves.
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 1 week ago:
I was in a similar situation. It was the only time I got into a serious fight with my mom. The only difference was that I was an adult already, had around 1800 books, and sorted them by genre, author and series order.
- Comment on Good morning I choose violence. 1 week ago:
Good choice.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
I work with a few Indian development teams, and “sweatshop” is an apt description. We work on software dependencies, as specified by them. After we deliver, they decide it’s not what they wanted, change the specs and treat it as a “drop everything else” bug. It gives me no greater pleasure than telling them to relax, that we’ll get to it in due time when we have the capacity. I like to think that a few of their managers already popped a vein.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
Civilisation, the original one. Got it in the 90s, and none of my computers was without it. Even now I sometimes launch it for a guick, half-day game.
I’m sure other Microprose games from that era, in particular UFO: Enemy Unknown, are on my top 10 most played games.
From modern games, I probably spent the most time playing Civ4 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
- Comment on what should I consider before buying winter running gloves? 5 weeks ago:
For running, get thin gloves that keep out the wind chill. Your body will heat itself up, including your hands, so all you look for is decent wind protection. I did some trail running in down to -10C, and thin running gloves were sufficient.
If you want bells and whistles, get gloves with reflective elements. In winter, chances are you’ll spend some time running in the dark.
- Comment on It really is tedious 2 months ago:
Everyone is talking about taping, but the real MVP is baby wipes.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 2 months ago:
HoMM is a turn-based strategy game, not RPG (with the notable exception of HoMM IV where you had real hero development). That said, there was a genre of RPG’s, which used to be very popular in the 80s and 90s, and which all but disappeared. Those were party-based first-person RPG’s with turn based (or close to it) combat. Popularized by Wizardry, and followed by Might and Magic, they inspired other series like the Ishar Trilogy. Other games employed real-time combat, but slow enough or pausable, to mimic turn-based. Popular series were Eye of the Beholder, Lands of Lore, Dungeon Master, and others. Nowadays, I occasionally see one of these games from independent projects, but it seems that the golden age of this sub-genre has passed.
- Comment on Must EU banks provide basic service via internet? 2 months ago:
Just to be pedantic: we’ve had a hell of a time implementing dynamic resizing of svg’s in Firefox. Works fine with Chromium. We spent far too much development time to keep our 4% of users happy, but eventually we did it. Perhaps newer versions of Firefox changed this, but there are customer-facing oddities the bank’s customers may experience.
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
Spoiler alert: it’s already happened, and all the virtuous people already ascended to heaven.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 3 months ago:
Ireland uses a variant of ranked choice voting. In essence, voters get a list of candidates for their voting district, and rank as many of them as they want in order of preference. When votes are counted, the candidate with the lowest votes is eliminated, and votes of those who ranked the candidate first are distributed to their second choice. Rinse and repeat until only as many candidates remain as there are open seats in the constituency.
There is still some inertia, especially in rural areas (“my dad always voted for this candidate, so I’ll vote for his son”), but the system still lends itself to more informed voting. From what I’ve seen in other countries, on average Ireland does a better job at electing more reasonable candidates than the US or EU countries.
- Comment on Bread 3 months ago:
Where’s the “four slices per freezer bag and keep in the freezer” option? Or am I just too good for this chart?
- Comment on "what happened??" 3 months ago:
World of Xeen? Such a fun concept, combining the two games. I’ve been trying to run the mod that lets you play 6, 7 and 8 within the same game, but my current PC can’t handle it.
- Comment on "what happened??" 3 months ago:
And before that, Swords of Xeen, as MM 5.5. But other unofficial spinoffs, in particular the King’s Bounty series, weren’t half bad, either.
- Comment on "what happened??" 3 months ago:
I call this “The curse of Might and Magic”. This franchise was established by Jon Van Caneghem who founded New World Computing. The company later got into financial trouble and was absorbed by 3DO. Over time (mainly due to the commercial failure of its console, which came after the acquisition of the M&M property), 3DO started slipping into the hole. It dissolved, and in its fire sale, Ubi purchased the rights to Might and Magic. The rest, as they say, is history…
- Comment on "It's better to piss in the sink than to sink in the piss" 3 months ago:
The picture doesn’t do justice to the evil that is sharting. Especially in the middle of a long run.
- Comment on Hellooooo! 5 months ago:
Sorry; the automod here seems to have removed a naughty word in the URL. Linking directly to the picture.
- Comment on Hellooooo! 5 months ago:
Bring back memories of tthe removed dog. It never fails to make me smile…
- Comment on Ironing 5 months ago:
Ironing is the only time of the week where I have the time to watch TV or movies. Not that I don’t have free time, but I usually spend it in other ways. During ironing, I’m a captive audience. That said, I don’t iron all that much. I remember the last season of The Boys took me four months to finish…
- Comment on Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog 7 months ago:
I’ve had exactly the same experience. Let me addd one more: when OneDrive decides to back up open files, they ate regularly deleted both from local and cloud. Those are the files I tend to use the most, and I grew so frustrated that I ended recreating my Documents folder steucture in my Downloads folder, which doesn’t get synced. (IT is useless; when I complained abou that, they told me that One Drive was a third-party application, and they didn’t support those. )
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 7 months ago:
I’m always pouring the water into a cup or glass, and the attached cap tands to fall down into the path of the stream, lest I use my other hand to hold it. The plastic connestors don’t bother me.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 7 months ago:
I can’t complain about them. I just rip them off. There may be a law (EU regulation) for bottle manufacturers to tether the caps, but there’s no law againt ripping the caps off.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 7 months ago:
Irish Times is known for their clickbait articles. Not too long ago, an article that was written just to generate outrage (fake tan is cultural appropriation), was found to be generated by AI, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was also the case. My advice is to ignore anything Irish Times is writing. (I’ve been living in Ireland for well over a decade, and I learned to regard IT as the low end of the already poor media landscape here.)
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 8 months ago:
On my subscription page, it shows shorts from my subscribed channels. On my main page, it’s girls in bikinis playing on a guitar, violin or drums. I wantch a lot of independent musicians doing instrumental covers, but I don’t recall seeing any of them wearing skimpy clothing.
I guess it’s sort of like facebook, to increase engagement. I stopped visiting there about a year ago, but I didn’t close my account. I now get one friend recommendation daily, and it’s always sexy looking girls I’ve never heard of. These sites register me as male, so they always combine my interests with sexy females, to entice me to spend more time there.
- Comment on Waiting in a queue to see a Web site 8 months ago:
This is rsa.ie. The main site works fine, but you have to wait to access the driving test registration portal. Mind you, this is even before you see the login or registration screen. And given Ireland’s small size, there are only about 4000 driving tests per week. That number of users is negligible for a normal scheduling page; it must have taken some serious skill and effort to make it non-performant at this scale.
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- Comment on Ah, reddit 8 months ago:
I’m still on Reddit, and once in a while I manually overwrite all my comments that are older than a month. 95% of my comments don’t have a real value, and whatever I find interesting or insightful ends on my personal Web site. It’s my information, and if I think I brainfart something that would be helpful for someone, I add it to space that I control. This was true even before the whole API fiasco.
- Comment on How A Small Video Game Narrative Studio Wound Up At The Heart Of A Massive, Anti-Woke Conspiracy Theory - Aftermath 9 months ago:
When I was still buying new games, I’ve had development studios I preferred, and others I avoided. Those were simpler times (and simpler games), when one small studio did everything.
Later, additional external companies got involved, and some teied to hide their presence. I remember when The Adventure Company started using a very customer unfriendly sort of copy protection, and I started using a list of affectted games, so that I could avoid them.
These days, multiple companies are involved with game design. As a consumer, it’s only normal that I’d like to know who had their hands on developing a game I’d be interested in. I haven’t played any games Sweet Baby was involved with, but if I did and had a strong opinion (negative or positive) about their work, I’d appreciate a list of games they worked on, to make a purchase choice that would suit me best.
- Comment on Tethered plastic caps 9 months ago:
I saw it for the first time last summer. Did a little reading, and according to the news articles, it was a EU directive, but it had been heavily lobbied for by Coca Cola. If I remember right, all EU countries should have implemented the necessary legislature by June this year.
I personally just tear the caps off. Can’t get used to them.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 11 months ago:
I’m getting these messages occasionally, but usually they make sense, such as when I go to online gaming sites or torrenting portals. Didn’t try porn - don’t want a call from HR. In general, our IT policies are fairly sensible; this is one of the very few outliers.
