Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Ruining my life 14 hours ago:
Time to test the double luge teams for meth!
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 1 day ago:
UK newspapers would frequently publish photos of 16 years old girls with their tits out. That was only made illegal in 2004.
Back during Paedomania of the early 2000s, Brass Eye had an episode taking the piss out of the press’s new found moral crusade, despite them happily being in on it for the better part of 30 years. The press did not like this at all. Unfortunately they didn’t seem to realise they were at fault, which led to the memorable juxtaposition of an article about “perv spoof bosses” on the opposite side of the page from an article about how big 15 year old Charlotte Church’s boobs were getting.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 2 days ago:
Well that’s an ominous headline if ever I saw one.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 4 days ago:
A game already described as “On this Sunday”
- Comment on i mean 4 days ago:
It doesn’t look that bad. And then you hold it. It’s like they made a controller based around the theme of stepping on Lego.
- Comment on Veganuary 4 days ago:
It’s not a hate crime to block things you have no interest in.
First thing I did on here was block all the trans and gay stuff. Then the tankies and the vegans. And now all the AI shit, although that’s mostly not got a home here.
- Comment on France is next 6 days ago:
Switzerland will have a hell of a set of steps down to the beach…
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 1 week ago:
The name got bought, and somebody else reopened some. Mostly just a section within Macy’s, but there’s a handful of actual stores.
Except Canada, apparently. That’s the only original Toys R Us left.
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 1 week ago:
You guys are getting free bread?
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
I think the base game is really a testament to the fact that CDPR have a lot of success with open world games, but don’t really do them very well… They make really solid campaigns, and then pad them out with utter nonsense that kills the pacing stone-cold dead.
“Oh hey, here’s something really urgent. We cannot stress enough how urgent it is. By the way we’ve also just unlocked about a hundred side quests. Enjoy!”
I’m still salty that I missed one of the ending achievements because if you follow the instructions it gives you, it will cause a fail state on that particular ending.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
Make sure to make a save at the appropriate point so you can do both paths.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
I found it rough near the start, but it gets a lot easier as you go on, once you get more of a feel for when attacks are coming. Eventually you’ll be dodging things you’ve never seen before just on instinct.
Dodges are a lot easier than parries, even if you don’t get the extra AP from it. Fights last a bit longer, but you can definitely plough through most of it even with bad timing. Explore thoroughly in act 1, otherwise you’ll probably be underlevelled for the last boss there. Not really any need to grind mindlessly, but you can if you really need the extra levels.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
Do yourself a favour and get the Ultimate Edition. Phantom Liberty is the only real reason to put yourself through it.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 1 week ago:
I dunno, killing the idea of ownership of games was pretty bad.
I don’t think any amount of Proton patches submitted is going to bring that back.
- Comment on Researchers find reducing salt in everyday foods could prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes 1 week ago:
It’ll certainly save on those pension contributions.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 2 weeks ago:
“Oh yeah, I’m a big gamer. I play FIFA and COD. And next year I’ll play next year’s FIFA and COD.”
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 weeks ago:
British food is great. Chicken tikka, pizza, Chinese, lasagne… The list goes on.
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 2 weeks ago:
Aw, they redraw it to include non-EU countries. :(
The old one had Sweden and Finland dangling in at the top right like a cock and balls.
- Comment on UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban 3 weeks ago:
Most of them do that too a degree anyway. Credit cards are only available to over 18s, so if you pay with one of those, that’s your ID. I guess this is mostly for free VPNs (although I’ve never found one that was any good) and people paying with debit cards or crypto.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 4 weeks ago:
Because he surrounds himself with incompetent people that rely on him for their continued employment.
When he has his last burger, support collapses by quite a bit (although not nearly enough). That’s why they’d quite like to not bother with elections in the future. Nobody is decorating their mobility scooters and mobile homes with Vance merch.
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar is a Motion Clarity Revelation 4 weeks ago:
So black frame insertion with VRR? Is that what it is? Struggling to tell and struggling even harder to care.
Can’t help but think the motion would look even clearer without DLSS bullshitting entire frames out of nowhere.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 4 weeks ago:
MAGA hats are going to be fuming when they find out what they just retweeted.
- Comment on Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK 4 weeks ago:
All that drop in ratings, for nothing. Absolute incompetence.
It wouldn’t have prevented the dreaded boat people from working, because it’s all under the table anyway. It would just have been annoying and intrusive.
Yet at the same time, a free to access, zero knowledge proof ID system could be useful to have. It just can’t be mandatory.
- Comment on Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK 4 weeks ago:
I’m working my way through that one now. One of the first episodes they try to cut civil service staff but end up hiring a 5000 extra so they know which ones to cut. Reform recently spent £5m in Derbyshire on consultants to “find savings”.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t really matter since the remnants of their party have already fucked off to Reform.
I think I’ve got more chance of being PM than Kemi.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 4 weeks ago:
If your main language is English you probably can’t. There’s just little need since everything is so English-centric that almost everyone else has to learn it as a necessity.
Larger countries like France and Germany can often get on without it as there’s enough population to be worth dubbing and translating things to it, but go somewhere smaller like the Nordic countries, and you’re basically stuffed without it.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 4 weeks ago:
That’s kind of just Europe plus Canada. But the whole point is nukes. Without the US we don’t really have that (the UK has a few but the US has the keys iirc, and France has a token amount), so Europe needs to get those weapons programs going again.
- Comment on really makes you think 4 weeks ago:
But we’re 60% water so we taste it all the time.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I agree with the second part.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
They can’t carry it on forever, sadly. It’s the nature of a prequel show.
Kirks and Spock’s actors are currently older than Nimoy and Shatner were when TOS ended.
