Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 9 hours ago:
This type of shit is why we have a 1980s cot in the attic. We have no children. We have no plans of having children. We have stated multiple times that we don’t want children.
Yet there it is anyway, covered in nicotine stains, until mother in law carks it, and the wife can finally be satisfied that she’s not going to visit for a random inspection.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 13 hours ago:
They’re hasn’t really been that many VR games lately.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 day ago:
And timeshares. And pyramid schemes.
I remember my parents doing one of those weird chain letter things where you’d copy the letter to a few other people, send a few quid to the people on the list, and within weeks you’d be sent thousands of pounds, if only the scheme didn’t require more people than there were in the whole country.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 2 days ago:
Doesn’t do that for me in Chrome or Firefox on Windows either.
- Comment on Priorities 3 days ago:
Ever seen a pile of discarded small silver canisters? That would be them.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
“Their sort are always liars” he added.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 days ago:
Nah, all the SEO nobheads poisoned search well before Google managed it.
The internet has been inventing nonsense based seemingly on your search queries for a long-ass time.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 3 days ago:
I’ll do it but it’s just me sitting stony-faced before going “load of wank” and turning it off halfway through.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I’m going to guess at The Sunday Sport.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 days ago:
And then I assume they’ll study a large packet of banknotes each and forget all about it.
- Comment on Trying to activate a new BT account 4 days ago:
Yeah I’ve been with Zen since broadband has been a thing. Never had an issue with them.
- Comment on Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction 6 days ago:
Looks similar to the old Radofin TV game unit I used to have. 10 games, and most of them were Pong variants.
Makes sense. The Soviets cloned a few Western machines. They had a clone of the ZX Spectrum too.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
Mine doesn’t go down when I call the government a bunch of cunts.
And the Chinese one still goes down if you’re poor.
- Comment on Good deal 1 week ago:
Plus you get to cosplay as a Silent Hill 2 boss.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 1 week ago:
They take both in the UK.
- Comment on Is This The GREATEST In-Camera Effect of ALL TIME? 1 week ago:
- Comment on So upset during the holidays! 1 week ago:
From the hotel bookings, I’d say he was born during the World Cup.
- Comment on You nomster! 1 week ago:
If you do this, remember to change the keyboard layout to match.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 2 weeks ago:
At my age I can get high just by standing too fast.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 2 weeks ago:
Was gonna say, isn’t it mostly NO2 things for making whippy cream that people huff. And butane although that’s riskier.
Compressed air tastes awful, even when directed into an aging 1060.
- Comment on The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less 2 weeks ago:
My Go S already came with Steam OS. Why they still messing about with Windows?
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 2 weeks ago:
It’s for cats to scratch. It’s supposed to be damaged.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
I’m sort of going to blame Sony and Microsoft here as well. Since their game subscription services came out, games going on permanent discount seems to be a thing of the past. I reckon they’ve been told to do it just to make the subscription services look better value.
Back in the day, as far back as the ZX Spectrum for me, games would come out at full price and then a couple of years later would come out in a budget range. Even Nintendo would do it on the GameCube. Now it’s just full price forever because fuck you.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
I miss the “flash sales”.
They got rid of them, and the Steam Sales were effectively just the regular discounts you can get anywhere else.
That and people like Rockstar figuring out that you can put “50% off” if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for.
- Comment on Great guy 2 weeks ago:
Will he turned me into a newt…
I got better.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 2 weeks ago:
Back in the web forum days, I joined a gaming one where one bloke had a falling out with his girlfriend and so she picked up his GameCube and hurled it at the wall.
After kicking her the fuck out, he expected to have to buy a new one (GameCube, not girlfriend), only to find very superficial damage to the casing and that it still worked perfectly fine.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 2 weeks ago:
And the amount of time dedicated to ox-bow lakes. Where are they all? You’d think every second meander would be an ox-bow lake by now, but I’ve never even seen one.
I think geography teachers made them up and hoped nobody would ever check.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 2 weeks ago:
Our chemistry teacher made us memorise up to Argon with a song, that was literally just him singing the 1/2 letter names of all the elements. HHeLiBeBCNOFNe…
It was on a poster on the wall in every lesson. It was in the textbook. It was printed on the exam papers.
I’ve no idea why he tried to make us do that, and the annoying thing is I can still remember a good chunk of it 30 years later. I could have been using that chunk of my brain for something useful.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
I cancelled it the day they announced that
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s stuff under the subscription and stuff you pay for (although you can pay for anything if you’re not a subscriber iirc)
It gives them a perverse incentive to remove shows from the subscription tier if lots of people are watching it. You also get shows where the first few seasons are in the sub, and then suddenly switches to pay for.
They’re an easy cancel.