PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 1 day ago:
A good friend put it well:
“It’s like a nice sunrise. I’ve seen it a thousand times before but I’m still going to admire it”
- Comment on Day 573 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Speaking of graffiti, some of the bantz scrawled on the walls of Thank Goodness You’re Here made me laugh. Great waste of a few hours.
- Comment on AltaVista? 1 week ago:
I miss the Directory listings of a search engine. It was great for finding a series of niche sites based on “Quake III news” or “Subaru Impreza owners club” or such like.
SEO has ruined the web 1.0 efforts to just shotgun news and opinion onto the web (fact checking was purely optional) - everything’s just a bit too clean and corporate now. Shame.
- Comment on Recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine 1 week ago:
It’s just missing an extra bollock and you’// have yourself a massive TP dong. nice.
- Comment on Learn how to use Windows 95 with Jennifer Aniston and Mathew Perry. 1 week ago:
- Comment on YouTube sponsorship starter pack 1 week ago:
I’d love to see the YouTube analytics of a handful of really popular videos that have embedded sponsors. Even before the “jump ahead” feature, there must be a massive drop-off of people who just skip five or ten seconds ahead until the sponsor isn’t showing again.
- Comment on The danger of not thinking it out before you act 2 weeks ago:
A very cold one in winter.
- Comment on Art imitates life 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on M4M 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on "Hey Butthead what if this place is like, the manifestation of all our sins?" 3 weeks ago:
hurhurhurhurhurhur
yeah, but, there’s like chicks here
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yeah, we’re gonna score
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- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 4 weeks ago:
Russian Roulette.
Test for nat20’s by using a semiautomatic handgun.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 4 weeks ago:
Like an Uno reverse in alternative medication form.
- Comment on quack 4 weeks ago:
IMPULSE9chunksofbread
- Comment on Have you ever had a shave in a barber shop or spa? 4 weeks ago:
As pleasant as that looks, it matters not to me.
I ask my barber for the “full works”, sit back, and close my eyes for half hour listening to whatever generic chilled dance playlist he’s got going on YouTube. It could be a dude, a woman, or anything in between - it matters not.
When he slaps my shoulders and says “ok boss, what do you think?”, that’s my cue to get up and leave.
It’s my brief moment of indulgence every other month or so.
- Comment on When you pick the wrong designated driver 4 weeks ago:
If the designated driver goes rogue, then it’s on them to pay the taxi fare home.
Expensive (probably) but simple.
- Comment on Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds 5 weeks ago:
I was surprised that two thirds of folk here think to be fair.
I gave up thinking years ago. I got bored of the smell of burning.
- Comment on cr(ule)ime 5 weeks ago:
Is this a circleblock?
i’m in
- Comment on AGDQ 2026 Schedule 5 weeks ago:
I can’t say there’s anything that really jumps out at me aside from may e the presumably mirrored Super Mario World…
…but Argick running a non-Sonic game? Sure I’m up for that!
- Comment on Gotta Catch 'Em All 1 month ago:
It also sounds like the sorts of character names Sandy would use in their games - looks like an endless pool of NPC names for the future!
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 1 month ago:
I’ve lucky enough to be able to fund my study while I’m in middle age.
I took up my degree course because I enjoyed computing and the theory behind it. I enjoy it for the most part, it’s engaging and intriguing. I’m getting some personal and academic development out of it even though it’s got fuck all to do with my “real” career.
I can see people stressed off their tits with it though - people who have a career pinned on success with the degree; people who went to uni because they felt it was just the next natural step; and people who did it because they were told to.
I feel genuinely gutted for them that a topic that brings so much learning and satisfaction can bring another so much stress and anxiety.
Shame.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 1 month ago:
I mean, I can’t really talk, I’m still working away at undergrad level; and I’ve got all the social media clout of the average housebrick.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 1 month ago:
You are absolutely right, but how are you going to make a fire Twitter post if you can’t engineer a situation like this? 🤔
- Comment on On Ploughing 1 month ago:
That would make a banging remix to Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy .
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 months ago:
Chsrizard origin story.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 2 months ago:
haven’t got opposable thumbs, have they?
- Comment on Racism restaurant 2 months ago:
Wireback sounds like an AI cover of a Justin Timberlake single.
- Comment on "I love the round things!" - The Doctor 2 months ago:
Maybe spend more than twelve dollars and a pizza for the poor intern that writes the intro sequence next time too!
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 2 months ago:
I mean, there’s a lot to unpack there and for the most part, it appears to me that your view of policing and mine are vastly different, but you’re entitled to your own view and I’m not arsed one way or the other.
Is it the terrifying, weapon wielding, hark back to the middle ages, violent attack it’s been portrayed by those it benefits to portray in that way? No.
This though? Absolutely not. You’re justifying life-changing violence to fit narrative you’re presenting. If smashing someone - anyone - in the back with a fucking sledgehammer isn’t a “middle ages, violent attack”, then swinging at them again certainly is.
It clearly wasn’t brought just to fuck people up, it clearly wasn’t used at its full potential or there would be officers dead.
I think this is where the disconnect in the logic lies. I’m quite sure it wasn’t brought for violence, but the issue is that the person turned their attention on the cop, and then used the sledgehammer as a weapon. They have made the conscious decision to change their intent from smashing up whatever they wanted to, to intentionally caution injury. Regardless of anyone’s experience using hammers, swinging a bit of heavy metal on the end of a big stick at someone is going to ruin someone’s day at the very least, or in this case, fracture someone’s spine. Anyone who claims that “oh I didn’t think that was going to happen” ought to lodge a special defence of insanity.
All this, and judging by journalists reports, there isn’t any clear evidence of state-sponsored violence to be seen.
Motive or otherwise, some clown has slammed a sledgehammer into someone’s back twice and is now hiding behind Palestine Action’s statement of purpose.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 2 months ago:
I’m not seeing your point here.
Are we supposed to be okay with them not having them? Then, expect them to attend violent incidents with nothing but witty banter to protect themselves with?
I’m not a huge fan of anyone having weaponry to hand but given some of the nastier incidents that the police service need to attend, having a tin of pepper spray and a aluminium stick with the training to use them (or not use them as a case may be) is considerably fewer options that most worldwide forces have.
- Comment on fresh groceries 2 months ago:
