PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on We all have our pet peeves, eh? 3 days ago:
Scotland-specific, but the first one is pure dead Glesga so it is but, and the second one is proper Edinburgh ken
- Comment on We all have our pet peeves, eh? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
apology for poor english
when were you when svenska calculator post drop?
i was sat at home eating IKEA meatballs when notification ring
‘Calculator switch set to K’
‘no’
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 week ago:
32-bit FIFA 98, best FIFA.
I never did beat Lode Runner on my Atari 800. What an absolute banger of a game though. Speaking of which, I remember playing Encounter on the Atari 800 and Mercenary III on the Atari ST, and realising “this is the direction of video games”. Incredible stuff.
- Comment on Clouds Beyond 2 weeks ago:
nice
- Comment on Clouds Beyond 2 weeks ago:
All I see is a really abstract triple-goatse
I should never have grown up with the internet.
- Comment on Nick Clegg to leave Meta ahead of Trump's return - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
oh no
Does that mean he’s coming back to the UK?
- Comment on Total Fire Ban Statewide today 26/12 3 weeks ago:
What am I going to do with my mixtape now?
Fingers crossed people will take notice of the guidance. Whether they’ll follow it is a different thing, mind.
- Comment on That's a good one 4 weeks ago:
That one took me a minute.
It should win a gong.
It kept me ticking over, anyway.
- Comment on 'No Contract, No Coffee': Starbucks Workers Launch Five Days of Strikes 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shame they’re not selling merch with that slogan on it, it’s a banger.
A good way of adding to the strike fund too without needing to attend.
- Comment on Jumping in would either give you superpowers or cancer 4 weeks ago:
Maybe you need 350 carbon monoxide alarms!
- Comment on Thames Water boss defends bonuses as sewage spills soar 5 weeks ago:
Fuck all, really.
Competitive packages should attract successful candidates, not cunts who consistently fail at both moderating pay, and literally shitting in the rivers and leaving for the taxpayer to clean up.
Fuck the shareholders of this company, it’s an abject failure and needs to be brought into local authority ownership.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 1 month ago:
I mean, it sucks that you pinned your hopes on your crush having to follow a social pressure to kiss/fondle/fuck/whatever the “forfeit” for spin the bottle was in the first place.
It sucks that you had to go through that, but at what point does that declination of your advances suck less?
I mean, society has unfortunately favoured shitty games like “pull the bull” and “poke the bear” over any sort of genuine attraction which has usually disadvantaged women anyway - that’s not to turn it into a gender thing, but maybe the idea of sparking a relationship from a forced interaction sucks from the outset.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 1 month ago:
Dying of piles sounds awful. Like, it would have been nice to marathon Ye Olde Stranger Things or Squide Game without having your arse falling to pieces on your
deathbeddeathsofa. - Comment on Spread 'em 1 month ago:
I was going to say that it had prioritised the most uses combination of letters… but I have a unique name that I’ve saved to the custom dictionary and it still reverts back to the anglicised name, like “stop autocorrecting my own damn name to something else”.
At least we know AI is fucked for a few years yet.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 1 month ago:
Yeah, a bit of sense is all you need. I’ve not used spoofing tools but a few of my friends have - we live rural too and it revolutionises the game. Even our local small city centre isn’t really raid friendly - it’s not like you can hang a out Times Square and literally walk into a full raid whenever you like.
That said, the weekly Pokémon Club in rural areas is a great social, and mons tend to stay in gyms for more than twelve seconds making it a bit easier to get pokecoins. The game is still heavily skewed towards city centres though.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 1 month ago:
The modern day spoofing apps are really quite impressive. Teleportation or time travelling generally gets you an account strike fairly quickly, but some of the cleverer automatic walking functions are really quite cool.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 1 month ago:
It’ll be interesting to see a Waymo or Tesla FSD follow the path of a few Pokémon Go spoofers through buildings or directly across a field.
- Comment on Here are some tips for making fried rice: 2 months ago:
I agree - there’s some large accesibility-like issues with communication, which causes issues for people where it isn’t their first language, the neurodiverse, or in safety critical applications. The /s is a fine early example of that.
That said, if everyone stuck to basic facts and focussed on clarity rather than content, the world would be a mega boring place.
- Comment on Here are some tips for making fried rice: 2 months ago:
What they mean does not matter.
Nearly every internet comment section for the last thirty years summed up in one line.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 2 months ago:
Hi American friend!
I absolutely get it - “too good to be true” is definitely a thing in the English speaking world.
I absolutely get the apprehension - if I was jumping on to a Bee Bus or the Edinburgh Trams with a ticket that some rando was trying to offload, then my Spidey senses would be tingling too.
In this instance though, we’re probably looking at a value of US$10ish, so in my own perfectly subjective opinion, I’d be happy to give it a bash. If it doesnt work, the the ticket gets yeeted and the contactless card gets used instead.
I absolutely understand settling in to the “normal” of buying your own ticket though and I really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 2 months ago:
Nah that’s fair enough, I get it. It’s a reasonably common thing in the UK - either the person who takes it is a local rogue who’ll flog the travelcard for a quid, or it’ll be used by someone away out on the piss for the night.
I just found it odd is all. Like, if you take it and it works, happy days - you’ve saved yourself a bit of cash. If the ticket gate spits it back at you, then oh well, back to plan A.
It’s cool to hear your take on it though, thank you.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 2 months ago:
Hey thanks for your insight.
Maybe in the UK we’re super used to fast fashion shite like Primark or Asda George. I mean, the designs are cool but the quality rivals that of the Looney Tunes ACME products.
Maybe you’re right though, maybe I’m looking at them through rose tinted specs. I rather like the Old Navy stuff or American Eagle. The material just seems to last a tad longer than the supermarket pish in the UK.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 2 months ago:
quality burn
Though I would still like to go. That architecture looks fantastic.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 2 months ago:
Cheers for the added advice.
It was a bit over 18 months ago I was last in a CBS, but as as already been pointed out, the US is a huge place so there’s bound to be regional differences. Glad contactless payments (or is it tap-to-pay in the US?) has become the norm.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 2 months ago:
Irn-Bru too, funnily enough.
The FDA aren’t a fan of how it (or was) made.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 2 months ago:
Hello fellow Brit.
Everything is bigger. That’s an obvious statement, but the knock on effect is that nobody seems to have a sense of “nearby”. I frequently went out running on the pavement around two or three blocks, and people either looked at me as if I was possessed, or honked their horns like a “run Forrest run!” type thing because there was literally nobody else out putting miles on tarmac.
Retail parks are a cracking example. I was out with a friend who knew the area well, and we wanted to go from one store at one end of the retail park to the other. I was happy to walk to three or four hundred metres, but they were positively horrified at the thought of not taking the car to another parking spot there.
Speaking of driving - know your rules. Four way interactions are a cool inventions.
Roundaboutstraffic circles are fucking wild going in from the right.See those 300, 200, 100yd marker boards on A roads and motorways allowing you to figure out what lane you need to be in to take your slip road? Purely optional in the US. Be ready for people in lane three (or four, or five, or six) to see their exit and cut straight across. Blind spot checking is for nerds communists.
Things have changed lately, but go out with two or three changes of clothes, and that’s it. The clothes in the US are generally much cooler and much cheaper, it’s a good excuse to get new gear. Depending on where you’re going though, it’s hard work getting particular stuff - asking for Under Armour’s heatgear stuff if you go running in winter will get you some real fuckin’ weird looks in Florida, where even the vests are sometimes hotter than a duffle coat.
The border: know your shit - where you’re going, how much you got, who you’re with. The border force agents (whatever their unit is called) are super cool, but they ask super intrusive questions. That Marks and Spencer ham baguette you got in Gatwick/Edinburgh/Manchester? Eat it quick, because it isn’t going through customs.
Not sure how long you’re going for, but get a Post Office multi-currency card, or a credit card that specialises in the US Dollar or low international currency fees. While you’re at it, feel free to wow them with contactless payments. Last time I went to CVS, I had tapped the card before the cashier had finished his spiel about swiping the card, and refused to believe I’d actually paid for a few seconds. It’s like a magic trick with none of the effort.
Tylenol: get shitloads. It’s basically paracetemol wrapped in bubblegum. Outstanding for hangovers.
Enjoy it! The Americans are friendly enough even if the majority of them make some pretty wack political choices, but that’s another discussion. They’re generally sound as fuck, and find the British accent something of a novelty, so feel free to use it as a get out of jail card if you make a social faux pas.
Have fun, let us know how you get on!
- Comment on The doctor then had to go and treat that lawyer for being a burn victim 2 months ago:
Is that a picture of a tweet of a printout of a MS Notepad file that was probably cut and pasted from a forwarded email, newsgroup post, or web page?
my head hurts
- Comment on Donald Trump's sentencing was postponed to after the election to avoid any assistance of election interference. Can he be sentenced while he is President Elect? 2 months ago:
$ undelete spankmonkey $ chmod 0 dtrump $ 10 PRINT “DONGS” $ 20 GOTO 10
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 months ago:
also branding
particularly the style that gives up on capitalisation and punctuation
this is not primary school
