PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anon goes home 1 day ago:
Beautifully put.
I love my home town. It’s lovely, quaint, and consistently ranks somewhere on the “best places to live in” surveys. I was really fortunate to grow up there, even if I didn’t realise it at the time.
I flew the nest, found my own path, and moved around a bit. I’ve settled six hundred miles away - and with the numbers of folk in my family slowly starting to dwindle, I’m finding fewer and fewer reasons to go back home.
I miss my formative years, but rather than grieve for them, I’m thankful for growing up somewhere that gave me a lot of joy and good memories. I may not have grown up where I am now, but it’s where my other half and my kids are, and that’s home now.
- Comment on It sounds a little Fr*nch to me 2 weeks ago:
It*lians in shambles
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 2 weeks ago:
This is like one of those two-line horror stories.
The economy is coming from inside the building!
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
😂 we’re in agreement on the subs!
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 2 weeks ago:
Brilliant game.
Worth playing with the PS1 Descent soundtrack too for a different experience (or Descent Maximum as it was across the pond), it got me in to Type O-Negative too.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
I mean, she does suck but isn’t that the norm?
I can’t eat popcorn anywhere without needing to hoover up around me afterwards, and I ain’t untidy by any means!
- Comment on missing 2 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion: burgers without cheese are fuckin’ awesome.
Specifically the McDonalds rubbery type cheese. Big Macs, Arch Burgers, whatever - all much tastier without the cheese.
Hell, even asking for a “triple cheeseburger with no cheese” sounds like it defeats the point but awwww yeeeaaahhh it’s just a triple decker beef sandwich.
If you like cheese then crack on, go wild. But it’s worth trying something without cheese for a different experience.
- Comment on peak 2 weeks ago:
You crack me up, little buddy.
- Comment on Please help 3 weeks ago:
The Fairphone XL.
Not that I’m ragging on the Fairphone, I love the concept.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2025 started a few hours ago 5 weeks ago:
There’s been a pivot away from “classic” speedruns games over the last few years - I get that Doom or Sonic 2 or Goldeneye or other 90s games aren’t guaranteed a place every year, but it seems like the games that kicked off the speedrun scene are often overlooked these days.
That said, there is Quake, and there is SMB3 where I dont know who the runner is but that couch is a banger.
I was looking forward to seeing Still Wakes The Deep runs, but I find them really… unexciting, I think is the sentiment. Like the 2016 Doom onwards, the runs are technically outstanding, but there’s a lot of walking on invisible geometry with collision detection, or random tricks like railboosting in Doom that seems to break a game. I get that that is an entirely subjective opinion though, maybe I’m more suited to No Major Glitches runs!
- Comment on Call Before You Dig 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know, can you??
…and other great 90s teacher questions!
- Comment on Fun in the Sun 5 weeks ago:
Go on, I’m here to ask dense questions and learn dense answers.
I can see that the central graph is x^3, but what equation repeats it twice along the X axis, and am I missing a pun?
- Comment on A great meal 1 month ago:
- Comment on A great meal 1 month ago:
was this cropped by David Blunkett?
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 1 month ago:
“why can’t we get a mortgage?”
“Well I bought a hot dog on a payment plan for a laugh, and I defaulted on a 38 cent payment”
“oh no”
- Comment on Senior MP calls for Marilyn Manson concert in Brighton to be cancelled 1 month ago:
Tough line to draw really.
The legal system is built on “innocent until proven guilty”, so it’s understandable why entire careers aren’t brought to a halt because of one or more allegations of misconduct.
Problem is, how do we let that continue while listening to complainants, making them feel heard, and safeguarding future potential victims?
I’m not asking you in particular, you’re just the comment I’ve replied to - it’s one of those impossible situations to draw a line in the sand without fucking over one of the sides.
- Comment on 43 pregnant men 1 month ago:
Brooks be spinning in his grave so fast, you could wire him up to a dynamo and power a small African country
- Comment on Anon’s a sucker 1 month ago:
classic
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 month ago:
I hear you, the issue for me is that a third of your country people voted for the cunt, another third didn’t care enough not to vote against the cunt, which leaves a large majority of Americans complicit in this - enough in my view to effectively use the term as a blanket reference to most people in the country.
Speaking on a more granular level, I wish you well and the best of luck - but the majority of your population can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Good luck, mom 1 month ago:
My other half’s mam fuckin’ loves Candy Crush, plays it most (if not every) night, maybe clears a level or two.
What really makes me smile is that whenever she drops a bollock and effectively renders a grid unwinnable, she’ll take the L and come back tomorrow. Fuck the MTX and fuck the extra time/re-rolls/level skips; she just goes back the following day and tries again.
Mad respect, if nothing else than to be the marginal player base that fucks with the “line goes up” metric.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 1 month ago:
actually one of their banger songs, fair play.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 1 month ago:
Yes. As always though, context is key.
I tend to look at it as a see-saw. Run-of-the-mill kindness and general acts good nature sit near the fulcrum of one end of the seesaw. Similarly, a single or very few acts of genuine heroism and selflessness sit right at the far end of the “good” end of the seesaw, providing as much effort the lean towards the “good egg” character trait than the dozens of daily acts.
Similarly, being a general cunt sits near the fulcrum of the “bad” end for me, genuine malicious acts of emotional daaaamage or shithousery sit in the middle, with outright rape; murder; Nickelback fan club membership; and noncery sit at the par end.
So yes, on balance, if someone is habitually a good spud on the daily but happened to get a bit frisky with someone other than their monogamous partner once, I’d still say overall they were a good person but with shit judgement.
Equally, someone like Jimmy Saville or raised millions of pounds for British charities with his fame and stardom appeared to be a stand up guy, but the covert fiddling offsets that almost instantly.
A crude metaphor, but it works for me.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 month ago:
Thank you, friend. It’s lovely to have such a positive reply.
I’d recommend it to anyone - education is never wasted. This is the end of year five or six now mind and I’ve had a bit of a titsful of it - the summer break has come at a perfect time. I’ll smash this last year in then give it a rest I think, maybe formalise my French over a year or two.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 month ago:
I abandoned my plan to go into software development by means of university, left secondary school and took up employment in a different field.
After a bit of lateral movement and promotion to a job that was more desk-oriented, I’m doing a computing degree part time, and I actually really enjoy it.
I’m doing it for fun, because I enjoy the subject - I’ve got no plans to use it and there’s no job pinned on the hopes of passing. It’s wonderfully liberating.
That said, I appreciate I’m in a privileged position to be able to do what I’m doing.
- Comment on Letter tier list. open for peer review 2 months ago:
“so is it clearer with lens one…”
“…or with lens two?”
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 2 months ago:
The only minor problem with debit or charge cards in Europe is that the initial preauthorisation amount is actually debited from your account - so if the preauth is £15 or £30 or £40 - regardless of whether you put £1.50 of juice in or £14.99, the £15 is debited until the transaction finalises and the remainder is refunded a few days later.
As much as I like using contactless payment to avoid using an app or an RFID or NFC card, I do have more problems with failed attempts to charge using a bank card.
Using the ChargePlace Scotland card to tap in seems to work way more consistently for whatever reason, across that network.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 months ago:
I agree - I’m not expert but I know that the mining of rare earth metals and the disposal of some EV components are problematic. It’s not a perfect solution.
That said, better solutions such as fuel cells or hydrogen are still 10-15 years away, and “better” shouldn’t be the enemy of perfect. I’m not particularly car proud and cars tend to last me twelve-fifteen years so I went for an EV hoping that an even better tech will be available by the time I need a car next time round.
- Comment on Ready for dinner 2 months ago:
This pizza was sponsored by AmigaOS
- Comment on Anon gets banned for having Nothing 2 months ago:
I’ve got the 2a Plus and it’s… fine?
It’s specs are fucking brilliant for the money, but there’s something I can’t quite put my finger on that makes it a bit slower than it should be. It’s like someone’s taken a modern laptop with decent processing and GPU components… but put in two SO-DIMMs from 1997 in.
The camera is fucking atrocious for taking quick photos or taking rapid photos one after the other.
Otherwise, half decent handset yeah
- Comment on Living a lie 2 months ago:
A colleague of mine used to work quite high up in UK Government, achieved all she wanted to, and came to our team. Absolute golden woman, genuinely lovely. She was from Glasgow originally but spent most of her time in London, poor soul.
When she was in “professional mode” - she had a voice that I could fall in love with. A beautifully smooth tone and a lovely rhythm, confident but gentle, in a nice heart of England accent.
As soon as she came out of a meeting or put the phone down though, she threw the voice out of the window and it was “fuck off you pure cunt” or “get tae fuck you fuckin roaster” or “no mate you can pure fuck all of the way off”.
Absolute gem. No ego, you knew where you stood, and it was highly entertaining.
