twinnie
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- Comment on The Nintendo 64 is now 30 years old! Released in Japan on June 23, 1996. 2 weeks ago:
I bought one the day it came out in the UK. Back in those days they didn’t get released in all countries at the same time, there was nearly a year between Japan and the UK. I used to go through the backs of magazines staring at the adverts trying to find someone who would sell an import for a remotely reasonable price but they were inflated by like 2.5x.
- Comment on So wise. 2 weeks ago:
This is probably only useful when you’re finding percentages of 50 or 100.
- Comment on UK Prize Draw Players Are Funding an IDF-Financing Israeli Billionaire 2 weeks ago:
I had no idea Camden Market was owned by somebody.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A few hours? No he isn’t. There has to be a leadership contest which will take weeks.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m in the UK and only once have I been in a cinema where people were shouting the things. It was some pretty mediocre horror thing and there were some teenagers shouting jokes but it was only like two times. The cinema was pretty much empty and it was just us and them; I think they just found the film a bit boring (we certainly did).
- Comment on Do "fixers" like Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction actually exist in real life? How does one go about getting one or hearing about one? Are they all mob connected or something? 3 weeks ago:
I always thought those concierges in fancy hotels act a bit like that. I’ve heard that guests can show up with weird rich person problems and be like “I need three gold Ferraris by 9pm” and the concierges will have to make it happen.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
When I was looking for a job an awful long time ago I was sending 8 a day and that seems small time compared to what you’d need to do now. Most of these places will have AI doing first soft on the applications anyway so don’t feel like you’ll be annoying anyone.
- Comment on UK urged not to further weaken EV rules as CO2 impact revealed 4 weeks ago:
I honestly think incentivising people to move to electric is better than punishing people who are staying out. The combustion ban seems to be a bit of a catalyst for the anti-green energy people while plenty of people seem to be going electric anyway. Right now it seems like you need a good excuse not to go electric when you buy a new car.
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 1 month ago:
On when I need it. Otherwise I’m clicking captchas all day.
- Comment on Day 679 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I’ve seen this game mentioned a few times. I think I’ll have to play it knowing how short it is. I hate games that hang around too long.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 1 month ago:
That’s mental. It’d be illegal in many countries. In the UK any place that sells alcohol has to give free water.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 1 month ago:
No Mans Sky is my chill game.
- Comment on Just say no 1 month ago:
Yeah, doesn’t bother me. I’ll just leave it crunching a boring problem while I go away and make a cup of tea or chat some shit.
- Comment on You gotta try #19 1 month ago:
Most countries don’t even call that bacon; that’s streaky bacon. Proper bacon is what Canadians have.
But I’d go for 4.
- Comment on Over 2,100 parkrunners and supporters rally against legal threat over trans policy 1 month ago:
You have to be a real piece of shit to go against ParkRun. I think it’s one of the most wholesome things around. Just a bunch of volunteers get together to encourage people to get out and exercise with absolutely no judgment and nothing but good vibes. Even on Xitter they’re getting torn to shreds for this.
- Comment on Block your ads 1 month ago:
Sounds refreshing. You’ve earned it.
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- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 2 months ago:
They’ve been under pressure in the EU to tackle fake reviews. Might be something to do with that.
- Comment on People who have legally changed their first or last names (marriage not included), what is the reason you changed it? 2 months ago:
My mother-in-law’s parents really wanted a boy and they were going to call him Nicholas. When she was born her mother wouldn’t look at her and didn’t want to name her, so a nurse suggested Nicola as she’s a girl, and the mother just shrugged and said okay.
She uses her middle name as her first name now. She did actually make up with her mother while her mother was on her deathbed, it was all frantic and wills were rewritten and all sorts.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 2 months ago:
if it was as bad as she was making it out to be I’d be pretty pissed off too. It’s probably not though. Loud music very occasionally is okay but I’d expect it to be turned off around 10/11 unless it was a very special occasion and I’d been warned in advance (and invited). I doubt the smell of weed is that bad. They shouldn’t be handing out alcohol.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 3 months ago:
There were a lot of absolutely awful ones when I was kid, so many I just forget them all. Back then we had a ZX Spectrum and the games cost like £2.99 each so you can imagine how much effort was put into them. I understand why the studios keep cranking out crappy movie tie-ins and why they keep selling well, because when I was a kid if there was a movie I loved I’d jump at the chance to buy the video game for it. Back then there was no internet to instantly check reviews so you just bought whatever had good box art.
I remember the Jaws game being particularly depressing. It was one of those classic games where it just drops you in an environment with no instructions on how to complete the game or anything. It was just a maze with loads of moving things that instantly killed you. I generally just moved around until I ran out of lives then tried again.
- Comment on How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ? 3 months ago:
Self-hosted services are only serving their purpose, they’re not serving ads, crunching user data, training unwanted AI algorithms…
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 months ago:
He only eats fast food on the road, when he’s at the White House or one of his own places he probably eats pretty well.
- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 4 months ago:
It was a weird time to like computers. Nobody had an antivirus, and if they didn’t it never got updated. You’d just take floppy disks around to your friend’s house and plug them in. Windows gave everything admin rights.
To be honest, I was using a computer for about five years before the internet happened and I never got a virus.
- Comment on Arrest after Churchill statue defaced with graffiti 4 months ago:
I completely agree. Like it or not if you want your protests to become a movement you have to appeal to “normal” people. When a normal person sees a statue of a person they consider a hero being vandalised or they see a protest full of people with dreadlocks, green hair, and hippy clothes they’re just going to dismiss it as an alternative culture that they don’t relate to.
If I’m being cynical here it almost makes me believe that some of these people care more about their identity and image than they do about the cause. They’ll go to all the effort of turning up to these things but they can’t even get a haircut and throw on a shirt. I’m going off on a tangent here.
- Comment on Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 4 months ago:
I like the silicone ones when they fit. I have some round the ear ones for jogging and they’re great. Never budge.
- Comment on Gottem 4 months ago:
I remember years ago reading about some test where participants lived in a house next to a phone mast. For the first week the phone mast was off, then the next week they turned it on. In the second week a bunch of people complained about getting sick and one person even had to leave. Then it turned out they’d never actually turned it on, I guess to prove that these people were idiots.
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- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 4 months ago:
Gotta admit, I don’t really play many Remedy games. While the settings and art may be good the gameplay is always kinda boring. I remember when Alan Wake was being developed and there was an insane amount of hype around it but when it came out it was just kind of boring to play. I haven’t finished it to this day. I heard Alan Wake 2 is really good but I just wasn’t going to play it without finishing the first one
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 4 months ago:
I think the headline’s a little misleading though. The guy was British and the woman was his daughter.