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- Comment on load bearing worm 4 hours ago:
Astronauts aren’t scientists, they’re military. The military are all in on superstition.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 1 day ago:
Cop
- Comment on ‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage 1 day ago:
Ok so I’ve actually just read the article in full and she’s got indefinitely leave to remain, yet supports reform explicitly because of their desire to remove indefinite leave to remain.
If she wants to shoot herself in the foot I don’t understand why she has to involve the rest of us. Her parents must be so proud.
- Comment on ‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage 1 day ago:
Yusuf is the party leader and he supports policies that if implemented with result in his own deportation. Brings enough a hallmark of the hard right.
- Comment on ‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage 1 day ago:
If these people don’t want to live in the UK they are absolutely free to return to their parents country of origin which I suspect they will also not like.
Anyone supporting Nigel Farage is an idiot but a non-caucasian foreign national doing it is beyond stupid and well into padded cell territory.
- Comment on High Street mini-marts selling cocaine, cannabis and prescription drugs, BBC secret filming reveals 1 day ago:
I like the idea of just pop into the corner shop to get some milk and a spliff. Seems very civilised.
- Comment on High Street mini-marts selling cocaine, cannabis and prescription drugs, BBC secret filming reveals 1 day ago:
Apparently few and few people are smoking anyway so it actually might work. But only because everyone has decided that they don’t want to smoke not because of anything the government’s doing.
- Comment on High Street mini-marts selling cocaine, cannabis and prescription drugs, BBC secret filming reveals 1 day ago:
The hell is a mini-mart? It’s a corner shop, we can stop with the Americanisms thank you.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 days ago:
The studios don’t care about any of that.
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 2 days ago:
I think he’s in charge of the US foreign policy because that also seems to be the intelligence level of the US military command right now.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 days ago:
I mean obviously you can map the controls however you like but using the mouse to control the vehicle seems weird.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 days ago:
That’s the studio’s fault not the game engines. There’s also unity of course and godot
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 days ago:
Because every news site will want to include an embed of the video of the release and they can’t do that if it’s on Steam servers.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 3 days ago:
The original release date was sometime around Q1 2026, obviously trump’s tariffs (illegal tax) and then AI consuming all of the RAM has messed with the timeline.
Oh and then international shipping will be more expensive due to increased fuel prices because of the Iran war.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 3 days ago:
It’s probably unlisted on YouTube somewhere. I don’t know if there’s some sleuthing technique that can be used to find these videos although I suspect that if there was they wouldn’t have uploaded it yet.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 3 days ago:
I’m mostly just use controllers for playing games which have driving mechanics. Controlling vehicles with just WASD is awful.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 3 days ago:
Isn’t that the price of a PS5 controller? Given that it’s got a lot of extra features I would expect it to probably be more expensive than that in less valve decide they want to take the hit and make it a lost leader.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 3 days ago:
The AAA industry is obsessed with using their own game engines, to the point where the AA industry can run circles around them using Unreal.
You can give the IP to a random Norwegian (they’re always Scandinavian) game studio you’ve never heard of before and get a better product.
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 1 week ago:
The point of thrust is offset so you’d spin around uncontrollably.
- Comment on NHS Staff Told ‘Stop Criticising Palantir or Lose Your Job’ 1 week ago:
Oh we’ve built an AI data centre, as in a massive building in a major city centre has been constructed. Just like with you the AI doesn’t seem to have any defined task it just exists so the company can announce that it’s an AI company. Not a single person in management seems to have any idea what it might be used for, so I suspect it’s just going to sit there and do nothing.
There’s quite a lot of work that’s already been automated by various python scripts so it’s not even as if the AI is going to bring any automation to the table. Not that I would trust it anyway.
They have announced that as a result of this AI, they expect their profits to increase 4x despite the complete lack of any direction. Fun times ahead I am sure.
- Comment on Wylfa power station can begin that promises 8,000 new jobs 1 week ago:
It’s like this theme park they’re building in Bedford. They claim is going to create thousands of jobs. It will create some jobs for sure but they’re also including the IT support staff in that number, but they are contractors so they already have a job anyway.
- Comment on 'Abhorrent' step-incest porn to be banned with up to five years in prison 1 week ago:
The labor party seem to have decided what people really want out of a left-wing government is a right-wing government.
Then they complain that everyone votes for the green party.
- Comment on 'Abhorrent' step-incest porn to be banned with up to five years in prison 1 week ago:
Yeah, all the tractor stuff gets pushed to page 8 and you have to downloads of scrolling.
- Comment on 'Abhorrent' step-incest porn to be banned with up to five years in prison 1 week ago:
Who’s making that determination though?
- Comment on 'Abhorrent' step-incest porn to be banned with up to five years in prison 1 week ago:
I’m sure it exists somewhere on the internet but I wouldn’t say it’s particularly prevalent. There’s quite a lot of this school girl stuff but it’s generally someone who’s obviously older than 18 just play acting. Anyway it’s pornography, no one cares about the plot anyway.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 1 week ago:
The thing is you can do massive maps without having to use something custom. So they really have no excuse for continuing to stick with their massively out of date wonkfest of an engine
- Comment on Keeping the country safe 1 week ago:
They do it all the time.
They’ll brag about their big drug bust and it’ll be 5 g of weed and a box cutter.
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 week ago:
Game of Thrones didn’t contribute shit. It was a thing back in the VHS days.
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 week ago:
Most of the time the stepsister “plot” is limited to the title. It’s not something mentioned in the video otherwise, because it’s mostly irrelevant.
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 week ago:
Glad they are focusing on the important stuff and not getting distracted by trivial wars in Europe or environmental collapse.