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- Comment on That's me 13 hours ago:
You pay by weight, so I don’t really understand what its problem was.
- Comment on That's me 1 day ago:
I think it really depends on the store. In the UK I have to say that they’re generally pretty terrible, but the ones M&S (a UK supermarket) are normally fine. Tesco’s has the worst ones, they are always complaining about something and there’s never enough cashiers to fix them. Plus of course occasionally they just decide to pick on you and rescan all your items.
IKEA ones are floorless though
- Comment on That's me 1 day ago:
The best is when you buy fruit all vegetables and it decides that the Apple that you are buying doesn’t weigh the right amount.
One time I bought the largest potato you’ve ever seen in your life and it decided that it was too big and therefore could not possibly be a potato and must instead be some high value item I was stealing, although nonetheless scanning. But the problem is the alternative is to talk to people.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 2 days ago:
Of course there’s always being Nazi apologists and equally there’s always been people who are just incapable of moving with the times. That’s not a new thing that’s always been the case.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 3 days ago:
I think I had it on my wish list because I was never going to pay full price and then when it came down in price I looked again at it and I just thought nah, I actually don’t care. So I never bought it.
They’re not exactly starting from a solid foundation.
If any game was going to get away with being $80 it’d be something like grand theft auto or one of the next call of duties, not this one. But maybe they’re trailing it on a game that they know will only be moderately successful at best anyway, that way they don’t lose huge amounts of money if it fails to win over players.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 3 days ago:
That tactic would work if it was a multiplayer game or a major franchise but with a single player cookie cutter game there’s no urgency for me to get started and no FOMO. It just isn’t that interesting of an IP
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 3 days ago:
There there a woman that somehow fell out of a plane and fell thousands of feet only to landed in a tree with virtually no injuries.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 3 days ago:
Wasn’t the first game entirely average? And now he wants $80 for the sequel.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 days ago:
It’s so obvious that he’s a twat though.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 6 days ago:
I would agree normally but it’s Lenovo.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 week ago:
You do realise that the whole point of the United Nations is so that things like that this don’t happen anymore. Of course that presupposes everybody’s going to play nicely. Deals with Russia aren’t worth the paper written on, vis-a-vis Ukraine.
So how can we not be at war with an entity so fundamentally untrustworthy. You are complaining that the West is at war with Russia (as if the Western democracies are a united front) but that’s because Russia is constantly breaking the rules. If they just stayed within their own borders that wouldn’t be a problem.
Your problem is that you’ve already decided who is right and who is wrong and you’re not going to allow anything like reality to get in the way of that.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 week ago:
Your ignorance is showing.
I mean come on even Argentina has barely done anything provocative lately. Meanwhile Russia has literally carried out assassinations in the UK.
By what metric do you consider this to be an overreaction?
- Comment on What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest? 1 week ago:
The only games I truly enjoyed these days have been unexpected indie hits that are impossible to predict
You have to keep an eye out for dev diaries on YouTube. Normally there is some advisement for them.
- Comment on Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’ 1 week ago:
Yes which is what I’m proposing. But that’s not what they’re talking about they’re talking about a totally separate ID card with no real reason for its existence.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 week ago:
He won’t though because although what he did is immoral it wasn’t illegal. After all the president of the United States authorised these actions they must be legal.
Financially he’s going to suffer but there’s nothing in law that can be done to him.
- Comment on Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’ 1 week ago:
That’s the problem with the ID card idea, it doesn’t solve a problem. Obviously it proves who you are, but there are so many other documents that are already needed that also do that there’s no point.
If we got rid of driving licences and just had an ID card that everyone had, and then when you got a licence it just got added as information onto the card, then they would have a point. But that isn’t what they’re proposing, they’re proposing a second card that does the exact same job as the driving licence that I’m already required to carry.
- Comment on Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’ 1 week ago:
Oh it’s that time of the year again, where they start talking about governmental ID cards for the 57th time.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
The list where this doesn’t apply seems to basically be every country with consumer protection laws.
They obviously know this won’t fly pretty much anywhere other than the US so that’s all they’re trying to push.
- Comment on Anon gets banned for having Nothing 1 week ago:
It’s an entirely okay phone. But it’s overpriced and frankly far too smug with itself.
Every time they come out with a new phone I always check it out in the vague hope that they’ve actually come up with something interesting and innovative, but they never have, it’s always basically just a service Android phone with a transparent back and LED lights that don’t really do anything.
Put an eating display on the back or something come on, be as interesting as you claim to actually be.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 week ago:
The worst one is when you wake up having drunk a little bit too much and you can’t find your glasses. You are now effectively blind and helpless and hungover.
- Comment on Mum locked up in prison after what she did with two Kinder eggs 1 week ago:
Clearly you know nothing about the modern woman
- Comment on Mum locked up in prison after what she did with two Kinder eggs 1 week ago:
She had 64 MDMA tablets there really isn’t much there to misinterpret.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 1 week ago:
Please stop okay it’s dunning-kruger at its finest.
Any agreement of a ceasefire has to be ratified by NATO if it isn’t ratified by NATO then it doesn’t happen. So Trump and Putin can have their little play acting session but it’s not going to result in anything because no one will ratify it if Ukraine isn’t part of the negotiations. America it’d been big is irrelevant.
What’s America going to do to enforce their version of the ceasefire, if Ukraine disagrees with it if the rest of NATO disagree with it? NATO will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, and Ukraine will continue to use those weapons. And Trump will do what?
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 1 week ago:
Oh God there are so many problems with your response where do I even start?
lots of the latest negotiations (with the US) seem to involve Russia gaining territory in any peace agreement.
That’s just Trump doing Trump things, it’s got no basis in reality. You cannot have a negotiation where one of the parties is not present. Anything agreed with Russia will not be enforced by the international community. This has already been condemned by pretty much everyone else in the western world so I don’t know why you brought it up.
they’re switching over to a fully wartime economy, so they’re in it for the long haul.
So? They are at war so obviously they are switching over to a wartime economy. That doesn’t indicate any intention to attack NATO.
Ukraine, even with all the western weapons, is treading water.
They are hardly getting given the latest stuff. Meanwhile Russia is Fielding Soviet era tanks. I think will be okay.
Just to demonstrate what I mean, the estimated military casualties for the Soviet Union in WW2 was around 8.6 million. And then they won.
Firstly that was 60 years ago and wasn’t under the auspices of Putin. Who is widely regarded as a nut case. Secondly they wouldn’t have won had it not been for the allied forces having already severely hammered the Nazis.
Throwing meat into the grinder is not a tactic, it’s just desperation.
- Comment on Anon dreams of marriage 1 week ago:
Also he’s fine with the guy who apparently decided to attend the wedding topless. No, it’s the leotard that’s the problem.
- Comment on Anon visits a guy's house 1 week ago:
I have two cats and one of them can play with a toy reliably for whole minutes at a time without losing it under a piece of furniture, the other one, instantly pushes it under the sofa. Why?
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 2 weeks ago:
Does he have a robot army I’m unaware of? Where is he getting the troops for an attack in 4 years?
They are effectively already at war with NATO and they’re getting their asses handed to them, a direct full-scale no holds-barred conflict would not end well for them.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry they’ll probably give the contract to a company that up until now there’s only ever manufactured shopping trolleys. That’s usually the play.
If they ever are delivered it’ll be sometime around 2099 just in time for all the oceans to dry up.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 2 weeks ago:
It’s like a really cold shower.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 2 weeks ago:
Duh,just rocket jump all the way to Kiev. If you go fast enough no one will be able to stop you.