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- Comment on Number 1 🏥 16 hours ago:
Meth
- Comment on Anon makes a wish 1 day ago:
But I didn’t pre-order it did I?
I’m really not sure what you’re upset about.
- Comment on British expats who fled Gulf desperate to avoid huge tax bills after London return 2 days ago:
These people are so rich they wouldn’t even notice the tax hike. They just don’t like the idea of giving any of their money away it’s not actually a problem for them though.
- Comment on Could VPNs be banned in the UK? We asked the experts 2 days ago:
This is utterly stupid and I agree it needs to be highlighted however it’s worth pointing out that a public consultation doesn’t mean squat.
They’re asking the general public if they think that VPNs should be regulated. They are not asking experts for feasibility studies. So even if we take it as red that this is 100% definitely going to happen there at stage -1 of the process right now and we all know the speed which politics moves (continental drift in slow motion would be an adequate description).
I would actually be perfectly prepared to put money on this not actually happening. Labour do not need more reasons for people to hate them.
- Comment on Anon makes a wish 2 days ago:
Yes that is absolutely a valid way of approaching the problem although you do then sometimes run into the problem that the game you’re trying to play is no longer supported (service been shut down left and right).
I also think it’s a bit unnecessary, by all means play the classics if that’s what you’re into, but if you’re doing it to save money, it’s not as if there aren’t high quality indie games being made right now, so it’s not like you have to just play old games to be frugal.
- Comment on Anon makes a wish 2 days ago:
Is that supposed to be some sort of personality failing?
- Comment on Anon makes a wish 2 days ago:
Well not too much for Starfield. Back when they announced it they were comments about how their engine isn’t good enough to pull off the things they were promising. It’s why I didn’t pre-order it.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 days ago:
The problem is I’ve seen people who supposedly have a brain start to use a high and over time they become increasingly confident in the AI’s abilities. Then they stop bothering to review the code.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 days ago:
It ain’t slop if it’s built right.
Yeah but the problem is is it? The absolutely insist that we use AI at work which is not only insane concept in and of itself but the problem is that if I have to nanny it to make sure it doesn’t make a mistake then how is it a useful product?
He says it helps him get work done he wouldn’t otherwise do, but how’s that possible? how is it possible that he is giving every line of code the same scrutiny he would if he wrote it himself, if he himself admits that he would never have got around to writing that code had the AI not done it? The math ain’t matching on this one.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 3 days ago:
That’s why they all think that everyone’s secretly a Nazi only they are too afraid to admit it, which is why they are constantly surprised by all of the public backlash whenever they do their nazi things.
Of course that’s daft, the real Nazis have never been afraid to tell everyone who they are. Even when no one was asking.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 3 days ago:
I suspect that what he actually believed was that other people dying (preferably kids who don’t vote) so he can have a gun it’s a small price to pay.
What the right all have in common is an absolute inability to emphasise with anybody else, until it happens to them.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 3 days ago:
It’s just that I don’t think that knowing a bunch of historical facts that most people never retain, if they’re taught them at all, is really what’s necessary for someone to integrate into British culture.
Think of any nation and you can immediately name national traits, Peru has a very different cultural backdrop than Germany for example. Knowledge of that is what the citizenship test should be checking for. Not whether or not I can remember a bunch of dates from the attached guide otherwise it’s much more about sending the accompanying book as it is about actually helping people integrate
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 3 days ago:
Because I don’t think anyone in the Northern Ireland assembly could answer that question. I can tell you how many constituencies there are in England only that there’s a lot. Some things aren’t worth knowing.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 3 days ago:
If it’s a mini you might as well be ready to lean on the horn as soon as the other direction turns amber. They never seem to be paying attention
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 3 days ago:
When it comes to plastic patriots identifying that it’s the british-born nationals that are more likely to be the problem the ones that want to immigrate tend to be okay.
Besides I don’t think it’s possible for anyone to be a bigger prick than Tommy 10 names.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 3 days ago:
Oh I know they’re all about who won what battle in 1791. I had one question that asked when Scotland and England became one nation, I mean I know roughly when it was (I know which century it occurred in) but I couldn’t give you the exact date.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 4 days ago:
EA makes the best games when the executives get out of the way. Some developers took all of the assets that they had from Battlefront 2 (which was a gorgeous piece of crap) and made one of the best Star Wars flight sims I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 4 days ago:
That’s not good from a player standpoint that seems to suggest that there isn’t going to be any updates which is probably why they went the CCG route.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 4 days ago:
Your American trolley skills are insufficient. You’ll be overwhelmed by it and just spin around in place.
- Comment on Ray is basic. 4 days ago:
This whole drowned forests off the coast of the UK and I also believe New Zealand has something similar. That whole region is basically just a drowned continent with a few mountains sticking up, forming islands.
- Comment on Ray is basic. 4 days ago:
I knew someone who utterly refused to believe that dinosaurs weren’t the first organisms in existence. He literally thought it was dinosaurs, then there was an asteroid impact and then basically humans arrived about 10 minutes later.
People have absolutely no understanding of the immense amount of time that has existed before we came along.
Mind he also gave me that whole if earth was 1 cm closer to the sun, we would all burn up malarkey, so maybe he’s just an idiot.
- Comment on My glasses 4 days ago:
I’ve never seen a double whoosh before. That’s one thing to not get the joke, it’s another thing to not get the joke after the joke has been explained to you.
- Comment on Sheep are disappearing from the UK's hills - and its dinner plates 1 week ago:
Sheep are incredibly expensive to farm as well which is why the meat cost so much.
People think sheep are dumb but that isn’t true, they are anti-intelligent, they secretly hide vast intelligences that they use to come up with ingenious ways to injure or kill themselves. You can put goats in a field and fence them off and be reasonably confident that you will still have all of your goats when you come back in the morning.
Sheep on the other hand will use their psychic abilities to manifest some broken glass, and then step on it.Then the supermarkets don’t want to pay very much for them and so now you’ve spent a lot of money looking after them and got very little in the way of return.
The only reason that sheep were traditionally found was because you could put them on pastures of land that was completely unsuitable for any other animal. But it’s the supermarket aren’t willing to pay a fair price then that doesn’t really count for anything.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Walking with dinosaurs is like 20 years old it’s not recent.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes that was the retcon explanation. The actual explanation is that they wanted to have Velociraptors in the movie and weren’t really bothered about the fact that they aren’t actually that big, there are species of raptor that are that large, but they didn’t want to use their names because they were less well-known. Velociraptor was one of the few dinosaurs people knew. T-Rex didn’t become famous until after Jurassic Park.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I was think it’s funny how people go on about majestic horses. They’re not majestic, they are uncoordinated panicky idiots.
My aunt has a horse and I’ve seen him run into a tree, there’s one single tree in his paddock and it’s a giant oak, and he’s running into it at least three times. He panics if he can’t see his friend, often because his friend is behind him, and then runs madly around until he crashes into something, or stumbles into the pond.
This is the horse and had a panic attack because the farmer had bought a new wheelbarrow and it looked different to the one he was used to.
- Comment on Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK' 1 week ago:
I was saying this the other day. The best way Zack can get elected is to stand on a platform of pissing off Trump. Even reformer voters aren’t hugely in favour of Trump.
- Comment on Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK' 1 week ago:
Churchill would have also told Trump to do one. He was not known for his lack of candour. The UK was at war with Germany before the Americans got involved so I don’t know what trump’s talking about. The US joined the UK on that one.
Why would Churchill get the UK involved in a war that didn’t already affect the UK?
Of course knowing any of this would require Trump to have actually read a history book which is probably where the issue starts.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 1 week ago:
Which is more believable anyway, so I’m not really sure why it changed.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 1 week ago:
Yes the boiling frog approach. Now basically going to do it one at a time so they don’t get too much pushback.