PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Polling lead by age group, November 2025 1 day ago:
It never ceases to amaze me how useless Labour have been since Blair and Brown took over.
I’ve no issue with their policies - far from it for the most part - but how any party can be so completely ineffective at reflecting their voting base is really quite impressive.
They could have literally sat back after ten plus years of Tory pocket-lining and shithousery, and just road the coattails of “being less wank than the government before” but nah, that would be too easy.
It’s actually a masterclass.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 5 days ago:
Honestly I never opened it. I have a Master System II and in fairness, the difference in game ports are negligible for the most part, so I never really looked at repairing it.
Speaking more broadly, I wouldn’t mind learning how to solder - my skills have mostly been in software rather than hardware. Things like fucking about with a Raspberry Pi and their expansion boards sounds like a right laugh.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 5 days ago:
Game Gear “services” are quite common now - you can get them recapped to solve the infamously troublesome sound dropouts, and most will change the screen to a far more power efficient LCD display as well to let you play at night.
It still eats batteries, but at a much slower rate.
I’m just gutted I left mine in the garage in storage where the damp air fucked it for good
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 week ago:
Perhaps it’s because I grew up with adventure puzzle games and point’n’click games, but GameFAQs was always the nuclear option for me.
I much preferred the Universal Hint System - an approach more suited to nudging you towards figuring out the answer for yourself.
There’s no denying that it was (and is) a fantastic resource though. Hell, I’ve even written a guide myself. One of the last bastions of the 90s and 2000s WWW experience.
- Comment on Day 474 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I got into Poets of the Fall in a big way after Late Goodbye. Their work is fantastic and they’re brilliant live.
I’m glad Remedy have stuck with them over the years, the Herald of Darkness song from Alan Wake II was a banger.
- Comment on Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus 2 weeks ago:
Looks like Petersen has been biding his time and has decided to go on the offensive. Why, I’m not sure - but good on him.
A few weeks ago he popped up a video on his YouTube Short feed which covers it well.
For those of a particular vintage, Petersen isn’t particularly popular because of his… experimental approach to Doom mapping. His YouTube is great through - he sets the record straight on Doom; speaks openly about the gaming industry; and also delves deep into tabletop gaming if that’s your thing.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 2 weeks ago:
About 1500 of them apparently.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 2 weeks ago:
The first major story where I thought “oh noes” was the Canary Wharf bombing in 1996ish. It was the first time I’d ever seen a “we interrupt this broadcast…” moment and it was so out of the ordinary that it sticks in my mind.
9/11 was a wild ride too. Getting home from school and my old man - who never watched the news - had Sky News on. At that point, the replays seemed… incredible, in the most literal sense of the word.
- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 2 weeks ago:
many
- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 2 weeks ago:
That line break is unfortunate.
I’ve had many an “ass apocalypse” in slow time after a dodgy kebab.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 3 weeks ago:
Life’s too short to get hung up on it, friend.
I know it’s easy for me to say, but each success; mistakes; and blatantly oblivious sign that they’re DTF missed are all learning experiences.
It makes you who you are now, and that’s kinda awesome. You’re better than who you were before. Onwards and upwards!
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 3 weeks ago:
I was just clueless as fuck. I’ve got the sun total of zero game when it comes to dating, not that it matters now I’ve settled down.
I did learn my lesson though. Met a girl who was absolutely stunning, like cover girl model looks, and she was lovely. Asked her out on a date expecting to be shot down, and she said yes. At that point I was like a dog that had chased a car and caught up with it, I didn’t know what the fuck to do.
Anyway, we went out a couple of times - nice restaurant, bowling, the cinema… had a great time with her but it wasn’t really moving forward and just kinda started to fizzle out, which was no big deal.
One evening she phones me, saying she was at a house party two or three towns over, and was getting bored - and asked me to take her home. No worries there, I wasn’t doing anything, so I drove over to get here and she hopped in, a bit worse for wear after a glass or twelve of wine but not absolutely munted.
Halfway down, she’s like “actually, can we go back to yours? I don’t really want to get in and my parents see me like this”. Not a problemo, took her back to mine, got her a coffee and sat and chatted. She came through to my room when I was getting changed and crashed out on the bed beside me, faced me, and said “maybe I’ll sleep here tonight?”
I’d learned my lesson, I could see that she wanted all two inches of this rage and disappointment. So I said “sure, no problem, I’ll sleep on the sofa”.
I drove her home the following morning and she never said a word. I desperately wished I could have taken that opportunity, but the whole consent thing after her sesh at the party made it a little bit dicey. I never did get another opportunity. She was absolutely lovely though and I hope she found a guy that made her happy. 😊
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 3 weeks ago:
I dated a girl once who came round. She asked “are you going to give me the tour?”
I was like “uh, okay sure” so showed her around the living room, kitchen and back yard, before heading upstairs. I showed her the guest rooms and my room, and she sat on the bed and was like “it seems comfy in here”.
Right then I did what any guy would do, stopped for a moment, and said “it sure is. Now let’s head back downstairs and see what there is to watch”.
It was a good couple of years later when I thought back about it and it hit me like a train, “you fucking idiot”
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 3 weeks ago:
doesn’t matter bro, they’re your thoughts and that’s what makes them awesome 😊
- Comment on Remember using this little gadget as a kid to blow bubbles 4 weeks ago:
have you tried getting someone else to do it?
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 4 weeks ago:
Figma balls wheeeyyyy
- Comment on Sunlight special 4 weeks ago:
Chuck it in the oven for ten minutes, no drama at all.
Then pre-book the following day off work with a dodgy stomach.
- Comment on Get a load of this guy! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on VTuber Graduation 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for your feedback!
- Comment on VTuber Graduation 1 month ago:
If it helps, here’s a story that’s the exception that proves the rule…
We adopted a dog. A beautiful Romanian Shepherd. Lovely dog, friendly as fuck, mega playful… but wasn’t a fan of kids. That was unfortunate, because our kids loved the dog but after a while the dog got a bit bitey. No warning, no growl, just fuck you and chomp. Thankfully, the only thing that stopped him from doing some serious damage was that he was a good boi and never proper sunk his teeth in.
Long story boring, we tried to rehome him, tried to calm him, tried to train him out of it, but the dog wouldn’t settle. Took him to the vets to give him a once over before the rescue charity took him back… and he bit the vet. That fucked a lot of things - the rescue was mega wary, the vet had recommended euthanasia, and keeping him wasn’t an option.
Long story short, we found a farm that specialised in dogs that had some “behavioural quirks”, and we took him halfway across the country to live there. It was a lovely place - loads of land, quiet, and dozens of corners where he could do his favourite thing - sit in a corner and chew on his toy.
I miss that dog, but I’m glad he’s happy.
- Comment on TIL science has its own swifties 1 month ago:
Ah yes, that tracks with the very surface level overview that I picked up from it. It was only when I saw the magic “optional” tag that I was like noooope!
Maybe I’ll have a look at it in more detail when I get a free summer 😊
- Comment on TIL science has its own swifties 1 month ago:
I studied entry level maths at uni level - a prerequisite course for most STEM degrees to cover the relatively small amount of maths common to nearly all science fields.
Chapter 11 of 12 were Taylor polynomials and series, and it was listed as “optional”.
I looked at it once, read it aloud for my young son to fall asleep to, and never looked at it again.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There are no answers here, only more questions - and it is glorious.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
In the end, “this” doesn’t even matter
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 1 month ago:
I had the Atari 800 edition.
I didn’t know what the fuck the “enter your account number” was at the start. Young me didn’t realise it was a thinly veiled password system. Quite clever actually
Wasn’t it done in David Crane’s heyday too?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Obviously fuck all on television after Christmas.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 1 month ago:
“hey look, the news has gotten around, the head of HR and my line manager want to see my elephant impression too!”
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 1 month ago:
Postcrete is the best invention since the barbeque tongs.
Soft to rock solid in next to no time at all… giggity.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 month ago:
I’m a “two on top, one on the sides” dude. I’m the same, the second my hair starts coming over my ears then I’m away to the barber. Two months is decent, though if I’m not able to get there through work or being away from home, I’ll stretch it to three months but I feel a bit like Noel Gallagher when my hair starts coming down to my lugholes.
That said, I treat it as a bit of a relaxation sesh. I’ll ask the barber for a “full service” and close my eyes for half hour or 45 mins and let the barber do his thing with the clippers and the hot shave and the massage and all that jazz. A guilty pleasure every other month or so.
