PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Bubsy 4D - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
I do quite like the self-awareness of Bubsy 3D being absolute donkey tonk. The redrawn sprites in 3D looks cool, let’s see if they learn the lessons from thirty-ish years ago.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
meep meep
- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 1 week ago:
I still think of the National Enquirer ripoff that was included in the Zak McKraken box. Young me didn’t realise it was a hint book masquerading as a faux-gossip rag.
The trinkets and inclusions in big box games were cool, whether they were required (Lenslok, codewheels etc) or otherwise.
- Comment on The year is 2001. You find this game in a demo disk. Your evening is going to be great. 1 week ago:
Amazing. Somehow they managed to make it look almost as good as a full price title at the time!
- Comment on The year is 2001. You find this game in a demo disk. Your evening is going to be great. 1 week ago:
Demos were cool and that (ThatNukemGuy and Sean Swanson do brilliant recap vids), but…
…what I really looked forward to were the Net Yaroze games that were published on the discs. Most of them were decent; some of them were utter shit; but some of them were absolute bangers.
That, and putting the discs in the CD player gave you a blind taste of some 90s techno choons - the drop in the Lifeforce Tenka track is top quality.
- Comment on THIS is true wisdom 1 week ago:
I used to share an office with a contractor in the UK.
Their sickie policy was that you didn’t get paid at all for the first four days of sickness, but for periods of five days or longer you got paid the statutory sick pay rate.
It was to disincentivise the “one day wonder” sickies after a night in the piss or when you couldn’t be arsed going to work - but predictably, all it did was guarantee that people would be off for at least five days so they got something out of it.
Absolutely backwards.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Is there a soundbite that sounds like “masturbate, then re-evaluate”?
Like “urinate then negotiate” or “pissing before purchasing”
I don’t know, I’m shit at these
- Comment on It sounds a little Fr*nch to me 4 weeks ago:
It*lians in shambles
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 weeks ago:
meme tax!
Post memes or story is invalid
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 4 weeks ago:
This is like one of those two-line horror stories.
The economy is coming from inside the building!
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 4 weeks ago:
Brilliant game.
Worth playing with the PS1 Descent soundtrack too for a different experience (or Descent Maximum as it was across the pond), it got me in to Type O-Negative too.
- Comment on missing 4 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion: burgers without cheese are fuckin’ awesome.
Specifically the McDonalds rubbery type cheese. Big Macs, Arch Burgers, whatever - all much tastier without the cheese.
Hell, even asking for a “triple cheeseburger with no cheese” sounds like it defeats the point but awwww yeeeaaahhh it’s just a triple decker beef sandwich.
If you like cheese then crack on, go wild. But it’s worth trying something without cheese for a different experience.
- Comment on peak 4 weeks ago:
You crack me up, little buddy.
- Comment on Wikipedia may have to impose quota on number of UK users to comply with Online Safety Act 4 weeks ago:
I still buy the odd paper if I’m working away from home.
These paywalls or “pay for no tracking” wankers make it easy to decide what papers not to buy.
Not that it really matters a flying fuck when print membership is so king faster than the Oceangate grain of sub. It’s satisfying though.
- Comment on Please help 5 weeks ago:
The Fairphone XL.
Not that I’m ragging on the Fairphone, I love the concept.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2025 started a few hours ago 1 month ago:
There’s been a pivot away from “classic” speedruns games over the last few years - I get that Doom or Sonic 2 or Goldeneye or other 90s games aren’t guaranteed a place every year, but it seems like the games that kicked off the speedrun scene are often overlooked these days.
That said, there is Quake, and there is SMB3 where I dont know who the runner is but that couch is a banger.
I was looking forward to seeing Still Wakes The Deep runs, but I find them really… unexciting, I think is the sentiment. Like the 2016 Doom onwards, the runs are technically outstanding, but there’s a lot of walking on invisible geometry with collision detection, or random tricks like railboosting in Doom that seems to break a game. I get that that is an entirely subjective opinion though, maybe I’m more suited to No Major Glitches runs!
- Comment on A great meal 1 month ago:
- Comment on A great meal 1 month ago:
was this cropped by David Blunkett?
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 1 month ago:
I suppose the TV licence in the UK is a sort of paywall, even if it is made of swiss cheese and enforced by folk with all the legal standing of Larry the Head Mouser or whatever moggy it is now.
I pay it, but I’m loathed to now. Not because I watch any live TV or BBC programming, but because I use the BBC News site a metric fucktonne and I suppose I justify it to myself as funding the BBC News department rather than Graham Norton’s salary.
Maybe I’ll fuck it off though. I do fancy a letter war with Capita or whoever managed the enforcement these days.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 1 month ago:
“why can’t we get a mortgage?”
“Well I bought a hot dog on a payment plan for a laugh, and I defaulted on a 38 cent payment”
“oh no”
- Comment on Senior MP calls for Marilyn Manson concert in Brighton to be cancelled 2 months ago:
Tough line to draw really.
The legal system is built on “innocent until proven guilty”, so it’s understandable why entire careers aren’t brought to a halt because of one or more allegations of misconduct.
Problem is, how do we let that continue while listening to complainants, making them feel heard, and safeguarding future potential victims?
I’m not asking you in particular, you’re just the comment I’ve replied to - it’s one of those impossible situations to draw a line in the sand without fucking over one of the sides.
- Comment on 43 pregnant men 2 months ago:
Brooks be spinning in his grave so fast, you could wire him up to a dynamo and power a small African country
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 2 months ago:
I hear you, the issue for me is that a third of your country people voted for the cunt, another third didn’t care enough not to vote against the cunt, which leaves a large majority of Americans complicit in this - enough in my view to effectively use the term as a blanket reference to most people in the country.
Speaking on a more granular level, I wish you well and the best of luck - but the majority of your population can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 2 months ago:
I’m guessing you’ve got a study that backs that assertion up as well?
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 2 months ago:
Thank you for your public service announcement!
- Comment on Australian denied entry to US after being grilled about Israel-Gaza views 2 months ago:
There’s plenty of reasons. Great theme parks, an incredibly diverse landscape, head spinning monuments, and some proper decent folk.
Unfortunately, I tend to agree that there’s far more reasons not to go now. I’d rather not roll the dice at the border, I’d rather not have to rely on my insurance paying out for injuries or illness sustained on holiday, and I certainly don’t want to put money into an economy run by that arse piece of a president.
It’s a shame because I think six months touring the US would show me a lot of the world and culture I’m missing, particularly away from tourist hotspots, and I think I could learn a lot about the world and myself by visiting - but I just can’t be fucking arsed with the rising fascist tide.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 2 months ago:
I know this a gross oversimplification, but:
“Remote working benefit those with a reason to stay home, but doesn’t for those who don’t have a reason to stay home” seems to be the general idea of the headline.
- Comment on Good luck, mom 2 months ago:
My other half’s mam fuckin’ loves Candy Crush, plays it most (if not every) night, maybe clears a level or two.
What really makes me smile is that whenever she drops a bollock and effectively renders a grid unwinnable, she’ll take the L and come back tomorrow. Fuck the MTX and fuck the extra time/re-rolls/level skips; she just goes back the following day and tries again.
Mad respect, if nothing else than to be the marginal player base that fucks with the “line goes up” metric.
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 2 months ago:
ain’t no harm skibidi ohio guy, don’t got time fo the low-rizz crowd, no cap
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 2 months ago:
If I could have crowbarred “moist” in there somewhere too, I’d have set the lexical tiktok on fire.
…if there is even one, don’t come at me TNETENNBA fans!
