PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 10 hours 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.
- Comment on snack 1 week ago:
Is this still a thing?
I remember when drinks were topped off with liquid nitrogen to give off the smoky look and people were getting hospitalised with burns, but that when I had the time/money/interest/available friends to go out… so a good twenty years ago.
- Comment on UK phone retailers lock shop doors while trading to tackle rising thefts 1 week ago:
I can’t quite see whether they’re addressing the outright theft of handsets; or the increasing amount of thefts of the infinitely more valuable staff handheld terminals.
It’s a shame either way. I suppose an answer would be to stun or disable all phones until they are activated at a point of sale, rather than the opposite way round.
It still doesn’t mitigate the attack vector of a corrupt employee though.
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 2 weeks ago:
There’s two (or more) sides to every story and the truth is often in the middle. I’m only reading your view on a situation here and I’m wary that I don’t have the full picture while writing this comment.
Your parents remind me of the meme “you’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole”.
There’s ways to frame feedback - if you’re not achieving a standard set by a teammate who already isn’t qualifying for upper levels of competition, then it’s not a reason to knock the dream on the head, but a part of a training roadmap. If you’re banging in 29min 5ks or 5000m events (I’m making the assumption that’s the distance in mind here), then the plan would be to adjust training and diet to tag each of the minute barriers until you can clear 22min and top your team’s timesheets.
After that, you can look at what generally gets you a qualifying time for state or national competitions, and train for that. Once you’ve achieved that then you’re probably beyond what your parents or coach can help with and you’ll probably need elite or semi-pro level of coaching after that.
Negativity from your parents isn’t helpful though, and no not everyone does it. I don’t know whether it comes from a place of personal failure in your mother’s youth or whether she’s scared that you’re running into the unknown, but it isn’t helpful.
As for your dad though, I thought that it was kinda cool that he wanted to let your HS coach about how you’re getting on now. Everyone’s first crack at a distance event is awful, that’s how you develop - so it’s cool to be able to say to your old coach “hey that first 5k wasn’t spectacular, but check these times out now!”.
Either way, you’re running for yourself. If you train well, your times will come down, and you will start turning heads - whether your parents are supportive or not. One of the most important lessons I learned (and I’m nowhere near club level running let alone elite level) is to run your own race. It’s good for the mind, good for the soul, and helps you sleep at night.
Good luck, well done on what you’ve achieved so far, and hopefully the stopwatch will start giving you much better feedback than your parents.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
yes
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
Don’t
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
You’d have to zip six birds together to get Plutonia on it.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
Well, technically it has a built in backdoor…
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
Johnny Jam to his mates, or J-Traffz to his record label.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s frustrating.
I’m not entirely sure what the rubberneckers want to see either. “Oh look, someone critically injured next to someone who is likely deceased”, because that isn’t a day ruiner at the best of times.
Odd.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
Good shout.
I live fairly rurally and the roads/drivers don’t really lend themselves to new riders.
I think if I lived in a big town or city though, I’d absolutely pick up a chicken chaser and rattle about short distances on one, they seem to be perfect for that sort of use case.
Plus, not that I’m a huge fan of tobacco advertising, bikes in the Rothmans livery look absolutely stunning to me.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, I’m planning on getting my licence at some point.
I’ve no interest in motorbikes, I would just love to learn how to ride one safely.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
A few years ago, I was bitching and moaning about a jam, and my pal just said “you’re not in traffic, you are traffic”.
I know it’s nothing more than a cheeky soundbite but just reframing it like that and knowing I’m part of the problem rather than the exception has made me a lot calmer on slow moving roads.
Plus it has encouraged me to either use public transport more, or just drive to a park-and-ride a mile or three out, and run the rest - facilities permitting of course.
- Comment on Bubsy 4D - Official Announcement Trailer 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 1 month ago:
It*lians in shambles
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
meme tax!
Post memes or story is invalid
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
