PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2025 started a few hours ago 1 week 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 weeks ago:
- Comment on A great meal 2 weeks ago:
was this cropped by David Blunkett?
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 3 weeks 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 🙏 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for your public service announcement!
- Comment on Australian denied entry to US after being grilled about Israel-Gaza views 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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!
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s a shame that Musk is so inextricably linked with the brand. I’m quite sure SpaceX and Tesla are full of top tier talent and engineering wizards… but have a direct link to a toxic cockwomble that bankrolls them. Shame.
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t, no - and you’re probably right, yes.
I worry that if I start playing KSP then my other half and kids won’t see me again for six months because it does sound fucking awesome and highly rewarding.
Nope, I’m a simple man. I play through a couple of Doom WADs each summer in the academic off-season and that’s my gaming appetite satiated.
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised I strung so many together coherently to be honest!
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 4 weeks ago:
Speaking as a layman, I just think it’s fuckin’ awesome how a big chonky boi can be propelled upwards at Mach Yeet and get casually dropped off in orbit.
Even though Musk is a cunt, I still love watching SpaceX streams to see big bits of metal get put upwards by lots of fire and noise, and then fuckin’ land where they started seven or eight minutes later.
Science is fuckin mint, man.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 4 weeks ago:
actually one of their banger songs, fair play.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. As always though, context is key.
I tend to look at it as a see-saw. Run-of-the-mill kindness and general acts good nature sit near the fulcrum of one end of the seesaw. Similarly, a single or very few acts of genuine heroism and selflessness sit right at the far end of the “good” end of the seesaw, providing as much effort the lean towards the “good egg” character trait than the dozens of daily acts.
Similarly, being a general cunt sits near the fulcrum of the “bad” end for me, genuine malicious acts of emotional daaaamage or shithousery sit in the middle, with outright rape; murder; Nickelback fan club membership; and noncery sit at the par end.
So yes, on balance, if someone is habitually a good spud on the daily but happened to get a bit frisky with someone other than their monogamous partner once, I’d still say overall they were a good person but with shit judgement.
Equally, someone like Jimmy Saville or raised millions of pounds for British charities with his fame and stardom appeared to be a stand up guy, but the covert fiddling offsets that almost instantly.
A crude metaphor, but it works for me.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 5 weeks ago:
Thank you, friend. It’s lovely to have such a positive reply.
I’d recommend it to anyone - education is never wasted. This is the end of year five or six now mind and I’ve had a bit of a titsful of it - the summer break has come at a perfect time. I’ll smash this last year in then give it a rest I think, maybe formalise my French over a year or two.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 5 weeks ago:
I abandoned my plan to go into software development by means of university, left secondary school and took up employment in a different field.
After a bit of lateral movement and promotion to a job that was more desk-oriented, I’m doing a computing degree part time, and I actually really enjoy it.
I’m doing it for fun, because I enjoy the subject - I’ve got no plans to use it and there’s no job pinned on the hopes of passing. It’s wonderfully liberating.
That said, I appreciate I’m in a privileged position to be able to do what I’m doing.
- Comment on Letter tier list. open for peer review 5 weeks ago:
“so is it clearer with lens one…”
“…or with lens two?”
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 5 weeks ago:
The only minor problem with debit or charge cards in Europe is that the initial preauthorisation amount is actually debited from your account - so if the preauth is £15 or £30 or £40 - regardless of whether you put £1.50 of juice in or £14.99, the £15 is debited until the transaction finalises and the remainder is refunded a few days later.
As much as I like using contactless payment to avoid using an app or an RFID or NFC card, I do have more problems with failed attempts to charge using a bank card.
Using the ChargePlace Scotland card to tap in seems to work way more consistently for whatever reason, across that network.
- Comment on Ready for dinner 5 weeks ago:
This pizza was sponsored by AmigaOS
- Comment on Living a lie 1 month ago:
A colleague of mine used to work quite high up in UK Government, achieved all she wanted to, and came to our team. Absolute golden woman, genuinely lovely. She was from Glasgow originally but spent most of her time in London, poor soul.
When she was in “professional mode” - she had a voice that I could fall in love with. A beautifully smooth tone and a lovely rhythm, confident but gentle, in a nice heart of England accent.
As soon as she came out of a meeting or put the phone down though, she threw the voice out of the window and it was “fuck off you pure cunt” or “get tae fuck you fuckin roaster” or “no mate you can pure fuck all of the way off”.
Absolute gem. No ego, you knew where you stood, and it was highly entertaining.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 1 month ago:
For the modern effect, get a foldable or clamshell phone and flick it closed with some major sass.
It’s the best thing about having a foldable.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 month ago:
Ah nice one cheers friend!
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 month ago:
But how can I impress people with my competitive qualities? I had fourteen sex last night, and before that I did four sets of three sex at a time.
I’m even the speedruns any% TAS WR holder at 3.19 seconds.
Do my colleagues not need to know about this???
