PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on This is the E3 trailer of Half Life (1997) 3 days ago:
Mouse look was revolutionary.
I tried to play Half-Life Uplink with the right directions of looking mapped to 789, 4 and 6, 123. It wasn’t very intuitive.
That said, I played Quake 1 with lookup and lookdown bound to PgUp and PgDown, and Quake II on PlayStation with lookup and lookdown mapped to L1 and R1.
Looking back, that was a wild few years.
- Comment on he got himself a job working boom mic with a film crew 6 days ago:
Now that’s something I’d have expected to see a wave of now, and a comm called jesuswithajob or something. lols.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In the late 90s, there were some monitors in our library that had some serious grounding problems. You could literally touch the screen with one finger, touch your victim with the other hand, and have your pal repeatedly turn the monitor off and on rapidly at the physical spring-loaded switch - and at some point, they’d get an uncomfortable-but-not-painful shock.
Highly entertaining, guaranteed a bollocking, and after that it was back to the degaussing CHUNNNNNNNGUNGUNGUNG sound. Satisfying as fuck.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
That’s beautiful. I love a bit of personal standards to fuck someone else’s day up.
I typically change my responses on the form to Calibri if using MS Office. It’s not enough to pique anyone’s interest, but it’s different enough to spot what I’ve added to a form rather than the usual Arial additions if you’ve been told about it.
Someone at my office tried to say I’d said something on a form when I hadn’t, and took great delight pointing out the slight difference in typeface on the field that wasn’t my edit.
It’s satisfying as fuck coming back at someone with receipts.
- Comment on The box that Doom comes in will play Doom 1 week ago:
Fuck me, that’s kinda awesome… buuuut…
For fuck’s sake, Limited Run Games? Will the discs be on CD-Rs and the floppies be of the 5.25 variety just to really fuck people off? I really like the idea of Limited Run but their attitude to consumers is fucking awful.
I’ve got a massive id collection (up as far as Quake 4 anyway), but I’m really torn on this one.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A colleague of mine is a nice bloke, but proper stuck in his ways.
He’s done well for himself, lovely family, and has saved enough to treat them all to nice holidays across the world… but all he does is eat burger and chips while he’s there.
He’s been across Route 66, been to Rome, Paris, and some of the Baltic states… even been on cruises to faraway places, but trying some of the amazing local cuisine is just a step too far for him.
It’s wild. That said, he enjoys himself so good on him I guess.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
On the topic of sharpeners, those battery powered pressure sharpeners are satisfying as fuck. They’re shit and invariably snap the nib, but they’re the sharpening equivalent of shoving a Q-tip in your ear and having a good rake about.
Or if you’re all about the procrastination, spending a few minutes every lesson at the classroom sharpener like this one brings back the nostalgia:
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 4 weeks ago:
Every day’s a school day.
In fairness, it’s nothing short of sheer voodoo what they managed to do with the simple copper loop. As usual though, it was the rural communities that felt the pinch (and the gains) more than most though.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, people using mobile phones to contact businesses wasn’t really a thing, partly because mobile usage was still taking off when I was in the biz, but mainly because calls to freephone numbers weren’t actually free (or included in package minutes) at the time.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 4 weeks ago:
The chances of it being the filter were stupidly low, and I don’t think I ever had a case of the filter being at fault - but it was one of those potential issues that would make a customer look stupid (and £120 lighter) if BT tipped up and declared it a customer equipment fault.
In newer homes (at the time), there were NTE faceplates that had a filter built it, with individual ports for telephone and for data telephony cables. They didn’t last long though. Maybe they were stupidly expensive in comparison, maybe BT could see the fibre future and stopped producing them.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 4 weeks ago:
When I did tech support for a UK telecoms firm, that was the easy way to fuck off an awkward customer with any kind of connectivity problem - stability, speed, whatever. Generally, people’s routers were connected to the same NTE as the landline.
“So what we’re going to do, is replace the ADSL filter, see if it’s a gubbed filter, it’s a nice cheap and easy fix. Can you remove the filter from the wall socket please?”
click
Beautiful.
- Comment on Michael Sheen buys £1m worth of people's debts 1 month ago:
Doesn’t matter which of the home nations you follow, that is two and a bit minutes of pure inspiration.
- Comment on 8-bit classic Head Over Heels is back with chickens, enhanced visuals, and a brand-new world 1 month ago:
I never got to try Head Over Heels.
That and Knight Lore were the two fucking tapes on the Atari 800 XE that wouldn’t load and run correctly for whatever reason - I was too young to seduce whether it was a compatibility issue or a tape failure. What I did know that it was my weekly treat that was pissed up the wall because it wouldn’t work 😭
I mean fuck day one patches, but I would have loved a day one POKE command back then.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 1 month ago:
Yeah I’ve still got my headsets from boxes with Skype For Business branding that have “Compatible with Microsoft Lync” stickers on them.
It’s probably closer in UI to Skype from the 2000s that the “real” Skype never really recaptured. Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 1 month ago:
My org used Skype For Business and it worked remarkably well. Much more lightweight, though somehow still a little less responsive than it should have been.
It has that “it just works” factor for video calling, whereas Teams needs fucking checklist throttle through if someone’s audio or video feed isn’t working.
- Comment on Something something sexual tyrannosaurus 1 month ago:
That’s a wingman and a half.
- Comment on Me getting ready to deal with all the bungholes that exist outside of my basement 1 month ago:
ARE YOU THREATENING ME???
- Comment on Me getting ready to deal with all the bungholes that exist outside of my basement 1 month ago:
I AM CORNHOLIO!
I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 2 months ago:
Oh I don’t know, he’s already in Newport hiyoooooooooooo
- Comment on Bro... 2 months ago:
Time to suggest a coffee and a piss stop, and furiously Google “one day car insurance policies” I think.
That, or make sure your life insurance policy is in order and text your partner “enjoy the free house!”
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 months ago:
32-bit FIFA 98, best FIFA.
I never did beat Lode Runner on my Atari 800. What an absolute banger of a game though. Speaking of which, I remember playing Encounter on the Atari 800 and Mercenary III on the Atari ST, and realising “this is the direction of video games”. Incredible stuff.
- Comment on Nick Clegg to leave Meta ahead of Trump's return - BBC News 3 months ago:
oh no
Does that mean he’s coming back to the UK?
- Comment on [Definitely not a weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 3 months ago:
That sounds awesome, friend. I hope you have a good one!
I’m working away from home for a few more days (the absolute overtime slag that I am!), and then I may head over to a friend’s to drink far more wine than your average human was intended to drink for New Year, and see in January with a killer headache.
I am a simple person!
Although, January 2nd I may start putting more effort into the running and rowing, I’ve been slacking this past six weeks!
- Comment on [Definitely not a weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 3 months ago:
Alright yeah cheers mate, how’s yours?
- Comment on 2 US pilots shot down over Red Sea in 'friendly fire' incident: military 3 months ago:
Sounds about right. If the target acquisition algo or navigation avionics were published online (or even enough detail to figure out what they are by inference) then it would make the opposing force’s life a lot easier.
Probably quicker to wait a few months and see the full manual appear on a War Thunder forum.
- Comment on Thames Water boss defends bonuses as sewage spills soar 4 months ago:
Fuck all, really.
Competitive packages should attract successful candidates, not cunts who consistently fail at both moderating pay, and literally shitting in the rivers and leaving for the taxpayer to clean up.
Fuck the shareholders of this company, it’s an abject failure and needs to be brought into local authority ownership.
- Comment on Supervolcano shows signs of waking up, which would plunge the world into chaos 4 months ago:
Anyone remember the 2005 TV feature Supervolcano?
I loved it when it came out, still relevent today - perhaps the Threads of the geology field. Great way to burn off almost two hours if you ever get bored.
- Comment on Mom of the year 5 months ago:
Is this the same as plugging an extension cable into itself to get free and unlimited electricity?
- Comment on perfect 5 months ago:
One, two, three, four
Let me hear you scream if you want some more
Like ah, push it, push it
Watch me work it
Underrated banger.
