NigelFrobisher
@NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
- Comment on I’m fascinated by this open-world delivery game that sounds like Death Stranding on a horse in 13th-century Mongolia, with “unparalleled equine realism” 23 hours ago:
We welcome our new horse overlords.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 2 days ago:
Ally McBeal was nearly 30 years ago now and we’re still stuck on this.
- Comment on the struggle 1 week ago:
After a couple of Myers-Briggs tests I wound up on a web forum for self-identified INTJs. It was the smuggest, most insufferable place I’d ever seen, to the point that I gave different answers next time to nudge me into another category.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 1 week ago:
Neither of mine can do speech.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
They should be stressing cyber sex with all the infectious diseases in wards these days.
- Comment on trapped! 1 week ago:
I dunno. Most things billed as “hard sci-if” (including Three Body) end up having fantastical tech loosely based on, but not actually explained by, scientific theory, to the point of may as well be magic. Hard sci-fi is more a marketing bullet point than a reality, like when they say a new movie has no CGI.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 week ago:
Calculus is just piling stones.
- Comment on Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour 1 week ago:
What does this say about the current state of Labour though?
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 2 weeks ago:
We need to get them started earlier and catch up.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Was just in New Zealand and the bastard sandflies will just sit there sucking on your blood until you swat them. Things are too stupid to fly away and just get squished.
- Comment on rabbit hole 4 weeks ago:
Mugatu?
- Comment on rabbit hole 4 weeks ago:
Also, they had potatoes and tomatoes in Gondor long before any of this.
- Comment on Touch can reduce pain, depression and anxiety, say researchers 4 weeks ago:
They could have just asked.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 5 weeks ago:
No!
- Comment on Why is Saudi Arabia heading top UN gender equality forum? 5 weeks ago:
Women will have equality under pain of death.
- Comment on Biden 'outraged' over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza 5 weeks ago:
Then he signed a purchase order for five thousand more orphan seeker clusterbombs.
- Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’ 5 weeks ago:
Memo: when people say “it’s not a zero sum game” they’re not talking about finite resource situations, which actually are that.
- Comment on [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life 5 weeks ago:
How the heck am I going to get there without putting in any effort?
- Comment on Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror 1 month ago:
Ron DeSantis taking notes.
- Comment on Mountain lion kills California man in state’s first fatal attack in 20 years 1 month ago:
RIP Brendan Fraser
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
It’s my new band name, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Snikt 1 month ago:
He can also hypnotise people with his magnetic personality.
- Comment on Huh 1 month ago:
A colleague of mine worked for an AI firm a few years back. The AI was a big room of older women with keyboards.
- Comment on Gaslighting 1 month ago:
Most of his novels are basically bog standard 1950s sci-fi, but with a weird metaphysical twist that completely turns everything on its side by the end. The characters are empty vessels, but it probably doesn’t matter.
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 1 month ago:
Hey, at least we invented place names instead of just recycling English town names like the colonies. I lived in a village called Idle for years.
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
There are no stupid takes, just stupid people.
- Comment on Rude. 2 months ago:
Fair.
- Comment on COVID: German man vaccinated 217 times had no side effects 2 months ago:
Ever since I got my first COVID vaccine I’ve never felt like I ever had enough sleep. Also long before that too.
- Comment on I don't understand the question. 2 months ago:
The condors… the condors are coming!
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 2 months ago:
This just became my favorite saying!