Flamekebab
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- Comment on Historically love sugar 23 hours ago:
Yeah, I always found it weird when people would act like they have it so cushy. On a material comfort level, sure, but on basically every other level it sounds awful. You couldn't pay me to put myself or my children through that.
Footballers who get paid a packet and can then vanish into obscurity if they so choose? That sounds like the good life.
Hard pass on the gilded cage thing. I'm no monarchist, so now that the single nationalised granny initiative is over I'm wondering whether we'll keep them. Inertia will probably keep it going for a while yet. Transitioning away from them seems like it'd probably somehow be even more expensive and troublesome than living with them. A bit like trying to totally rid a large building of mice.
- Comment on Historically love sugar 23 hours ago:
Whenever I hear "King Charles" I think "Who? That can't be right".
- Comment on Majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035, study shows 2 days ago:
Added to an effort in schools to introduce children to a wide variety of sports or exercise based on them finding enjoyment rather than meeting some specific gov goal.
Gods, this rings a bell. My relationship with sports is terrible because there was basically never any effort made to make it fun. I played what I had to and was at best okay. I've not been involved in sports in over twenty years because it doesn't fit into my world.
That's not a desireable outcome!
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 3 days ago:
- Comment on UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities 3 days ago:
👏 Tax 👏 the 👏 rich 👏 you 👏 neoliberal 👏 fucksticks👏
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 1 5 days ago:
In that case you should go for it as you'll know pretty quickly whether it's fun for you.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 1 5 days ago:
I think that depends more on your income level. Is $30 a lot to you?
It's about £22 to me and whilst I'd say the game is a lot of fun (I played through it in 2019, I think, on my Xbox One X) I personally wouldn't pay that much for it. However I spent a long time poor, so I'm rather price sensitive even though I probably don't need to be quite so hesitant any more.
- Comment on 'No-bra, no-exam' rule at Nigerian university sparks outrage 6 days ago:
...fuckin' why?
- Comment on Overseas-trained dentists working in McDonald’s as millions lack NHS dental care 6 days ago:
There aren't any NHS dentists near me. My pregnant wife is entitled to free dental care in principle. In reality I have no option but to go private.
Healthcare is the cost of doing business and results in a healthier society both physically and economically. Gods forbid we tax the top end of society.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 week ago:
I enjoyed Wasteland 3 a great deal too.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 week ago:
I rather enjoyed Gears Tactics a few years ago.
- Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering' 1 week ago:
Without proper consequences their behaviour will continue.
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 1 week ago:
It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen's agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
Godus.
I know lots of people hate it but taken in isolation it's okay. I found its aesthetics charming and its pace generally pretty chill. It wasn't good but it wasn't terrible. Low medium perhaps but I have comfortable memories of listening to an audiobook whilst playing it.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
Thank you! I felt like I was the only person on the planet to think that those games only hit the dizzying heights of "okay, fine at a push". They're perfectly serviceable and not much more.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This makes me seriously question the level of testing required to get a licence where you are. By that I mean that by the standards I'm used to you were wildly under prepared for driving on the open road and shouldn't have been put in that situation until you were ready.
It took me three attempts to pass my driving test. I could actually operate a car just fine for all of them but it wasn't until the third that I was actually ready to be on the roads unsupervised. There is a lot going on and until you've built up the experience and habits to do it safely it's... A lot.
I think I was also 19 when I got my licence but didn't really drive at all until I was in my mid 30s. I always lived places it simply wasn't necessary. If if stayed there then I doubt I'd have ever got a car. I find driving incredibly tedious.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 1 week ago:
Honestly? Not really. My best memories of gaming were in my 20s in my student flat. Lots of Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
I played games in the early '90s and don't have much nostalgia for most of the games themselves. The late '90s had the PSX and N64 and whilst Mario Kart 64 is probably the best in the series I can't say I feel most of the games of those platforms were "the best".
I think I would say that the best games are the PC games that came out between 1998 and 2002. Those I can genuinely enjoy today.
I cannot say the same for much that came out in the 1980s. Most of them entertain me for about thirty seconds, without hyperbole.
Once we get past the early 2000s I'm hard pressed to find any games that I think are truly "the best". 2007 was pretty damn good as was 2009.
When it comes to gaming with friends any game can be good. The game is practically just a framing device. I've not made many friends whilst gaming. I've gamed with friends but mostly I've found that people either just want to be arseholes or are extremely serious about playing online. In person I've found that the skill disparity means that it's a complete crapshoot. I played a lot of Mario Kart 64 over a ten year period and don't have any outstanding memories of it being the best thing ever (I think it's the best MK game but that's because the others are worse).
Mostly I like games that I can use as escapism. Exploring fun places and getting away from the day to day. I've rarely had all that much fun gaming with other people. Exceptions exist though - playing through the recent TMNT game with my teenaged niece was a blast. Playing KeyWe with my wife was also great.
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Apple
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Children in England growing up ‘sedentary, scrolling and alone’, say experts 2 weeks ago:
It turns out that decades of neoliberalism eliminate third places, optimise business models for dark patterns, and impoverish the majority of society.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 2 weeks ago:
I can definitely see the appeal of being able to do stuff with the information, and I doubt I could sit down and make a list of every game I've ever played. However my memory is pretty good for this sort of thing. It's very rare for me to lose objects as I have a database-like memory for that stuff.
Amusingly this means that if someone else moves things then I'm comedically awful at searching for whatever it was, and if I move house or re-organise then it takes me a few weeks for my brain to record all the new data. Until then I'm a clueless idiot.
Oh and as I said in another comment - time is my nemesis. I often don't know what day of the week it is and anything beyond about a week and a half into the future has almost no meaning to me. It's not a very useful trade-off!
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 2 weeks ago:
The tradeoff is that I'm terrible at time. Anything beyond about ten days in the future is almost meaningless to me.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 2 weeks ago:
Reading the comments - am I the weird one for just remembering?
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 weeks ago:
Can I get paid to state the bleeding obvious?
- Comment on Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games 2 weeks ago:
I played this on Game Pass (Gamepass? I don't recall how they brand it) years ago and had fun with it. I'd enjoy playing it again, assuming I could forget my previous playthrough.
- Comment on Om nom 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Prime Minister Farage? He’s serious about that – it’s time the country was too 3 weeks ago:
It'd be good if we could get something a bit more left than MOAR NEOLIBERALISM. I'm so done with neoliberal capitalism but it seems that large chunks of the populace still think it's the damn '80s and greed is good.
A party that could seriously offer a decent future could do well. Redistribute some wealth and let's get this shit going. You know what happens when more money goes to the bottom of the pyramid? It goes straight back into the economy.
I don't really get what the point of gargling billionaire balls is. Ruling over ashes doesn't seem like it'd be particularly fun and being able to be bought off with shiny things is frankly embarrassing.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 4 weeks ago:
What's so WTF about it? I'm repurposing old hardware and testing out the concept. I'm not shelling out a pile of cash on something that might not work for me.
- Comment on Revealed: Banking giant threatened to leave UK over mooted tax increase; JP Morgan Chase wrote to Rachel Reeves to lobby against rumoured banking surcharge rise ahead of autumn budget 4 weeks ago:
Won't someone think of the poor bankers?
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 5 weeks ago:
Surely it's a clone given that it clones the game mechanics?
