Flamekebab

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I'm not premium enough to give you my money, Randy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Game development as a service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assisted dying bill is a ‘licence to kill’, Theresa May says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I read that headline as "assisted dying bill is a licence to kill Theresa May" and heartily approved of the legislation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A fair point but I was meaning from a cultural vandalism angle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy VIII, why are you crying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Arguably copyright is worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boris Johnson hosted Tory peer who funded a lavish refurbishment of his flat for dinner the day after the national coronavirus lockdown came into force, leaked documents show⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Piece of shit did something awful. Shocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Professor Farnsworth: Ask it to fuck off!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It's to do with how I think about numbers, rounding, and margins of error. I don't know how to express that better, I'm sorry.

  I was not raised using inches for anything. It's not a cultural thing, it's a use case I've found them useful for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Recipes I use regularly say "2cm chunks" and the like. I've never seen one measure in fingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish we had a metric inch because the fuzziness can be useful.
  "How small do you need these veggies diced?"
  "2.5cm ish" vs. "about an inch"

  I feel like the implied margin of error is much larger for inches, which make them useful for many things where precision isn't necessarily desirable (hemming, wargaming, moving furniture, etc..). If I'm wargaming having a limit on rounding is useful (half an inch - either round up or down), assuming I'm playing at a scale that uses inches.

  Feet I have no use for, with one exception - adult human height between 5' 2" and 6' 2". There I find metric too precise (whereas to the nearest inch accounts for variance in sole thickness, hair volume, etc.).

  I wasn't raised on imperial (and I'm baffled that people younger than me in the UK still talk about stones. Sixteen stone is fat, sure, but I've no idea how fat if not told in kilos) but I find inches to have their uses.

  Also miles for cars - because common speeds are ~60 and ~30 mph so a road sign effectively gives the time to arrival (e.g. 13 miles on a motorway = about 13 minutes). I don't use them for actually measuring distance on a map but they're handy when driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Get benefits claimants back to work to boost economy', PM tells new welfare chief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I've never seen a company cutback its way back to success. I've seen them successfully use it to stem the bleeding to buy time for new business but that's it.

  My point being that the economy isn't suffering in any significant way because we've got a few people out of work. If we can't afford to carry them then we have bigger problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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  Here's the link to the actual content: https://gbstudiocentral.com/news/gb-pixel-art-jam-2025/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's so depressing. I could afford that. The amounts for places worth having near me are high enough that it's just not on the cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How much were houses in the 1980s, adjusted for inflation? I want to be sad, you see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have five users, max, and barely any files. I don't know which one Nextcloud AIO uses and I don't care. There's no wrong answer for such a small deployment. It uses whatever database Nextcloud felt was sensible as the default. They know more about picking the right tool for their requirements than I do.

  If I'm building something for myself, then I care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely agree, harm reduction is tremendously important. However I have no power to take action so discussing it is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A cultist who cares about evidence? So many contradictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That really didn't clarify anything 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I could absolutely see it having a genetic component, but without data to support it I'm not going to start suggesting policy (even if policy was my area!). If we could prove it was genetic then we could start putting policies in place that treat gambling as what it is, predatory, and have an unassailable reason to not tolerate its current place in our society.

  I have nothing moral against gambling in and of itself but I do have something against preying on our people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your second sentence contradicts the rest of your comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely cannot tell if you are being facetious or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you suggesting that all atheists are immoral?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Snake charming?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we have the data backing up that it's genetic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of people have the same exposure and are not hooked by it. That's my point. I'm happy to be rid of the exposure, I'm not defending it, but it doesn't address what makes a subset of people susceptible to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but how does that relate to my comment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sin is a religious construct, not an ethical one. One religion considers something a sin, another considers it a sacrament. Unless one is forcing compliance with a single specific religion at a state level it's not particularly useful.

  I'd argue that morality is also a construct but the distinguishing factor is that it is not tied to a specific religion and all the baggage associated with it (such as religion as identity, in-groups, that sort of thing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone needs to be told that because it isn't self evident to them then they aren't going to respond to someone simply telling them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm curious what hooks people with gambling. Trying to prevent exposure feels like security through obscurity.

  To me gambling is boring but that's not helpful for people vulnerable to its hooks.