Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Who decides when and where you work? The battle is raging in Whitehall, and the result may affect us all 1 day ago:
Presenteeisn is such bollocks. If you don't trust me to do the work then I'll work somewhere that does.
- Comment on Young chatty workers disturbing older colleagues ‘not age harassment’, tribunal rules 5 days ago:
It would be interesting to find out whether the younger colleagues were more productive.
Also why the hell wasn't the older staff member allowed to work from home if all she had to do was make calls?
- Comment on ‘Running riot through graves’: King Charles urged to protect Goodwin Sands from dredging 5 days ago:
Prince Charles might technically be the reigning monarch but I don't know if I'll ever think of him as "King Charles".
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
That's the thing I did with my niece. She didn't get to watch many films growing up (she read a lot, listened to a lot of music, but her parents didn't really do films or TV so it wasn't much of a thing). As a teenager we started hanging out and I'd show her films that I thought that she'd enjoy and would be culturally important. Meanwhile I'd give her the rundown of "You can watch this, but I wouldn't bother. This one is good, the rest you can skip."
I like to think she's going off to uni with good memories of watching films with me. Hopefully I can do something similar for my recently arrived daughter.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
I misread that as Mario Kart 64. That game is the apex of the genre.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
I'm not allowed to travel to the US without being accompanied by an adult, fortunately. Wait, damnit!
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
I'm not really surprised. There's so many papercuts in those games. I've not played a Pokémon games since Black/White but even then, ugh, such a slog. They're really good at sucking all the momentum out of things, sadly.
I played Blue when I was about 12 and the appeal was mostly that there wasn't anything on a handheld that had anywhere near as much content. Link's Awakening is a better game but it's not that long, etc..
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Collared shirts only.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Oh that's fun!
My daughter is a few weeks old so we're in for a bit of a wait, but we'll see where we land on video games as she gets older. Being able to rock out as a family (+tribe) sounds wonderful. - Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Excellent! I've got the drums and mic but I don't keep those in a ready state at the mo'.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
I had a chipped Wii during uni and so we (flatmates + me) downloaded and burned a vast ocean of Wii games.
I don't really see it as the peak of gaming. There's a few good games, like SMG 1 & 2, but I'd be hard pressed to name more than ten exclusives worth revisiting. So much shovelware and low quality ports.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Ooh, I hope that works for my daughter when she's old enough for it to be relevant. I've got a wall of instruments - some real, some game controllers, and some combination game/MIDI controllers.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 1 week ago:
Laptops used to have parallel ports, what happened‽
- Comment on Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide 1 week ago:
The best time was decades ago. The second best time is now.
I remember being incensed that rather than use OpenOffice, which had support for Welsh, instead we paid MS through the nose to add it.
- Comment on Global plastics treaty talks in Geneva end in 'abject failure' 1 week ago:
Sounds like a job for bricks.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 1 week ago:
Some bastard who's presumably responsible!
- Comment on Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights 1 week ago:
s/accuses/praises/g
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Funny in that it has moments of levity. It's not wall-to-wall misery even if it's filled with tragedy.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Given that this is Lemmy and we have advanced technology - I hope OP edits the title to fix it.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Probably:
- Fallout 2
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Fallout 2 isn't as refined and tight as Fallout but I personally enjoy it more. It's arguably far too big but as I've played it so many times (unusual for me - I'm usually a one-and-done person when it comes to time sink RPGs) that isn't a bad thing. I enjoy the writing, mechanics, and atmosphere. Also I voice a robot dog in a mod for it.
Red Alert 2 is the best C&C game ever. I do not care for any of the 3D ones and Red Alert 1 is rather too difficult for me. However RA2 I have finished on hardest difficulty several times. I've never really bothered with the multiplayer for it outside of co-op because I don't play to be competitive. I tend to take my time and like it that way.
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is maybe my favourite point and click RPG. I go back to it every few years and it always sucks me in. I know most of the puzzles off by heart but I'm more there for the sense of escapism and gentle humour. There's other amazing point and click games but for whatever reason this one really speaks to me. It's not even a nostalgia thing - I've only ever played the 2009 director's cut! I'm old enough to have played the '90s version but never did.
Honourable mentions:
*Startopia
*The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
*Theme Hospital
*What Remains of Edith FinchStartopia's music, humour, and gameplay are all top notch. Runs on a potato, makes me laugh, and features my old pal, Arona.
BoI:R is great. I've put a ridiculous number of hours into it. The latest DLC has made it a bit too big for my tastes but in general I enjoy it a great deal.
Theme Hospital is like Two Point Hospital but tighter, funnier, and prettier. Lots of fun.
What Remains of Edith Finch is art. It's funny, moving, tragic, and beautiful. I encourage everyone to play through it. It won't take that long - a few hours. Such a fantastic experience. Gone Home is pretty damn good too.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
I gave Chrono Trigger a fair whack and just got bored. I suspect JRPGs just aren't for me.
- Comment on Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on 2 weeks ago:
It's a great way to tell whether someone has empathy or not. Lots of drivers either cannot or will not entertain the notion that there might be other people around them who they share space with.
To them having to slow down in built up areas is an affront. Anyone else on or near the road is an inconvenience, not another person with equal or greater need than them.
Why should they have to slow down? Children shouldn't be on bikes or walking! They're going to get hurt! Dog walkers? They should be somewhere else - who cares where, just not here! Adult pedestrians? Why don't they have cars? Or probably more accurately they don't think about them at all, because that would require a level of self reflection that they're not well practiced in.
Entitled fucking toddlers. We devote vast resources and space, more than any other means of transport, but that's not enough. They should be allowed to drive wherever they want, as fast as they want, in as large a vehicle as they want. Anything less is oppression, apparently. Me me me me.
It particularly irks me how often I see people speed in my town because the average speed is about 15mph. They'll shoot off and I'll trundle along only to find them waiting at the next junction. There's literally zero point in going faster - it's more dangerous for those around them and it's less fuel/energy efficient. There's a reason I regularly get 4.4 miles per kWh - because I'm not constantly gunning it to the next set of lights.
That said we really need to rework some of our roads to discourage these dickheads. Add cycling paths and narrow the roads, put bottlenecks in, etc.. A bit of enforcement wouldn't go amiss either, particularly around areas like schools and suburbs.
Perhaps there's no one else sharing the space at the moment but if drivers can't behave themselves then there never will be. You cannot always be in that much of a fucking rush - if you are then sort your life out and stop making it everyone else's problem.
- Comment on Health experts urge ban on school materials backed by food, drink and gambling firms 2 weeks ago:
Jesus, that's been allowed all this time?
Have we no shame?
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
Disc only for me as the digital pricing on the MS store is rubbish compared to second hand discs.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
I'm still waiting on a reason to upgrade from my Xbox One X.
- Comment on The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced 2 weeks ago:
We had extensive criteria so Lilith was chosen based on that (it's a pre-existing name, it can be as formal or informal as she likes, etc..). The goal wasn't to have a unique name but I'm tickled that there'll probably be a load of Lilys in her class!
- Comment on The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced 2 weeks ago:
We were going to name our daughter Amelia but decided against it due to it being so popular last year (who wants to be the fourth girl in the class with the same name?). Instead we went with Lilith.
Looks at list
Damn it.
- Comment on Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK 2 weeks ago:
When I was over in New Zealand in 2018 I was shocked to find that Domino's didn't cost the earth. The prices in the UK are insane.
- Comment on W.a.m.d.i.i. 2 weeks ago:
In my lap?
- Comment on Trump admin to reinstall Confederate statue toppled by protesters 2 weeks ago:
Thermite, eh?