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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Whilst that’s perfectly sensible, our household has at least two cheese slicers in case one is in the dishwasher. They’re very common in Swedish households!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Whilst my knife is unlikely to be sharp enough, I don’t have the hand skills to shave a 0.6mm wafer of cheddar off a block even with the best knife. My fine motor skills are excellent and I’m a professional miniature sculptor and have particular preferences on which specific scalpel blades I like to work with! My point being that I have significantly above average skills and that’s not sufficient.

  If you happen to have the tools and skill to shave cheese that way, fantastic, well done you, but that’s an extremely uncommon set of circumstances. As you say, most people’s knives aren’t up to the task. Meanwhile even a child can use a cheese slicer to get a decent slice off a block.

  …and yes, I did go and grab some calipers to check because I’m tired of this insane discussion. If you feel they’re a useless kitchen gizmo, cool, but lots of us love our cheese slicers because they’re tremendously useful and accessible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying you think a cheese slicer does 3mm slices and therefore knife cuts are comparable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. The tools work very differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hands off my knorks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I’ve eaten both, side by side, because it’s a really interesting difference.

  If you’ve decided that your reckoning is better than my experience then we’re done here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The texture and flavour of a hard cheese cut with a cheese slicer is different from when one cuts with a knife. I like both but on a sandwich the cheese slicer wins every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How are we defining “nowadays”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Total War: Warhammer 40k⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Could have done with a bit less of a focus on space marines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in the UK modern tellies don’t support analogue TV signals!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you’ll need to play on a PS1 with video ports from this millennium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  MS being shitty? Naaaah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whilst I don’t eat mouldy bread intentionally (as in, it will have happened without me noticing on occasion) what’s the actual potentially bad thing that happens if one does? Specifically?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They took out H264 hardware support?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google panned for giving free ads to UK anti-abortion groups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  GET FUCKED, YOU REGRESSIVE BUSYBODIES.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nimby Watch: Nimbys hate your children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The unwillingness to share is a massive issue in Britain. We see it with drivers constantly - any change to make anywhere more accessible to other people is entirely unacceptable.

  Removing third places for children is fucking evil. I was up on Anglesey last week and on a Friday night where did we encounter teenage children (12 - 15) hanging out? In front of ASDA.

  My gods, that’s bleak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me this is more about open world games losing cool features than wanting to play a game with that feature. In GTA 4 it affected the choices I’d make whilst driving as it was entirely possible to make a vehicle nearly impossible to drive without coming close to blowing it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol, wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not what this is about but it reminds me of a lamp my mother asked me to fix every time I came home for about five years. I’d check it, find it worked, report back, she’d forget and once again assume it didn’t work otherwise she’d be using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t be bothered to come up with a neat way to say “GTA-like games” and decided to hope that the reader could intuit that context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vehicle damage modelling from GTA 4. The fact that it hasn’t been surpassed is tremendously disappointing to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My backlog is devastated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  s/backlog/library/g

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because hardware, software, culture, incomes, demand, supply, and many, many other factors have all changed since the 1980s. It’s not a straight comparison. Inflation is a factor but it is not the only factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a little more complex than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can set the asking price to whatever they like but a lot of us cannot justify those amounts for what amounts to a toy. By this stage in a console generation I would expect a lot more games and a lot cheaper hardware. The reasons that haven’t happened aren’t of interest to me as a consumer (they’re of interest to me as a nerd!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but the price points of the current consoles are hilariously optimistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 494 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eventually I plan on playing Spaghetti Kart - partly for that reason!

  I would agree that the sprawling roster and tracklist are a bit much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing I find amusing in this thread. Consoles are a known quantity and it needs to either compete or undercut them. I have a Steam Deck that I paid £320 for (brought up to £400 by the SSD I added). I would most definitely not pay more than £450 for a Steam Box. It may well cost more than that but it is a luxury and I would seriously struggle to justify more than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  s/backlog/library/g

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “to make sure they’re working”

  A boss’ job is not to babysit. Keep the higher ups off the team’s backs, run the management infrastructure needed for stuff like project planning, stuff like that. I am not at my desk for my whole work day. However not once has anyone been less than very pleased with my output.

  Forcing presenteeism rather than a results-based approach is utterly idiotic.