I've read that article and I don't see anything that could be considered hilarious. Imagine spending 3 or 4 years at University studying journalism or media studies to end up spending 5 minutes of a Saturday trawling the cesspit of xitter to cobble together 250 words of dross based on the ramblings of vacuous attention seekers.
I'm shocked, shocked that outsourcing public sector contracts to the lowest bidder results in this scenario.
Speaking as a knackered old fake, I take offence to this.
I mean, it would have been better if they had dropped their ties with the weapons companies.
I tried to register my Nectar card using the name "Optimus Prime"... They never sent me one.
I cant help but feel this is some sort of password reset question farming...
Anyway,
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Fair point. I get that this isn't aimed at me. I'm not a sugar fiend. But the big food manufacturers will just replace it with artificial sweeteners, which to me at least taste awful. I used to enjoy the odd Fentimans Ginger Beer, but now it tastes like hand soap and all I can thing about is that Godfather meme... "look how they massacred my boy" 😥
Let's not. They'll just fill them with sweeteners instead and everything will taste like ass. Personally, whenever I have the odd fizzy drink I buy the stuff with sugar and pay the extra. The rest of the crap can get into the sea.
Should have just stuck to Bob's Burgers.
Me. I work in video games, and I have kids.
I'm not sure many people would care either way if Brand was exposed to E.coli. A strange way to lead this article. But I suppose it's the Telegraph.
I played this South Park game on the N64. It sucked.
You're not the only one. I thought the Specials plus Church on Ruby Road were all great. Devils Chord has been the nearest so far, but still with issues. Boom...? A bit meh. Lots of Moffat tropes, and having Millie Gibson lie on the floor unconscious for 15 minutes felt typical of Moffat writing for female characters. Could have done with 5 or 10 minutes of trimming, and it wasn't even that long. I thought I was just being cynical (I probably am).
Plot twist, they're all fake.
I saw this on Mastodon posted by @infobeautiful@vis.social and figured that it was appropriate for this community and absolutely not controversial in any way shape or form.
It's a Thursday again. The worst day of the week. Or is it? Disguised as a Wednesday for those south of the border, and a Tuesday for those of us in the land of the Scots.
What are your moans for this day and this week, the first week of the work year?
Personally, I've added app timers to all my time sink apps in an effort to become less dependent on my phone. It's 9.40am and I've already maxed out Megalodon, so I'm onto Lemmy/Voyager. Going well.
Also... I'm still off with the kids. Edinburgh schools didn't break up until the 22nd of December. Which seemed like a good idea at the time, but we're paying for it now.
I'm sorry to report the continued decline of Aldi's "Scottish Blend" tea. It is now beyond terrible. Awful. The worst. The worse of the worst. Even worse than that.
Naturally I'm not going to go from an Aldi special to Twinings. I'm not made of money. So, I'm looking for recommendations of a good cheap tea. Ideally one that goes well with your plant milk as well as cow juice.
If possible, Sainsburys, M&S, Aldi, Food Warehouse or Poundies. Maybe Lidl at a stretch. They others are too far away and require me going in the car, and I'm too lazy environmentally conscious for that.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Or Asda! For some reason I forgot that Asda is literally the nearest supermarket to the house.
Tuesday, Tuesday. Up here in Scotland (specifically Edinburgh) it's the last day of the school holidays. To any other parents north of the border - we've done it, folks. The end is in sight. Looking forward to tomorrow's hectic early morning followed by a day of bliss.
Anyway, TV and Tunes Tuesday! Whatcha watching and listening to? Recommendations for movies, TV shows and music please!
Personally I have the last episode of Strange New Worlds, which I'm saving for tomorrow lunchtime and then it's sayonara Paramount +. We've also just finished the reboot of Quantum Leap, which was cheesy but fun.
Music wise. Well, I'm a gen-xer so I've been listening to the remasters of the Lush albums. Long live shoegaze, the only correct style of dancing.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of marmite. But I'm not an animal. I have it on toast, or a bagel, or maybe a toastie if I'm feeling reckless.
But my son wants marmite sandwiches. Sandwiches! How is it possible to spread marmite on bread without the bread disintegrating? Is there a technique that in my five decades on this earth I have not been able to master?
It would be great to have the option of a short summary for the post content in the "Large list" view. For example the first 100 or so characters of a post text. Either that or the option to limit the length of the post content shown in the "full" view. Thanks!
It's Saturday! For many of us, probably the best day of the week. Even if it turns out to be crap then we still have Sunday waiting in reserve.
So, what are your exciting plans for this, a traditional drizzly British summer weekend?
We were planning another two day camping trip, but with thunderstorms forecast at our destination, I think as a family we have all decided to dump that concept and just doss around instead.
Yay! It's Friday!
After a week of niceish weather, we await the inevitable rain. But on the plus side, it's almost the weekend!
Personally we are off camping, in doing so encouraging precipitation. But what exciting things do you have planned for the weekend?
The tyranny of Thursday is upon us. Another one of these "not quite the weekend days" that life keeps throwing at us. What has got you fuming on this, the worst day of the week?
Oh hi. I'm not a mod or anything but felt the urge to try and post a daily chat thread. Game development can sometimes be a battle behind the scenes. I've been banging my head against a bug with a 3rd party library all week. Sometimes you need a fresh approach and today I came at it again from another angle. Turns out a DLL was being unloaded because of an API change, so the fix was to add a const & to stop my reference being deleted and the DLL unloading. 6 extra characters and it all works again! TODAY I FEEL INVINCIBLE!
Have you had any gamedev wins this Wednesday? Big or small, there is nothing like a win halfway through the week.
Don't use the hump word or it's an instaban! Just kidding, I'm no mod, I'm just some guy, you know.
What games have you been playing this last week? Video games or other. Have you gone back to Tears of the Kingdom yet? Are you spending the rainy school holidays stuck inside playing Pokemon cards with your kids? Found something in the Steam summer sale you want to shout about? Let us know here.
Didn't have my glasses on this morning when I ground the beans and my espresso seems to be 1ml of coffee oil.
Oh hi.
Hopefully our mod is away on holiday and not come a cropper or worse, deserted us. In the meantime, I'm going to take it upon myself to post the "TV and Tunes Tuesday" thread.
What TV shows or movies you been watching this week? Or perhaps you've got some great new music recommendations. Let us know how you've been whiling away the hours and trying to justify all those streaming subscriptions.
