Appreciate the info thanks mate, I’m not really interested in using it tbh, I was just curious.

My PC gets used to play trackmania during boring meetings at work and not a lot else these days. Simple and easy with next to no thought or maintenance is what I’m after so windows is fine for me.

That’s a great summary and completely explains it, thanks bud.

And I presume Arch is one of the more (if not the most) popular distro for PCs? Just because I see it referenced all the time

Ok after 5months here I have to ask, what the fuck is a distro?

One is taught from birth and has a history of indoctrination that both you and me would likely also fall for in the same situation.

The other is willful ignorance with no historical reason to believe it and full denial of most science.

I’m not religious at all, I am happy to openly mock God and dare him to strike me down, I really don’t care. But laughing at the PEOPLE who believe it through no fault of their own is pure douchebaggery.

We’re fortunate to have the opportunity to learn about and assess the situation with as much knowledge as we like, plenty of people don’t have the same opportunity or were taught the beliefs long before they could reason any differently. 5000 years ago you’d be praising the sun God with the rest of us, everything from that to now is just shades of grey, and you’re pretty unlikely to be some special individual that derived all science from first principles and concluded that God was impossible.

You’re basically just claiming to be better due to the circumstances you found yourself in (through no fault of your own). Seems like properly cunty behaviour to me, and only a stones throw from laughing at the poor for not being born into wealth.

You dick :) x

What a twattish thing to do…

Hollow Knight. Bought it and played a few hours, died and got very annoyed that I couldn’t find my shade so lost motivation.

Picked it up again 2 years later and it’s arguably my favourite game ever now.

This is true whether kids are around or not to be fair…

My brother is similar but he does use an ereader for 90% of books these days. Now his book collecting hobby and the allure of a printed copy are restricted to his favourite or important books, 5 years ago he’d buy 100 books a year for £3 each, nowadays he’ll buy 3 or 4 books a year for £50 each and his satisfaction for good quality old or important copies of books goes through the roof.

It’s possible to have your cake and eat it too is what I guess I’m saying.

I’ve only read northern lights once and didn’t continue with the series so I’ve either forgotten what an alethiometer is or never got to it.

From memory your daemon can be any creature it wants till you hit puberty though, so a bit like that I guess yeah.

It’s basically just the reverse of xmen I suppose, just seems like an interesting concept to explore and I’m surprised I’ve not seen it done (maybe it has, I’m no tv/comic expert).

With all the oversaturation of superhero content I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything where all superhero abilities are lost at puberty (and still only rarely seen before that).

I can see a lot of mileage in a setting where some people are castrated to try and retain powers (maybe this works partly and dulls your power), where non superheros are exploiting children and their powers, seems like there’s a good amount of potential narrative in there which I’m way too lazy to come up with myself.

Why is that racist…?

Honestly, the irrelevant fact that the person was Chinese is the most racist thing in this comment.

I work for a bank (I know I know, fuck me right?).

They give us new laptops every couple years and only once in 10 years have they requested the old one back. I’m certainly not going out of my way to return their equipment if they can’t be bothered to at least ask.

So now I have 3 laptops that aren’t mine and don’t get used, I’ll format and sell them when I can be bothered and I certainly won’t feel bad about doing it. They can definitely afford it, and they’re not exactly a philanthropic venture so I don’t really care if they can’t. If I cost the bank another £1000 or so then I call that a win personally.

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It’s weird from an adult’s perspective but it’s magical for a kid, and seeing the excitement build and the idea of actual magic contributing to a really family centric event is like proper magic for a parent too.

I spent a long time growing up thinking that I would never do that to my kids, but I think it’s actually crueler not to do it now. You’re taking away an experience most children share and get excited by together for no real reason.

My children are 3.5 and 9months and I haven’t decided when I’d let the older one know but it’s certainly a few years away at least. I’m hoping that one day she comes and asks me herself how real it is because she’s pieced together how impossible some aspects are, but I really have no idea how naively optimistic I’m being. I guess what’s more likely is she comes home from school upset one day because another kid told her, and then I’ll have to explain it and get her on board to keep the magic alive for her little brother.

Yeah I don’t mean survivable. I was thinking about the implication from the comment that sugar is this horrific substance which is prone to abuse and should be avoided at all costs.

If the point is for refined sugar then I’m with them. If they’re talking about sugar as a whole though, then it would be unhealthy to go for a week without any.

I’m pretty addicted to oxygen at this point to be fair…

Directly?

Are you just talking about refined sugar or are you including natural sugar in that too?

Is it even possible to eat healthily for a week with no sugar?

I feel like if I’m allowed fruit it’d be pretty easy tbh.

Beige wallpaper is still great though even if it doesnt make many people double take in amazement.

He may not be the most challenging comedian ever but he does observational stand up at the absolute top tier.

It’s broad, it’s over the top, but it’s still brilliant. Similar to Peter Kay really.

In my opinion anyway, there aren’t many things that are as subjective as comedy so to each their own!)

Thanks mate, I’m staying strong but every upvote feels like someone whispering “do it” to me.

Sorry folks, I’m being better.