I enjoyed that game. Not sure how it was ever pushed out as a full release rather than a Net Yaroze style special, but fair play to them.

Kurushi (as it was known in the UK and Europe) is like rocking horse shit now. A nice little treasure if you find one in your collection.

Well fuck me, every day’s a school day. Thank you.

Not very well I should imagine, but it is a symbolic move and the rumblings of things to come from other organisations.

I should imagine direct imports to Ireland from Israel will stop… but as soon as the goods enter the Schengen zone elsewhere, there’ll be very little to stop them without controls at the zone entry point (unlikely) or inspections at the Irish border (unlikely again).

Happy to be corrected though.

The BBC seems to annoy the extremea of folk in the UK. The left claim it to be a Tory mouthpiece; the right claim it to push left agenda.

If you’ve got the opposing ends moaning like fuck then I figure they’re doing something right.

(edit: BBC, not NBC, no idea why my phone’s gone full American)

Another backhanded “positive action” comment is “I’m going to give that the attention it deserves” and nine times out of ten it will be absolute fucking rot so no, that’s going to the bottom of the list. Cheers though.

Absolutely. Chris Brown is a prime example. I quite like some of his collab tunes, but I absolutely refuse to give any money - a percentage or not - to that wifebeating spunktrumpet.

In fact, the fact that I’m actively screwing him out of money makes me enjoy the song more.

pentagon

plane

oh no

e: well I expected this low-effort comment to get buried within seconds so just to be clear, it’s purely a mathematical theory where if you had two pentagons and an extra vertex, then only 9/11 of the edges would tesselate correctly. I’m not sure what that is in Radians, but it’s definitely an American 77 units for sure.

I fucking love AI.

I’ll qualify that with a small personal story on it: I have a colleague in a nearby office the other side of the city, who steps into supervise his team when the actual manager isn’t there. Nice bloke, not much banter, but pleasant enough.

You can fucking guarantee though that when a division-wide email has gone out, or a change of plan comes in… he’s right on the phone to me asking what to do.

The first few times it was cute. A guy must really love his job or hate himself to go into junior management, so walking him through routine tasks he may not have been exposed to may be beneficial to him in the long run.

The problem is, it’s near constant. Every single time something changes, he calls - not for advice, not for opinion, but “can you do this for my team too?”. What really pulls a hair out of my arse is that there’s a 50/50 chance of it being something I’ve already showed him. I’ve spoken to his actual manager at exasperated length but it’s just a can kicked down the road with a “well he’s still learning, isn’t he?”

I suppose he is, and I’m no teacher. When he phones now, I just tell him “mate our org has access to that fancy new Microsoft Copilot, it’s fuckin’ mint bro, solves all your problems”, knowing fine well the disaster that’s about to happen - partly to expose him to new technologies, but mainly to be a smug cunt.

Invariably, he gets solutions that don’t quite work, or ideas that don’t quite fit the brief… and it’s satisfying as fuck getting the follow-up call and saying “sorry bruv, Copilot is smarter than me, which isn’t hard” or “nah sorry dude, it gives you a personalised response so that’ll be outside of my domain, making my suggestions worthless”.

Fucking love it. It has reduced my workload immensely.

Mouse look was revolutionary.

I tried to play Half-Life Uplink with the right directions of looking mapped to 789, 4 and 6, 123. It wasn’t very intuitive.

That said, I played Quake 1 with lookup and lookdown bound to PgUp and PgDown, and Quake II on PlayStation with lookup and lookdown mapped to L1 and R1.

Looking back, that was a wild few years.

The HAMBOTVER of the 2000s!

My job is half field based, half desk based. That, and I study part time too, so the simple unhelpful answer is the same: I don’t.

Recently I’ve taken to building a list of five or six games I’m interested in, booking a week or two off work in the summer, buying a month of Game Pass and just hooning through the games, and if I’ve got any time left then I’ll smash through some Doom WADs and that’s me.

Otherwise, I try and stay away from screens and try to read or run more.

Fuck me, that’s kinda awesome… buuuut…

For fuck’s sake, Limited Run Games? Will the discs be on CD-Rs and the floppies be of the 5.25 variety just to really fuck people off? I really like the idea of Limited Run but their attitude to consumers is fucking awful.

I’ve got a massive id collection (up as far as Quake 4 anyway), but I’m really torn on this one.

Somewhere in the North Sea: “Kapitan-Leytenant, we have discovered a new experimental craft called HMS ShitBird, appears to have undetectable propulsion systems and carries a significant biological payload”

Somewhere in Thames Water HQ: “yeah mate we fixed the blockage, we just managed to dislodge Barry from Kettering’s massive jobby and let it out into the sea”

Or worse, the US telecom franchise 😭

e: obligatory Sinclaaaaaaaiiiirrrr

No, but I suspect the last line qualifies it’s inclusion, where her"status" and presence in the media field gave her an opportunity to amplify her story and provide the visibility it needed to get her freed.

I never got to try Head Over Heels.

That and Knight Lore were the two fucking tapes on the Atari 800 XE that wouldn’t load and run correctly for whatever reason - I was too young to deduce whether it was a compatibility issue or a tape failure. What I did know that it was my weekly treat that was pissed up the wall because it wouldn’t work 😭

I mean fuck day one patches, but I would have loved a day one POKE command back then.

I’m not sure if you’re taking the piss or not but I’m going to choose to believe you’re asking in good faith!

The code just feels… messy, unfamiliar, almost chaotic - but the semicolons and curly brackets in a neat little row, formatted in a satisfying way, is like an island of calm and order in the middle of a formatting clusterfuck.

A moment of serenity in the middle of a riot, one may think.

I hate it with every fibre of my being but also secretly calmed by that column of statement terminators and brackets.

It’s like the code representation of the Vancouver riots kiss photo.

Taking the issue at face value, I wonder what Johnny Null’s workaround would be for his (or their) name?

N’ull? Nul-l? \Null? Null? JohnnyN ull?

I still love the term Kami-Kwasi.

What a day that was. It would almost be funny if it wasn’t still fucking with people’s mortgage rates.