obinice

joined 1 year ago
[–] obinice@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I've noticed young people improperly using the word demure lately.

Has education really gotten so bad that learning a single, common 15-year-old-reading-level word means they have to keep using it over and over again?

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Where would max even come from? That's not in their username o.O

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I hope so, my camcorder is FireWire and I've still got my FireWire PCI card and all the cables :P

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

The researchers found that 24 of the brain samples, which were collected in early 2024, measured on average about 0.5 percent plastic by weight.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why would you need an account to play a single player, non cloud hosted game?

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It'll be a cold day in hell before I give up my cable box.

I'll need this LPT cable eventually, then you'll see. You'll all see.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In a nation so riddled with poverty, strife, and failing public services, where most of us are struggling just to keep a roof over our heads and get our serious illnesses treated, is it any surprise that things like this fall through the cracks?

It's these sorts of issues that a first world nation should have the time and energy to focus on improving.

Unfortunately these days we're a second world nation that still thinks it's a first world nation. Heck, a not insignificant portion of us still think we're as important as when we were the British Empire 🤦‍♀️

We're delusional, we need to have a reality check on our new, smaller place in the world, and on how successful and wealthy our economy and our people actually are.

Once we come to terms with how weak and feeble we have become as a country, we can refocus our efforts based on reality - not on a fantasy of our past glory, and then hopefully backlogs like this can slowly begin to be dealt with ❤️

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (10 children)

This was the game where I couldn't figure out how to fly the space ship properly, and then I went to land on a strange abandoned space station and couldn't figure out what to do there beyond reading some alien text that didn't make much sense, right?

I'm sure I didn't give it a fair lick, it's just it took up 2 hours of my time and didn't hook or particularly engage me up to that point, so I didn't feel like going back in and slogging through the slow burn to get to the good stuff.

That's on me I suppose, I should try it again!

Does it pick up and get a little more interesting and robust, at least? I'm not looking for hardcore shooter action, but like, I dunno, interesting people, engaging quests and cool places to go whilst doing them, and such. Something to keep me interested, you know?

Everyone's different, of course, walking simulators with the occasional small bit of world building text to read just aren't for me is all.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I suspect the larger issue is that the people that lived in those homes have been genocided and are irreplaceable, no?

A country is its people, not it's infrastructure.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago (19 children)

In what way does the suspension require regular servicing or an online connection to a server to function? That would be the only reason to offer it as an ongoing service cost.

Otherwise, you're just paying extra for something already in your car, not for an actual service, which would make no sense?

What next, paint ongoing service fees for having wheels? Not even for ensuring they're regularly replaced, serviced, or repaired, just for the ability to use them at all....

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They come as a package, I've never seen the trousers on sale on their own o.O

Any clothing shop will have them, Debenhams, Next, Matalan is a good shout actually try there, you'll even find them places like George. Anywhere that sells night clothes really.

Just pick cotton rather than polyester for your pajamas, much more comfy :-)

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