I can’t play games :(
A few years ago I had labyrinthitis and when I got over it I found I couldn’t play games or even watch other people playing games. Something in the way the things move on screen gives me really bad nausea and vertigo, like motion sickness I guess.
TV and cinema is no problem, it’s just games.
F in the chat for Nessie.
I’ll save them some time: Nessie doesn’t exist.
Yup Forever Peace.
Definitely give the ‘Children of…’ series another go.
I personally struggle with audiobooks. I’m not one of those who claim audiobooks aren’t ‘real’ books, it’s just that for me, when I read a book via print (e or standard) there’s just me and the author. When it’s an audiobook, no matter how good the narrator might be, there’s now this 3rd person in the process and they might have their own take on how a character speaks or inflects or put emphasis on things I don’t. I just find it really jarring.
Forever War is fantastic - there’s a sequel too which is equally good.
I’m just finishing a re-read of Far Side Of The World so will be starting Children of Memory which is 3rd in a series and then if I happen to finish that then the new one by SJ Parris, Alchemy.
For the first weekend since the end of lockdown I have absolutely zero plans which to me translates as: weekend with my nose in a book, ordering take out.
Not getting picked up to go to the airport until this afternoon though
But…but what about the traditional 8am morning airport pint?
Master Of Puppets. Greatest pure metal album ever made.
Apple, SIgnal, Session, WhatsApp and a few others have already said they’ll simply withdraw from the UK market if this bill goes through.
It gets worse - Stripe seem to have replaced their front line support staff with a irritatingly upbeat AI. It’s clearly a cheap knock-off as the ‘I’ part of it is lacking…
What’s boiling my piss today is a bit nerdy, so apologies up front.
Why do 3rd party providers only make their scripts available via bloody iframes??? Honestly Stripe, I now can’t style or access the DOM for any part of the card fields!
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My dad used to do this thing where he would pronounce any word ending in ‘es’ to ‘EZ’ so an innocuous work like ‘plates’ became ‘plat-EZ’. He extended this over time to any word with a plural so ‘roads’ for example became ‘road-EZ’. According to family lore, this started at a terrible Italian restaurant before I was born.
At increasing levels of my age I saw this as:
It’s impossible to not at least allude to the fact it exists in this context really. It’s either that or say ‘there seems to be no reason why chippies are closing’ which is clearly untrue.
Yep, that plays a significant part too. But when you’ve got a fryer who’s monthly running cost has gone from £600 to £2000 that’s unsustainable.
Sad and accurate. Energy bills + cost of living + the political event that cannot be named here and suddenly a traditional meal that we all expect to always be there and always be good value is just too expensive. Two small cod + chips is £20 near me these days.
Pubs are going the same way too. I don’t mean the big soulless chains like Spoons but the smaller locals. Since COVID, 4 pubs in my town have closed, unable to compete. The ones that survived aren’t cosy locals anymore, they survived by having themed events two or three times a week. I don’t blame them but it seems the days of just nipping into the pub for a quiet pint or a chat with your neighbours are gone.
Perfect :) thanks very much.
Thanks :) they’ll be ok with using a different router? I used to be with Sky and when I asked them they said it broke their T&Cs.
Vase - rhymes with arse. A bit.
Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.
If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don’t blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won’t put them in the legal firing line.