It works spectacularly well with people you’re close to or on very good terms with.
If my other half is kicking off about something, a quick “hey listen, are you wanting help to fix this or are you wanting to vent like fuck to feel a bit better?”
It’s rarely the former, though I’d be more than happy to help if it was. At least then I can let her rage out and decompress without throwing in unwanted suggestions.
Probably comes across as a bit blunt to people you don’t know well though.
Do you have a reference for this?
I’m not questioning that it happens - it’s a common thing in high volume hotels or high value airline routes after all - but I’d be interested in what sort of margins they oversell at.
That said, most of the documents would likely be commercially sensitive I should imagine.
I suppose it’s irritating that you pay (a likely large amount of money as it’s probably a UK ticket) for a ticket with a seat reservation, the least they could do is actually assign you a seat.
If it’s a free for all and - as you likely correctly say - they don’t oversell the number of tickets against the number of seats, then the reservation card of the ticket is a little pointless really.
When the Xbox 360 was out in stores, I wasn’t really arsed about getting one. My Dreamcast was still doing me just fine.
Mass Effect looked cool (it was), and Alan Wake had taken my fancy and looked great (it was).
What really tipped my hand into spending a couple of hundred quid on a console was… Doom. The XBLA version of the original.
I’m a massive Doom nerd, but the first time I heard the new positional audio of a Imp’s fireball in 5.1, I just about spaffed - and I took a day off work to hoon through Doom 2 and No Rest For The Living.
I think there’s something quite satisfying about playing a game on a device massively overspec’d for it. I played Quake III on a Pentium 3 450mhz with 64mb RAM and a TNT2 M64 card, and every new PC or laptop that I get, I still find it deeply gratifying installing Q3 and seeing it run silky smooth.
I don’t miss the tool, I miss the general vibe and feeling of the late 90s or early 2000s.
CD’s for everything, over engineered autorun splash screens, the seeking of mechanical harddrive heads when computing a route, the sense of adventure, and the general positive outlook that consumer tech is working for us, not because of us.
I miss those days.
I miss the days of Microsoft AutoRoute. No internet connection needed - but you were stuck with the map and routes present in the release version that was on the CD.
Printing was optional and encouraged!
The laugh is, each and every one of them can actually mean “mate what a fantastic idea, let’s absolutely smash this” to the middle ground “k” all the way through to “this is the worst fucking idea I’ve ever heard, but no dramas we can sort that on the way”.
The end result will be the same.
Mater’s Tall Tales were absolute bangers. Not only were they funny in their own right, but the background details and cameos were awesome.
I would argue that there is indeed a whole lot of fun, and there may be prizes to be won.
I thought Gun Jesus was trying to pivot to other streaming platform for his main content, and YouTube was just a bit of extra exposure while it lasts?
I haven’t been keeping up with it so I may be 12 months behind the curve.
I dunno man. I quite enjoy watching documentaries on how the bangbang sticks go bang, and how engineers overcame technical challenges.
I’m not a huge fan of Gravy Seals videos of people doing weird cover to cover movement and blatting off rounds at targets, but each to their own.
I guess I think there’s bigger problems faced by YouTube and this should be pretty far down the list.
Je vais «fuckin’ subscribe» toute de suite
Grammar and syntax aside, it’s basically /me_irl for our German-speaking compadres. Most other languages - French included - generally have a community analogous to most of the popular English-language communities.
Summit (Play Store)
The waste is a fair point - storage isn’t a long term solution but then I suppose it can be managed in the interim, not like the effects of climate change.
I’m not seeing your point of “nukes” though?
Is she the one that works for Nintendo, and saw Luigi in Super Mario 64 but she switched it off before it could save?
Like Microsoft Sam trying to do the Doric accent after a few pints.
I’m a lad from Bradford, in the UK.
my condolences, friend
Yeah, it works both ways at the end of the day.
I know fine well when I need to take some holiday days - I work with a team of fantastic guys and girls in a very bureaucratic environment, so any deviation from the norm in certain projects come with a raft of paperwork (an unnecessary volume in some cases), before the issue can really be put to bed.
Everyone makes fuckups. I’ve made fuckups and caused by line manager paperwork when I was at the coalface, and I’ll continue to make fuckups and learn from them in the future. I know my spuds will drop a bollock every now and then, and that’s cool.
There are times when someone has made a royal arse of something and it’s stacked another load of paperwork on top of me, and I get a bit angry about it. It’s not rational, it’s not fair to rag on the poor dude or dudette or dudethey who made an error, and I’ll let my partner know that I’m not after solutions - I’m just needing a bit of extra time to calm down and refocus. Solutions to those problems mean overhauling a heavy and entrenched system of work, and it’s not something that can be done at home - I could have married Kofi Annan, but unless he’s familiar with the system of work, there’s fuck all he could actually do.
At that point, it’s time to book a week or two off, and think about anything - everything - but work.
e: clarity