TIN

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[–] TIN@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Interesting, thanks! I'd only ever seen it as amusing (UK based so couldn't buy it anyway), but good to know how it actually stacks up. I wonder if that also means that Nancy herself would have been better to just buy an index tracker and avoid all the negative stories!

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

For those of you in the US, the are a couple of funds which track politician's holdings and invest/digest with them. NANC is the democrat tracking one and KRUZ is the republican tracking one.

This way, you too can stick your snout in the trough.

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Slugabed I've used before, usually to describe me!

To paraphrase a shower thoughts post from a few weeks back though (not mine), why is going to bed early seen as pious but staying in bed late seen as slothful when the net result is the same amount of time spent in bed?

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

We have Neolithic attracts and Roman ruins, as well as a castle from somewhere around 1066, also now ruins.

The oldest recorded standing and still used building is from around 1290.

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Sounds awesome, I love his writing.

Side note: If it could not involve any helmets like the one pictured which some lights into the eyes of the occupant that would be great! One of my constant irritations when I'm watching sci fi.

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

Finally answering the zen question of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?"

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was excellent, some of the scene setting was beautiful, I'm sure individual frames would make for fantastic art

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What part of this don't you understand? If two turbines is good, and three turbines is better, obviously five turbines would make us the best fucking wind platform that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the wind platform game by clinging to the two-turbine industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five turbines is the biggest chance of all.

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Wait, I thought if you googled Google it broke the internet?

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The fourth item on the list, they're referring to a film that doesn't actually exist, never has and never will exist.

The Highlander series went straight from 1 to 3 due to a historical accident.

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

Because there's only thing worse than a new world order, and that's not being at the top of the new world order

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

48, just been gaming with my 15 year old. Love it, wouldn't be without it!

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My son asked me if I would play league of legends with him, so tried it for the first time. So much going on!

Firstly, how does anyone zero in on what hero they want to play, there are so many of them! I feel like it would take a year just to play enough to decide.

Secondly, the purchase UI seems to have been designed to ensure that a new player can never understand it. I'm sure like all things it becomes clear over time but jeez, did a professional team really work on that thing?

Anyway, 2 defeats from 2 games so far, I write to you from the lobby waiting for the third!

 
 

Don't tell me that's going to parse in a CLI

 

So, hear me out.

I'm a 47 year old guy and I'm not ashamed to say that I enjoy video games. I always have, from playing Head over Heels on a Speccy +2 to ESO and Valorant on my self built PC.

Due to various life circumstances, I'm also on the dating scene and to most women I meet, around my age, video games are anathema. When I say that I like them it's usually meet with an "oh dear" or a "my son would probably love to talk to you about them, I find them really boring"

I have two boys, both teenagers, both play all the time and sometimes we all play together (although they are better as they have more time to apply to games). Their friends are amazed that I will talk about games with them, that I know someone about games and that I play games. None of their parents want to talk with them about what is effectively their main hobby that they do all the time (big sad).

So the question, there must be some sort of cut off age at which video games are no longer an acceptable pastime. Is it absolute age based (nothing after 35) or is it something to do with the progression of games into popular culture and people born after, say, 1986 will not see it as unacceptable?

I don't have an answer, I just think it's an interesting question. Thanks for reading, let me know what you think!

Edit to add: I'm not planning on stopping through peer pressure, just wondering about the phenomenon!

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