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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • It seems crazy to me that some people find roundabouts so hard. I’ve always found them pretty intuitive but I’m definitely biased, when I was learning to drive there were about 8 roundabouts of various sizes near my house and I’d invariably have to take at least 3 at the start of any journey.

    It’s probably just because we’re so used to them here but pretty much everyone seems to know how they work. Off the top of my head the only exception is one badly designed roundabout where you’re meant to stay in the outer lane unless you’re taking one exit that’s practically a u-turn, people always take the inner lane (like you’d normally do) and have to change last second.



  • This is true for all public holidays in the UK, there’s a (usually) fixed number of public holidays but the dates are flexible.

    They’re also included in the minimum 28 days paid time off too, meaning if you’re a full time worker and have to work on a bank holiday your employer is legally required to offer an extra day off somewhere else instead, either a fixed date or added to your holiday allowance. Conversely, the “extra” day off you get when a monarch keels over may be subtracted from your holiday allowance for the year. This is also why my employer is allowed to follow English bank holidays despite having next to no presence in England; the number is fixed but the dates are not.



  • This makes intuitive sense to me just by looking at the two extremes, assuming a persistent and consistent everlasting rainstorm.
    If you’re moving at infinite speed the raindrops are effectively held in place so they don’t fall on you; you only get wet from the drops you walk into on your way to your destination. Since the space between you and the destination is the same regardless of your speed you’ll always get at least this wet.
    If you’ve moving at 0 speed you never reach your destination so you’re in the rain for ever and get infinitely wet.

    I’m not sure what the argument for moving slower to stay drier is.






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    19 days ago

    The fact it’s a long game isn’t an issue, the problem is that it’s long and bad. A winner is usually determined pretty early on but then there’s still half an hour of random rolls as everyone slowly loses their money. That’s why house rules are mostly adding safety nets, the game’s already over and it’s just not fun running around a board watching your numbers go down. Since house rules don’t change the core gameplay they don’t fix the game and just make it drag even longer.

    There’s some very good long games and some very good short games, how long a game is doesn’t determine how good it is.




  • Jesus Christ, this is toxic as fuck. You are not a bad person for enjoying life. You are not a bad person for being happy or seeking happiness. Excessive consumerism isn’t great but you are still not a bad person for owning things. You are definitely not a bad person for trying to improve your life or the life of people around you.

    I have no idea why they decided to attack renewable energy, it’s undeniably better than the fossil fuel systems it’s to replace. They say they’re against alternative energy immediately after complaining that a third of the world has no electricity. This doesn’t even make sense! They don’t want you to make electricity available to people, they just want you to feel bad about it.

    Inequality sucks, but you are still allowed to enjoy things.

    What does make you a bad person is actively seeking to make other people’s lives worse. For instance, making a comic with the sole intention of shitting on people just living their lives.







  • Good news! You can buy Murder Harem: Furry’s Vore Safari Edition (if that’s what you’re into) on Steam and nobody would ever know as long as you mark it as private while it’s in your basket! Assuming it works as they say you’ll still be able to play the game as normal but nobody else would know unless they directly log in to your account.

    The faq doesn’t mention the new Steam Family stuff though. I’m guessing it’ll at least be hidden for parent accounts, but since parent accounts can control game access for child accounts that might not be as private?