In the original ending to T2, John and Sarah Connor prevent the rise of Skynet by hacking into Cyberdyne Systems and reducing the revenue on the balance sheet from $100billion to $95billion, but this didn't go over well with test audiences for some reason
Petition for all ovens to have 180c labelled rather than having to guess where it lies between 175 and 200.
@sarahdal @jonathanmatthews I have spoken to my Pokemon consultants (a Discord full of games nerds) and the literal answer is Trubbish, who is a pile of rubbish. It may be some time until the dust settles and we have a more definitive answer.
Oh, yes, and in morrisons (quiet, thanks) they were stripping the Christmas aisle out. One side was cleaning products & I guess the other side was going to be Easter. Can't let the poor guy enjoy his birthday without bringing out the chocolate of death
I’ve just been made aware Sainsbury’s are selling pigs in blankets tea, which I’m pretty sure is one of the omens of the apocalypse. They’ve also got sprouts tea; I assume that’s just the water someone overboiled the sprouts in.
There are so many minor aggressive moves made by product designers these days but the one that will bother me every single time is TV apps, which without fail will bury the option to continue watching the show you watched last under 2-3 carousels of half-arsed recommendations. 99% of your users want the resume option, please let us have it.
Who do I need to talk to for the Natural History Museum to be turned into a Hitman level? Dropping a whale skeleton on the target. Adjusting the t-Rex so it leans over and eats them. Dropping them in a vast jar of preserving fluid. There are so many possibilities!
My parent’s are in the priority assistance list for things like the water outage we had this week. In a display of utter incompetence Southern Water delivered bottled water to them a day after the mains supply was restored.
I’m constantly forgetting Threads is a social media thing so whenever people mention it I think of the harrowing 80s TV film.
A large chunk of Southampton and surrounding areas is currently without running water after a failure at the water works. Current projection is that Southern Water hope to have it fixed “by the weekend”. It’s given me a new appreciation for being able to just turn on a tap and have water come out of it.
We need an armistice on [Insert Thing Here] Wrapped. It’s got out of control. Music, games, films, books, money, grocery shopping, even the company I buy train tickets through has jumped on the band wagon. No more.
Why are Wikipedia constantly reminding me of the date and time? Am I late for something? I’m late aren’t I.
@tychotithonus @pascoda I’m Jon Wood, and once worked with Jon Ward. We were constantly redirecting emails sent to the wrong one of us.
Here is a video of a lady kissing different shelter dogs to see how they react, if you need a palate cleanser:
Started on the new Indiana Jones game this evening, which alongside the modern Wolfensteins cements Machine Games’ place as the leading “beating up fascists” studio.
Can someone please get on with making widely available electric aircraft please? I’d really like to learn how to fly but I can’t even slightly justify the emissions involved in flying a private plane for fun.
I saw a teacher complain that ChatGPT has led to students submitting papers full of mediocre ideas with perfect grammar and I can’t get over how spot-on that description is.
Putting this on the record so I can be smug when it happens (or quietly delete this in January):
This year’s plague of [Insert Service Here] Wrapped will include LLM generated personality profiles based on your top 10.
@CrypticMirror @Santaclaus @gsuberland but is he? He has a legitimate reason for collecting the data, and he’s clearly taking his responsibility to ensure the data is accurate seriously. We’d need to know more about retention policy and exactly what data he’s gathering to be sure.
You discovered what now?
https://infosec.exchange/users/acarsdrama/statuses/113538923197414434
The Flight Sim 2024 launch did not go well. 2 million user long queues just to get to the loading screen, and from what I’ve heard it’s flakey once in. The old folks who do nothing but fly their replica Airbus cockpits back and forth all day are taking it predictably well, and acting like it’s an actual airline that’s been grounded rather than their living room.
I’ve just learned that Deliveroo now offer two subscription tiers at which they will refund some (tier one) or all (tier two) of your order value if they arrive late.
A *food delivery company* has managed to make delivering your food before it goes cold an optional extra with a recurring subscription fee.