I remember getting my Nokia N95 nearly twenty years ago, and it was fucking awesome being able to reveal the four media control buttons, and blindly control music in my headphones from my pocket while walking to work or on the bus or train.

As other commenters have said - I look at my old Ixus camera or LG Soul MP3 player or Nokia 3330 with fond nostalgia memories… but thank fuck I’m not lugging all that about now.

Fuck yes.

I still use an inexpensive Contigo one I bought in the US for US$12 or something ten years ago. I don’t think it’s got much of the blue paint left on it now. Banging purchase.

UK squad: Oh hang on, looks like Asda do one similar over here for a tenner, just a tad smaller.

They can be bulky but it’s much better than actively buying disposable cups for use at home. Hell, I’ve even bought a takeaway coffee from a local chain in the afternoon, rinsed it out, and put my own coffee in it for that evening’s shift at work.

Reminds me of how service industry workers are so used to negativity now that it’s depressing

Nah I jest. Spidey bois are our friends, they’re unsung heroes of the pest-killing world.

I’m still not a fan though.

Absolutely.

You need a lighter in front of the nozzle first. This isn’t amateur hour.

Fucking hell, thank you. I thought I was going quite mad - I’d just taken a detour in solving it instead.

Cheers friend!

Alright, education time needed!

I’m a fair few years out from my entry level uni maths module, so:

In between the second and third step of the solution, why is 1a / 2√a = 6

not evaluating as

a/√a = 12 ?

Charizard origin story.

Both overrated. The good ones have a fairly low financial input on a monthly basis. The worst ones can set your house on fire.

Highly exciting.

haven’t got opposable thumbs, have they?

Could have really stirred the pot in 2011 with “u mad bro?”

Three word word of the year. Would have been a banger.

Wireback sounds like an AI cover of a Justin Timberlake single.

It’s a bit of a wank article to be honest - it doesn’t even go on to say if the SIM was delivered. Why not wait the extra day and publish the article after it was due to be delivered?

If it didn’t get delivered then it’s easy meat for Trump-kicking, and if it did get delivered then you’d get some sort of review from some other poor fucker daft enough to sign up to it.

Bit of a waste of time really.

Maybe spend more than twelve dollars and a pizza for the poor intern that writes the intro sequence next time too!

That’s very kind of you, thank you for the crash course - some great pointers!

What a shame.

Their work on the Doom port to 3DO was an absolutely olympic task. It was a shame following the rapid downward spiral of their health on Bluesky.

Her last post on her crowdfunder was a kick right in the feels too:

“…So I can make a worthy entrance for reuniting with my one true love, Jennell Jaquays.”

Rest well.

I know it’s a cult classic, but I couldn’t get my head around the film, it didnt enjoy it at all. Perhaps it’s because I went in with the desire to see another J-horror in the vein of Ring or Ju-On or Dark Water etc.

I’m going to treat myself to an Ito box set after Christmas and read the visual novels instead I think, give it another bash.

Honestly I never opened it. I have a Master System II and in fairness, the difference in game ports are negligible for the most part, so I never really looked at repairing it.

Speaking more broadly, I wouldn’t mind learning how to solder - my skills have mostly been in software rather than hardware. Things like fucking about with a Raspberry Pi and their expansion boards sounds like a right laugh.

Game Gear “services” are quite common now - you can get them recapped to solve the infamously troublesome sound dropouts, and most will change the screen to a far more power efficient LCD display as well to let you play at night.

It still eats batteries, but at a much slower rate.

I’m just gutted I left mine in the garage in storage where the damp air fucked it for good