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Comment · 3 days ago
Happening in the UK too though.
Comment · 5 days ago
Hahaha
Comment · 7 days ago
Both!
Comment · 11 days ago
Comment · 11 days ago
You could store it at a higher bandwidth than the cassette tapes that games came on back then, particularly in the UK and Europe. So have the first 4 minutes of the tape be the game loader, as code, stored in one of the analog / digital formats in use back then. No QR codes necessary, but fascinating to see people coming up with a similar concept here from first principles.
Comment · 12 days ago
Hmm. It's made me think about Lièvre à la Royale (Hare à la Royale), but of course Hares are not rabbits (they taste gamier).

The guys from Fallow made a video on YouTube about attempting to make a really good one.

Apparently Lapin à la Moutarde is the classic rabbit dish.

Comment · 12 days ago
Comment · 15 days ago
Perhaps a version of the Doorman Fallacy, ie. replacing a doorman with an automatic door seems like an obvious win, but it turns out the doorman was performing a number of other vital functions (customer experience, for example) which weren't considered.
Comment · 15 days ago
Yes, but this is different, it's completely banned, and presumably would mean that all over 18 subreddits would have to be shut off for the UK, unless Reddit were prepared to engage in heavy moderation.
Comment · 15 days ago
Fascinating to see how this will be enforced, given that US sites like Reddit carry this, and it's almost impossible to filter it at a per-post level.

Will they just ban adult subreddits for UK users (by which I mean anything with 18+ content of any sort)?

Comment · 16 days ago
Yes. Had I not gone private I would have died.
Comment · 16 days ago
I'm ever so sorry to hear this.

This is probably very unwelcome advice, but I would strongly recommend a spiritual practice of some kind. When things are wretched, slowing down for a moment and turning inward can help. Prayer (to whatever form makes sense) or at least Yoga (something that isn't passive) may be more helpful than meditation in these circumstances, but I appreciate this might not be right for you.

Comment · 16 days ago
It's rather depressing how little of this advice would be helpful under the lamentable NHS in the UK.
Comment · 23 days ago
This is glorious; how we've fallen.

As regards sports, I attended a public school [note the terminology here as per the article], and we still had the "three half day" system. Those of us who were hopeless at sports could actually pursue personal interests in some of those afternoons, but I think that was an innovation.

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