PhobosAnomaly

Hey this looks brilliant actually. Like Dear Esther in hell. Nice.

A good friend put it well:

"It's like a nice sunrise. I've seen it a thousand times before but I'm still going to admire it"

must be daytime on Saturn too else it would be too dark to see

Yeah I didn't really think it through at any more than a superficial level, I was just in it for the lols.

I can't say I use genAI tools unless I'm having a really hard time with either a foreign piece of code, or an academic text that I'm just not grasping and need a reworded form of to help it sink in.

As for a relationship, my experience is that the further in you get, the less "praise" you get, and the more "direct developmental feedback" is the common line taken. Back in the dating days, an irritating quirk or annoying facet might have been warmly addressed with "hey it's cool that you're passionate about that game, have you not tried shouting at the TV though? It's not helpful for you or the gameplay"... now it's just "stop being a cunt" or "have you tried being less shit?"

Fucking hell, speaking with ChatGPT would leave you* like Randy Marsh.

"You've made great progress on this, here is how to take it further"

"I appreciate your input, it helps me understand better"

"You're very welcome! Don't worry, your kindness and humor have secured you a VIP spot in the Al utopia."

*edit: not you you, but you as in the OP in the screen grab. But maybe you you, I don't know it's 2026 do what you like really

If you're anything like me, gym time would be the first thing getting fucked off. I've been quite enjoying putting the miles in round the town again. It's remarkable how much urban environments change in the couple of weeks that you've sacked the runs off.

Good luck with your father. It's hard work after all.

Bro had an alarm set, ain't nobody gonna make him late for a date with the real world!

I was (and still am really) shit with analogue sticks. I got fairly good at playing Quake II on PlayStation with the lookup/lockdown mapped to L1 and R1. Same as the original Quake on PC, never really used +mouselook coming from Doom, just mapped them to buttons near the firing keys.

The dual-stick setup is much more intuitive though in fairness.

Speaking of graffiti, some of the bantz scrawled on the walls of Thank Goodness You're Here made me laugh. Great waste of a few hours.

Of course. I can only speak for brands that I've had good experience with, there's other manufacturers like Nike or On Running or Hoka or Asics or Saucony etc.

The Brooks Adrenaline range offered the best cushioning and support for my overpronation style of running (as in, I naturally land on the inside edge of my foot and roll out - Supination is landing on the outside edge of your foot and rolling in, and neutral is landing squarely) or the New Balance 680 range got me through my first half-marathon.

My advice would be to head to a local running store and see if they do gait analysis - basically they get you to run for fifteen or twenty seconds on a treadmill looking at a fixed point in front of you, and a camera records your footfall on the treadmill to see where you could benefit from cushioning (if at all), or take your old pair of trainers down and let them examine the wear pattern (only works if you specifically use the pair for running).

Secondly, don't bother buying the latest models of shoe unless you're an athlete or at least semi-pro - find out what model number the latest range is (for example in Feb 2026 the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 26 is being sold), and search for last season's model number to get them for a fair bit cheaper.

And by extension, footwear too.

I put so many miles through these knees in cheap trainers, when I learned about actual running hooves from Brooks or New Balance, my world changed forever...

...or at least the shinsplints and impact pains went away!

Yeah alright ta, how was yours?

Expensive one this end. We've had this sofa for eleven years and it's put in it's fair share of service. We ordered another one from Ikea...

...but the other half says "well seeing as it's the biggest piece of furniture in the living room, why don't we do the carpets while we're at it?" and I'm like fair enough, makes sense...

...and then she's like "well if we're doing the carpets, we might as well paint the walls and the ceiling so we don't fuck the new carpet" and annoyingly I was like fair enough, makes a whole lot of sense.

A pricey week, but it does get three jobs done in one weekend I suppose.