Playing Sonic 1, Super Monaco GP and Alexx Kidd In Miracle World at my friend’s hours after school. Probably my introduction to computer games in general.

Then getting my own Mk II for Christmas, probably 1991. The best Christmas ever!

And getting addicted to Road Rash. I bought that game having never played it and hoping it would be good, as things often were back then. Turned out to be a truly superb conversion, probably prefer it to the mega drive version.

That’s an interesting question that I’d never thought about before.

I asked chatGPT, which predictably bullshitted me and said they’d decided grams made more sense than kilograms for scientific lab work.

But then I searched and found this from the user tomalator on Reddit:

“When the French were developing the metric system, they suggested the unit be called a grave (pronounced grav) being the mass of 1L of water (1000 cm3)

The French at this time being in the middle of a revolution against the rich notice that it sounded a lot like the word Graf, being a word for Duke or Earl, and they wanted to avoid affiliating with the nobility, so they changed the measurement to be the mass of 1mL of water (1 cm3) and called it the gramme

They then noticed that it was inconvenient to use a mass unit so small, so they changed back to the 1L of water definition, but kept the name gramme for the base, and threw out the word grave in favor of the kilogramme.

And that’s why the kilogram is the base SI unit and not the gram. I had the exact same question when I learned the SI unites.”

A rare rational outcome for one of these trials

Also sometimes with a wireless issue there’s an easy workaround.

The ancient Broadcom WiFi module is the most problematic aspect of my 2012 MacBook Pro, but I got a fully Linux compatible tp-link USB wifi adapter for about £10.

I was so confused as a child in the UK when after hearing about “jaywalking” being a crime for years I finally found out it meant “crossing the street”

Probably Sonic 1 on the Master System.

One of the first computer games I ever played at my friend’s house, and came bundled with my own Master System for Christmas 1991.

I wrote that it was people who sneeze “super loudly” that seem to be doing it for attention, not just anyone who makes any vocalisation at all.

Some people feel the need to turn every sneeze up to 11. Saying like a cartoon character is a good way of putting it.

In the UK it’s shepherd’s delight / warning.

That’s an interesting little US/UK difference I never knew before today.

You’re totally normal and in fact it’s the people who are, consciously or unconsciously, choosing to vocalise the “ah-choo!” that are the weird ones, at least in my book.

It actually really bugs me when people sneeze super loudly, I swear some people just do it for attention.

I’ll bite.

It might have been different a few decades ago, but in the UK these days fries are still fries. Nobody would ever ask for a Big Mac and chips. Chips are specifically much fatter ‘chipped’ potatoes. And potato chips are crisps.

So if we’re talking objectively… Fries are just the same US and UK. But US potato chips aren’t actually ‘chipped’, they’re very thinly sliced. And ‘crisps’ are indeed very crisp.

So I’d actually say the UK descriptions are more objectively correct.

Something about how her face is drawn in these comics really bugs me.

The only problem I’ve had was the Mac not going asleep properly, and immediately waking up. But that’s something I encountered on other distros including Mint also.

Found a fix for it.

Ctrl key hasn’t been a problem. Often on many distros the old hybrid Nvidia graphics and the old Broadcom card were both problems. But ok on Mint and EOS.

Endeavour OS has been the best I’ve found on my 2012 MBP

I didn’t buy an aeropress for years as I had a coffee machine and was like, surely that’s better.

But finally got one, and my god. The simplicity. The ease of cleaning. The nice coffee.

It’s basically my sole way of making coffee now, despite more pricey alternatives at my disposal.

The headline here made it sound to me like they were claiming people with tattoos were the ones making poor judgments.

I was like, that’s a pretty ballsy claim to be making.

Actually Sonic 3 is a slight improvement in this regard once you get the hang of things - Tails can be more helpful, and carry Sonic to higher ledges

Sonic 2.

Controlling Tails can be good fun if you’re very young and don’t fully know what you’re doing!

Can be hard keeping both characters on screen at times though.

After resisting at first, I started listening to the RDR1 soundtrack again recently and then the nostalgia became so strong I just had to buy it. I bought the Switch cartridge from Amazon for £30 a few days ago.

Is it a fair price? Not really. Is it a game I don’t expect a heavy discount on any time soon because it’s Rockstar? Yes. Am I enjoying playing again, at way higher resolution and clarity than it ever was on PS3? Absolutely.

It’s actually a better port than I was expecting, and much more of an upgrade than I expected from PS3.

Great song. I love finally being mature enough to just play anything I feel like hearing.

The Settlers II… what a game.

I’m still desperate to find a port of the Mac version, the DOS intro just doesn’t hit the same.