Flamekebab

Sounds like an improvement.

The fascist Hippocratic oath: “First do LOTS of harm”

It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen’s agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.

Mmmmm compiz. Wobbly windows, spinny cube virtual desktops, take me home!

I assume it was made to upsell people to better CPUs. Celerons have always been awful.

That said, if Win7 came preinstalled then we’re talking about different eras of Celeron, at least, I cannot imagine it would be as mediocre as a low-mid AMD CPU from 2004!

I always think of an ex of mine defending criticism of her craptop. “It was good for its time!” No, no it wasn’t. It was built around a Celeron. It was built to be trash. It was ewaste with extra steps.

Godus.

I know lots of people hate it but taken in isolation it’s okay. I found its aesthetics charming and its pace generally pretty chill. It wasn’t good but it wasn’t terrible. Low medium perhaps but I have comfortable memories of listening to an audiobook whilst playing it.

An N64 game I’ve never heard of before? Mark it on the calendar because that hasn’t happened in many a sparrow’s moon.

Thank you! I felt like I was the only person on the planet to think that those games only hit the dizzying heights of “okay, fine at a push”. They’re perfectly serviceable and not much more.

Uni isn’t free in much of the UK, so… lots of people?

I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make. I know it’s about the UK…?

Whilst the Celeron was indeed utter cack, 2 GB has me making four Yorkshiremen-style “2GB? Luxury!” style comments.

I used to run Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 1362 WMLi back in 2005. I had 512 MB of RAM and a 2800+ Sempron processor.

That said, looking at this:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1351vs710/Mobile-AMD-Sempron-2800+-vs-Intel-Celeron-M-1.60GHz

My old Sempron was a better CPU than that piece of junk Celeron you’ve got there. Giving it 2GB of RAM is hilarious!

Seems like an awful lot of debt to go into for something that’s really not that valuable. If the certificate is the goal then a masters or PhD will end up being what’s needed and faking your way through undergrad won’t do much good.

I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

Ultimately it seems pretty dumb. If you’re not going to actually learn while you’re there, why bother? University isn’t mandatory.

That was actually my biggest disappointment with my degree - the course didn’t teach anywhere near enough for my tastes. However I would hope that I was an outlier in that respect!

This makes me seriously question the level of testing required to get a licence where you are. By that I mean that by the standards I’m used to you were wildly under prepared for driving on the open road and shouldn’t have been put in that situation until you were ready.

It took me three attempts to pass my driving test. I could actually operate a car just fine for all of them but it wasn’t until the third that I was actually ready to be on the roads unsupervised. There is a lot going on and until you’ve built up the experience and habits to do it safely it’s… A lot.

I think I was also 19 when I got my licence but didn’t really drive at all until I was in my mid 30s. I always lived places it simply wasn’t necessary. If if stayed there then I doubt I’d have ever got a car. I find driving incredibly tedious.

Honestly? Not really. My best memories of gaming were in my 20s in my student flat. Lots of Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

I played games in the early '90s and don’t have much nostalgia for most of the games themselves. The late '90s had the PSX and N64 and whilst Mario Kart 64 is probably the best in the series I can’t say I feel most of the games of those platforms were “the best”.

I think I would say that the best games are the PC games that came out between 1998 and 2002. Those I can genuinely enjoy today.

I cannot say the same for much that came out in the 1980s. Most of them entertain me for about thirty seconds, without hyperbole.

Once we get past the early 2000s I’m hard pressed to find any games that I think are truly “the best”. 2007 was pretty damn good as was 2009.

When it comes to gaming with friends any game can be good. The game is practically just a framing device. I’ve not made many friends whilst gaming. I’ve gamed with friends but mostly I’ve found that people either just want to be arseholes or are extremely serious about playing online. In person I’ve found that the skill disparity means that it’s a complete crapshoot. I played a lot of Mario Kart 64 over a ten year period and don’t have any outstanding memories of it being the best thing ever (I think it’s the best MK game but that’s because the others are worse).

Mostly I like games that I can use as escapism. Exploring fun places and getting away from the day to day. I’ve rarely had all that much fun gaming with other people. Exceptions exist though - playing through the recent TMNT game with my teenaged niece was a blast. Playing KeyWe with my wife was also great.

Mick-rowave. Based on how Jen pronounces it in Bob’s Burgers

Apple

I was so pleased when a brief for a thing at work was “no frameworks”.

At best a court will rule that he can’t be punished.

Which manufacturers make equivalents of the 6A? I don’t want to spend lots of money and basically only care about a decent camera. I barely use my phone by modern standards.