"for fuck's sake Baphomet, can you stop putting candles on the fucking carpet in the shape of a pentagram? I'm all for your beliefs and rituals, but I'm also all for getting my fucking deposit back"
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?"
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.
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.
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!
It's funny, because a boy I used to work with in a major UK city centre with lots of traffic congestion used to say "go for the gap in front of the ones with a nice car, they'll stop".
I miss the Directory listings of a search engine. It was great for finding a series of niche sites based on "Quake III news" or "Subaru Impreza owners club" or such like.
SEO has ruined the web 1.0 efforts to just shotgun news and opinion onto the web (fact checking was purely optional) - everything's just a bit too clean and corporate now. Shame.
I'm just chuckling at the thought of a USB-to-CCS converter.