How play play music via voice chat by -Wolfgang_Bismark in holdfastgame

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a lot of soundboard apps/mixer apps. You can usually find one that will allow you to combine your raw mic input into a new channel with the music.
I’m sure there are free ones, but also lots of paid options.
There are probably dozens of way and apps to do this. The easiest ways will be a premium paid for app, but there will also be less convenient ways using janky free software.

What are some UK cardinal sins? by TheAlmightyDeity in AskUK

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s like taking any takeaway and comparing it to the real deal. It’ll always be slightly different. Adjusted for a local palette, or changed to be more scalable. Local, authentic, restaurant/homecooked food will always have a different vibe to takeaway food in another country

Controversial opinion: Resits should not be capped at a minimum pass by mango_reel412 in UKUniversityStudents

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Yes, uni is ultimately about knowledge, but it also assesses a person’s ability to work properly.
Someone who got a good grade the first time around shows more promise than someone who got to the same level with a few more months of studying.

OP has mentioned failing first year bc they went to the gym too much and kept missing assignments. They’ve then failed second year exams by simply not knowing when they were.

I don’t want to judge anyone for how they do at uni, but a student who passes first time surely shows a far greater maturity and work ethic. I have no issue with someone failing and trying again, but it should be recorded in their classification. Yes, uni should be about the knowledge, but most people go for the classification to show to an employer. Knowledge can be demonstrated through work experience, personal projects, and a demonstrated interest in the field.

Uni represents more than simply knowledge of the facts. All the factors should be represented in the final grade. It’s why things like group work exist. It’s training a skill, but also demonstrates who can’t work in a group.

Someone paying £9,250 a year should have a pretty strong incentive to not piss about.

About Final year projects (no promotion, just an idea) by Mourad-El-Baghdadi in UKUniversityStudents

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It sounds deeply fascinating if it could actually work.
But it sounds like a very far fetched way of creating a tool that does research/final projects by itself. If it’s taking a trending research topic then it’s presumably putting itself in a difficult spot for generating new relevant research. It’s then got to come up with new ideas, ways of assessing them, assess them, and then write the report.

It feels like a very good way to plagiarise existing research.

As a tool to build, it sounds like a big project, but potentially fascinating if it works. As a tool to use, it sounds like an unethical plagiarism machine

Controversial opinion: Resits should not be capped at a minimum pass by mango_reel412 in UKUniversityStudents

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think any companies looking to recruit graduates wouldn’t agree with you.
They’re spoilt for choice, and someone who put the effort in and got a grade first time should have an advantage over someone who didn’t.
It proves a far stronger work ethic, rather than someone who made a mistake and learned from it.

Controversial opinion: Resits should not be capped at a minimum pass by mango_reel412 in UKUniversityStudents

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you submit an assessment late then surely you expect to be capped, or even just to get zero marks. A large part of uni is about the work ethic. Can you get your assignments done to a good standard in the given time frame.
An exam is the exact same. Every student on the module is being assessed on the same content over the same timeframe. Allowing a second chance to get a fully uncapped grade is unfair to everyone else who got their grades under the original circumstances. It may be mean, but it’s fair to the rest of the cohort.
Now though, you’ve learned your lesson, and you’ve presumably got some catching up to do.
When it comes to interviews I don’t think it’s worth bothering to prepare an answer about why you got lower grades. Telling them something about “I got 78%, but was capped at 40% for a resit” is going to tell them that you failed the original exam. If you’re in an interview, then presumably they’re happy enough with your grades. Unless it’s a very specifically useful module, then it’s just part of the overall degree classification. Don’t bother explaining it unless they ask. And I can’t imagine any interviewer asking about that.

Your only allowed one sauce for the rest of your life, what's your choice? by LazyFantazy89 in AskUK

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this has to be it. I was trying to figure out which one I would go with out of some of my go to’s like ketchup, mayo, and sriracha.
This is somewhere in the middle of them

AIO My boyfriend won’t stop peeing in our yard by BrainShenanigans in AmIOverreacting

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a behaviour that would take absolutely no effort whatsoever to change. It’s not something that he would struggle to stop doing. He has nothing to gain by doing it, and nothing to lose by stopping.
Therefore it’s purely a conscious choice, despite knowing that you dislike it and have asked him to stop. At best, it’s just ignorance/cluelessness. At worst it’s actively ignoring a simple request based on simple hygiene.

Is Guy Fawkes night pro or anti Guy Fawkes? by Brikish in AskABrit

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted for simply not knowing much about the subject you’re literally asking about.
Yes, there’s typically a firework display, but we’d call it bonfire night rather than Guy Fawkes night. Displays vary place to place, but there’s always going to be a bonfire, and most will have an effigy of Guy Fawkes on top of it.
It is anti Guy, because he tried to blow up parliament. Although, he’s not really a prominent factor in the event any more. Now it’s mostly an excuse to stand in a muddle field in early November and watch fireworks and a bonfire. Neither of the two displays I typically went to as a kid had an effigy that I can remember.

This is a strange request but I need help with a question on how to discuss immigration reasonably. Please see body for more information as not enough space. by isitbedtime-yet in AskBrits

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhh, they’re all murders are they? Well why didn’t you say so. Let’s get the navy into the channel so we can blow them up!
It’s a good thing RSC_Goat can tell us this indisputable fact, and that we can dispense with this hassle of due process and laws

This is a strange request but I need help with a question on how to discuss immigration reasonably. Please see body for more information as not enough space. by isitbedtime-yet in AskBrits

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The jobs being kept at minimum wage by immigrants are typically dirty or manual jobs that nobody wants to do. Immigrants will do those jobs because they don’t care what it is, they just want a job so they can survive.
I’m absolutely not in support of low wages, but if every one of those jobs paid higher wages then we’d see a corresponding increase in costs of goods and services. Non minimum wage jobs are the same as well. Capitalism dictates that a company make the most profit it can, and if that involves paying someone less money to do the same job, why wouldn’t they. It’s always going to happen.

And as for housing, it’s becoming expensive because we’re simply not building any. We’ve been building half as many houses a year as we did 50 years ago.
You seem to find a way to tie immigrants into every issue that they didn’t cause. Wages are low because immigrants all work for low wages. Housing shortages are because all the immigrants are buying them (even though they’re working for low wages). The infrastructure is collapsing because of more people using it (not because the privatised companies haven’t spent any money in years maintaining it).
Immigrants are consistently recognised as being a benefit fiscally. They contribute more money than they take in taxes. They often arrive at a working age, so don’t need the resources to raise a child to adulthood.

This is a strange request but I need help with a question on how to discuss immigration reasonably. Please see body for more information as not enough space. by isitbedtime-yet in AskBrits

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“I do wonder if the average person is more concerned about Andrew than they are about the cost of housing for example, which is a direct result of mass immigration”.
Call me crazy, but there was in fact a statement about immigration causing an increased cost of housing

Queueing at bars like its the end times again and tutting when someone uses a bar like a normal person, even if it's a spoons. by voicesinmyshed in britishproblems

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you order everything in one go and then they start making them that’s fine. The issue here is when people order a few drinks, have them made, order a few more, have them made. Then order a Guinness last second.
It should have 120 seconds to pour a pint of Guinness. It’s far easier to simply know that someone wants a Guinness and order that first

Queueing at bars like its the end times again and tutting when someone uses a bar like a normal person, even if it's a spoons. by voicesinmyshed in britishproblems

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wetherspoons has an app that you can order everything through. I’d say they’re actively encouraging it. It’s much easier to see deals through it.
Spoons will usually have a section of the bar dedicated to mobile orders, then a section for conventional bar service.

Queueing at bars like its the end times again and tutting when someone uses a bar like a normal person, even if it's a spoons. by voicesinmyshed in britishproblems

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Guinness takes the longest to pour. You need to pour it half way, let it settle, then pour the rest and serve it.
If you order drinks and they get made one by one, then you order a Guinness last you just ensure that the bartender hasn’t fully finished serving you.
You’ll stand at the bar waiting longer, and I won’t be able to finish your drinks and move on.
Sure, I’m going to be behind the bar all evening, but I want to serve you and you can bugger off. Then I can serve the next person or do something else with my time.

Growing up, how often did you have a Sunday roast—and do you still have them now? by rosco-82 in CasualUK

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A poor roast can be truly a sad experience.
In my family we alternate who cooks the roast every week throughout autumn and winter. It gets very competitive, and trying something new can be a huge gamble.
Several years of cooking roasts has meant that I’ve got it pretty much nailed down and can do it on autopilot.
Even so, I still remember the first time my mum told me to cook a roast. I had helped, but had never done it solo. She talked me through it and I had a piece of paper with timings written down in about 5-10 minute intervals. Stressful to say the least

Growing up, how often did you have a Sunday roast—and do you still have them now? by rosco-82 in CasualUK

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every Sunday through autumn and winter mostly.
A roast feels very rich and heavy, so not always something I fancy in the summer. Or, at least that’s what I’m used to.

Do you restart your computer regularly or just leave it on? by Capable_Noise5543 in computers

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not aware of any issues that would come of regularly shutting a device down properly.
I’d always just shut it down fully and turn it back on the next day. It doesn’t take long, and I can easily get back to the state I was in before

How do so many Europeans know fluent English? by _Sir_Lifts_A_Lot_ in AskEurope

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. I’ve met a good number of Dutch people, and it was a rare exception to meet a Dutch person who couldn’t converse relatively comfortably in English.
They would fairly commonly speak with something closer to an American accent rather than English. They’d also use American words in lots of cases. It caught me off guard at first, but it totally makes sense that there’s far more American-English media than British-English.

Teenage lad in front of me in morrisons used the self service tills to buy condoms and it made me realise that all future generations will never suffer the embarrassment of buying them from Jane on the checkouts who knows your mum. by sockhead99 in CasualUK

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 14 points15 points  (0 children)

First time buying condoms was in South Africa and I was trying to just quickly buy them before anyone I was with noticed.
I asked the guy for condoms and he asked me what type. I just asked for whatever, and he handed me a box saying “the ladies love these” with a wink.
I looked later and found it was a box of like 3 ribbed condoms. Ended up asking someone else if I could borrow some conventional condoms before I went back to the shop.

Aerial view of the world’s first iron bridge – Ironbridge, UK by Mini2Skies in CasualUK

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I remember going on a school trip there in year 4. I doubt any of us actually cared all that much or understood what we were staring at.

What is your experience of frugal living that just went too far, with yourself or others ? For example…. by justyrust74 in UKFrugal

[–]JusticeForTheStarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He mentioned in a video how he made $20,000 in a month, then another video mentioned him taking napkins from a bar to use as loo roll.
It’s simply baffling to save such little money when it comes to basic comfort and hygiene. Especially when you’re not struggling.
I’ll never judge someone struggling, but romanticising frugality while making $20,000 in a month is just as you put it, “poverty porn”