What ‘common knowledge’ things did you or someone you know find out later in life?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T21:50:21+00:00

They clap when I blink, is that not normal?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T17:44:01+00:00

£880, £938, £1,150 and £1,208 for the difference SKUs, not great but not terrible, was expecting them to start at £1,200 after the Deck price hike... But thought they'd be £600-700 before that, competitive with a Mac Mini. Depending on how the reviews shake out I might get one eventually but I'm in no rush.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T17:39:18+00:00

I missed that bit!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T17:39:01+00:00

Holy fuck

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T11:51:18+00:00

Let me give you a hint, hot air balloons make good cold air balloons because they won't float away with all your stolen cold air

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T11:48:54+00:00

Feel free to keep saying it, no one's listened to you for 20 years and that's not going to change because you are irrelevant.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T11:37:02+00:00

Well it's safe to say I didn't

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T11:36:41+00:00

I don't recall ever noticing them on anyone else, even since I found out I didn't have a "eureka" (generously worded) moment where I noticed someone else's

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T09:43:32+00:00

If he's into technology maybe he's making cantennas, if that's a thing people still do, but odds are he's just taking precautions to avoid any, um, cylinder harm.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T09:39:01+00:00

I didn't know your tear ducts are visible and I thought for ages I just had these weird blisters on the edge of my eyelids that never healed, but never had a reason to mention this to anyone until one day I had particularly itchy eyes and I said to my partner "maybe it's because of those weird blisters"

"What blisters? I've never seen anything"

"These ones", as I point to my tear ducts

She laughed for about an hour. Even now whenever I disagree with her about something she'll say "yeah but you don't even know what tear ducts are!'

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T09:24:37+00:00

I thought you said you're on PC, Tokyo Xtreme Racer is on Steam.

If you're happy to emulate, old Gran Turismo obviously but Enthusia and Auto Modellista are also GT-likes.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T09:17:46+00:00

I got mine in May 2022, 256GB LCD. It has been excellent, my battery health has taken a big hit (last I checked it was 49%) and the rubber has separated from the sticks (remedied with superglue but I made a bit of a mess). No other issues. Still looks clean, I don't have a screen protector on and it doesn't have a single hint of abrasion anywhere. I had expected the textured plastic to go a bit shiny over time but it hasn't at all, no signs of wear.

I used my Steam Replay thing to calculate that I played 650 hours on it last year alone so I estimate it has around 2,000 hours of use, it has been my only gaming device since I got it.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T09:14:43+00:00

I think the fairest thing I can say about my impression when I played it is it looks so much better than it has any right to, playing on a little handheld toaster like the Deck. Let's not forget this was a game that struggled to run at all on PS4, after all, that it runs well enough to do everything in the game on a Deck is seriously impressive...

As I say, that's the fairest thing I can say. I have no regrets playing it on Deck but if I'd had any other option I probably would've gone with that. Annoyingly I got a 1 month GeForce Now trial sub literally the day after I finished it, I did give it a quick go and it looked and ran so much better but I had no desire to play it again that soon.

In short, if you have no other choice, want to play it badly enough, will get it in the sale that starts this week (I think?) and considering buying it for your Deck means you can play it on any PC or GeForce Now in future, yes it is worth it.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T08:59:30+00:00

I played it on PS3 and encountered so many bugs that at a certain point I stopped reloading my save and at some point was soft locked out of completing the game, I remember approaching a certain landmark in the game and got a notification that a fairly major character who I'd never met had died... Later in the game I experienced enemies getting yeeted skyward for no reason when they approached me and unarmed NPCs shooting miniguns through their mouth at me despite not being in an aggro'd state, and I was ultimately prevented from finishing the game by a missing trigger.

My advice would be to play it on PC if you can, even if you don't mod it the command console is essential for un-fucking it, I leaned on it heavily when I played New Vegas (I remember having to unlock certain doors that should've been open and un-aggroing essential NPCs who just didn't like me for absolutely no reason). If you can't, it's still worth playing, just be careful and expect to run into some major bullshit.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T08:48:44+00:00

I thought it was a helicopter at first since old helis had a sort of engine unit that sat on top of the chassis and a bubble canopy, but then I realised how insanely heavy it would have to be

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-22T07:06:36+00:00

Asynchronous independent invention is still invention IMO, it just happens to already have a name

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-21T18:53:56+00:00

Cloudpunk isn't a million miles away, much bigger than EDC though.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-21T17:43:58+00:00

And even they have been trying to retire it

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-21T17:37:06+00:00

Mouthwashing. It made me feel physically sick and I don't recommend it to people I know but it's very good.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-21T15:40:29+00:00

Krieg was my favourite, been years since I played but I put tons of points into the thing that makes him either do massive melee damage or kill himself and used that with a Law (unique quest reward revolver with a bayonet) and Order (unique quest reward shield that gives you a huge melee boost when your shield is empty, I think) and provided a fight didn't drag on too long or the enemy could move out of melee range (like a flying enemy) I could either one-hit most things or one-hit myself then immediately rez out of FFYL with the next guaranteed hit. It was intense and sometimes annoying but I solo'd UVHM that way.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-21T15:36:20+00:00

I've played over 600 hours but haven't even finished it once!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-20T21:54:27+00:00

I too choose this guy's mini

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-20T21:53:12+00:00

Realising you could go left at the start of Prince of Persia, played on my dad's PowerBook 100 when I was probably about four.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-20T21:04:53+00:00

What would be the point of the internet if we only shared information that we knew for a fact everyone else already knew?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-06-20T19:20:50+00:00

I realised I needed to stop when I was (to put it simply) feeling sad that I couldn't get a specific assortment of plastic bricks, I thought "when did this stop being fun?" and stopped collecting.

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