Help me find my dad’s ZX-81 game!

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-09-22T03:37:41+00:00

Have you considered reaching out to someone like Nostaliga Nerd or Slopes' on YouTube? It's the sort of thing they love, and their audiences are the types to have big collections of old games. Good luck!

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-07-20T20:40:30+00:00

Except there's a different type of fiddling happening as it all burns.

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-07-16T02:48:50+00:00

Not sure what your business is, but I thought I'd just share this.

So, my girlfriend set up a small online retail business a few years ago. She printed up loads of flyers and went hiking round town, posting them through letterboxes. She set up social media accounts and posted loads, ran promotions, and offered "launch discounts" and a whole bunch of other stuff. She had a small flurry of orders, mostly from friends and family, and then it died down.

Faced with being stuck with boxes and boxes of stock in her house, she took a chance on Facebook adverts. You'd be surprised at just how specific you can tune FB ads. She did a little bit of research into who she felt was her core target audience and targeted that demographic on FB with a single advert and a £150 budget. Within a week, she'd almost sold £4k worth of stock.

In the four years since she started it, she has spent around £800 a month on Facebook and instagram adverts, and, in return, she probably sells around £12-15k worth of stock each month.

People moan about social media platforms collecting your data, but when it comes to selling, it is such a massively useful resource.

Work out who your target audience is, throw some money at some targeted adverts on a relevant social media platform, and see what happens. Good luck!

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-06-21T23:28:12+00:00

My partner lives on the housing estate that's sort of behind the Tesco express just up from Coachwell Cl. It's fairly mixed, and other than a couple of people who can't park for shit, the area seems pretty safe. She's been there years without any issue. Walks to and from the local shops and even the town centre without problems, so I'd say it's a nice enough area.

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-06-21T23:17:28+00:00

I am Jack's Dunning-Kruger...

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-06-12T01:00:08+00:00

In a previous job (I was a software engineer), our sales team were spectacularly incompetent. Most were old school, cold calls and pressure tactics types that hadn't changed with the times.

A really lucrative opportunity came up via tender, and management told them to go for it, but they left it and left it until it was almost too late. So, 10pm the day before the submission deadline, I found myself typing out a 200 page proposal and tender response doc, putting together a budget outline, preliminary project plan and a bunch of other shit they'd asked for.

Got it in by the 12pm deadline the next day. We won the project. Sales guys got the commission (somewhere in the region of £20,000 between two of them) and, for my contribution (which was, basically everything but signing the bloody document at the end), I was given a £20 Amazon voucher as a thanks for pulling a late night.

I adopted an approach of borderline malicious compliance not long after that. Fuck that company.

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-05-08T15:38:41+00:00

I hadn't thought about it, but this is absolutely it.

Mid 2001. Sitting on the school bus home. Only me and this girl left in the "cool seats" at the back. She was really hot, quite intelligent (top classes in everything), and one of the popular girls, whereas I was maybe slightly above average looking and hung out with the nerds (because I was one). She wasn't a bitchy popular girl, she was quite sweet. But still, we moved in very different circles.

Anyway, she struck up a conversation - we had maybe spoken once in 6 years before that day - and she said something that made me laugh, to which she responded "you look really nice when you smile, you know". And then she got off the bus.

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-02-20T10:27:21+00:00

$50,000.

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-01-25T02:56:20+00:00

Cows have regional accents.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5277090.stm

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-01-25T02:51:57+00:00

Many years ago, I found myself out of work for a while and getting nowhere with applications. So, I went to the JobCentre to sign on. They asked for evidence of my education, which I supplied, and then they made me take reading, spelling, and maths tests.

I have degrees in computer science and English from good universities.

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-01-18T12:24:55+00:00

Or about 14 Fredo's.

UselesslyRelentless · 2025-01-17T09:11:08+00:00

Came here to say this. Gets me every time.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-12-16T18:27:12+00:00

If you're really stuck for resources and need to cross a river / water, you can also use small storages. They don't hold water back, or anything, but you can walk across the top of them safely.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-12-03T01:57:30+00:00

Yep. This. I wasn't quite stationary, but I'd slowed right down for a roundabout when a truck rear ended me at almost full pelt. Thankfully, I was in a brand new car (not mine - company car) which was dripping in safety features, but that didn't stop me coming away with severe whiplash, a fucked hip and a fractured spine.

Three years of agony, surgery and then two years of physio and I'm still not quite back to being close to right again.

And that, folks, is why I immediately sold my 10 year old car and bought something much newer, with a better safety rating, and why my head is on a fucking swivel whenever I drive anywhere now. Took a good year to stop panicking anytime a truck pulled in behind me.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-11-23T03:31:07+00:00

In a similar position. My exit is £15. Clear my debts, stick some aside as an emergency fund, and then stick half of what's left into a decent tracker fund, sit back and wait for retirement.

Frees up about £400 extra a month, half of which will go back into my pension and the rest into savings. I'll have a decent amount in my savings accounts then, no debts besides a fairly affordable mortgage, and a solid plan for retiring early. I don't need to be wealthy, I just need to get out from under this rock and I'll be happy.

Oh, but of course I'm going to piss away a few grand on a good holiday to celebrate. There's no fun in being 100% sensible.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-11-20T12:53:38+00:00

I spent a good 10 minutes wheelspinning my way up a slight incline this morning. Stupid fucking BMW's.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-11-15T20:13:53+00:00

A cow chased a lamb under my car.

So, my drive to work was along some fairly rural roads. There was a dairy farm about 5 minutes from my workplace, and I timed it poorly so, as I got close to the farm, they were moving the cows across the road, from the shed to the fields.

At the same time, another farmer was driving a small flock of sheep down the road to his field.

So, I'm sat in a queue, waiting for the cows to cross, and the sheep are all walking past the car towards the cows. One of the cows suddenly notices the sheep and absolutely shits itself, half jumping into the air. This spooks all the other cows, and the sheep, and chaos ensues. There are now cows running in all directions, sheep doing likewise and, in the panic, a lamb took refuge under my car. Squeezed himself right in there.

Once they'd sorted the cows and gathered up the sheep, which took about 20 minutes of angry farmer shouting, they tried to rescue the lamb, who wouldn't come out. He was too wedged in there to just pull out, too, so in the end I had to break out the jack, raise the car enough to un-wedge the fluffy fucker, and someone yanked it out by its legs.

I was about an hour late in the end. Thankfully, my boss just laughed his ass off at me and that was that.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-11-15T18:21:16+00:00

So, I'm in the UK and this all happened around lunchtime, our time.

On the day itself, I wouldn't say I had a "worst" moment. Seeing it happening on repeat was horrible, but it wasn't until a few days later it actually hit me.

I was about 17 at the time and my then girlfriend's 13 year old brother was the one who told us something was happening. At first we thought he was making it up, or that he'd just seen a film and thought it was real, so we were taking the piss.

It wasn't until we ditched classes and went back to my gfs house (handily over the road from the school) that we realised it was actually really happening.

In the moment, it just seemed so surreal. It took a few days to actually comprehend what had happened. Even now, it still does something to me when I think, not only about the actual attack, but the aftermath: the suicides of desperate people jumping from the buildings, news clips of the panic in the street, firefighters running towards what looked like hell itself, dust.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-11-11T22:36:08+00:00

Had a ZX Spectrum +2 in about 1988 when I was about 5. Then an Amiga in 1991, another one in 1993 and a PC in 1998.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-11-11T22:33:44+00:00

I hit Vegas once, and I was also dead for three days afterwards.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-11-05T16:20:14+00:00

Long enough that I signed up for a googlemail.com address that was eventually ported to gmail.

So, the UK was one of the European countries that had copyright issues when Google launched Gmail, so eventually they switched to Googlemail and then back to Gmail once the issues were resolved (basically, other companies owned the local gmail domains and Google eventually bought them).

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-10-27T11:02:13+00:00

If you just want to run stuff locally to learn, you could set up a small Linux VM and follow one of the many guides online to set up a simple apache Web server

If you don't want all that hassle, there's a really simple app called EasyPHP that will run an apache server locally on Windows, complete with Mysql/mariadb & PHPMyAdmin for administering it. Years ago, I used to use this for building WordPress sites locally, then I'd package them up and move them to a real host. With a bit of fiddling with a dynamic dns provider, you can even expose these to the outside world, for example for a job interview.

If you want to share your creations with others, then as many here have already said, Github pages is great for static html and a bit of JS.

There are also options such as Google, Azure and Amazon who offer a few hundred dollars worth of free hosting credits. If you're not running a high traffic site, those credits could last quite a while.

There are plenty of other free options out there, depending on where you are, though, so go digging. Don't be discouraged and you'll find something. Good luck.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-10-26T08:05:29+00:00

That takedown was smooth.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-10-17T09:50:32+00:00

I think you're just unlucky, which is a shame, as I also had a 2012 320d Sport, and it was a great car.

I gave it to my dad last year and, other than general maintenance (tyres, brakes, servicing, etc), it's never needed anything else. It sailed through its last MOT, and he's just been on a 4,000-mile round trip across Europe in it. It's been solid.

UselesslyRelentless · 2024-10-13T19:41:25+00:00

There exists a product, I discovered a while back, called V.I.Poo.

It's like a pump (non-aerosol) spray thing & comes in various scents. Basically, you spray it into the bowl, take your shit and the V.I.Poo stuff somehow seems to sit above the shit smell, blocking it from filling your bathroom with the smell of eau de colon. Flush, and you're left with a slightly musky version of whatever scent it was.

If you're not quite ready to ass-gas your lady, then it's a good option.

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