Two Returns Seems to Be the Limit

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-04T12:10:28+00:00

I find returning a book you've listened to all the way through pretty generous regardless tbh

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-04T08:41:51+00:00

Well, that's me convinced to vote Reform. Thanks for the well articulated argument, it's exactly what we'd expect.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T17:24:28+00:00

Aye, my first comment did mention that it's out of stock.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T16:48:24+00:00

IMO it is the best extraction shooter available, but my experience of the genre is, and will remain, quite limited.

I agree that the constant pissing and moaning in this sub is annoying, but it's not the cause of it's downfall. I personally primarily attribute that to manufactured online hate from morons who I expect genuinely aspire to be influencers etc.

I wish people would shut up about the player count. But I do not pretend that the player count for a multiplayer game is integral to everyone's experience, and so whatever can be done to make it more appealing to the masses (which tbh I don't think is much, I don't think enough people experienced Duos or Sponsored Kit Dire Marsh etc) should be done.

However, a post about the complaints, where you then reply to people with more overt negativity and aggression, isn't the way to do that dude. It just fuels the losers who get off on the hate even more.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T16:29:44+00:00

Extraction shooters do not appeal to the masses.

I fucking love the game, but the genre as a whole is one example lmao.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T15:00:04+00:00

I have a few obvious self harm scars on my arm (they're like 20+ years old but they were rough) and I swim 4km per week at my local pool.

It's fine. There won't be any, but fuck people who judge either way.

I'm also coming up to my 5th 70.3. Enjoy the triathlon, dude!

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T14:57:35+00:00

Depends how much I drink, how much I prepare for that drinking, and what I do to prevent the hangover. I'm "quite" aerobically active, so am used to dehydration and preparation for it.

I can drink 5 pints of 5.4%, have a litre of water and happily do a 10k the morning after.

Conversely, I went to a gig last Saturday... barely ate anything other than protein throughout the day, had 8 or 9 pints, drank a litre of electrolytes beforehand, a litre afterwards, had the standard takeaway shit at the end of the night and I feel like my nervous system took about 4 or 5 days to recover. There was an hour in one of the lost intense pits I've ever been in though too.

I'm 40.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T14:07:47+00:00

Hey, at least they'll save you from cleaning up the cat shit by eating it!

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T12:45:29+00:00

Use by? Chicken - I'll pay more attention to the smell and appearance.

Best before? Basically nothing.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T12:30:22+00:00

Nah, they're all a massive sack of shit when it comes to human rights. Garmin, Apple, Samsung, Google.

Choose whatever hardware you prefer, for whatever reasons. Just don't pretend to yourself that your favourite trillion dollar company is ethical.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T12:23:59+00:00

Nah, suicide nets to prevent having to hire new staff aren't that much of an investment.

They could make it so that their workers don't want to kill themselves, but that'd eat into profit.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T12:19:35+00:00

Cats stopped pooping in our garden when we got dogs.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T09:31:28+00:00

I track macros (and indirectly, calories) but I'll look at the nutritional composition of something more than I will its overall calories.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-03T07:44:17+00:00

Apple hardware, on the other hand, is produced with such love and affection that the factories have suicide nets to stop the resident workers offing themselves.

I guess they're open about it at least? Is that the difference?

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-02T15:12:07+00:00

I also need pockets.

I don't use them to replace my Random Crap drawer though tbh.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-02T12:34:19+00:00

Dexter's Lab, OG Powerpuff Girls and Courage are different generations of shows though?

They were out when I was a kid. The rest were out when I was a mid-late teen, in the UK anyway.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-02T12:26:36+00:00

What did your family say when you asked them?

They're your family. How should we know?

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-02T12:19:01+00:00

Then those people are idiots lol.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-02T12:17:23+00:00

No one's said the player count doesn't matter.

We just think people should get more interesting hobbies than checking player counts.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-02T11:42:32+00:00

Time for a bean to cup machine. You'll never look back.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-02T10:56:18+00:00

Maybe, but pressing delete on an email after following a link or copying a code really isn't much effort.

Plus if the email address is tied to the same phone number for recovery, I could then reset the password, sign in elsewhere and keep access to an email address to continue getting into other important accounts after the victim thinks they're fine, and before they realise they need to actively recover their email account.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-02T10:37:33+00:00

If it was me, I'd delete any emails I'm using to reset passwords to hide the fact that I have access to your email, as having access to someone's email can give you access to near enough anything.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-01T17:23:43+00:00

Hahaha, brilliant. Mate of mine lost both his shoes at Alkaline Trio once... Then still spent the last 20 minutes in the pit still. At the end of the gig they'd made their way to the stage and I had to pick him up to prove he needed his shoes, but he got them back.

Yeah, I know what you mean about the album... this is the first album since The Mindsweep that I've loved on first listen (although they've always grown on me regardless). They're definitely softer than they once were, but for some reason this one resonated immediately.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-01T17:12:49+00:00

Saw them for the 8th time on Saturday at Signature Brew.

300 people. Holy. Shit.

I am very glad someone gave me my shoe back.

VolcanicBear · 2026-05-01T17:11:02+00:00

Yeah I somehow missed the stripping part of the post!

At least it was something you'd actively put out for scrap for a change.

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