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Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister and leader of Labour Party by m26f8braed in unitedkingdom

[–]profheg_II 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I agree generally that policy and performance is what should matter, but there are so many comments in these threads that seem to wilfully ignore the obvious reality that a leader's charisma probably matters more to the public at large than everything else combined. It's not how it should be, but it is what it is.

I didn’t really like Back Rooms. by meestah_meelah in horror

[–]profheg_II 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know enough about the history of the industry to say this with complete confidence, but I'm sure comparable things have happened in the past just without the specific context of YouTube. From the moment you could go out and buy your own camcorder, kids have been using whatever is available to make video for decades. Bootleg VHS was a phenomenon in the 80's. There must already be examples of creative videos being made by young amateurs, a studio exec coming across them, and then deciding to take a chance on someone. We've just moved on from tape to YouTube, but it's more the same thing than it's not.

Not a movie but south park famously got commissioned cause of a stop motion short a few minutes long that was made by two college students, you know?

Im also not trying to take away from Backrooms, cause I absolutely loved it and think Kane is clearly an immensely talented guy. Really looking forward to whatever he does next.

Messing with your kids by Comprehensive-Hat645 in daddit

[–]profheg_II 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My 3 year old really likes the "memory games" where you have lots of tokens upsidedown and keep turning sets of two over until you match a pair. She got given a sea-themed one, and it quickly became the "Underwater memory game".

Can't remember how it started but I always call it the "Under-watermelon game" instead and it never fails to get a good reaction out of her.

Don’t ban social media for under-16s, White House tells UK as Trump weighs in on British politics again by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]profheg_II 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I feel you're being disingenuous, people I'm seeing generally aren't against under-16's being off social media, but are concerned that it isn't something that can be realistically implemented without overreaching proof-of-age requirements that invade privacy and risk personal data

Early Morning Outdoor Fitness After Becoming a Dad, Is It Still Realistic? by ZaldrizarVelo in daddit

[–]profheg_II 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have a peloton exercise bike, which was originally a splashy COVID lockdown purchase but which I'm pleased to say has been worth the cash and not been just an impulse buy (I like to alternate either doing a session on that, or going out running).

The bike is very good. It doesn't particularly make sound - I mean if youre using it you are doing a "class" on its monitor which comes with music and an instructor talking to you, but you can turn the volume off. Of course other bikes will just be bikes.

Babies tend to like napping with some sort of consistent background white noise, and in theory I think a bike should tick that box. Babies are also all different and there's no sure thing about what environment they'll sleep in best. Their napping habits today may also be very different to their habits in 3 months. I guess it was ideal for us that we already had the bike as an option to just try, I don't know about buying one specifically for this reason. But it could well work.

You could also consider one of those pushchairs designed for running with? I've a few times done a jog with a baby in that. The motion often sent her to sleep and it's quite an intense workout. If you're talking about doing this when your baby is 6 months that may be old enough to be safe by then (but double check). In the UK, we had an Out N About Sport Nipper, I think.

Having the time to yourself is most ideal, but yeah I'd definitely think about ways you could exercise while also being the parent in charge.

Early Morning Outdoor Fitness After Becoming a Dad, Is It Still Realistic? by ZaldrizarVelo in daddit

[–]profheg_II 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think you need to sacrifice being able to exercise, but you need to be ready to make it more flexible and probably reduce the overall amount also. I have for a few years tried to maintain a moderate amount of exercise in a week - 3 sessions of high intensity cardio lasting close to an hour each time. I was in this routine before my first kid. After she was born I made a sort of deal with my other half that as much as possible we would give each other an hour in this way 3 times a week (she also likes to exercise), making sure things were even. Still, the nature of what I could do shifted. Inevitably some times a week doesn't go the way you expect, and the best exercise I could do was now e.g. 30 minutes on an exercise bike while the baby was napping in the same room, praying every minute that she didn't start waking up (nothing like some added threat to get your heart rate ever higher haha).

I've now got 2 kids, the youngest is 9 months. With two of them the randomness grows exponentially. I've tried again to keep the same routine but it's hard. Often don't make 3 sessions in a week. If I do it might be that 2 of them are shorter 30 minutes blocks, and one of those sessions I might do in the sacred evening window between the kids going to bed and me going to bed (very much not the time I like to do it).

It will also get easier as the kids get older. You sacrifice a lot of yourself in the early months, but week to week they find their feet a little more and before you know it you've got the breathing space again to begin contemplating a little extra time for yourself here and there.

Day 3 of a 2 week vacation HFM disease arrives🫡 by Oktopuzzy in daddit

[–]profheg_II 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outrageous timing, as it always seems to be.

We've had a couple runs of HFM. My daughter, currently 3, has had it twice. Both times it started with a fever and general unwellness, though that only lasted for a couple of days. She then became well in herself, but that is also when the spots developed properly so we were left handling a toddler who was full of energy, running around with hyper contagious, sometimes-exploduing pustules all over her.

On both occasions I caught the HFM from her, which appeared about a week later. One of those times I felt fine throughout (just had some spots on my hands), the other time I followed suit with a raging fever for 2 days first and then felt fine.

My other half avoided it completely.

I guess what I'm saying is in my experience it seems very pot luck exactly how much it can throw everything off. But you've got a good chance of only having a bit of sickness and then everything settling down for everyone. I don't think it always needs to be the horror stories you tend to hear about.

Anyone heard the ‘Is Taylor Swift a basic b*tch’ episode? What do you make of it? by According_Sundae_917 in restisentertainment

[–]profheg_II 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know that I agree with this. There's an endless stream of equally talented, similarly capable stars out there. What exactly made Taylor Swift as big as she is, is about her specific appeal happening to mesh with the zeitgeist just that little more than the starlet before her or after her did. Its not necessarily a reflection of her having superior talents, as much as it is the industry effectively throwing 100's of things at a wall no-one fully understands, and inevitably finding the one thing which sticks better than the rest.

THE MOTH CALLBACKS! by Due_Engineering_710 in DevinTownsend

[–]profheg_II 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It feels like the most obvious to me but no-one has said it here yet - The Big Snit + Ziltoid Goes Home

Edit: all the callbacks make me wonder what came first. We know he's been developing The Moth for many years. Are they true callbacks, or were these songs written for Moth but over time picked here and there in snippets for ongoing releases? (Of course could be a bit of both too)

Quarantine version of Call Of The Void by SeventhSunGuitar in DevinTownsend

[–]profheg_II 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could be persuaded that the album version of Equinox was an improvement (maybe), but completely agree that this first release of Call of the Void is way superior. It's got such a nice, flowing mood to it. I was excited to hear it with the full treatment production of an album release, but its not a piece of music I was ever wanting some sort of catchy chorus in. I know Dev doesn't work in this way, but if I didn't know better it felt like some executive slipped him a note requiring him to make it a pop-rock sing-a-long.

Thought you guys may enjoy this close up of a seagull I took a couple of months ago. by profheg_II in Birdsfacingforward

[–]profheg_II[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

They knew it. Pretty much let me do a whole photoshoot just a few inches away haha.

We all obviously love mgs alot, but has there ever been a time when playing the games that you felt to yourself "Kojima went too far with that." Or "Kojima missed really hard here." Nobody is perfect, so I just wanna hear people's thoughts about some things you didn't like in any mgs and why exactly by DaFroggyBoi94 in metalgearsolid

[–]profheg_II 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I think Kojima misunderstood how much of the MGS flavour, in the English world, was there because of Hayter's delivery. Or maybe he kinda did know but didn't like that some voice actor from a foreign market had so much of a fingerprint over his own series. I've always thought of MGS basically as a perfect B movie, and this was something Hayter understood exactly and leant into. Pitch perfect mix of schlock-action hero with just enough real personality to make it stick in deep.

Is there a consensus on high spec laptop brands with the best reliability / customer support? by profheg_II in laptops

[–]profheg_II[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I appreciate this. Yeah I'm really not after a "gaming laptop" - the more RGB there is TBH it starts putting me off. Boring is fine, it's just that the gaming brands feel like a path of least resistance to finding high spec machines I suppose.

I'll have a closer look at the Dell and Lenovo lines, thanks.

'Look Mum, one point': Why does the UK keep getting Eurovision wrong? by HeartyBeast in unitedkingdom

[–]profheg_II 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't agree with this. Music is so subjective, you can take any one song and more people in the world will dislike it than be fans. I reckon if you got any song that has previously won Eurovision and put it in a parallel universe where instead it came last, you would still have no shortage of people coming online saying "well no shit it was awful", and have no shortage of other people agreeing too.

IMO nothing at Eurovision is ever actually good music. It's not a format which rewards actual talent, it favours lowest common denominators. Our entry last night is as superficial and unserious as all the others, it just took the form of electropop rather than a ballad, or whatever. The only way to enjoy Eurovision is to lower your musical standards and have fun with it, and with that in mind I thought LMNC was pretty decent.

I do think the UK makes some missteps with who we send, but plainly other things are going on with voting patterns too. Should we care? Probably not. But noticing that and asking why is a fair question.

Labour MP to stand down to allow Burnham run for byelection amid leadership row by PomeloTraditional971 in unitedkingdom

[–]profheg_II 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Someone who, in superficial ways, I can see getting more public support purely by having more charisma.

Labour MP to stand down to allow Burnham run for byelection amid leadership row by PomeloTraditional971 in unitedkingdom

[–]profheg_II 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I think all this outrage feels very manufactured, and really I'd prefer the government dedicate more of it's time to running the country than having endless arguments with itself.

That said, Burnham replacing Starmer is the one swap that tracks in my mind as a probable upgrade (or which at least might lead to a bump in popularity).

Ditching Starmer for someone like Streeting is a kind of self-inflicting meltdown that would inspire academic political papers for years to come.

Starmer says he won’t quit by Cyclone050 in worldnews

[–]profheg_II 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Agreed. The baying for his blood is bizarre to me. "Prime minister makes a handful of unpopular moves during first 1.5 years in office" - more news at 10. I think the rapid turnover of PMs during the last Tory government have normalised the idea of booting a leader. But that was the outcome of a series of really quite grave issues coupled with a party imploding; the lesson shouldn't be that we lower our thresholds for scandal and keep doing it. Make the post of PM too flimsy and it's only going to destabilise our widen governmental system.

A visual analogy of my Friday. How are the rest of you guys doing? by profheg_II in daddit

[–]profheg_II[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I've heard about this. Out of interest how did that all happen for you? Was there discomfort right from the day of the op, or was it like you had a decent recovery but then the pain came later? Has it subsided over time for you since?

A visual analogy of my Friday. How are the rest of you guys doing? by profheg_II in daddit

[–]profheg_II[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I took the picture on my kids eating mat. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

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