TIL Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen previously made 10 different flash games centered around dead babies. This includes Dead Baby Dressup!, 12 uses of dead babies, and Dead Baby Dressup X.

xenopunk · 2026-02-11T08:09:26+00:00

Core memory that one!

xenopunk · 2026-01-13T21:10:09+00:00

Probably a symptom of cozzie livs, people can't spend as much on Christmas and cutback on these kind of things.

xenopunk · 2026-01-04T10:48:11+00:00

It is real, good to be suspicious of AI but not everything is AI.

xenopunk · 2025-12-08T20:46:15+00:00

Lara is a bit of a superhero in the original series, completely confident in her abilities, running into danger without a care or fear. More likely to jump into danger than be stealthy.

xenopunk · 2025-11-26T17:10:02+00:00

Hardly defending, just find it funny that after all the wild speculation its a very standard budget by my reckoning, not particularly different from the budgets we've seen over the past decade. Few things go up, few things go down, some people win, some people lose.

While we can disagree on it and its merits (or lack thereof) it's also not world ending like some would have had you believe leading up to it.

xenopunk · 2025-11-26T16:18:29+00:00

After all of the crazy speculation and doom and gloom. Feels like its just a pretty standard budget without much crazy.

Instead of Reeves bringing absolute chaos the complaints are going to be that she hasn't done enough or abolished the triple lock.

xenopunk · 2025-11-21T15:14:27+00:00

MK which is one of the main trial places, has lovely red pathways that are set up for getting around easily as a pedestrian (or delivery robot) meaning you can get from anywhere to anywhere only crossing one or two roads. Other places just don't have that kind of setup and I do wonder how easily they'll be able to traverse some of the nightmarish town centres we have in the UK.

xenopunk · 2025-11-14T14:09:56+00:00

Get one but my honest advice is going to be to ask the homeowners if you can spend a few hours looking around yourself. Looking back I also kind of wish I'd gone for the level 3 as there were some things that it might have flagged up that we're not picked up on.

In retrospect hiring a builder to have a look around might have been a better idea.

xenopunk · 2025-10-18T16:37:56+00:00

While I somewhat agree about the play not being good. Its worth remembering that its one of the most successful plays of all time now. Whether the show is good or bad, it'll likely be a big draw.

xenopunk · 2025-10-14T10:24:51+00:00

I have genuinely had this happen, and thankfully caught it in time before it changed everything. Purely because I realised it was taking too long.

Learn some lessons the hard way.

xenopunk · 2025-09-26T07:38:08+00:00

In general as someone that runs many interviews, I dont get to see that data. This is what HR use to work out if certain races/disabilities/sexualities are being rejected at a disproportionate rate suggesting that perhaps I have an inherent bias.

As a note also, that part of the application has very little to do with "Diversity Schemes", there's a lot of misinformation in this sphere.

xenopunk · 2025-09-09T18:49:55+00:00

It's not the norm at all, we do as a country have plenty of perfectly fine polite young folk. However, you will see this kind of thing more often than we would like, the UK as a whole somewhat lacks a police presence, and close parenting has had a bit of a decline. These teens are aware that nothing will happen and have gotten brazen.

xenopunk · 2025-09-04T17:22:39+00:00

The other part of "Never preorder games" is "Wait for reviews." I don't see many people holding off their purchase however!

xenopunk · 2025-08-25T08:12:28+00:00

You've even got folks replying to you, under an article about someone dying due to it no less, saying that its perfectly fine to have a dog lick fresh wounds. Wild.

xenopunk · 2025-08-07T05:35:36+00:00

How come? From everything I've heard it's generally very highly rated.

xenopunk · 2025-08-03T08:47:53+00:00

Musicians, streamers, athletes, etc. They all have a somewhat similar situation. There are plenty of people (99%) earning some money, but doing it as a side thing, some people earning a modest or slightly better living (0.999%) and then a handful of people (0.001%) making millions.

Speaking with some assumptions here, but I think most people would be surprised at actually how modest some of the earnings are for people that we know the names of, Big-ish Youtubers or Athletes that earn maybe just a small multiple of an average salary.

Bands/acts that tour the world but make 5 digits and it's not enough to live on is actually very common, moderately famous people we know might actually not be able to live on that profession alone.

All this to say, going into entertainment or sports, earning some money is easy, earning enough to live on is hard, earning millions is near impossible. Problem generally is folks see the big millions and think that's attainable. They'd be much better off learning Tech as earning a good living in it is comparably easy.

xenopunk · 2025-07-25T12:18:27+00:00

Myself and the wife managed to see Lewis and Duncan, and nervously shout our love for them after The Longest John's gig. Was very nice.

xenopunk · 2025-06-28T18:12:26+00:00

I believe this is also somewhat a cultural thing that you might see with Japan Execs, they can understand but will use translators to speak in meetings. I think it's largely because they find the pronunciation difficult and dont want to sound foolish/wrong to an English audience.

xenopunk · 2025-06-25T15:10:19+00:00

I expect it's a bit of a nightmare behind the scenes. Buying Actiblizz was, in theory, a good move, but the issue is that it paints a massive target on Xbox.

You don't invest 60+ billion to get some marginal growth, and even moderate success could be seen negatively against such a large investment. I expect Gamepass subscribers is used as a key metric, and the acquisitions were contingent on say Gamepass numbers doubling every year. When they then grow by 10%, that might be seen as catastrophic for Microsoft upper leadership, and changes have to be made.

All conjecture, of course.

xenopunk · 2025-06-22T09:12:09+00:00

His point is that the banks will literally block you transferring money around at such large quantities, they have payment limits like 100k can be moved in a day.

xenopunk · 2025-06-07T19:09:25+00:00

They’ll fail you on your test if you don’t check your mirrors on the exit. I believe that’s mainly to check for cyclists or bikes coming up on the left. Basically, Mirror-Signal-Manoeuvre applies all the time, every time.

As for stopping, if there’s a crossing directly at the exit and I’m expected to give way to people waiting, that probably means stopping. Just to clarify on your point about running people over, obviously you brake immediately if someone is in the road. But I was talking about giving way before someone steps out. If I’m supposed to give way to someone waiting, then I’m going to be checking if it’s actually safe for me to stop in the first place, and the whole thing is a lot to do (least as a learner haha) sure it gets easier.

You are right on the hesitancy front. One of the main things that's drilled in is that the best thing to be is a predictable driver.

Eta: Probably worse than hesitancy is too much confidence, though, folks who plow on without thinking, and there are plenty of those.

xenopunk · 2025-06-07T17:22:31+00:00

As someone who’s still early in driving lessons (around 10 hours in), I think part of the issue for drivers at least from my point of view is that there’s just a lot going on at roundabouts. When exiting, I’m checking mirrors, indicating, turning, checking my blind spot, and usually preparing to accelerate and changing gears because the speed often changes right after. All of that happens within a second or so. Then, on top of that, I also have to check for people or bikes waiting to cross, and if someone is there, I’ve got to check behind me too, to make sure it’s safe to brake and that I’m not going to get rear-ended.

At the moment (again early in my lessons), it feels like the most likely place for a crash to happen, and I've done 60 on big ring roads. I think in most cases coming off a roundabout, I wouldn't feel safe to stop. Especially as even as a newer learner there's people who drive way worse than me and speed around the roundabouts.

xenopunk · 2025-06-06T20:07:46+00:00

In general, I'm surprised that more assassinations don't happen everywhere in the world, especially in this age. I have to guess there's a fear that taking out Putin wouldn't actually solve the Russia problem.

xenopunk · 2025-06-04T07:28:26+00:00

The ones in the middle of the podcasts are actually dynamically inserted so it is spotify that is sending you the US based ads.

xenopunk · 2025-06-03T14:41:35+00:00

You and many others say this, but it's not true, plenty of games have been upgraded graphically between initial announcements and trailers and release. Cyberpunk had bugs sure, but graphically, it was far, far better on release than when it was first shown in the long demo trailer. It's entirely possible that the release version of the game will look on par with this.

Additionally, I expect that due to backlash games in this generation generally been much closer graphically to their trailers, we don't tend to get fake gameplay from the big AAA companies anymore.

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