I assume it’s a regional thing. “Instant ramen” are noodles or 2 minute noodles here. It’s rarely labelled as ramen and never called it.

From childhood I knew about ramen from anime and I knew about instant ramen from American media but I didn’t learn until later that they aren’t the same thing and instant reman is just 2 minute noodles.

This might get me to pick the game up again.

I bought it to play with friends because the robots and story setting seem great. But then quickly realised group play is (essentially) 100% PvP which avoids the reason I thought it was interesting.

I tried solo play because I heard the community playing solo were more PvE oriented but: 1. It’s not as fun without friends and 2. After a couple of bad encounters I was kind of over it.

Now we are ready to sail for the Horn

Weigh hey, roll and go!

Our boots and our clothes, boys, are all in the pawn

To be rollicking randy dandy-oh!

I’ll copy my comment to another post with a similar/same article:

Definitely not new and the way the articles headlined I thought there was some sort of ad in iOS that was blatant that I hadn’t noticed.

Using the same language as the article (not very accurate) “iOS users don’t use the settings app and won’t see ads.”

Just to be clear for those that wooshed; people do go into settings but it’s not like every user is staring at the settings app everyday. The ads also aren’t very intrusive, so comparing them to the Windows start menu ads, which the article does, is ridiculous.

In summary; ads are bad and crap sensationalist reporting is also bad.

Definitely not new and the way the articles headlined I thought there was some sort of ad in iOS that was blatant that I hadn’t noticed.

Using the same language as the article (not very accurate) “iOS users don’t use the settings app and won’t see ads.”

Just to be clear for those that wooshed; people do go into settings but it’s not like every user is staring at the settings app everyday. The ads also aren’t very intrusive, so comparing them to the Windows start menu ads, which the article does, is ridiculous.

In summary; ads are bad and crap sensationalist reporting is also bad.

If I travel overseas in the future I’ll be doing a full backup and wipe of my phone. Take my holiday pics or whatever and transfer and restore everything when I get back.

Even Australia is starting to make deals with groups to take complete copies of devices at the border. Screw that! I’ll at least try to limit what they can get.

I changed from an IPS screen to a nearly identical OLED. I switched them back after a couple months of using the OLED and holy smokes the IPS was so much worse than I remember! I swapped them because I wasn’t happy with the OLED, turns out I was misremembering how good the old screen was.

Civilisation: Call To Power! Still the goat even if I found out 20 years later that it wasn’t a mainline Civ game and was made by someone else. The main games still haven’t reached the amount of content it had within future epochs.

Edit: changed from Call to Power 2 to the first one. Apparently the some of the future techs were removed in the second so it must have been the first one that I played.

If you’re depending on your smartwatch to tell you the truth about how many calories you burned during a workout — well, don’t.

Article straight to the point, I like it.

I have an Apple Watch and one of the main reasons I have it is the health tracking. That being said; no one should be under the impression that a wrist mounted wearable is going to be close to 100% accurate. It’s good as a guide and self comparison, but that’s about it.

I remember reading somewhere that “we are the most exciting thing to happen in our pets’ lives”. It’s why I never get annoyed if my dog gets excited to see me.

She’s pretty old now so no more jumping but every now and then lick or nip at my hands for a pat and it’s not because she’s being naughty, she’s just so excited to see me and wants some attention.

Someone needs to generate audio of Joe Biden saying the same things for when Donny dies.

This is a problem I have with tech YouTubers and how they often compare phones directly with last years model. It’s always inevitably not worth upgrading from their POV. For a while there MKBHD would compare the new model to a, I’m guessing a little, 3 year old model which is much more realistic since most people aren’t upgrading sooner than that.

That was a really well made video.

This is the part I’m waiting to see. My prediction; once AI providers have other companies by the nuts watch them hike prices and then we’ll hear CEO’s squealing about the unfairness of it even though they were the ones calling the shots.

Also helps eye strain or eye related health problems.

I suffer from headaches from overstimulation and warm screen tones help with that. A friend of mine who works in IT once had an eye infection, when he went back to work he was still struggling but when I told him about f.lux (back before it was a feature built into OS’s) it helped him a lot.

I’ve never been sold on ‘blue light’ being a problem but there’s definitely something that makes warm tones just a bit nicer on the eyes.

What a world we live in that I’m not at all surprised that there are guys willing to sent threats over an optional video game filter.

Crazy ol’ world we live in.

Best I can do is a 10:53 video for half a paragraph of information BROUGHT YOU BY DELETEMYSELF. I USED TO BE ON THE INTERNET BUT THANKS TO TODAYS SPONSOR DELETMYSELF I NO LONGER EXIST AT ALL IN ANY FORM.

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I’ve been single for 3 years and haven’t had a date in 2 years. Not for a lack of trying but I’m in a fairly remote area, most singles nearby aren’t my type (putting it very politely) and last but not least; dating apps absolutely promote ’Tinder culture’.

Dating apps will recommend me supermodel gold diggers 120km’s away before someone close with something in common. And then the chances of matching are low to none.

At least this Fate app seems to be trying something different and (seemingly) positive. I’d give it a go, can’t be any worse than what I’m using already.

It’s stories like this that keep me going back to DF.

This male loneliness epidemic could get very competitive. Doctors around the country reporting genital friction burn with patients saying they’re shooting for the moon in the Competitive Coomers Leagues.