I had a uni lecturer pronounce MySQL as “my squirrel”

When I was a kid I’d play Fable The Lost Chapters as a regular villager. I’d buy a house, get married, equip a stick (because you had to equip a weapon) and just walk around interacting with the other villagers.

Eventually I’d get bored though, so I’d out-of-rp murder my wife, then “discover” the body and go on a rampage through Oakvale.

It sounds so much worse written down.

I just checked them out on Spotify and their discography is hilariously messed up

It is really great to hear this community is more open, it put me off sharing metal tastes in the past.

Also turns out I listen to way more power metal than I thought. Started a power metal playlist and recognised loads of bands.

I wasn’t but you make it really tempting. I also love how I’ve been on many a different server, and each one has been completely unique in design. It really mastered the balance between a survival exploration game and creative sandbox.

Yeah, the last decade went really quick for me. I know everyone says that but it’s true. Things that make me feel old are how GTA V made fun of hipsters and New Girl made fun of millennials. That era is gone man.

Even Bowie’s Blackstar is 7 years old and that feels like last year.

I like a lot of what I consider ‘classic’ metal, which I hope is not offensive. Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Dio, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin. I like a lot of nu metal too, I hope that doesn’t get me banned.

I’d like to try more, I think it’s just the extreme varieties I can’t really get into.

I do not usually listen to David Guetta, but Titanium was everywhere the summer of 2011. I heard it in college, on the street, in the car, and at house parties. Actually, mostly house parties.

To this day I can taste cheap vodka, amaretto and jagermeister when I hear that song.

One of the things I like is because induction works by directly heating the metal, on the rare occasion something does spill over it doesn’t burn nearly as badly because it only gets residual heat. Wipes off really easily.

They also cool down very quickly if you have children or pets to worry about.

I’m glad I made the switch. The pros far outweigh the cons for me, and with the pancakes/crepes I think it’s just a learning curve.

I loved them, I miss them dearly, but no, I don’t think they’ll come back.

A lot has changed and the internet is not the same, for better and for worse. For one, it’s just a lot bigger. You’d think that’d make it easier, but it seems to make it harder. There’s too much noise for the communities to stand out, so what usually happens is one or two get huge and the others dwindle and die. Even just look at Lemmy, through no fault of your own, Beehaw is becoming one of the largest instances and it requires active work to spread the weight across the rest of the federation. People gravitate I guess.

Plus, because it’s so much bigger, there’s less of an identity in the spaces that do survive. Post in any reddit thread, then go to another. Chances are nobody’ll be the same (except for a few superusers) so there’s no real sense of belonging or community that the old forums had. Back then you trolled your friends, not strangers.

Thanks for sharing this, I love it. What a mystery though, I’m struggling to find anything else about them too.

My frying pan extends over the ring by about an inch all around, until now it was never a problem because whatever I was cooking was getting stirred, but this morning I tried making pancakes and there was a very noticeable raw ring on the edge when the middle was fully cooked.

However, I think this is likely an issue of experience. I’m not used to cooking pancakes on induction so if I had used a slightly lower heat setting and let the pan properly heat up I think I could have avoided it.

Induction can be very quick to achieve a high temperature on areas with direct contact, but if the ring is small only the middle part of the pan will be hot enough. For things being stirred that’s not much of an issue, but if even cooking is a big deal for you then it might take a bit of practice getting the pan right.

Do you mean a full hob (e.g. 4-6 spots) or a single plug-in ‘hot plate’ type dealio? For the former Bosch or Hotpoint should be decent enough, I don’t know if they make the latter though. I personally stay clear of Beko but that’s not because of their hobs, used to have a washing machine they made and it was awful.

Either way we made the switch to induction earlier this year and love it. Just check your pans are magnetic first, or be willing to replace them!

Money For Nothing has one of the best intros of all time. Facts

It’s really great your little sister has an older sibling already looking out for her. That in itself is a great start.

It’s going to depend highly on what actually happens. She’s 4, she’s a bit young still. Given you’re posting online I think it would be relatively safe to assume that when she’s older she’ll also be online? Being a part of an international community is the easiest way of expanding one’s views.

Suicidal chickens. See plenty of them standing at the roadside in the UK, their favourite pastime is running into traffic.

Beautiful creatures but it’s so tense driving past them!

As a .NET developer with a strong dislike of JavaScript being able to write a frontend using C# is fantastic. The only complaints I ever hear about it is actually around Visual Studio support and not Blazor itself.

I really hope it takes off.

You don’t need to be out to explain why it’s okay to be LGBTQ+. If those questions ever come, answer them as if you were an ally. The answer is the same anyway.

But right now don’t stress - not every religious organisation will be homophobic, I went to a Catholic secondary school (UK) that was supportive. Unless you’re familiar with this particular group already they might not be as bad as you think.

As for what you can do personally, if you’re atheist (and open about that) then show her you don’t have to be Christian to have good morals. Just generally be a good older sibling. Hopefully it all works out.

Kids have always had wild career dreams, it’s not new it’s just a different medium. It’s fine. I’m not sure it’s a conscious decision to escape the grind though. I grew up with kids who wanted to be movie stars or athletes. Why? Because they idolised movie stars and athletes and want to be like them. It’s what they’re exposed to the most. Now kids are exposed to influencers the most, so they wanna be one too.

I wanted to be a train driver 🚂