Bruncvik

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you insist on pronouncing "gif" as "gif" instead of "jif", you should pronounce "jpeg" as "jfeg".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Tapiooooca!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry; you are right. I never saw that reader with any other authors, so it's not something that's really stuck in my memory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry; the automod here seems to have removed a naughty word in the URL. Linking directly to the picture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Bring back memories of tthe removed dog. It never fails to make me smile...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

All three English games in knockout stages ended in heartbreak. I'm prepared for another one. Have enough Bulmers to drown my disappointment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. Hyperion has full cast, the rest doesn't, but still very high quality narration.

Honourable mentions:

  • Alastair Reynolds and John Lee collaborations. Lee has the perfect voice and tone for Reynolds' precise (and somewhat aloof) language.
  • Neil Gaiman books. Gaiman does his own narration, and I can't imagine his books without his voice.

Dishonourable mention:

  • John Scalzi, read by Will Wright. Wright reads as if every line in Scalzi's works was hillarious. Scalzi is a very funny writer, but his books have somber set pieces, and Wright ruins the immersion there.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Form yor own opinion. This is the original thread. A follow-up thread claimed that it was removed by Reddit admins because the picture of the van showed the company name and phone number. That thread included the fan with blacked-out identifiers and was allowed to stay up until users didn't start identifying the company in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There is currently a tiny bit of uproar over at r/irelandshittydrivers. A user took a photo of a work van that blocked two disabled spots. He sent the photo via Whatsapp to the company, which responded in a batshit crazy manner (for some reason, escalated it to praising Osama for 9/11). Naturally, the user posted the photo and the conversation to Reddit. Within a few hours, the company contacted Reddit and had the post removed. If a company with perhaps three customers per week can do it, what do you think large companies can do? Censoring user posts would be only the tip of the iceberg.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Posted on r/KotakuInAction by any chance? I usually run into this kind of complaints because of that sub.

My personal take is that subs that ban people just for posting on other subs are actively perpetuating their little opinion bubbles. They are essentially creating little virtual prisons for their members, and most of them are actually happy about that, which in turn tells all I need to know about those members' intellectual laziness. To twist around Groucho Marx' quote, I would refuse to join a sub that rejected me for posting elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Ironing is the only time of the week where I have the time to watch TV or movies. Not that I don't have free time, but I usually spend it in other ways. During ironing, I'm a captive audience. That said, I don't iron all that much. I remember the last season of The Boys took me four months to finish...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't change anything, but I would be far less stressed that everything would work out just fine.

 

Waiting for 30 minutes to access the Web site of the Road Safety Authority, the Irish equivalent of the DMV. Too bad they don't have physical offices where I could queue personally...

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