We didn’t like it. I feel like they nailed the tone and completely had the right idea but it just wasn’t funny enough and good jokes were few and far between compared to the originals where they were coming thick and fast. Every funny joke was in the trailer.

If they’d just advertised it as a handy little feature I might have used it, but the way they’re constantly ramming it down your throat makes me so suspicious that I just don’t want to touch it.

I’m trying to figure out where this is. Everything about it looks German except the English writing and the baseball cap, which makes me think it may be the US but the architecture doesn’t match.

I don’t think this is victim blaming, it’s just teaching kids to be safe. If a kid steps into a road and gets hit by a car it doesn’t matter whose fault it is, the kid ain’t coming back to life.

I lived in London for about 8 years. I remember a taxi driver who was an immigrant telling me he’d lived all over the world including New York, Russia, etc, and he said London was the most multi-cultural place he’d ever lived. There were sort of even amounts of all different types of people and they all just got along in this big melting pot. I found people to be a lot more racist in the middle class cities full of “nice” white people (though I don’t think racism is that common in the UK). Most of my friends in London loved all the multi-culturism.

RIP Encarta.

18 or 20.

People who have sun sneezes tend to sneeze a bunch of times at once. Sun sneezes are genetic.

I have sun sneezes and for some reason people who have that also sneeze multiple times. I haven’t sneezed just once for about 20 years.

They keep talking about war on Europe and act as if everyone’s forgotten about NATO.

Apps were still kinda new at the time and social media was shit hot. iPhones were still premium products and most people didn’t have one.

I think a lot of people don’t realise that when the iPhone first came out it didn’t have apps. They eventually released an upgrade so that you could pin webpages to the homepage. I remember Apple arguing that web stuff was so good now you didn’t need apps.

From what I recall around that time the Kin never really generated that much interest. It wasn’t being aimed as a product to replace the iPhone and was targeted at the kind of people who nowadays would sit on their phone and scroll TikTok. There was a lot of change in those days; social media was still pretty new, useful internet in your phone was pretty new (it’d been around for years but it wasn’t so expensive to this point nobody had used it, iPhone made constant internet connections a thing) touch screens were still new and sexy, and more I forget about. The idea that your phone was this little mobile computer that you carried around wasn’t really there yet and they were still mostly for communicating.

Reject cookies.

I always get my kid a gift my wife will hate. She’s still genuinely annoyed about the fart gun I got last year.

That and getting drunk.

Routine is nearly out?

My sister-in-law let her 10 year old daughter play it with zero supervision. When we found out we told her she should be watching what her daughter’s doing so she went in to check and found the kid talking to some grown man from Azerbaijan.

Are you just looking for file backup? I haven’t used it but most people just seem to be switching to NextCloud.

I avoid products that get advertised in YouTube.

The people who live there are loaded.

It’s just a waste of time now, I don’t even bother. Nothing big good gets a serious discount, it’s just crap I didn’t want in the first place that gets out on sale. Just before Christmas Day is the best time to get a deal, that’s the only time of year shops are really trying to get rid of stuff they’ve bought too much of.

I sort the reviews by recent on the assumption that when these companies pay for fake reviews they sort of come all at once and the recent reviews will be humans who’re actually reviewing it since then.