HexagonSun 5d ago • 100%
Lisa needs braces
HexagonSun 3w ago • 100%
I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it
HexagonSun 3w ago • 100%
To me “do you believe in ghosts?” and “do you believe in UFOs?” are basically the same question.
It depends how loaded the word “ghost” (or UFO) is in your mind.
Do I believe we have an immortal soul, or that consciousness can exist outside of a human or animal brain? Do I believe in angels, demons, spirits and entities etc? Absolutely not.
But do I believe that people who aren’t lying, and are being 100% genuine, truthfully report seeing things we cannot explain? Yes. Whether it’s pure hallucination of the human mind or something else that is genuinely being witnessed I don’t know and don’t suggest to know.
As proof that “ghosts” don’t actually need to be anything to do with the dead, I saw my mum at home once as a child, when she wasn’t really there at the time. She’s was wearing clothes she owned, but not what she was wearing that day. She was and still is very much alive. I’ve always remembered that I didn’t make this up, but the memory is too distant and vague at this point for me to put any real trust in it now.
Maybe I genuinely saw something unexplainable. Or maybe our brain hardware that generates the reality we perceive around us can occasionally vividly generate what isn’t really there. Who knows.
HexagonSun 4w ago • 92%
Jacob’s Ladder.
A largely forgotten psychological horror film from 1990 with Tim Robbins and Macaulay Culkin.
Saw it on TV once by chance and loved it ever since.
I’d say it’s must-watch for being influential despite its moderate success and being incredibly gripping as you try to get your head around what’s actually going on.
HexagonSun 1mo ago • 100%
Instead of making me think about space, the solar system or the universe… this just gives me an existential crisis, visualising how few weeks are actually in a year and how brief a lifetime actually is.
Then I try to think about space instead.
HexagonSun 1mo ago • 100%
I’m going to strongly assume you’re about 40 in that case haha
HexagonSun 1mo ago • 100%
- The Simpsons: From seeing Season 2 episodes someone had recorded from Sky TV on VHS before it was on terrestrial TV, through to Season 9 when it stopped being good many years later. It was on all the time and we never got bored of it.
- Red Dwarf: The first TV show I was allowed to stay up “late” for, when it broadcast at 9pm. Felt like I’d entered a new stage in my life watching a late-night comedy show.
- The X Files: Similar to the above, this was the first serious, “grown-up” TV show I watched, and I was hooked. I thought anything with a paranormal tinge was awesome at that younger age (I guess I still do, although through an admittedly far more sceptical scientific lens these days).
HexagonSun 1mo ago • 100%
Ghostbusters, Back To The Future trilogy, Terminator 2, Beetlejuice, The Matrix, OG Star Wars Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, Jacob’s Ladder, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Boogie Nights
HexagonSun 1mo ago • 100%
Ed Balls
HexagonSun 1mo ago • 100%
I find it insane that people somehow think they have to make that noise when they sneeze. It’s totally a learned and unnecessary behaviour. People who are born deaf don’t ever make that noise when they sneeze.
HexagonSun 1mo ago • 100%
There Goes My Gun in my ass
HexagonSun 2mo ago • 100%
Playing 2600 on original hardware is pretty awesome.
HexagonSun 2mo ago • 100%
Probably up next on my retro gaming to-do list!
HexagonSun 2mo ago • 100%
Recently changed to top.
Occasionally you’ll click on an article or photo and there’s a really important explanation or disclaimer as the most-upvoted comment, but you’ll only see that first if you sort by top.
HexagonSun 2mo ago • 100%
Yeah, I’d actually only ever played VII and VIII before recently.
Now I seem to be going backwards through the series. Played VII, VI, and now V, where I currently find myself doing some rather boring endgame grinding to try to defeat the final boss battle.
HexagonSun 2mo ago • 100%
Oldest this year.
But maybe up until this year, or in the last 5 years would have been the more interesting question.
Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!
HexagonSun 2mo ago • 100%
Yeah, Myst was definitely something else when it came out
HexagonSun 2mo ago • 100%
Yeah, playing Resident Evil for the first time was something incredibly atmospheric and special. I rented it from Blockbuster and knew straight away I had to buy it.
Before it released my friend and I used to speed-run the Resident Evil 2 demo which let you play as far as you could get into the full game, but with an 8 minute time limit.
I remember a few from various stages of my life (born 1984). Seeing the demo footage of Sonic 2 in Woolworths and thinking the leaves falling down in Aquatic Ruin zone was so cool and advanced. The original Sega arcade of Virtua Racing with the moving cars completely blew me away. I remember my uncle loading up Cannon Fodder on his Amiga, and a REAL song with REAL music came out, along with REAL photos. I was amazed haha. A few years on I remember a PlayStation demo disc having promo footage of the first Gran Turismo and it looked so real to me, I watched it over and over. The first Driver on PS1 looked absolutely amazing to me also.
Hi, After messing around on various distros as a learning experience, I’ve had Debian 12 installed (via installing Spiral Linux) for a few days now on my old Mac. I noticed today that gparted asks for the root login when launched and that my own user doesn’t have default access to any partitions I create using it. Is this expected behaviour or have I messed something up? Thanks!
Hey all, I’ve currently got Mint running on my old Mid-2012 15” MBP, mainly as a hobby project / Linux learning experience. I have a newer Mac as my main computer. I’ve already had a ton of failed attempts installing other distros which didn’t work out, I’m assuming because of the now quite outdated hybrid Intel/Nvidia GPU. I’m currently running the Nvidia driver, but have been reading things about the 390 driver not working on newer kernels. Moving forwards am I going to be better protected from updates breaking things if I switch to using the Nouveau driver instead? Thanks!