It may be worth having a look at the Proton issues github page for it if you’ve not already - though the only report I could see that sounded like your issue was the (currently unresolved) thing about it not running with DXVK, but running with terrible performance in WineD3D - they apparently got it running properly through Lutris with Wine GE 8.26.

It’s good to know Brexit is only temporary.

Can the AI determine if I’m just uploading photos of Kier Starmer as my ID?

It can’t be that old, I mean Discord is that brand new thing, right? Couple of years old at most?

Ah, the “Rimworld diet”.

This always got the idea across quite nicely:
“I’m beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way”

Yes, that’s the one. Used to be on BBC iPlayer (in the UK), but looks like it’s not available any more.

It was generally compared a little unfairly to Red Dwarf (which was in the middle of a 10 year gap at the time).

It might be fair to say it wasn’t solidly funny all the way through, and maybe took a few episodes to “get going” but it definitely had some good bits and great ideas here and there.

I really liked it, and felt it deserved more than 12 episodes.

“It’s in the Jeffries Tubes!”

“MARVEL at my obscure Sci-Fi comedy reference!”

I have, so far, never bought food from M&S. It’s probably more of a case of “there isn’t one anywhere near where I live” rather than a deliberate shunning.

I have, however, eaten some “percy pig” sweets and some crisps that were so fancy that you put them in a bowl, rather than eat them straight from the packet.

Delicious.

If the MAGAs don’t care about Trump’s “Epstein related activities”, then Putin’s supposed video blackmail isn’t worth anything.

The fall of bespoke letter commissions was a disaster for the human race I wish I had an illuminated letter P that was made of a Jesus with a pug face, holding a pug with a Jesus face 😔

You can take the fat, fluffy bit out of the duvet and just use the outer duvet cloth on its own, and it still counts. Much cooler.

[Edit] Even with that, it’s all limbs out in this weather. Just a tiny corner of duvet cloth draped across carefully as some kind of “makeshift modesty sporran”.

I hope they have a “packet of crisps/chips” pocket on the other side.

It’s very dependent on which region, which route and which train company you’re travelling with.

From a Yorkshire perspective, if your train runs North-South through bigger cities i.e. Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, Leeds, The South etc, without stopping at small in-between stations, you get 100 people on a 10 carriage long futuristic aerodynamic LNER Azuma Class 800 train, that feels like a luxury private jet and travels at 125mph.

If your train travels East-West and stops at places like Halifax, Bradford, Wakefield, Selby, Hull, but also stops at little in-between stations called stuff like Boggy Fence, Coaltown, Upper Frogbottom, Chough, Milton-upon-Jeremy and Thribblewick, you get 400 people squashed onto a 2 carriage Northern Rail Sprinter, that feels like a livestock wagon and travels at 30mph. It’s perfectly pleasant outside of commuter times, to be fair.

When the train is stopping at stations 5 miles apart, there’s not a lot of room for big fancy trains to do big fancy train things like “accelerate smoothly and aerodynamically” and “brake gently and quietly like a falling leaf”.

I hope they still do that, and all the other “rude versions” of assembly songs.

☝️🤓 Um, actually, the 4-decade-old “Pacer” (pictured) was retired a few years ago.

It was replaced by the exciting new “Sprinter”, merely 40 years old.

Wow! So futuristic!

Warm? How nice it must have been to grow up warm. We only dreamt of warm. The best we could hope for was the residual heat from the formation of the universe seeping into the cold, dank puddle in which we slept.

It’s pretty much covered by the other person’s answer, but there was a really tight spec to meet “proper DVD standards”, and loads of knowledge and stupid workarounds specific to the DVD Authoring software you were using, or CRT-era television standards, or to know the disc would play back properly on different brands of DVD players, but also work on computers (and extra messing around and lower bitrates for it to play back correctly on Mac computers).

Basically a tonne of weirdly specific technical knowledge that’s just no use any more.

These days you can sort of just record a video on your telephone and play it back on a telly or the internet, but you used to have to “cap white level at 235” and “lower max red to 240”, and export your audio file 1 frame shorter than the video file it accompanies and set fading in titles as an “in-between” video, which links to a looping video with the “real” menu over it and other stuff like that.

Aye, we had to mine our own blanket forts out of the coal face, in our free time, overnight, after doing a twelve hour shift down the pit, after a full day at school.

We used to suffer from this, but now have a cat-based monitoring system:

3 cats sleep on bed = perfectly clean
2 cats sleep on bed = clean enough
1 cat sleeps on bed = prepare to change sheets
0 cats sleep on bed = change bedsheets now