HipPriest @ HipPriest @kbin.social

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In my experience in my specific part of England that holds true - Aldi definitely seems a lot cleaner

It could grow on me. It's hard to tell without seeing it in action

Not that it's especially convincing but I think that the idea was that he was 'playing a game' when he'd been doing that stuff with the salt and then thrown it out into the ether for no reason other than messing about.

Or something? I don't know. Much as I love a lot about RTD as a writer, he's definitely not a details man on story elements...

I think it's the 'Boss' and they're building up an arc.

With the whole gold tooth thing I really hope it's not as obvious as The Master but who knows yet

Yeah it's a real shame because from what I saw of the Artemis app it looked good as well. I hope the dev is ok.

Kbin definitely needs a decent app. The web app does the job but it can be a bit irritating as you say

So because I play a lot of games and read a lot of eBooks then I would say getting my first tablet was pretty great, even though it was a midrange one that was just thrown in to the deal when I was upgrading my phone and I probably wouldn't have bothered otherwise

It was a Samsung A8 from 2019, had about an 8" screen and I used it mainly as a kindle and games device. The games I play are mainly strategy or board games, but there were certainly some games that you wouldn't necessarily think would cause a problem (Wingspan?) that would lag or crash. Since I review games it helped to have a second device to check things on, and a bigger screen is better.

Last year I upgraded it to a Samsung S8 which is a flagship. It's a 10 or 11 inch screen which felt more unwieldy though I'm used to it now. It can run more things. It's a really nice device. The screen isn't actually OLED but feels like it, the quality is amazing. It actually came with a stylus which was a neat touch. The screen is good enough that yes I have found myself watching more TV on it.

However, when people say 'productivity', I don't know really know what they mean by that tbh. I've got a work laptop for work. I've got my own laptop for other stuff. Do people mean drawing and things on tablets but that?

Yeah me and my son watched it and both preferred it to Star Beast (though we both liked Star Beast too) - Doctor Who does weird /surreal/uncanny exceptionally well and it had a nightmare Alice in Wonderland vibe in its visuals, especially when the Not Doctor/Donna were blocking the tunnel.

The Doctor picking the wrong Donna got us both, and seeing Wilf at the end was great. I loved the way that the Timeless Child was acknowledged in a dramatic way and moved on from (it's a nod that RTD is respecting the continuity of the show but not going to let it get in the way of a good story).

If I was going to criticise, I'd say there was a bit of padding (really unlike Doctor Who) and some of the effects weren't as good as they thought they were. But really what could be better for an anniversary story where they're literally running up and down the same corridor?

Plus - technically a multi doctor story!

(I bet if I was younger and watching this high it would have been astonishing...)

2 made mine - 'Hey Bulldog' and 'Cry Baby Cry'.

Yeah I get that too now you've said it!

It looks like a shady dealer in an orange hoodie.

Top Artist - The Beatles (I relistened to their remaster of Revolver a lot this year, it's really very good!)

Top Song - 'Give It Up' by Public Enemy

Reminded me of this Big Train sketch

Seems from the present tense use of the wiki article all hope is lost...

My sister lives in China atm. Internet access a contentious issue - dogs and cats in cages in the Saturday market for butchery sale. Not a criticism - just a very different culture to the West.

What if this is the afterlife of a religion we don't know about from our previous existence?

I don't think you can have a rational reply to your question - it's all head canon

The worst thing to do would be an inorganic botch job on here to fill a gap when there's no need, you can read that content elsewhere.

Anyway, it's not an automatic guarantee of engagement or interaction. It's purely a hack move.

I'm happy to use Reddit if I feel I can't find anything to read on Kbin. You are allowed to use both you know?

I work in healthcare. Never sounds this much fun, sorry, disgraceful.

That's a very fair point

I mean yeah I vape, that makes sense because it wasn't the nicotine itself which was killing my lungs.

Apparently nicotine itself is as bad for you as caffeine, the worst thing about it is it's insanely addictive without giving much of a high or anything in return...

That's a very black and white way of putting it. As long as you're an adult who can tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and you're not spending hours obsessed with it I don't think it's unhealthy. The way you phrase 'avoid it completely' makes it sound like you're going out of your way to avoid it already.

(I think the problems are coming through with the generation being 'brought up on porn', and thinking real sex is like it is in the videos online but that's a different story really.)

Can cigarettes be used in a healthy way? Eh, only in very specific scenarios

Gonna have to bite and ask what very specific scenarios smoking could be healthy?