>>20493
Wrong. You're strawmanning what's happening so your narrative makes sense. You can learn physics from a physics simulator which may also happen to be a video game.

>>20497
A physics simulator would be designed to mimic real physics. Computer games are not designed to recreate real situations or behaviours.

>>20498
Except for the ones that are, obviously.

>>20496
Are you aware that children can do both?

>>20499
Oh yes I forgot about the wildly popular Real Life Simulator that everyone's always playing. Remind me which of the screenshots in >>20482 is from that?

>>20501
A minute ago it was just physics and now it's the entirety of the human condition. Do one.

>>20501

Jog on, you tedious cunt.

>>20502
What the fuck did you think I meant by "life lessons"? Playing Super Mario won't teach you how to catch a ball and playing Fallout won't help you understand how real people behave.

(A good day to you Sir!)

How /101/ has changed over the years from a "come have a rant about what you hate" board to a "have your rant, but everyone's still gonna come and tell you how wrong you are" board.

At least on the game show it was only a solitary Paul Merton you had to convince, not a panel of Featured Comment contributors from each of the major news websites, the fucking shaolin monks of contrarian pedantry.

>>20505
>not a panel of Featured Comment contributors from each of the major news websites, the fucking shaolin monks of contrarian pedantry.
If Facebook won't give you a Top Commenter badge for language like this, there's clearly something amiss with their algorithms.

>>20505

That's what happens when you have a /*/, granddad. If you want unique board cultures don't slap them all together on the same page.

>>20507
Having this conversation every six weeks is better than debating whether a thread is in the appropriate place every six hours. There might be other ways to foster unique board cultures, but removing /*/ is off the table. So why even bitch about it?

>>20509

I'm not suggesting we remove /*/, just saying that it's impossible to maintain unique board cultures because we have it.

>>20510
I'd say it's more a product of the fact that there's only the pair of us and purple.

>>20507

I'm not bothered about that, it's just that it seems to be getting very vociferous around here lately. But then, I've already made a tedious metapost about it recently, I forgot it's still the summer and all the studentlads have nowt to do all day.

Maybe I am just getting old. I typed the first sentence of this post on my laptop whilst looking at my PC monitor and wondering why nothing was coming up.

Right on cue...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/05/love-wildlife-forget-red-squirrels-biodiversity-developing-countries

It's beyond parody. I wanted to do one of those ironically bigoted posts about "bloody foreign animals coming over here and taking our conservation efforts", but I don't think it's necessary.

>>20513
I genuinely don't have a clue what you're annoyed about.

>>20514
That's a real shame.

>>20514
Did you read the article? I know it is click bait but wow, it made me froth at the mouth.

>>20516
Yeah I did. It argues that, I quote, "We’re likely to get far greater “biodiversity for our buck” on every pound spent abroad, especially if we focus on the world’s poorest developing countries, many of which are in global biodiversity hotspots."

That makes sense to me. Even if you disagreed I still don't understand why the article would make you angry.

>>20517
He is a red squirrel, don't you see?

>>20517
They want to our country's flora and fauna to go to shit just so some Nigerian in Zambia can keep feeding collared lions in Zimbabwe before they are killed by some dentist. Fuck off lad.

>>20519
Seeing it in terms of "our country's flora and fauna" is missing the point entirely. Are you seriously getting this emotional about a Guardian editorial about red squirrels?

>>20517
We should send bennies money to rich people so they don't die out.

>>20521
Sort of like farming subsidies.

>>20518

Little, ginger, bastards wasted a whole day of mine after my mum dragged me off to a forest in Wales to go and look at them. Empire Total War had just been released and everything, so I could have been getting good and let down at home.

Another fucking season of the Great British Wankoff.

Enough said.

>>20524
You're just sore about your soggy bottom, lad.

>>20525

You promised you'd pull out. Never trust an Avon salesman.

>>20524

I'm now imagining Sue Perkins commentating on a game of Soggy Biscuit.

>>20530
This should be commissioned.

Many, many cunt-offs ago, I posted on this thread saying that people shouldn't update their apps because developers like to add on annoying stuff. Well, turns out that if you don't update it for a significant amount of time, using the app becomes a battle. The app will open your browser and you have pop up ads everywhere. Some will even make you auto-download some apks or whatever (I don't even know how to turn off this auto-download nonsense). Sigh. So far, this has been the case only for a couple of apps.

>>20532

Seems like a strange bug. Perhaps you should update your app.

>>20532
Can you name the offenders?

There's a really weird show about what it was like to eat and live in the 90's. It seems basically the same, except the computers and phones weren't as interesting.

>>20532

It's not the app, it's the ad network. The app is just filling an iframe with whatever the ad network sends, but unfortunately the network they're using is full of shady shit. Mobile advertising rates are pretty poor, so some developers take the risk of using a smaller ad network rather than the dominant AdMob, especially if the app is dwindling in popularity.

It's mainly an Android issue - sales figures on the Play Store are so poor that ad-supported apps are the most profitable option. Some developers don't even bother with ad-free paid versions.

4OD

Just fuck off. I wanted to watch that programme about British Problems, well not really but I wanted to kill some time. It is a fucking ball ache of a system. First you have to sign up, so I just used facebook sign in to avoid filling out a form but it makes me fill out an account form anyway. I accidentally put my DOB as under 16 because I just pressed random buttons. It then locked me out from using the damn thing until I cleared my cookies.

I sign up and then it tells me to turn off my adblock which is fair I thought. Then it shows me an advert before the actual advert begins. Then shows me a minute advert. Watch the first 15 minutes and get put in an ad break which had another advert before the actual advert break and the actual advert break is four minutes.

Why should I fucking bother? Next time I'll just record the bastard show to avoid this nonsense.

>>20555
Youtube or torrent. What show was it?

>>20555
I usually just grab a login from bugmenot.com for crap like that.

>>20556
Very British Problems
I would do this for the next episode if I forget to record it again.
>>20557
And probably this too

>>20555
Unconfirmed reports that this works:
Disable ad blocker.
Load page.
Wait for first advert to load.
Re-enable ad blocker.
Watch remainder of programme uninterrupted.

>>20559
Done this, seeing what happens during next break

Too bad it keeps fucking buffering too. Just checked other video streaming sites and none of them have an issue with my current connection. What a fucking ball ache.

>>20558
>>20561
I don't understand why you won't just torrent it?

BBC iPlayer is the best, and probably the only reason why I don't torrent BBC shows I can watch on there.

>>20555

4od is such a terrible service. But then so is your taste in TV so your suffering is only just.

>>20563
I can't get 4oD to work no matter what, it tells me I'm using adblock. I suspect I'd have to uninstall rather than simply disabling it to get it running.

>>20564

It should just work when you disable it on channel4.com.

>>20565

You need to disable your adblocker for the whole channel4.com domain, not just the page you're trying to view.

>>20566


Well, yeah. That is what I said, after all.

>>20565
Should. Doesn't .

>>20568
I had this problem, and just ended up watching 4OD and ITV Player in IE which (since I never use it otherwise) has no adblocker.