It’s sometimes called an overbalanced wheel, an early perpetual motion device. The idea is that there’s more weights on the right side than the left side, so the wheel will turn clockwise. The weights are on rods that fall to the right as the wheel turns, so there’s always going to be more weights on the right. So the wheel turns forever. Free power woohoo!

The reality is that the balls on the left are further away from the axle. Futher from the axle = greater torque. Surprise surprise it all cancels out and the wheel eventually comes to rest.

Bananas are proof of god

That would be Blackburn Rovers but that’ll get you beaten up by ME!

In all seriousness you’ll be fine either way. I do recommend a match, it’s a different experience to American sports and it’ll be a useful small talk opportunity. Otherwise you’ll have to talk about the weather all the time.

Welcome! Do you have a football team already or are you going to support Bastard Rovers?

I remember a lot of effort being put into teaching us to stop, drop and roll if we were ever on fire. Kinda thought that knowledge would have been put to the test by now, but I haven’t even been on fire once!

I remember thinking they probably just found actors who wanted to die anyway

New Balance do wide fit, but they’re expensive to buy from their website and hard to find elsewhere. I usually keep an eye on Amazon and pick up a pair whenever they’re cheap

Yep. Speaking of which, I haven’t heard anything from Notch in a while. That’s nice.

The best selling game of all time was made by a colossal tosspot, maybe he’ll have some luck.

I watched that again recently and thought it was still funny. Fuck the haters!

I hope you used archival ink so it will last for generations

I know, who gets phone numbers these days?

Eh it’s better than making plastic shite to deliberately throw away

Casually everybody will obviously carry on saying “accident” for now, but I wonder how fast it will filter down from official language to every day language. Would be interesting to watch the trend over the next few decades. Like how people still say “road tax”.

You’re definitely going to want a second hand laptop if you’re spending 300 quid. Best bet is to look on eBay. Pick a GPU (off the top of my head, maybe a 970 or 1050) and search for those. Then check each result and start comparing. It’s a nightmare trying to see if the CPU is any good. I usually check it on passmark every time

Sweet!

If you go to the bathroom you’re not playing Battlefield

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. Not much changed between this and Rocket League, the name was probably the main thing holding them back.

No bro one time I was talking about buying protein shakes with my bro and then THE VERY NEXT DAY I saw an ad for protein shakes after watching Joe Rogan on the weightlifting subreddit.

You expect me to believe this is coincidence?!?!?!?!?!

Whoa what happened on the 9th?