I certainly take the comedic value from this. My dad is a classic technophobe. He believes the phone is there for emergencies only, and if a call between him and me needs to happen, he will get my mum to phone. With that, the two times in the past 8 years I have got a call, it has been an emergency... I dread the day he might phone and just go, "Just checking in to see how you are."

So yeah, there is a comical side to this, which I certainly see.

I love the idea of this one. Best way to get a scope of what people like and always up for new recommendations.

I tend to have at least 2 games on the go; one story driven game and a general play type game. At this moment those are:

• Mafia 2 Remastered (story driven)
• Age of Empires 4 (general play)

Having picked up the Mafia trilogy on Steam a few weeks back for £12, I decided to play them through. I finished the first one last week and forgot how much I love it back when it was originally released back in 2002. The remaster is really well polished and it felt smooth (even on my SteamDeck). The 2nd one, while remastered does not feel as polished but is still a great storyline. In fact, there were parts I had forgot that directly link it to the first game. Both great games. I know the 3rd was not the best in terms of storyline but was a great play so will be on with that one next.

AOE4, what can I say!?! This game never dissapoints. It is a great game to just kick back with when I want a more relaxed gaming session. To be fair, it is either AOE, Command & Conquer or Civilisation that meet this but AOE is the game of the moment.

I started playing Dredge but struggled a little to get in to it. The reviews are good and a few friends of mine rave about it so may go back to that one at some point. I think I did not give it the time it needed as it was around the time I was about to go on holiday. The game a visually pleasing and atmospheric and is the type of game I would go for. Oh well, sure I will give it another go.

Unfortunately I have witnessed friends and family fall foul in the past. From scammers with ill intentions to sales reps just angling for the bigger bonus.

While scammers are often the hardest to spot and a damn sight harder to come back from, I tell everyone to have a "question first" mindset. My missus only truly adopted that when she was stung. A perfect opportunity for a "told you so" but I took the higher ground. Luckily she got the £650 back, though there was no justice as they hid tracks well. She now questions everything.

Now, sales reps on the other hand, I have had a lot of success with in terms of correcting the sly tactics. Again, I try to instill the "too good to be true" mindset. For example, my in-laws wanted broadband but were going to charge and extra £65 a month plus a £49 install charge. Why? They just wanted the line activated for broadband... they did not want the higher broadband, a call package, did not need a line install or engineer and... wait... did not want the sports channels either. They were so confused about what they had actually agreed to. Basically the rep had taken advantage of pensioners who were confused to upsell.

Unfortunately, it is too easy for a scammer or someone with ill intentions to operate and difficult to always spot them. All we can do as the savvy generation is educate.

While the credit must go to another user (@[email protected]), we have a dedicated community for folk like us... ...Coffee - All Things Coffee

North Star are pretty amazing to be fair, as a Leeds lad myself. In Leeds we have a lesser known coffee shop called Kapow, they have some great blends (the Etheopian blend is intense).

WOW! I thought I was the only one who did the sequential colour order... Man, I feel normal finally.

Ginnel (Yorkshire) or yob death run, depending on where in Leeds you live!

Haha... Well almost hit the back of the net 😆. Cheers

@[email protected] just did a quick crawl and we have a few more to add:

• https://feddit.uk/c/milton_keynes
• https://feddit.uk/c/brighton
• https://feddit.uk/c/blackpool

This is an interesting one. I worked for a digital marketing agency several years ago who had an office in Leeds and London. In Leeds everyone would say hi, have the occasional chat over a coffee and say bye at the end of the day.

Working in the London office was so different, only greeted by the receptionist, no real pleasantries, no chats over coffee and a deadpan look when you get up to leave.

I found it a strange vibe. To be fair, in the same way I realised quickly it is every man for themselves on the tube. Leave the Yorkshire charm on the platform when heading to London.

It frustrated me when Reddit made the initial decision to screw over app developers. Having done dev work in the past, I know the time that goes in to them so someone asking for a little money in return is the least we can do. But no, Reddit just say "Screw you guys"!

As if that was not enough, they are now showing that they really don't care about the many moderators that have painstakingly put years of 'free' time in to building these communities, the same communities that are the foundation of Reddit!

I am sure we are going to see a lot more of these admin takeovers in the coming weeks and it is the very reason I am over here and why Lemmy is seeing the incredible growth curve. Long may that continue.