Quicky

Tina (the fat lard) was a llama, but this alpaca I saw today really reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite.

I’m enjoying this a lot, despite being absolutely horrendous at it. I think once Sloclap push out a few fixes to what is still currently a glorified beta it’s got the potential to be the new Rocket League, which has been my go-to game for the last decade.

That said, I’m having an absolute mare with the controls. Not so much how to control my player, but in terms of the sheer panic when I’ve got the ball and other players are bearing down on me. My fingers go to shit and I rarely pull off what I was attempting.

Anyone else having fun with the game, while also being terrible at it?

The teat-owl.

When I was about 12 I had a maths lesson on Friday afternoons at school. Towards the end of term, I remember my teacher dumping a pile of holiday brochures on his desk and setting the class the task of planning and costing up a holiday. This was pre-Internet, so brochures and travel agents were how you did it back then.

Location, flights, hotel, meals, activities, excursions, hire cars, spending money etc all had to be considered for a family of three on a fixed budget. I remember that the submitted work was never actually marked since there was no "correct" answer, and the reasoning behind it was essentially to get experience of planning and budgeting. A great application of numeracy skills for a real-world task.

These days simplified versions of that exercise are relatively common for teachers to give to pupils but as we discovered the following term, what we were actually doing was literally planning his summer holiday with his family because he couldn't be arsed. He'd crowd-sourced his research.

Absolute genius of the man.

The app’s looking great, but I’ve got a couple of questions:

1. What is the difference between the three options within Settings > Feed Defaults > View. There’s Threads, Microblog and Timeline options, but I can’t see what effect they have on the feed.

2. When viewing comments, some replies are shown and nested, but others require tapping Open x replies. What determines whether a reply is shown automatically or needs a tap to open?