FishFace

Congrats on not getting anxious I guess?

I'm not going to talk with someone who doesn't reply to the comment I wrote.

Are these guys juggalos?

flee

A couple of minutes delay almost never causes a missed connection in the UK, because connection times that the route planning service uses are more generous than that. You'd have to be quite unlucky: probably a combination of a connection from one end of the station to another and a mobility issue. Connection times are built around this scenario, but I don't think they build in slack for it.

I get travel anxiety but have never had my day "ruined" by a couple of minutes delay. It sounds like you might mean that the metric isn't useful for the very narrow scenario of someone who will get crippling anxiety from that, which is fair enough, but that doesn't make it "unrealistic".

It can happen if delays are rare, yeah

Cannot confirm from the DB reports which put it at about 90% punctuality overall.

But this got me to look up the UK statistics - when I was growing up it was always a stereotype that UK trains sucked and German trains were great. Today, the three minute punctuality of UK trains is 85%, and the 15 minute punctuality is 98%. From that we could subtract cancellations, which are at around 3-4%.

DB breaks it out by regional and long-distance trains though (long-distance is much worse, less than 70% on these reports)

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/

https://zbir.deutschebahn.com/2025/de/konzern-zwischenlagebericht-ungeprueft/qualitaet-und-sicherheit/puenktlichkeit/

Ah, the Ryanair approach. But unreliable arrival times are annoying for passengers and a drain. Sure, build in a small amount of slack, but a functioning train system should be able to get to 90% punctuality without adding 15 minutes of slack everywhere.

Having been on a delayed German train, my connection actually waited so that everyone on my train connecting to it could catch it...

This is an important step for mechaphiles with mpreg fetishes.

Never noticed before how nice the butt on the next human battery is...

Disappointment is when you're sad because you were expecting or hoping for something and didn't get it.

So if you've somehow picked up Black Ops 6 as the first CoD game and were sad that Black Ops 7 was basically the same, that would be disappointment. If instead the last Call of Duty game you played was the original Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 and have since never played the series because you realised in 2011 that the series wasn't really evolving, I think it would be misleading to call it "disappointment" that Black Ops 7 is not much different from 6.

At that point I think you're not really disappointed, and are just criticising something that you don't like. And of course, criticising stuff you don't like is not automatically bad, but it becomes something different. And in this case often the criticism could be well voiced as "I don't play these games because I played one in 2009 and look for new experiences" rather than "these games are bad because they don't offer new experiences compared to 2009".

Not everyone has fun buying the same thing over and over again while most anything new and original languishes in development hell.

But surely this isn't how you feel? If I had 100,000 hours to play games I think I'd have 1,000,000 hours of games to try to cram in. There are so many good, original games.

Some do, some don't

But if that is an actual line it's fucking dumb