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Depends on what it was thinking about really. The really rapid clicking noise was generally the mechanical hard drive heads seeking and moving quickly. You could tell if it had been thinking too hard for too long when the mechanical drive sounded like it had sneezed quietly (I’m not joking), that’s when you started to back stuff up rather quickly.

The more single-tone longer-note experience was generally reserved for the floppy disks.

The quiet mechanical spin-up noise was often an optical drive spinning the media - usually a CD - up to it’s normal reading speed, and you quickly forgot about it.

If it sounded like it was thinking like a early morning bird with a hangover, they were reminiscent of the early 90min tape drives. More industrial drives didn’t make that noise thankfully.

The aircraft engine type noise was generally one or more of the case fans giving it some VTEC love to cool a component that was running hot, or if someone smashed the Turbo button.

It certainly ended up at a house party.

I suppose it’s not clear when they decided they weren’t for each other.

Sounds fuckin’ mint to be fair.

Get me some tourism and carbs.

As hilarious and arguably far more entertaining as this is, whatever happened to the age-old “well I’ve had a good night but maybe we’re better suited as friends, time for me to boost, speak to you tomorrow” parting?

I think I’d just disappoint both, but faster

That’s outstanding! Fantastic effort!

Even if I did, I don’t think I’ve got the physical or mental ability to disappoint two women at once!!

A doppelganger, if you will!

It is happening again

All fourteen seconds of it, anyway.

Ten of those seconds are apologising, too.

“dey tuk eeeurrr propereeershuns!”

Looks like the producer entered the Big Head mode cheat.

could have got some mad skillz real time Hegseth updates if you hadn’t!

That damned abominable snowman is going to get a nasty surprise at two thousand metres…

I’m just chuckling at the thought of a USB-to-CCS converter.

no but this boi can

must be daytime on Saturn too else it would be too dark to see

Bro had an alarm set, ain’t nobody gonna make him late for a date with the real world!

Of course. I can only speak for brands that I’ve had good experience with, there’s other manufacturers like Nike or On Running or Hoka or Asics or Saucony etc.

The Brooks Adrenaline range offered the best cushioning and support for my overpronation style of running (as in, I naturally land on the inside edge of my foot and roll out - Supination is landing on the outside edge of your foot and rolling in, and neutral is landing squarely) or the New Balance 680 range got me through my first half-marathon.

My advice would be to head to a local running store and see if they do gait analysis - basically they get you to run for fifteen or twenty seconds on a treadmill looking at a fixed point in front of you, and a camera records your footfall on the treadmill to see where you could benefit from cushioning (if at all), or take your old pair of trainers down and let them examine the wear pattern (only works if you specifically use the pair for running).

Secondly, don’t bother buying the latest models of shoe unless you’re an athlete or at least semi-pro - find out what model number the latest range is (for example in Feb 2026 the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 26 is being sold), and search for last season’s model number to get them for a fair bit cheaper.

And by extension, footwear too.

I put so many miles through these knees in cheap trainers, when I learned about actual running hooves from Brooks or New Balance, my world changed forever…

…or at least the shinsplints and impact pains went away!