Glad to see the back of Starmer.
Not sure how much of his ousting was his pro-Zionism, I'd like to think about half.
Not sure how much of his ousting was his pro-Zionism, I'd like to think about half.
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genuinely quite hard to understand how someone who won a 'landslide' election victory can be ignominiously booted out within 2 years.
well, not so hard to understand when you consider the machinations of his inner circle and the type of advisors he had around him (viz. blairite centrist slugs and peter mandelson hangers-on).
appointing reeves as chancellor was his first big mistake. they achieved none of their soft-left progressive reforms to the economy and mostly seemed to only get through policy to do with illiberal measures banning protest, doing away with jury trials, and requiring digital ID for adults to access reddit (even imgur is banned in the UK now, which is truly bizarre).
also gave away the chagos islands because he is so thoroughly brainwashed by his human rights lawyer milieu. something that was in no ways in the national interest but granted him kudos amongst a certain charmed class of QCs/KCs and star barrister types.
well, not so hard to understand when you consider the machinations of his inner circle and the type of advisors he had around him (viz. blairite centrist slugs and peter mandelson hangers-on).
appointing reeves as chancellor was his first big mistake. they achieved none of their soft-left progressive reforms to the economy and mostly seemed to only get through policy to do with illiberal measures banning protest, doing away with jury trials, and requiring digital ID for adults to access reddit (even imgur is banned in the UK now, which is truly bizarre).
also gave away the chagos islands because he is so thoroughly brainwashed by his human rights lawyer milieu. something that was in no ways in the national interest but granted him kudos amongst a certain charmed class of QCs/KCs and star barrister types.
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On the one hand the last however many PMs have been cursed by a dying economy, Make England Great Again is a great slogan but not a realistic option.
On the other the only thing which has enlivened this tubby slug has been supporting genocide and crushing dissent against it.
People aren't stupid either, they can see that when two jews getting stabbed warrants a Cobra meeting and GBP25m in security funding, but five muslims being attacked with an axe doesn't merit a tweet there's an imbalance.
I had no confidence in him from day one, obviously another Blairish grifter with a Pro-Israel agenda.
Burnham seems to have no defined policies, I see no hope there.
Apparently he's already complaining that he needs Starmer to stay in place for three months so he can 'develop a plan', exactly what Starmer has supposedly been doing for the last two years with no output.
Glad I'm not paying tax into this disaster.
On the other the only thing which has enlivened this tubby slug has been supporting genocide and crushing dissent against it.
People aren't stupid either, they can see that when two jews getting stabbed warrants a Cobra meeting and GBP25m in security funding, but five muslims being attacked with an axe doesn't merit a tweet there's an imbalance.
I had no confidence in him from day one, obviously another Blairish grifter with a Pro-Israel agenda.
Burnham seems to have no defined policies, I see no hope there.
Apparently he's already complaining that he needs Starmer to stay in place for three months so he can 'develop a plan', exactly what Starmer has supposedly been doing for the last two years with no output.
Glad I'm not paying tax into this disaster.
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i would really like to stop paying UK tax (via treaty) and leave the UK altogether, but alas. maybe one day.
I don't think the UK is going to be negotiating a treaty with you.
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there is a reciprocal tax treaty between the UK and japan, as with many other places, on income tax, derp.
Well thats lucky, you can use that.
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animals in government are uniquely situated to basically do nothing but lick their own asses and get pictures taken. larry has done nothing but be a cat, and more people started adopting. a great result unless you're a mouse.
side comment, emojis have gone too far. why do we need modern hieroglyphics to tell us we've just read about a government cat. do we really need a cat ears emoji for every emotion. i don't respect it.
side comment, emojis have gone too far. why do we need modern hieroglyphics to tell us we've just read about a government cat. do we really need a cat ears emoji for every emotion. i don't respect it.
i don't like larry the cat because it's mostly a front for twee centrist 'keep calm and carry on' bollocks. i don't really think the executive office needs a pet or a mascot to make it more 'accessible'. just make the trains more affordable and society less shit, please.
we can dislike larry the meme.
but like presidential pets, the cat literally did nothing but be an animal. even bill murray was cool with punxsutawney phil in that one movie.
but like presidential pets, the cat literally did nothing but be an animal. even bill murray was cool with punxsutawney phil in that one movie.
mosquitos do nothing except be themselves and live out their little insect telos, too. and i don't feel obliged to like nor respect them.
This is why they don't respect you.
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i'm cool with mosquitos existing, too. part of the food chain and all that. how much have humans fucked the ecosystem with insecticides alone?
i just don't want mosquitos in my living space. you can at least train cats off of counters and keep them out of your room. none of the cats in the past many years have meowed their asses off either, because boredom noises don't get a response. if a cat starts meowing, i know something's up.
i just don't want mosquitos in my living space. you can at least train cats off of counters and keep them out of your room. none of the cats in the past many years have meowed their asses off either, because boredom noises don't get a response. if a cat starts meowing, i know something's up.
i'll have you know i trained mosquitoes to stay out of my room and out of my food. they're extremely fast learners. almost eager to please.
the cats however? as inscrutable as the sphinx.
the cats however? as inscrutable as the sphinx.
The cat has to want to learn.
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the sphinx analogy points us to the core of the problem. uzique hasn't yet answered the cat's riddle. give the toxo some time to settle in and you'll have your rosetta stone.
Minecraft, Call Of Duty Community Servers Are “Illegal,” Claims ESA Rep
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/art … 08012.html
there are clips of this.
the ritual suicide of aaa gaming is so baffling to me. it's extremely weird to me that it's about servers in general and not specifically just real-money item markets and gambling.
"community servers are illegal and piracy" is a very toxic approach even on just the basis of a lobbyist talking out their ass. the best, most chill servers in any game are pretty much going to be private servers. most people i come across online in general gaming on private servers are millennials and x. the experience on private servers is often far more sfw than i remember cod officials or whatever. very mom & pop. this corporate obsession of cultivating "kid-friendly spaces" to the point of badgering their own game communities and modders ironically results in fewer kid-friendly spaces, i think. what about all the literally trashy youtubers with millions of subs? why would a server with like 10 players get put under the microscope, but not them?
solved: look at the esrb rating and pay attention to the "experience may change during online play" blurb.
did you read it? yes? don't bother the company.
did you read it? no? go and read it.
the best days of minecraft were before the microslop acquisition. not that it applies to me, for reasons i've posted about. i have opinions that align with stop killing games, blah blah. anyway.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/art … 08012.html
The Protect Our Games Act–a piece of legislation endorsed by the Stop Killing Games movement–has been voted down at the California State Senate. However, one of the most noteworthy incidents from this legislative battle was a comment made by an Entertainment Software Association lobbyist who claimed that Minecraft and Call of Duty private community servers are "illegal."
Jennifer Gibbons, the ESA's vice president of state government affairs, told lawmakers that community servers for Minecraft and Call of Duty games are both breaking the law.
"They're illegal," said Gibbons. "They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, for Minecraft, has gotten a lot of criticism because of those community servers not employing the same safety standards that Microsoft does on their Minecraft servers … In fact, we consider it piracy. We have … two pending lawsuits against private servers right now, and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in their Notorious Markets Reports on counterfeiting and piracy has named some of these big private servers as a notorious market."
there are clips of this.
the ritual suicide of aaa gaming is so baffling to me. it's extremely weird to me that it's about servers in general and not specifically just real-money item markets and gambling.
"community servers are illegal and piracy" is a very toxic approach even on just the basis of a lobbyist talking out their ass. the best, most chill servers in any game are pretty much going to be private servers. most people i come across online in general gaming on private servers are millennials and x. the experience on private servers is often far more sfw than i remember cod officials or whatever. very mom & pop. this corporate obsession of cultivating "kid-friendly spaces" to the point of badgering their own game communities and modders ironically results in fewer kid-friendly spaces, i think. what about all the literally trashy youtubers with millions of subs? why would a server with like 10 players get put under the microscope, but not them?
solved: look at the esrb rating and pay attention to the "experience may change during online play" blurb.
did you read it? yes? don't bother the company.
did you read it? no? go and read it.
the best days of minecraft were before the microslop acquisition. not that it applies to me, for reasons i've posted about. i have opinions that align with stop killing games, blah blah. anyway.
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video-gaming basically straight-up died for me when community servers and in-game server browsers stopped being a thing.
matchmaking was a terrible fucking development, imported from console when it was totally unnecessary for desktop PC gaming.
being a regular in a server was, i realise now, most of the magic of video-gaming. hardly mattered what game you were playing, sometimes, if the community feeling was good and the intramural rivalries spicy enough, etc.
they want you isolated and alone and spending money on their gambling lootboxes and getting addicted to their dopamine loops, forever.
matchmaking was a terrible fucking development, imported from console when it was totally unnecessary for desktop PC gaming.
being a regular in a server was, i realise now, most of the magic of video-gaming. hardly mattered what game you were playing, sometimes, if the community feeling was good and the intramural rivalries spicy enough, etc.
they want you isolated and alone and spending money on their gambling lootboxes and getting addicted to their dopamine loops, forever.
hard agree on much.
being a server regular still being a thing is one of the reasons i still play multiplayer games. fortunately, they still exist. they just tend to be from the indie bin. it's not snobbery if the indie games are objectively more consumer-friendly. who the heck wants to be locked into an ecosystem of official servers. an unfathomable amount of work is put into running these user servers, and some server owners make their own mods. some long term online circles. (there are some caveats where matchmaking can work, but that's for another topic).
the story of subnautica 2's development is a wild ride. the exec who tried to screw the devs over for millions upon millions should literally be in jail for even the attempt. meanwhile, poor people get maimed by police on suspicion of shoplifting.
gaming is a low-elevation island in a tsunami of slop and corporate greed. i've commented on it before but it's hilarious and sad how Big Software fumbled so completely on games prior to steam, and then when steam came out and was Good, suddenly they got back into wanting a piece of the pie. a bunch of giants wanting me to move to their gaming platform. i'm good, thanks.
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lost tech and forgotten methods of polish probably deserves its own post. it has documentaries. things that were being put into games are short on people who remember how to accomplish this. "why don't we do this anymore?" "nobody knows how."
what are the vibe coders going to do? documentation in the profession is already garbage. what little we have in the way of annotations will probably become ancient history from the Before Times.
upscaling from one engine to the next can depreciate a bunch of stuff that made an original release feel unique. a remaster can end up losing the entire licensed soundtrack. you lose: all terrain and water deformation. you gain: dubious lumen implementation and a few plants.
being a server regular still being a thing is one of the reasons i still play multiplayer games. fortunately, they still exist. they just tend to be from the indie bin. it's not snobbery if the indie games are objectively more consumer-friendly. who the heck wants to be locked into an ecosystem of official servers. an unfathomable amount of work is put into running these user servers, and some server owners make their own mods. some long term online circles. (there are some caveats where matchmaking can work, but that's for another topic).
the story of subnautica 2's development is a wild ride. the exec who tried to screw the devs over for millions upon millions should literally be in jail for even the attempt. meanwhile, poor people get maimed by police on suspicion of shoplifting.
gaming is a low-elevation island in a tsunami of slop and corporate greed. i've commented on it before but it's hilarious and sad how Big Software fumbled so completely on games prior to steam, and then when steam came out and was Good, suddenly they got back into wanting a piece of the pie. a bunch of giants wanting me to move to their gaming platform. i'm good, thanks.
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lost tech and forgotten methods of polish probably deserves its own post. it has documentaries. things that were being put into games are short on people who remember how to accomplish this. "why don't we do this anymore?" "nobody knows how."
what are the vibe coders going to do? documentation in the profession is already garbage. what little we have in the way of annotations will probably become ancient history from the Before Times.
upscaling from one engine to the next can depreciate a bunch of stuff that made an original release feel unique. a remaster can end up losing the entire licensed soundtrack. you lose: all terrain and water deformation. you gain: dubious lumen implementation and a few plants.
it has documentaries
not a docu. a side-by-side i've posted before, or one like it. we are now at a point where even with the so-called 'focus on visuals,' in many respects games just look worse, and you have to wonder how.
My CPU doesn't meet min requirements for the halo remake it's insane
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- Gone Forever
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Do we really need to return to the Ring? Don't you want a new story or new adventure?
5 and 6 has completely ignored the previous game due to backlash so maybe not. But I don't want a 100gb resource intensive singleplayer halo.