Xbox blowing themselves up and shutting down successful studios, Sony indicating they're gonna release a thousand dollar console with no physical games, Nintendo keep on winning just by being marginally less heinous and stupid than the competition

Limiting something so popular - and relatively cheap for the state - to 2,000 slots is madness. Doubly so given climate crisis and fuel price/subsidy issues

I feel like "deliberately make the entire criminal justice system stop working" is probably just about the worst thing a Minister for Justice can do, no?

Okay it's very funny* that the Children's Hospital situation has got to a point where th Minister for Health is going down trying to get all the workers to line up that she can do a headcount *actually not funny at all

Been thinking about the whole "are Sinn Féin actually left wing" thing and realising how poorly equipped we are to talk about forms of genuine leftism that actually just suck

There's people who actually want Ogbu to have her career destroyed and maybe even get deported so badly it's sick. Desperate for her story to be fake. Because they think all immigrants - especially those who sought asylum - are liars and cheaters. And some of them are employed as "journalists"

I hope that wasn't arson at Talbot Street but I have a bad feeling about it

this is just the entire powerwolf discography

You can tell it's too hot and nothing actually important is happening because we are currently witnessing the return of full-on Deposit Return Scheme Madness

> Poll an issue > Overwhelming majority oppose > Print this headline anyway This is the sort of presentation the Sunday Business Post should be ashamed of and a clear case of representing poll results in a certain way to pursue an agenda

I genuinely think my model is going to explode when I input this data. Social Democrats only 2 points behind Fianna Fáil. Good lord

@businesspost.bsky.social latest RED C research poll for business post sees SF lead, but also records highs for Social Dems. Red C Poll: Fianna Fáil in Soc Dems’ crosshairs as party’s relentless rise makes it kingmaker www.businesspost.ie/politics/red...

Cars are forever blocking the junction between Blackhall Place and the quays by turning late into it Top marks to eejit who did that just now literally in front of a guard and then tried to argue with him about it. Saw him get upgraded from a telling off to being pulled over in real time lol

Remember like 10 years ago when the UK tried to ban a load of types of porn? What ever even happened with that in the end? I assume it failed and they gave up. Anyway this is definitely not related to any current news stories

i really dont understand why people are confused about what baki is about it seems pretty simple to me

Fire Emblem as a series truly captures the essence of ancient Greek warfare: you play a charismatic leader claiming some form of divine mandate leading an army exclusively composed of twinks and child soldiers

Smithers, I'm beginning to think that the Minister for Housing is not the brilliant tactician I thought he was

> Struggling to edit a PDF > Acrobat keeps glitching and crashing > Try every setting, nothing fixes it > Notice AI assistant, which I'm not using, is on > Disable it out of principle > Acrobat now runs perfectly > ????? How do you even fuck your software up this badly man

So that'll be, what, 7 PMs in the last ten years in the UK? Thank god for the stability first past the post voting creates in political systems, eh

What in the absolute fuck is going on in England

Same old tune as it ever was from the commentariat. First it was Labour's moral duty to go into government with the right (and get annihilated) then it was the Green Party's moral duty to go into government with the right (and get annihilated) and now it's the Soc Dem's etc etc etc

33 degrees outside. The surface of the roads melts, trapping pedestrians like quicksand, drowning them bodily in the tar. People seek refuge in cars only to be cooked alive, screaming as their skin splits. Eamon Ryan stalks the streets of Dublin, spitting on those who scorned his warnings

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut CONCEPTUALISATION - Disco Elysium is ambitious, creative, atmospheric, literary, a brave experiment in the limits of media formats, and, above all else-- HALF LIGHT [Legendary: Success] - --FUCKING BORING! 4/10

I think what's being lost in the coverage of Manna's inevitable implosion is that the product was shit

Sadly adding duck to my list of foods that do not belong in the air fryer

Someone pointed out to me once that the only people actually benefitting financially from the explosion in growth of data centres are developers. Give the behaviour of the government I'm starting to think this theory makes sense

Rob's point is well made but also I'm sorry but have Dublin City Council officials gone completely and utterly insane? How would limiting who can access the deposit return scheme even work???

Waiting for the social media ban for the group most vulnerable to exploitation and radicalisation by online anti-social elements: middle-aged politicians

nuzlockes arent real if youve ever played fire emblem

Who would win? An armed, internationally wanted hitman or Irish people's complete and utter disregard for the rules of the road

Yes it is obviously from a place of deep ignorance and stupidity that the Yankee proposes that the solution in Northern Ireland involves an armed minority group. But considering the way many people in the south talk about NI and in particular the IRA, I have thoughts.

I see that some politicians and commenters south of the border (you can guess which ones) are using the events in NI to blame immigration for everything Not only is this worm behaviour but how are you not ashamed pretending to be that ignorant of the history of the island you live on?

The pre-existing conduits for non-state violence directed against minority groups in NI being tapped make this scarier; from my admitted outsider perspective it seems way more targeted and organised than, say the riots in Dublin and the mainland UK.

Horrifying stuff in Belfast

Okay I've just played 30 minutes of Disco Elysium and like, I know this is the internet's favourite game but I got to ask - does this get good at some point? It's incredibly uninteresting and the writing is to put it kindly, tiresome

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn Builds on FE9 gameplay-wise. Encourages more proactive playstyle. Ridiculously intense endgame is a welcome challenge, but has some real low points along the way. The story is such classic FE faff and contrivance, thematically solid if not really advancing on PoR. 7/10

On the phone scanning thing, I do find it a bit odd that the British government is apparently operating under the default assumption that every single person in the country is a sex criminal pervert

Korean fried chicken :)

The proliferation of nominally anti-AI posts on here that use AI generated imagery is frying my brain

Two polls in close succession that imply SF -> SD movement. Keep an eye on this trend...

I had to go have a look and it gives me no pleasure to report back that the online American ostensible left have moved on to the "violence against women is based actually" stage of cope

By god, it's been a while since we had a good old fashioned Slavic rune PR disaster

So, just checking in, how did that work out for everyone?

'Are the Police Anti-White' – the stupidest debate in the history of media, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of racial slurs,

If this were proposed - which it won't be, I suspect - it would be a very strong contender for the lowest Yes vote in history

Curious how this might have looked if they had reversed the question (i.e. put the onus to on Sinn Féin instead of Fianna Fáil), would it have reversed the SF/FF dynamic? From this month's RedC poll

Jolyon Maugham's transformation from guy pursuing futile cases against Brexit to Trans People's Strongest Allied Soldier has been one of the very few positive evolutions of a British public figure over the last decade

The Irish government spending years screaming "Putin's puppets!!!" at anyone who disagreed with their foreign policy rings a bit hollow in retrospect when they're telling the Ukrainians to fuck off and the rest of us that it's ok to sell raw materials to Russia, actually

Shout out to the security guy who let me into the closed dart station to top up my leap card 🙏