One big positive in Borderlands 4 is your Vault Hunter actually showing up in cutscenes, as well as NPCs sometimes responding to things they say with unique dialogue (which only The Pre Sequel did before)

Actual footage of Julianna at this moment

Briefly coming up for air from a prolonged Borderlands binge and God, I’m so out of the loop

Just remembered another one that's still up

Look at the sadness in his eyes

I was saddened to learn that improving celeb photos is something they're actively working on but these greats of the genre survive

When you’ve got Strictly at 7 but need to sub for Lenin at the Mausoleum at 10.

Fun fact: Wikipedia is so strict with this that licensing a photo "for Wikipedia use only" instantly disqualifies it because that's not free enough

Speaking of Winkleman, why is this her Wikipedia photo, lmao?

I respect Strictly’s commitment to disability inclusion, but I’m really not sure I can stomach another year of all the able-bodied cast gushing about how inspiring they are

Painful demonstration of how "Othering" is completely flexible and at the convenience of those setting the agenda.

The swan thing was an anti polish/ eastern european thing originally wasnt it

Especially odd seeing Polish people cited as “the good ones” given they were the Big Scary Immigrant Group when I was growing up

Just say White this is taking forever

Still playing Borderlands 4, so it obviously has grown on me a bit. Recent patch has seemed to help with the PS5 performance, at least

am convinced it is a subconscious effort to show dominance, like dogs do

Why is the media not covering the Juliana Fury index?

You’d think after, like, twenty years, that Blair would have realised smiling with his teeth just makes him look sinister now

Doctor: writes a report saying "youre dying" Sam coates: we dont know what this means Doctor: fills in a big picture of the human body with a tourquoise message that says youre dying Sam coates: :O

I think at this point the mantra that applied to the US media - they like Trump and want him to win - also applies to our media with Farage.

begging a media organisation to pay for/report on a Holyrood/Senedd poll for next May with 20% of the energy as the breathless reporting of an expensive MRP for an election that is four years away

*with 5% more fury* Starmer Must Resign

This is just weird coverage, man

The way pwople cover these drives me crazy. Theres litwrally no new information here.

Happy Tranniversary to me

Remastering a movie by shooting it in colour and changing nothing el--oh wait en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_...

I would very much like video games to stop calling things "remasters" if it has updated textures

Occasionally, I feel like Farage is so destined to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory that he should be an honorary member of Labour

"A spokesperson for Number 10 said Farage's comments were 'half-baked' and 'not properly costed'."

Wow, I’m now the number one most engaging user of the last week! No need to check, you can just trust me that it’s true

Dipped back into BL4 for a bit and, even if the performance issues weren’t impacting my enjoyment, I just find it comparatively dull? I’m so tired of every game series gravitating towards open world and/or jet packs as though they were inherently superior design choices

Replaying Borderlands 3. Definitely prefer it mechanically to 4, but also… the Calypsos

I remember a Labour Party motion a few years back which suggested that the Party rule book be changed to forbid any coalitions with nationalist parties. This was one of those instances where the right of the party confused pragmatism with vindictiveness, which they do a lot.

Labourites love to talk about how the SNP aren't progressive while their party continuing to block the Tories intervention against the GRR

Mr First Minister, I regret to inform you that my limited knowledge of England below Yorkshire has lost us our best agent behind the lines.

I do think a UK-wide coalition of the left that includes separatist parties is probably a mistake (well, even more of a mistake than any coalition of the left), but, God, the Labour habit of acting like the SNP and PC are beyond the pale is deeply grating

surely not not cheap, short-term, minor-issues point-scoring over long termist thinking, not from DAVID CAMERON, julianna

Unrelated to Sharon’s point, but I always felt this attack somewhat backfired because Corbyn scrubbed up pretty well when he started wearing a suit

(I probably need to find a better phrase for “humour that chimes with me as a British person” than “British humour” which kind of implies we are the origin of anything funny)

Laughing is one of the last things I do to funny things. If I react I chortle a little but most of the time I just innerly know "that's funny" without reacting

Discussing BL4’s humour on the Borderlands subreddit, I argued a certain side quest was funnier for playing it straight instead of calling attention to how ridiculous it was with a knowing wink. Got a response like “you actually laughed at that mission” and ?

Its funny how quickly the Series X vaulted to my most played console ever mostly down to reliably well running games and free upgrades for rougher ones of the previous gens. That cross gen period was beautiful

Some gamers kind of knee jerk react to next gen news like games running more stable and looking as intended isnt a perfectly good selling point (and is basically the PC upgrade vibe now)

(As I say, I do think diminishing returns is valid in terms of, like, not expecting huge leaps every five years like at the turn of the century, but whenever someone says they can’t tell the difference between a PS4 game and a PS5 game I just want to ask if they’re feeling okay)

The great game of hardware people making better products and software people responding by becoming worse at programming

I get the whole diminishing returns argument, but it’s kinda weird to have people saying there’s no room to improve on the PS5 in response to my thread about the first time the machine has felt underpowered

Powered through to the end of Borderlands 4. Comfortably the worst running game I’ve played on my PS5. My recommendation is to at least wait a few months for the first several patches but, in all honesty, I wish I’d waited for the future PS6 version

We love the Discourse Ouroboros, don't we folks?

We hadn’t watched any more since then, and we’re now watching the Harmony Cobel standalone episode and… yeah, even I struggle with this one