Also, anytime I see some twerp claiming a 30+ hour game is “too short” to be charging full price, I want to reach through the computer and slap them

This goes hand in hand with the idea that the indie scene is unilaterally thriving as opposed to drowning in its own sea of content outside of the breakouts

There’s a special kind of gamer brain worm that thinks the price of games should be directly proportional to its budget

My thing now is pointing out to people that gaming trends they think of as “ten years ago” are actually more like twenty years ago

If you’re worried about Nigel Farage becoming Prime Minister, cheer up, he might be killed by falling masonry on his first day in office.

“Do you still think you can control them?”

Being a British person with bad teeth is so embarrassing, totally living up to the stereotype

Christ alive

Happy 3rd birthday to Pentiment (thanks to @joealouder.bsky.social for reminding me)

*again

I love people who respond to stories about MPs dragging their feet in renovating the existing Parliament by saying "turn Parliament into a museum and build a new one", as if they'd get a 2-for-1 deal

Was widely reported that golf courses take up more land than housing in the UK a few years ago, so the government can make this a reality with housing for as many as 40 million more if they have the guts to outlaw golf.

Was about to say, MPs are now very sheepish (as a class) about being seen to 'vote themselves more money', even if this is really just historic building preservation & workplace modernisation.

I’m sure the hung parliament that is likely to follow the next election will be able to make a decision 👍

I mean I know this an overused phrase, but it’s true and it’s time we started acknowledging it in a UK context, particularly to avoid letting Labour and the political centre off the hook: The cruelty is the point

Me when Land of Hope and Glory plays vs. me when it gets to "wider still and wider, shall thy bounds be set"

Specifically to go to Britain you already need to have reached France, and every time these people chose the considerable effort and danger of getting to an island from there. I figured British people would feel nice about that?

1 billion Brits

Agreed, it’s just so alien to me. If you’re proud of your country, and you don’t want people who would choose it as their home to build lives her, what exactly is it you’re so proud of?

Also, whilst I'm always a bit iffy about pro-immigration arguments framed around what they provide for us, I do find it annoying that huge chunks of our society view it as unpatriotic to want more people to be Brits

The truth is a significant proportion of the population thinks asylum seekers (even the successful ones) are making it up or at least heavily exagerrating the problems in their home country In part based on years of media uskng Asylum speaker as shorthand for freeloader.

I'm imagining someone going round to the elderly Polish refugees in the village I grew up in in the 90s and telling them that Communism had fallen, now they have to go back, don't darken our door anymore and I get *so* angry.

I’m not exactly anti-borders, as I recognise there is a theoretical point where immigration numbers present a logistical challenge, but I straight up do not understand the mindset that doesn’t take pride in people choosing to live in your country

Stayed at my Dad’s overnight, which I rarely do these days, and I hate how sluggish I am in the morning when I’m not at home

I was aware that it was bad, but I hadn’t watched the video until now and Jesus Christ

the things I want most out of a phone is to be distracted by looking at my own hand through it and for other people to be able to see what I’m looking at at all times

What I find most creepy about this is the way it reduces people to their effect on us.

One of the reasons AI can do reasonably convincing videos of politicians is because they are incredibly well-documented people. There’s thousands of recordings of Trump talking, and likely hundreds of hours of footage of him talking directly to the camera without moving much

My "most woke opinion" is that a lot of ostensibly liberal Americans having the desire to do Imperialism But Good is pretty damning of them, actually

Americans do understand that people from other countries can read when they have these weird fucking fantasies about doing Good Imperialism, right?

What’s the actual, like, mechanism here? The article says the case will likely be filed through federal or state courts, but how do they have jurisdiction in this case?

Obviously watching two films about a nuke crisis back to back has me thinking about MAD, and this still sums it up for me

Relating to this image a lot lately

They're not going to vote for you. Whatever you do, the imagined community for ex-Labour, Reform voting manual working class men who you want to vote for you...are not going to vote for you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They should make a version of The Death of Stalin about Liz Truss’ premiership but everyone is played by someone from a random country someone has selected by throwing a dart at a map of the world

Movie about the Special Relationship (narrowly about a shared military campaign) where the SAS guy is a Texan doing his best Yorkshire and the Navy SEAL is a Yorkshireman doing his best Texas

Anyway, we’re now watching Doctor Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Let Billy Bob Thornton play Tony Blair you cowards

One of the funniest bits of The Batman was that because it was filmed in the UK all the bit parts were played by familiar British tv actors all doing their broadest Noo Yawk accents

Dad putting A House of Dynamite on and it’s amusing seeing, like, half the US government played by Brits

Randomly getting annoyed at the perceived wisdom that winter elections are bad for turnout, when the only example this century had the second highest turnout

Fan, singular, I’m guessing (Okay, this is cool for preservation, admittedly)

Hell, this happens to me and I’ve only got… wait, why the fuck do 1700 of you follow me?

Whilst disparity between number of followers isn’t an equality issue or akin to wealth disparity, I do sometimes get the sense having hundreds to thousands of people who will signal their agreement with anything you say does go to a lot of people’s heads and warp their perspective

BlueSky: tax rises would be unpopular but they’re needed, so it’s better to do them now than kick the can down the road YouGov: tax rises would be unpopular Some guy, smugly: oh ho ho ho, looks like Blue Sky is in a bit of a bubble

Don't think there's any doubt it would have been incredibly unpopular. The relevant questions are a) will the tax rises they do instead be more or less unpopular and b) would it allow them to do things that made them look more competent in three years' time.

A shame I didn't keep doing this, it's interesting how my views have and haven't shifted since this. Prey is in *6th*

“Don’t know how I had the energy,” says person who started the thread talking about hyperfocus.