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- Comment on Man, seems like Jim Cummings is to classic CRPGs as Jeffrey Combs is to Star Trek. 1 day ago:
There was some military strategy game which was voiced by Will Wheaton. I remember you had to control the characters with voice command, and that was a very new and novel idea and went playing online people forgot that that meant that you could hear what orders they were giving their units.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 2 days ago:
Also, based on recent polling, isn’t Reform the largest opponent, not Labour?
She isn’t that bright, she genuinely seems to think her job is to just blame Labour for everything. Actually paying attention to the political landscape seems to be a bit outside of her wheelhouse
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 2 days ago:
Wasn’t there a story about some translation service where somebody had sent them the terms of service pour some business or something rather, and at the end they’d put “all that, but in Spanish”, and the company translated that bit into Spanish as well.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 2 days ago:
The thing is the printer didn’t write it someone in conservative HQ wrote it and then sent it to the printer to be printed. It’ll be some company that just makes customised chocolate wrappers, I guarantee no human working at the printers ever looked at it.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 2 days ago:
It also says no added sugar, so they should be able to refill my vodka orange as much as they want because the sugar in orange juice is natural.
What a wonderful law.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 3 days ago:
Based on current polling we conservatives would be lucky to get third place. Reform on track to get second or third place depending on the pole, Labour and the lib Dems are fighting for the top spot.
So if we had an election today it would probably result in a labor lib dem coalition in government and a reform opposition (albeit one was so little voting capacity that they may as well not exist) then the conservative sitting on the sidelines. In some very strange universe reform and the conservatives may actually just accept that they’re essentially the same party and former a coalition opposition, but I suspect the smugness of the few remaining conservators will prevent that on this particular plane of existence.
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 days ago:
I have this clever idea for a starship game where you can explore the universe. What I’m going to do to fund development, and it’s totally not a scam, is to sell starships for real money. At first of course you won’t be able to do anything with the ships because I haven’t actually developed the game yet, but in just 10 to 15 to 20 to 30 years there might actually be a game, possibly.
- Comment on It is only half greentext, though amusing 3 days ago:
But the problem is if you don’t do the work the client doesn’t pay the money. It probably works better if your salaried.
- Comment on It is only half greentext, though amusing 3 days ago:
Yeah I got pulled into a meeting with HR for not respecting the opinions of a flat earther. He was the most useless most passive drone I’ve ever met.
At one point turned his screen upside down and he tried to work with that for a week before he asked IT about it.
- Comment on It is only half greentext, though amusing 3 days ago:
At the height of the lockdowns I used to work in an advertising agency and it was like that. Because of the lockdowns we all have to work remotely and I got so much more done because I wasn’t constantly being asked questions about my life, favourite sports teams, and my opinion of whatever the latest office drama was.
Only partially were they actually doing their job of trying to advertise a crappy one-star hotel as a holiday villa. I think it ended up getting called something like hideaway lodge, or something equally original.
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 4 days ago:
He actually does know how to make good games, but the problems start as soon as he’s put in front of a camera.
Don’t have him going on TV and talking about the game. In fact make it a term of his employment that is not allowed to mention the game at all in any environment. Just take his phone off and basically. If he was just left alone to develop a game it would be fine. All common sense goes out the window as soon as he’s interviewed.
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 4 days ago:
The fact that he knows that people won’t believe him is hilarious. It means he’s fully aware that he has a problem and has never taken any steps to fix it.
He wants to rejuvenate his reputation but the time to do that was about 25-30 years ago. If you make one game and you’ve over promised on it, the very next game has to be your redemption, or you go CDPR route and you fix it, you can’t do it decades later.
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 4 days ago:
Call it Gray and Grey
Really confuse the issue.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 6 days ago:
Yeah the problem with that conspiracy theory of yours is nowhere in the text does it ever even suggest that there is any expectation that the friend would have to be paid for. Or indeed that the guy in is even being expected to pay for the girls meal.
It also sounds like a first date, which is not something that is usually all that elaborate, so if this is some evil trap to get free food it’s going to basically be a taco maybe a sandwich something not something worth the effort.
- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 6 days ago:
And all of that would be okay if it weren’t for the fact that he’s also clamping down on protest, attempting to implement population tracking via government issued ID cards, has implemented draconian internet crackdown laws, I want to shut up about immigration despite the fact that even labour’s own polling indicates that people aren’t that bothered about it.
What happened to all of the good policies that people actually voted for like citizens initiatives, or the commitment to having a committee to discuss electoral reform. When did the light go?
- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 6 days ago:
Wait how did you vote for both Biden in the US election, and stammer in a UK election
- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 6 days ago:
I don’t know everyone thought you’d be a bit more sensible because he used to be a human rights lawyer, but apparently not.
Obviously I didn’t expect him to call Trump out, nothing would be gained from doing that. But he could stop fawning over him quite so much
- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 6 days ago:
I think it’s just the games you play I’ve just had a look at the town to city forum, and it’s fine, as to be expected.
- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 6 days ago:
Don’t the developers have moderation capabilities?
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law 6 days ago:
The thing is it won’t work. Every time the conservatives echo reform talking points Farage just goes even more extreme, he doesn’t actually have to worry about any of his policies being even remotely workable, or indeed even physically possible, he just has to yell louder than the conservatives.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law 6 days ago:
I don’t think people will be particularly fond of him turning out to be a Russian spy either.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law 6 days ago:
The conservatives have never been particularly good for the country but lately they’ve gone completely bonkers. Who do they think these kind of policy measures are appealing to? The closed-minded idiots that used to like this kind of thing have all gone over to reform now. So they’ve decided that they now need to make sure they alienate their remaining voters.
- Comment on Michelle Mone demands Keir Starmer ends 'vendetta' against her in letter to PM 6 days ago:
Fancy being held accountable for a crime you committed. What is the world coming to, why can’t we leave criminals alone, the poor things.
- Comment on Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse 6 days ago:
If the conservative members were leaving the conservatives sure it wouldn’t really mean much. And of course they actually are leaving, but Kemi isn’t improving.
But labour are their members, labour members run everything because labour doesn’t have a 1922 committee equivalent. So if enough members leave, particularly if they do it en mass, yeah it’s a problem.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
Double dates aware there is two couples. This sounds more like she wants to bring her friend on to make her feel more comfortable on a first date.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
That was definitely my thought reading it but also it would be a thought that I wouldn’t articulate because that’s not what’s actually happening, she just wants a friend to make sure I’m not creepy. So that definitely wouldn’t be the right thing to say.
Although if it was the right kind of person and the date was going well I suppose it could come off as a good joke depending on the person
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
Nowhere in the screenshot does she ever say she expected the guy to pay for her friend.
He’s getting mad about a made-up situation in his head. How do you actually deal with someone who’s mad about something that hasn’t happened.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
I had girls bring a friend with them when I asked them out on a date and it didn’t even occur to me that I would pay for them. But also I wouldn’t expect the friend to hang around the entire time either, once it turned out I wasn’t trying to hurt anyone they generally went away.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
It’s a test and you failed it by being weird and strange and obnoxious, just let her bring her friend it’s literally not a downside for you. She’ll feel more comfortable by bringing her friend which can only be a good thing for you.
I don’t really consider myself to be particularly spectacular in the social department but even I wouldn’t have reacted like that. To be cross, why wouldn’t you want more girls on your date?
- Comment on Man goes undercover to the Unite The Kingdom protests, to see if he can find any racism. 1 week ago:
“I’m going to uncover racism in racist organisation. I feel lucky” probably a quote he made or something