On launch 2042 was complete crap but I had some fun with it two years ago. I particularly liked being able to swap out my weapon attachments on the fly.

I’ve spent much of my adult life with nothing positive to say about our governments. I’m not really emotionally prepared for being pleased about something a UK government is doing!

The number of drivers I see here in Wales that seem to feel that they should be allowed to drive whatever speed they want boggles my mind. It’s so tremendously selfish.

Something that does amuse me is the number of drivers I see do 30 mph in the centre of my town - because it never makes any difference how quickly they get there. The traffic density is such that they simply end up waiting at the next traffic light, roundabout, junction, etc… The lights will change and they’ll zip off and I’ll chug along at 20 mph - only to meet them as they sit waiting. I’ve even had some of them overtake me to get to the red light sooner.

Over entitled children.

“Our community” feels a bit monolithic. It’s like saying “film watchers” or “readers”. Lumping anyone that plays video games regularly into a single social group feels unhelpfully reductive.

I absolutely loved the modern day story. I was so very invested and it still smarts a bit that they lost interest in doing it justice.

Manchester United: 3

Has there ever been a case where tax cuts genuinely helped a country/state/whatever’s economy?

I’m starting to suspect that this is why I don’t watch as many films as I’d like to. They’ve all become such a time commitment. Show me what you can do with an hour and a half!

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No, they’re not.

Shocked Pikachu face.

Ye gods, 18 years, 4 months for mine. You’d hope that they’d just automatically stop asking if I’m old enough to view store pages, right?

I’m tickled that the code hasn’t been digitised and the scans are only just barely high enough resolution to make out the text.

Ye gods, no wonder it’s so easy to grift people. They’ve got the savvy of a toddler.

I remember it dawning on me and making me grin. “Is that, oh it so is!”

I played through 1 - 4 and honestly, I think 4 was the only one that was actively good. The others might once have been fun, but they didn’t really hold up. However I had a great time with 4. I particularly liked the epilogue.

I’m often not waiting for ideal conditions, just less bad conditions. This evening I made some progress on something I’ve not been working on because I’ve just been too exhausted, mentally and physically. Conditions don’t have to be ideal, but they’re often more than sub-optimal.

Ye gods, that’s bloody hideous. Throw a CRT filter over that, at the very least!

The laws vary by jurisdiction.

In the UK copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one, which means that the owner of copyrighted content must be willing to spend time and money pursuing legal action. That means that whilst it’s not legal, it’s a sort of “what are you going to do about it?” situation.

There’s also an element here of “if you get caught”. If no one but you knows then there’s unlikely to be legal consequences, for obvious reasons.

The “grand question” is about what constitutes transformative work and how your jurisdiction handles ownership of transformative works. You’ll need to look that up yourself.

Ultimately it seems like a lot of hassle and risk for far too little gain.

Musk didn’t takeover “X”, he took over Twitter. I’m not calling the bird site “X” just because that childish bell-end never matured beyond 14.

From what I’ve read, the concept of appeasement was buying time because Britain was in no position to do anything, which ultimately worked (I’m reminded of the quote “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.”).

However it doesn’t work if you’re not planning to do anything!