@Dr_W_E_Bulmer It's probably appropriate that people whose morals come from a space fairy think we are ruled by Louis XIV
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Forget Bagehot, Dicey and Jennings. Constitutional conventions aren't real, apparently. By the same logic, the king could appoint Count Binface as Prime Minister and declare war on Andorra. I hope we are starting to see the scale and depth of the UK's constitutional crisis.
Dr. Calum Miller@DrCalumMiller
The claim that British monarchs "must" give royal assent to bills passed by Parliament is crypto-republican nonsense. Queen Anne did so in 1708. No constitutional crisis. No collapse of Parliament, democracy, or the country. Nothing substantive has changed since then. 🧵
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@DisIdealist Absolutely..increasingly think it's there as an excuse to get dragged reluctantly into middle eastern wars
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The open and frank conversation needed is inside the UK. Why do we have these huge, expensive military bases in Cyprus? Why is the UK in the eastern med? It’s not 1925. We’re not an empire any more. We’ve no need to guard Suez. Why are we spending money to be there at all?
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
Cyprus PM on future of British bases: “When this unfortunate situation in the Middle East is over, we need to have an open and frank conversation about the status and future of the British bases in Cyprus,”
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@oliver_drk If it takes 120 hours plus to finish then the dev needs to send review code out more than 2 weeks in advance or accept scoring of an uncompleted game
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Crimson Desert is much anticipated and IGN needs those clicks. Personally I'm still not a fan of these "review in progress" scores for offline singleplayer games.
If you're not ready then maybe don't slap a provisionally core on it.
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@JaqueMc1990 @TheCartelDel but you want a review not for the score but for the description. At this stage most of us know what we like and dont like. I dont like long boss battles that you cant skip, i prefer gameplay to cutscenes etc. A review helps me know if this for me..
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@TheCartelDel Much to my suprise, people for some reason still allow subjective reviews to rule what they try / can enjoy. But there's an entire sub culture in gaming that take review scores to be the gospel, and won't even touch something unless it achieves some arbitrary metric. Bizzare.
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Who cares. I will be the decider of what I like!! This game might be a 110 in the Kingdom of DEL.
Culture Crave 🍿@CultureCrave
'Crimson Desert' debuts to 77 on Metacritic — based on 61 reviews ⚔️
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@TheCartelDel but a problem is you have to spend 50 quid to play it.. so its good to know in advance whetehr you might enjoy it.. We used to have demos of course!
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@CNKScotland Make AD a private service then if you don't want the state funding it
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Ruth Maguire: “Are we going to be a country where the state funds dying but hospice care relies on charity?”
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@niebedepodawac @SynthPotato I'm the opposite there's a real shortage of good big gameplay driven games that appeal to me.. I'm back playing Witcher 3 again!
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@SynthPotato Interesting, but I already have so much to play... So many games, so little time...
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The next gigantic open world RPG for 2026 is going to Fable
This is definitely one of my most anticipated games of the year, the life simulator aspects of it with being able to affect every single NPC's life seemed mindblowing.
Fingers crossed it ends up a fantastic game!
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@comittoxcell @TheEggman64 I do not care about scores but reading the actual review tells me what it would be like to play and it dies seem to have a number of my less favourite design decisions eg long boss battles you have to replay.
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@TheEggman64 Help me understand why 63 reviews on Metacritic gave the game an 80-100 but 29 reviews gave it 45-78 & people are canceling reserves saying told you so? Yeah, the avg. score is 78 but the avg. of favorable scores is about 75%… 3/4 of the reviews liked the game.
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Oh dear. This is just one review for Crimson Desert, but even still it’s a painful read; “the dialogue, characters, and story are laughably bad”, and “hindered at almost every turn by jankiness and puzzling design choices”.
ign.com/articles/crims…
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@TimVanDijck @TheEggman64 I don't care about scores. I care about finding out before buying and as said above some of my big red flags keep coming up. It just doesn't sound fun to play
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@TheEggman64 You cherry-picked the review tough. The average sits around 79 (which is probably still lower than most expect).
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@LouShack @Hossylass @gwpurnell Yep like all the caring people they are foul mouthed abusive and not willing to actually discuss
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@browser_things @Hossylass @gwpurnell She's has blocked me.... speaks volumes about her ability to debate
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(Possibly) my last word on Liam McArthur's bill. If the sponsors saw themselves as compassionate, why didn't they embrace safeguards that would reduce the danger of wrongful medical deaths or coercion? Why didn't they care about making it the safest legislation of it's kind? /1
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@LukeTryl Any evidence public opinion on ad has changed from strong support
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Would say the two most successful 21st Century UK social issue campaigns:
Pro gay marriage (big shift in attitudes in short space of time)
Anti Assisted Dying (even against public in principle consensus, and shifting elites during process)
What have I missed (am sure loads!)?
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@LouShack @Hossylass @gwpurnell oh and dont forget he wont want disabled people having access to abortion or other 'vulnerable' people
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@Hossylass @browser_things @gwpurnell That's a really interesting concept. Can you tell me the safeguards for women in the Abortion Act, you know to protect them from abuse and coercion from the father?
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@browser_things @gwpurnell The NHS is non-profit.
Private companies are for profit.
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@LouShack @browser_things @gwpurnell Oh stop yourself.
I have not once invoked an imaginary God.
And neither have the 99% of people who also comment.
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@Hossylass @gwpurnell yes just like people working in the nhs
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@browser_things @gwpurnell I dont care what private companies do - but they always do it for the bottom line.
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@Hossylass @gwpurnell Its the persons choice, thats the beginning and end. If they want advice they can ask for it. If they want to see a priest they can do that, if they want to ask the spirits for advice they can do that.. Stop forcing people to do things
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@browser_things @gwpurnell They may find out that someone is being coerced. Or has no social care, is depressed, is frightened, is suffering neglect - all things that can be relieved.
Remember the 6-month expectation/terminal condition is wrong more than 50% of the time.
People can live for years if helped
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@LouShack @browser_things @gwpurnell Pardon?
You want a list of the safeguarding amendments that were refused?
Is that what you are asking?
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@Hossylass @gwpurnell so you dont want the prescious nhs people to do it and you dont want private companies, sounds like you just dont want it to happen and should just say that
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@browser_things @gwpurnell Oh the private sector would love that... profit from death due to fear caused by people being unaware that most death is painless and peaceful, especially in hospices.
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@Hossylass @gwpurnell So lets private companies hire people who are ok with it and then you can choose to go to them.. thatll be alright then
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@browser_things @gwpurnell Ah but it infringes on the choices of Doctors, nurses and hospice workers - forcing them against their will and profession - to prematurely end a patient's life - while no safeguards to ascertain if the patient has been informed of options and given help to continue to live.
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@Hossylass @gwpurnell what is some glorified social worker going to find out in a 30 minute interview.. The requirement is there simply to add another block so that the process takes longer and the person just dies anyway
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@browser_things @gwpurnell That Bill would be a money saving bill.
Its cheaper to kill than to care.
This Bill forces doctors, nurses and hospices to actively participate in prematurely ending the life of someone.
Given that fact, surely there should be independent oversight and no coercion guaranteed?
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