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“And it is a mark of a tyrant to have men of foreign extraction rather than citizens as guests at table and companions, feeling that citizens are hostile but strangers make no claim against him.” Aristotle

@ZoomerHistorian "You left and we miss you" Are they finally admitting they liked us bringing steam trains and things?

'Someone walked up to me on the street and beat the shit out of me, I'm going to walk into his house, beg to be let in and then ask to stay with him forever'

@RadioGenoa Oh look at that Ahmed Yakoob playing his best Saul Goodman Tony Montana cosplay.

Here is what happens in a Christian march in Britain. This won't end well.

@TheGhostSleepi1 They'd already been at this game long before. We shouldn't have shed tears in the GWOT for the killing of the extremists. The loss of civilians was tragic but we should have hounded the combatants who do this to their own nations.

It was the destruction of Palmyra that really radicalised me against this. Something exceptionally evil about the destruction of art & civilisation, even the remnants of civilisations long since lost to time.

@Despotofantrim @TheCinesthetic I remember getting it on vhs at christmas and at a family party on boxing day we all watched it. At first it was such an unknown quantity my parents thought it was just some action film akin to the old martial arts b movie type things. No one really knew it was cult gold.

@TheCinesthetic I hate these brainrot posts. Movies like the Matrix take years to accumulate icon status. At the time the trailer was just another cool trailer. It was not obvious to anyone that the movie would be anything special.

Imagine sitting in a theater in 1999 and witnessing this for the very first time.

@wylfcen Its basic respect not to speak ill of the dead. When a certain time have passed then you can criticise them but there has to be a moment of just leaving alone or being moderately respectful.

I agree with the saying “Don’t speak ill of the dead,” not just because it’s disrespectful, but also because nobody cares about your criticisms. The guy’s not coming back. You should’ve said this stuff while he was alive.

@TBYSTweet Since munjaro the happy fatties are dying out. Its either laziness that cant afford it, stick think temporary skinny people who can or those who have no excuse but the old fashion way and losing weight normally.

I think I am entering a very Chinese part of my life right now.

@FUDdaily Amg used to be a hand built engine. Now its a style pack. They're all style packs as performance motoring is neither worth it or fun in this country anymore. Add to that this weird crossover bias that doesn't fit our roads and its made anything motoring a bane.

I don't know why I found myself browsing through Autotrader last night. It's not as though I can afford a new car any time soon. One of those deep procrastination modes I suppose. What struck me, though, is how eye-wateringly dull modern cars are. You could deposit £20k in my account this morning, and I wouldn't be in a desperate hurry to go out any buy anything specific. As much as anything, I don't understand why everything has to be an SUV now. Everything now has to be a road hog despite them being wholly useless as off-road or utility vehicles. They're not even sporty. What also struck me is that I don't understand cars anymore. There was a time when the acronyms used to mean something vaguely relatable. GTi and ST used to mean a bit more perky and quick, and AMG meant fast, but now they slap the badge on any old piece wheezy of shit. I seriously can understand why Jeremy Clarkson has quit motoring journalism. Buying a new car now is about as exciting as buying a new phone. There was a time when buying a new phone was a bit exciting because you'd be getting a capability upgrade, but we've now reached a plateau where you're just buying a replacement black rectangle. I don't even bother learning what all the specs mean now. As much as anything choice paralysis is a factor. There are so many variants of the same thing to the extent that it's hard to care what the differences are. This is one of the more tiresome facets of modern life. Just as an example, I thought I would do something considerate and replace all the bedding we have that's looking a bit tatty. I went on Amazon to buy pillows. That can't be too hard, right? Wrong. Go on Amazon and there's a bajillion different types, all of different shapes, sizes and material specs. I just do not have the bandwidth to learn the technical specifications of pillows. I don't want to make space in my head for any more technical trivial. As a political pundit it is my job to form opinions on things whether they are interesting or not, from the latest MoD procurement to wind turbines, but even my brain capsizes when asked to form a detailed opinion on home furnishings. I just want a soft rectangle to sleep on. Why is this hard all of a sudden?? And it's not just cars and pillows. It's everything. Coffee machines, washing machines, desk fans, computers, televisions. I almost pine for the Soviet experience where you don't have to make complex choices because there's only one washing machine company. How many do we actually need? But cars are even worse for this, because while you have a million different choices, they are all exactly the same, but the only thing you can be absolutely sure about is that anything you do buy will be bit more expensive, a lot less exciting, slower and heavier. Any residual fun there was to be had from motoring was eradicated years ago. It's at this point I have to ask if this is just middle age creeping in, but it's not. Things are objectively shitter than they were. I do not want to go deep into a touchscreen menu system to find out how to adjust wing mirrors. What was wrong with a lever? Why do I have to wait twenty seconds for the electric motor to adjust my seat setting? Why have they complicated things that didn't need to be complicated? The only thing this idle browsing of Autotrader has accomplished is to make me look at my ageing Vauxhall, with its agricultural levels of technology, with a certain fondness and regard, to the extent that I would rather look after it and keep it going another ten years rather than take on the exhausting chore of deciding which boring identikit pseudo SUV is the right fit for my needs. But then I'm reminded that if I don't get my skates on and buy something in the next few years, I won't even have the luxury of choosing something I actually control. I will only be able to buy a mobile grid back-up battery that will report me to the state if my Greggs pasty exceeds my daily calorie intake, and call the police if I'm momentarily distracted by a passing aeroplane. The future is too depressing to even contemplate. We're going to get to a point where an early Ford Focus that just works without digital state supervision and surveillance will be Categroy A contraband, and people will mourn the Fiat Multipla because it's be the last car they can remember that looked even remotely different to anything else. There was a time when I genuinely feared death through the fear of missing out - and intended to live forever, but the more I learn about the future techno-dystopia the more at ease I am with my own mortality. Eternal damnation and torment in Hell is a walk in the park compared to an eternity of this bullshit.

@jammingames If you look at the majority of fire in a bottle indie games they all shelved graphics for stylistic "lower quality". Leave photorealism for aaa interactive novel type games. People want to enjoy the depth of a game through mechanics, (topical) content and gameplay.

To be honest, I don't really know how to set people's expectations accurately. Some people seem to want AAA graphics quality from a tiny indie studio, and they let us know that in every YouTube video comment they make. 😅 I think we'll punch above our weight, don't get me wrong. I brought on my brother just to improve visuals and that's what he's focused on. But I'm also much more interested in investing in compelling gameplay that stands the test of time, rather than just pretty graphics. And we only have the time we have. If this game is to ever come out, we'll have to make some tradeoffs somewhere. That's enough of that. Back to work!

@Gundamritter "Historically accurate" Some of apocalypto was, but there was a lot of fiction in that too. Showing the great dying style illness in the population then the explorers from europe showing up at the end is odd.

I really love the fact that Mel Gibson took the criticism of Braveheart (a great film, but in many elements, including costumes, more of a fairy tale film) so extremely to heart that The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto are almost autistically historically accurate.

@TheCriticalDri2 10million pointless shifts and smashing it through the gears so hard its going to snap a rod or cable.

I blame retarded Americans for their reliance on automatics. Most cars are still manual over here, so this isn't considered much of a skill, it's just how we learn to drive.

@JeremyCordite Yep. He was a communist trying to collapse the country, so of course he was about feathering his own bed as communists are like to do

@GusSim54954 Also Scargill made a LOT of money.

What the fuck is this bollocks?

@ZoomerHistorian Still trying to argue with your murderer about the magic word when hes already stabbed, filmed and humiliated you. The whole tragedy should have all the digwa family put to death.

Be racist if you want to live.

@TheGhostSleepi1 Flightform did a good video on it right?

Auchmerophobia is something new I’ve discovered & I know I have it. The fear of the third world. I viscerally detest it- the fact that it’s nothing but a sprawling biomass of billions of mindless ant like people who do nothing but consume & live in their own filth. Horrible.

@Sam_Arkim @Sargon_of_Akkad Im not wading into the nhs. Their poor performance has 10k+ people die avoidably each year. We know the lanyard class caused this.

@GusSim54954 @Sargon_of_Akkad Jeremy Hunt outsourced NHS procurement in 2018, 18 months before the Tory Covid debacle. Do try to stay the slightest bit relevant.

The 2000s cockwombles are the least useful men to have lived in all of human history.

@MillennialWoes Id never heard the bin face bloke talk. That act is going to be tedious punishment for both him and anyone having to listen within 10 minutes.

This must be one of the really shit aspects of being a leftist today: you have to pretend to find leftist comedy funny. The tedium of HIGNFY, orange man bad, female "comedians" "joking" about their vaginas, John Oliver one-liners about racists being stupid while your city falls apart, and now Count Binface struggling to come up with funny comments while talking to a politically-correct warmonger.

@afneil "That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." George orwell. Fuck you Andrew.

One incident of mass murder (strange use of incident for a massacre) is rather different from one murder. We know what he was trying to do here — underplay Dunblane to discredit the tough gun laws that followed. To a US audience that didn’t know anything about Dunblane.

@Goku8r @shaynewiskin Mate. Go back to the Tefl course.

@shaynewiskin If this cunt did not have a job he be blaming the immigrant he got a job he blaming the immigrants if all the immigrant go he be blaming his dad Gary glitter for slow trade can not win with this cunt

Up the grafters ⚒️ I look like this every day, building new homes in London just for some foreigner to be handed the keys who’s never worked a day in their life. While I’m taxed on absolutely everything I earn and spend. Imagine a country that took more care of the people building it.

Nobody talks about how Frodo has nice hands. Almost as pretty as mine.