PhobosAnomaly

I enjoyed that game. Not sure how it was ever pushed out as a full release rather than a Net Yaroze style special, but fair play to them.

Kurushi (as it was known in the UK and Europe) is like rocking horse shit now. A nice little treasure if you find one in your collection.

Tough line to draw really.

The legal system is built on “innocent until proven guilty”, so it’s understandable why entire careers aren’t brought to a halt because of one or more allegations of misconduct.

Problem is, how do we let that continue while listening to complainants, making them feel heard, and safeguarding future potential victims?

I’m not asking you in particular, you’re just the comment I’ve replied to - it’s one of those impossible situations to draw a line in the sand without fucking over one of the sides.

That would be lovely 😊 buuuut I certainly wouldn’t trust us from the EU perspective.

The UK has it’s “special relationship” with the United States; it’s frequently touting it’s past history with the US; and now suddenly it wants to access a EU defence programme through cash money?

If I were any one of the EU members, I’d be like “nah fella I don’t think so, stop hanging round with your tosser mate and maybe we’ll think about it”

My job is half field based, half desk based. That, and I study part time too, so the simple unhelpful answer is the same: I don’t.

Recently I’ve taken to building a list of five or six games I’m interested in, booking a week or two off work in the summer, buying a month of Game Pass and just hooning through the games, and if I’ve got any time left then I’ll smash through some Doom WADs and that’s me.

Otherwise, I try and stay away from screens and try to read or run more.

Or worse, the US telecom franchise 😭

e: obligatory Sinclaaaaaaaiiiirrrr

https://youtu.be/1fpV0OFC0vc

Doesn’t matter which of the home nations you follow, that is two and a bit minutes of pure inspiration.

No dramas. If it’s any interest, one of my running routes when I lived in the south east of England used to take me around a private estate. The landowner at the time was a nice bloke - asked if he minded me jogging around the paths and he didn’t give a toss, so long as I didn’t disturb the animals and kept an eye out for him.

A few years later, another guy bought it who had all the interpersonal skills of a dead goat, and made it entirely clear that he didn’t want me there. Fair enough, it’s his land - but a I did go on a bit of a legislative binge to see if there was a way I could fuck him off.

I just worry in this instance that a good quality protest for all the right reasons might get upended by whiny shouts of “assault assault!” when it’s one of the few times the landowners have a codified right to get handsy, and it looked like a great protest from the footage. A grand day out for all!

It’s a funny one in England and Wales - trespassing isn’t a criminal offence (though it can be prosecuted privately under civil law) unless under certain circumstances, so in this instance the police service wouldn’t really want to get involved. If they did, they would become agents of the landowner or the estate, where they would inherit the rights to escort them off the premises using our good old grey area friend “reasonable force” again.

If there’s an intention to remain and cause damage or prevent access (I forget the exact criteria) and they do not leave when requested, then it could be upgraded to Aggravated Trespass which is an offence in England and Wales.

There are some circumstances that allow the general public to detain and arrest folk, but I’m pretty sure they need to have committed an offence that can only be tried in a crown court, so anyone detaining a protestor here would be a bit fucked legally.

It’s a legal quagmire which ranges from someone having a rave on someone’s farmland, through to this situation, all the way up to using self defence to get rid of someone on your land there to do you (or your bank account) harm and you end up getting Tony Martin’d.

I suppose the question would be whether that atrium area under the veranda is classed as private property. If it is, then once the landowner or their agents have made it clear that they (as in anyone, not just protestors) don’t have permission to be there, then there is an entitlement to use reasonable force to remove people from the land - so a claim of “assault” is somewhat overblowing it, though it’s never nice to be physically moved or shifted.

From the very short clip of the staff getting hands-on with the protestors, it certainly didn’t look unreasonable in terms of force, but then I think calling that a private place where there’s no prevention of access to that area for the wandering general public would be a very difficult position to defend.

Still - it’s noisy, it got publicity, and I’m reading about it now - so the protest worked. Good on them.

oh no

Does that mean he’s coming back to the UK?

I can only speak from across the pond, but that’s likely the strategy. It has no downsides for the current administration - but the incoming administration either has to cancel it and look like the shitheads (not that they seem to care about that), or run with it to save face, and try and find the budget for it.

Fuck all, really.

Competitive packages should attract successful candidates, not cunts who consistently fail at both moderating pay, and literally shitting in the rivers and leaving for the taxpayer to clean up.

Fuck the shareholders of this company, it’s an abject failure and needs to be brought into local authority ownership.

Yeah, a bit of sense is all you need. I’ve not used spoofing tools but a few of my friends have - we live rural too and it revolutionises the game. Even our local small city centre isn’t really raid friendly - it’s not like you can hang a out Times Square and literally walk into a full raid whenever you like.

That said, the weekly Pokémon Club in rural areas is a great social, and mons tend to stay in gyms for more than twelve seconds making it a bit easier to get pokecoins. The game is still heavily skewed towards city centres though.

The modern day spoofing apps are really quite impressive. Teleportation or time travelling generally gets you an account strike fairly quickly, but some of the cleverer automatic walking functions are really quite cool.

It’ll be interesting to see a Waymo or Tesla FSD follow the path of a few Pokémon Go spoofers through buildings or directly across a field.

I understand that mine is an entirely subjective and emotive opinion, but I hardly think being followed about by the Led By Donkeys mob and being made to look silly twice a year, is comparable to the hundreds of thousands (if not millions, I don’t have the stats) of folk who had their mortgages go up ten per cent after the markets got kami-Kwasi’d in the sum total of twenty minutes.

Fuck right off Liz, enjoy your tainted career and seeing lettuces in comedy places for the rest of your life.

I don’t get it. I mean I get it because it’s Ninty, but I don’t get why now?

Has there been something in a major new feature update that has finally tipped the scales into clearly taking the piss, or have the legal team at Big N finally seen their erections subside after the game’s launch and only now can move enough to do something about it?

Newport city centre then wheeeyyyyyy

I suspect it’ll probably end up in the same places most other large hazardous industrial sites will be - rural, coastal just off an arterial road route somewhere. See also: Torness, Easington, Milford Haven etc.

That said, Tom Scott did a video (because of course he did) on plans for nuclear testing on UK soil - have a look if you’re interested - and it seems the answer to that was underneath a chunky section of Yorkshire moorland.

That’s a shame for the family, especially the wife that may well have seen him dead earlier in the evening but thought it was something normal that he was doing.

That said, it’s remarkable that the only person that got hurt by his ability to control vehicle was himself, looking at the list of blunders he had made with other vehicles.

Purely a subjective opinion (and I apologise if the artist shows up in this thread) but is it me or does it look like the person who made the background took a step back after it was done, marvelled at how pretty it was, and enjoyed the moment before thinking “…fuck I forgot about O’Brien”?

It’s a great bit of artwork but poor Miles looks like an afterthought!