Skua

If you want pausable combat and a logistics focus, the Hearts of Iron games might be interesting to you. They’re pseudo-real-time in that things happen on an counter that ticks forward once per in-game hour of the day (so the results of two units fighting, a diplomatic message being sent, construction on a building), but you can speed up, slow down, or pause however you wish. If you want to zip along at a few seconds of real time per day in game, cool. Want to slow things down to a few seconds per in game hour instead? Also fine. Need to pause while you read a description? Also fine.

He didn’t win the overall final, only the men’s one. He lost to the women’s winner, who moved to the UK from the US last year

Paradox’s games don’t really do storytelling in a traditional sense. They’re strategy and management games. Some of them are pretty damn good at creating stories dynamically through gameplay, or providing a frame upon which you can create your own stories, but they were never intended to be narrative experiences

Presumably you downloaded Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC), which I still had to do to make a custom keyboard layout in 2022. Funnily enough I was also wanting to use AltGr to add diacritics to vowels, because I don’t want to have to go to the backtick key for àèìòù

For what it’s worth, making a custom layout actually is a huge pain in the arse. That’s a pretty niche use case, but there is definitely no reason for it to be as much of a hassle as it is

It’s more that they chose to run the party finances as a company. The company itself cannot compete in elections as a candidate and does not get representation at parliament.

They must surely be too busy confusing child abusers with foot fetishists for us to worry about it

For Civ 6, I’d say winning each victory once. Try to do it with different civs each time too. You can set your goal as winning a game on the highest difficulty if you want, but personally I don’t find that to be as interesting as the shift in gameplay necessary to win the different victories without just militarily crushing everyone else.

I agree with that, but there is not the slightest of chances in hell that making into a thing you do with social media will ever turn out well

While I think it’s ridiculous to strip her of citizenship - she’s our problem, we should be dealing with her, and we’re also making her stateless - it’s pretty obvious that the law will treat you differently if you join an organisation that is at war with the government vs one that isn’t. Even when both organisations act heinously.

Heartbreaking: the worst person you know etc etc

Considering that a whole bunch of EDL supporters and adjacent groups are involved, making brown people feel unwelcome in the country is absolutely the goal

God I hope so. That sounds lovely

It’s a method of maximising utility from your vote within a given system. In our system, every vote except the minimum necessary for the winner to win does nothing other than signal support for a given platform. You have to weigh up whether that signal is worth more than the gains from getting your preference of your two local big candidates to win. One of those decisions is much more likely to make an impact, but it’s making an impact that’s less aligned with my actual preferences.

Another issue is that there’s not really any way to stop your political opponents from doing it, and if they do then they have a huge advantage over every other party that is more fractured. They’re making that sacrifice of voting for someone less aligned and in exchange they’re getting that candidate to win every time with 30% of the votes, because the rest of the electorate is split ten ways.

6th largest, with only five seats out of the Commons’ total 650 compared to the SNP’s nine and Sinn Féin’s seven. I suppose you could argue that they are 5th largest since SF don’t take their seats. They did get the third-highest vote share though, just got absolutely fucked by FPTP. And hey, if anyone had to get fucked by FPTP, I’m glad it was them. But the number of votes they got is pretty alarming.

Of the two big parties, yes, without a doubt. There’s plenty to criticise Starmer’s Labour for but they’re a hell of a lot better than what we had before this election. Starmer is certainly not an inspiring candidate and has given a lot of ground to the Conservatives on policy positions, but we can probably at least look forward to a lot less random lashing out at whichever vulnerable group looks like a useful target this week

Makes sense. Thanks

The fuck happened in Leicester East that it’s the sole Con gain in the country?

Does it need to be any quicker? It’s not really important to get the results in by 4am instead of 7am, surely?

They’re not as bad as the Republicans, but given how they have been acting in recent years in particular it is definitely not an entirely unfair comparison. They’re ludicrously, dangerously angry at asylum seekers and trans people.

It is also worth noting that more Conservative MPs voted against same-sex marriage than for it, despite it being one of their own MPs that introduced it