PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

thanks jim. I'm mostly curious abt the electoral landscape of a post-independence scotland: what will happen to the broad coalition the SNP has and where else the left's efforts might be channelled.

good to be mindful of regressive elements in all parties, there's no benefit to not thinking about it

― ogmor, Friday, August 9, 2019 1:13 PM (one hour ago

i don't think anyone has a very good idea of what would happen in that respect because there would be huge recalibrations. snp is a big tent party which as "the best vehicle to achieving independence" (roughly this wording gets brought up a lot on twitter etc.) is easily able to contain such a broad church, but would surely fracture once independence is achieved. labour, without its unionist baggage would become simply a rival on the left/centre-left, and god only knows what the unionist right would be up to in an independent scotland, though gracefully coming to terms with the new state of affairs seems unlikely

Creepy, creepy weirdo. pic.twitter.com/BIX4EosDVa

— Paul Leinster (@Paauul) August 10, 2019

lol, obv a serial killer.

and to think he was once my favourite amiga power writer

it makes me wonder what became of my childhood heroes from Zzap 64.

I just realized that it was the 30th anniversary of the release of Populous last week. The game was a quite astonishing achievement for its time - a totally original release that presented a whole new type of gameplay challenge. I have many fond memories playing it on Amiga. pic.twitter.com/DrMLrrocmJ

— Jaz Rignall (@JazRignall) June 10, 2019

julian rignall is still going!

i have many fond memories of starting up Populous, playing it for 10 minutes and then getting confused and bored and giving up

or The Molyneux Effect as it came to be known

xps to calz
https://i2.wp.com/badbooksgoodtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/get-out-milk.gif

and to think he was once my favourite amiga power writer

oh no, I didn't realise it was the same Stuart Campbell

I <3 Populous and have returned to it (too) many times as an adult and can never get past the same set of levels (iirc the levels come in batches of ~4 with similar constraints and you might end up on a different one of the 4 each time) even though I play it until I see mountains going up and being levelled and swamps appearing in my sleep and also until I realise it's not actually that fun (but then I go away for a while and forget that and I love it anyway)

def had The Molyneux Effect with many later Bullfrog games tho, including Populous II, even though it's basically the same game just with some different attacks and slightly browner graphics

i just get very triggered by games where the little people run around doing stuff without my say so. this may say something about my psychology.

Even Dungeon Keeper?

even Dungeon Keeper, 10 minutes and i'm too anxious to continue

What about the later age of empires where the villagers automatically move on to stuff? (As opposed to the first one where you have to get them to do EVERYTHING)

i really wanted to like them too, kept coming back

also Age of Empires and stuff like that, give me turn-based or give me meds

i just literally can't

mind you i left the house for the first time in 3 or 4 days this morning and a walk round the block was a gruelling excursion into terror so my perspective may be askew

Loved Populous and later Black & White, which had so many bugs it was basically unplayable.

Dick Braine elected new leader of UK Independence Party

not for the first time amirite

too on the nose to be true

Is there cat truthing in the comments? Oh fucking yes there is! You’d think all the obsessive would st least recognise the very famous cat who was named in parliament by David Cameron?

Happy #InternationalCatDay!
We’ve got a purrfect plan to protect all domestic pets.
Check out our animal welfare plan 👉🐱https://t.co/pAkt0hArIx pic.twitter.com/4ZxbyfRizm

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) August 8, 2019

Expecting more from you lot on the news about Tommy Robinson doing a line of Daz thinking it was cocaine and ending up in prison hospital

hmm.. goes to show when that wearing a t-shirt with Journalism written on it can sometimes trigger you into acting like a journalist!

just say no, kids

but srsly tho you hate to see it, get well soon wee man so another oap can punch your lights out

it would have to be the whiter than white soap powder of course.

i just get very triggered by games where the little people run around doing stuff without my say so. this may say something about my psychology.

― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 August 2019 10:50 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this jittery fraud claims this but willingly submits to FM games now im asking, where's the credibility

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Aw2IGNrzZPs/hqdefault.jpg

That story is fake, alas.

excellent JC tweet with excellent cat resembling my childhood cat and a lot of garbage comments

PS I did play Populous with my finger constantly over the "pause" button, which is probably not how proper gamers play non-turn-based games, but it turns it conveniently into a game where nobody runs around too much without you micromanaging them

your main dude will of course step right into a swamp or decide to wander off into a desert/mountain range and starve half the time all the same

ive not read bravo two zero but iirc this is p much how the official review of that mission went

lol

Exclusive - Caroline Lucas throws down the gauntlet and offers to broker a government of national unity. It would be an all-female cabinet and aim would be to block no-deal Brexit. By me and ⁦@peterwalker99⁩ https://t.co/ZBu9OsW4da

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) August 11, 2019

LJ is out of the cabinet then :-(

I couldn’t forgive myself if we didn’t try everything possible to avert catastrophe of No Deal.

Everything apart from working with the actual opposition,. Embarrassing.

big vote leave no deal psi-op vibes off this initiative

No women from the Corbynite left wtf?!

The eco-LibDems are the real opposition though!

"Thornberry, Swinson, Greening and Sturgeon, as well as the Change UK MP Anna Soubry..."

she's a fucking joke.

There are some serious activists on the green left who will be angered by this move.

It's not going to happen so why do it?

playing the centre-right fantasy bench game is what marks you out as a grown-up?

Yvette Cooper in there again who is from a Leave constituency and has always been either completely lukewarm to opposed to a 2nd ref iirc.

The idea of Yvette Cooper is more powerful to these people than the reality of Yvette Cooper though.

Why spend time wondering about how you can convince people to either change their minds or turn out to vote when you could be writing Yvette Cooper fanfic instead?

No women from the Corbynite left wtf?!

Lol fucking state of this reply

Backdoor route to a National Government. Didn’t work for Ramsey Mcdonald and won’t work now, whatever the gender of the participants https://t.co/ru0CbHwrK4

— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) August 11, 2019

So you’re putting Corbyn before country, before the very people Labour are supposed to waht to protect.

Labour aren’t a party of values anymore, they are a personality cult that’s going to help the Tories lead this country to ruin

I’m half tempted to stand against you for this

— Paul Singh (@Paul1Singh) August 11, 2019

You no longer represent the people of Hackney do you, you’re willing to sacrifice their jobs, their livelihoods, their future to ensure Corbyn remains leader of the Labour Party,

Second rate on every level,

The people of Hackney deserve better then you could ever offer them

— Paul Singh (@Paul1Singh) August 11, 2019

Right this settles it, this fella is a total headbanger.

How long before India & those off Indian descent become the new Corbynista hate figures https://t.co/HhEdpmtala

— Paul Singh (@Paul1Singh) August 11, 2019

Can we persuade this guy to stand for Parliament? I need a laugh.

You thought British politics was all doom and gloom and then someone pulls out this *absolute belter*. pic.twitter.com/NXIYqlD6yo

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) August 11, 2019

lol!

"neutral figure" yeah sure.