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#81
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Josquius - May 24, 2024, 04:04:44 AMQuote from: Tamas on May 24, 2024, 03:26:01 AMQuote from: Josquius on May 23, 2024, 02:51:17 PMWould my vote be valid if I did it in blood?
I guess so given the wank, not wank, vote of a few years ago.
Given I'm in one of the safest labour seats going I'm thinking to vote green incidentally. Send a tiny message on a few fronts.
Coming back to this, if there is enough people thinking like you, we'll miss the one chance to destroy the Tory Party. What passed as "governing" for the past 10 years must be punished so overwhelmingly that it is never attempted again for decades.
Yes.
But that's not happening here and I don't think there are enough people like me (unfortunately or else labour would already have those policies)
#82
Gaming HQ / Re: News from the lovely world...
Last post by Syt - May 24, 2024, 03:37:20 AMI think they're a lot less activist than they were 5-8 years ago.
#83
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Sheilbh - May 24, 2024, 03:36:46 AMCorbyn running as an independent I. Islington North. I suspect Starmer will be pretty pleased to remind everyone that he kicked Corbyn out the party.
#84
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Tamas - May 24, 2024, 03:26:01 AMQuote from: Josquius on May 23, 2024, 02:51:17 PMWould my vote be valid if I did it in blood?
I guess so given the wank, not wank, vote of a few years ago.
Given I'm in one of the safest labour seats going I'm thinking to vote green incidentally. Send a tiny message on a few fronts.
Coming back to this, if there is enough people thinking like you, we'll miss the one chance to destroy the Tory Party. What passed as "governing" for the past 10 years must be punished so overwhelmingly that it is never attempted again for decades.
#85
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Tamas - May 24, 2024, 03:22:30 AMQuote from: Jacob on May 23, 2024, 05:47:14 PMMy feeling is that pencils for voting are perfectly safe because the process of voting, observing, and counting has enough transparency and scrutiny that "fucking with individual vote marks" is a non-issue.
For it to be an issue, the process itself (and the volunteers involved) would have to be massively compromised and subverted... to a degree that the challenge for anyone fucking with the votes would not have to do with the challenge of erasing pencil marks.
That's a fair point, I stand convinced.
#86
Gaming HQ / Re: News from the lovely world...
Last post by Tamas - May 24, 2024, 02:57:47 AMRPS (well, its writers) just seems to have become so self-important, these protest-articles seem to underline that.
#87
Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...
Last post by Tamas - May 24, 2024, 02:54:48 AMQuote from: Jacob on May 23, 2024, 05:32:20 PMTamas - I don't know who you are watching, but a while ago I saw a gentleman claiming that the arrest of that one colonel protégé Shoigu's indicated the start of a full blown elite power struggle.
These recent arrests of General level staff seems to support that hypothesis.
Yeah it seems to be the obvious reading at this stage. The only "Russia-positive" reading of it I could imagine is that Shoigu was so powerful he defended a whole swat of corrupt officers from Putin's wrath and now with him moved to this powerless position, the forces of anti-corruption can move in on them. Which of course sound ludicrous based on everything we know about how Russia works.
Otherwise it must be what Grey Fox wrote - the KGB doesn't want to make the mistake of their last attempt to grab power. I guess they might have Erdogan's example in mind: you can neuter the army if you try.
This Russian guy I follow also mentioned that yesterday while the above arrests and Belorussian firing was going on Putin made an announced visit in Belarus. So, for all we know, the Army was already plotting, perhaps in cooperation with their Belarus comrades and Putin is trying to prevent another mutiny.
#88
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Gups - May 24, 2024, 02:29:44 AMQuote from: Grey Fox on May 23, 2024, 09:06:09 PMAre UK greens double probation Tories like in Canada?
What does that mean?
#89
Off the Record / Re: Vote for your favorite Aus...
Last post by Syt - May 24, 2024, 12:57:29 AMLatest poll.
Besides the mentioned story above, Schilling has hit by more leaks - someone leaked chat messages of her where shortly before becoming the lead candidate for the Greens in the EU elections she said that she hates no party as much as the Greens, and that she aims to leave them for the left faction after the elections. The responses from her or the party have been non-existent beyond some party members complaining about the mudslinging campaign.
Besides the mentioned story above, Schilling has hit by more leaks - someone leaked chat messages of her where shortly before becoming the lead candidate for the Greens in the EU elections she said that she hates no party as much as the Greens, and that she aims to leave them for the left faction after the elections. The responses from her or the party have been non-existent beyond some party members complaining about the mudslinging campaign.
#90
Gaming HQ / Re: News from the lovely world...
Last post by Syt - May 24, 2024, 12:53:17 AMIGN has bought Gamer Network, which includes Eurogamer, RockPaperShotgun, Gamesindustry.biz, (parts of?) Digital Foundry, etc.
Alice Bell, Editor of RPS was led go (IGN let go a bunch of people across sites, but mostly it seems folks working from outside the UK).
Some RPS writers have posted what seems random posts in protest with (ex-staffer, now freelancer) Brendan Caldwell posting:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-alices-in-pc-games, a farewell article that celebrates Alices in games, but pointedly not mentioning Alice Bell.
Other posts are:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/why-do-game-custscenes-always-fade-to-white-a-sincere-plea-on-behalf-of-the-mole-people
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/screw-it-im-building-a-house-of-graphics-cards
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-get-my-old-battered-gamer-chair-for-oh-i-dunno-50-quid-1
At any rate, RPS has been up and down for me. 10, 15 years ago they were really good with most original founders around and interesting feature articles, interviews and investigative stuff. Obviously, the most (in)famous of the site probably remains John Walkers, erm, "combative" interview with Peter Molineux. I recall reading that at work when it went online and reading through it the way someone watches a slow motion mass car crash: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/peter-molyneux-interview-godus-reputation-kickstarter
With many of the writers that pulled me in leaving, some new names came on and left and came on and left, and at times the content was not "for me" anymore. I liked Adam Smith who covered RPGs and strategy games (before leaving to become lead writer on BG3); his de facto successor was Nate Crowley (before leaving to write WH40K books). Strategy is not much covered these days - I like Sin Vega's articles which often cover weird indie strategy-adjacent niche titles that often catch my interest on Steam but that I'm too coward to pull the trigger on.
Recently, Nic Reuben and Ed Thorn have been decent on the site, but some of the "punk" charm of earlier days is missing. Recently Alice O left after 10+ years, and their Editor in Chief, Katherine Castle, also left. Maybe partially because the network was up for sale for a while now and they saw the writing on the wall?
While not as good as "in the good old days," RPS still has some interesting takes and stories. I hope someone will step into their shoes.
There's https://aftermath.site/, formed by former Kotaku writers mostly, most prominently Nathan Grayson who left the WaPo for this. Regardless of some ethics concerns about his 10 years ago (notably not disclosing close association to developers whose games he positively showcased on sites he was working for - Kotaku, RPS, ...), he always seemed a bit of a hack. He's surely a "woke warrior", and I don't have an issue with that per se, but he used to be so deep into that persona (even before woke was a term widely used) that he seemed more parody than real deal to me.
Beyond that ... no idea? John Walker has his issues (see Molyneux interview), but I like checking his website where he reviews indie titles every week or so: https://buried-treasure.org/
I check https://tallyhocorner.com/ occasionally, Tim Stone's exile after leaving RPS. But its content is mostly his weekly quizzes, some news roundups and community games now. A google search also reveals https://strategyandwargaming.com/category/news/
But I actually read PC Gamer now a lot more than RPS. Their articles are usually fine, their reviews I might not always agree with, but they seem much less prone to score bloat (a 75% score is still pretty good for them), and they usually have competent writers for various genres. But of course it also has plenty of articles (lists, best ofs, guides ... ) geared for SEO, because that's the internet we have these days, I guess.
Alice Bell, Editor of RPS was led go (IGN let go a bunch of people across sites, but mostly it seems folks working from outside the UK).
Some RPS writers have posted what seems random posts in protest with (ex-staffer, now freelancer) Brendan Caldwell posting:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-alices-in-pc-games, a farewell article that celebrates Alices in games, but pointedly not mentioning Alice Bell.
Other posts are:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/why-do-game-custscenes-always-fade-to-white-a-sincere-plea-on-behalf-of-the-mole-people
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/screw-it-im-building-a-house-of-graphics-cards
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-get-my-old-battered-gamer-chair-for-oh-i-dunno-50-quid-1
At any rate, RPS has been up and down for me. 10, 15 years ago they were really good with most original founders around and interesting feature articles, interviews and investigative stuff. Obviously, the most (in)famous of the site probably remains John Walkers, erm, "combative" interview with Peter Molineux. I recall reading that at work when it went online and reading through it the way someone watches a slow motion mass car crash: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/peter-molyneux-interview-godus-reputation-kickstarter
With many of the writers that pulled me in leaving, some new names came on and left and came on and left, and at times the content was not "for me" anymore. I liked Adam Smith who covered RPGs and strategy games (before leaving to become lead writer on BG3); his de facto successor was Nate Crowley (before leaving to write WH40K books). Strategy is not much covered these days - I like Sin Vega's articles which often cover weird indie strategy-adjacent niche titles that often catch my interest on Steam but that I'm too coward to pull the trigger on.
Recently, Nic Reuben and Ed Thorn have been decent on the site, but some of the "punk" charm of earlier days is missing. Recently Alice O left after 10+ years, and their Editor in Chief, Katherine Castle, also left. Maybe partially because the network was up for sale for a while now and they saw the writing on the wall?
While not as good as "in the good old days," RPS still has some interesting takes and stories. I hope someone will step into their shoes.
There's https://aftermath.site/, formed by former Kotaku writers mostly, most prominently Nathan Grayson who left the WaPo for this. Regardless of some ethics concerns about his 10 years ago (notably not disclosing close association to developers whose games he positively showcased on sites he was working for - Kotaku, RPS, ...), he always seemed a bit of a hack. He's surely a "woke warrior", and I don't have an issue with that per se, but he used to be so deep into that persona (even before woke was a term widely used) that he seemed more parody than real deal to me.
Beyond that ... no idea? John Walker has his issues (see Molyneux interview), but I like checking his website where he reviews indie titles every week or so: https://buried-treasure.org/
I check https://tallyhocorner.com/ occasionally, Tim Stone's exile after leaving RPS. But its content is mostly his weekly quizzes, some news roundups and community games now. A google search also reveals https://strategyandwargaming.com/category/news/
But I actually read PC Gamer now a lot more than RPS. Their articles are usually fine, their reviews I might not always agree with, but they seem much less prone to score bloat (a 75% score is still pretty good for them), and they usually have competent writers for various genres. But of course it also has plenty of articles (lists, best ofs, guides ... ) geared for SEO, because that's the internet we have these days, I guess.