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Junior G-man posted:Was this posted? Because gently caress You Daniel Hannan. I bet he tweeted some assurances while he was there!! e- majestic wild cats tax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11uu8L8FTY
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baka kaba posted:also in video shames news this dude has been called out as an abusive predator by a bunch of women who've worked with him This has been discussed in the relevant Games threads too. Man's a turd.
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Junior G-man posted:Was this posted? Because gently caress You Daniel Hannan. He was one of the worst loving leavers telling the worst kind of lies during the campaign and I fully believe he's one of the most massive cunts in parliament. https://twitter.com/JonnElledge/status/1163831670937673728?s=20
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Vlex posted:This has been discussed in the relevant Games threads too. Man's a turd. Lol he was basically the authorial bae before this.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:He’s effectively literally a gammon with the exception of the oddly unrealistic character trait of “capable of learning better”, if I’m remembering Jingo correctly Pretty much  pink face and everything. I think he's even compared to a gammon in one of the books. But yeah, his whole thing in Jingo is having his ignorant racism called out at pretty every instance, and learning to at least be conscious and even uncomfortable with stuff he believed at the begining of the book. To a degree, anyway.
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Re Vimes boots theory: He's so right. When I moved into my flat here I thought I might manage with just the laundrette as it's only 2 mins walk away. But after doing the sums, a reasonable second hand washing machine at £105 would pay for itself within about 3 months (just me as a single). For a family it would probably pay for itself within a few weeks. But if you haven't got £105, you haven't got it. I was thinking maybe "they" should have laundrettes where you pay your £5 but say £2 per wash goes as credit towards you buying a machine.
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Pesky Splinter posted:
I like to think that's Sam Vimes's copper response to George Orwell posted:I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
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OwlFancier posted:Lol he was basically the authorial bae before this. yeahhh I don't like to be all "that thing you like? it's bad" but yeesh he's not the only one who worked on those games though, in fact it sounds like he spent all his time creeping on people so y'know, problematic media and all that
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baka kaba posted:yeahhh I don't like to be all "that thing you like? it's bad" but yeesh Oh sure but he was absolutely the big celebrity for spooky game writing.
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^^^^^edit: yeah his writing especially comes through in Cultist Simulator, which is almost a one-man show. His fiancée-cum-producer (heh) did art and promotion and such, but the writing is all his.OwlFancier posted:Lol he was basically the authorial bae before this. Well I for one am ready to begin the damnatio memoriae.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Re Vimes boots theory: It's even simpler than that, too. At the knife-edge of poverty, people have to buy e.g. 4-packs of loo roll instead of the 12/16 packs which are what, 30-40% cheaper per roll? That's just an example, there are so many things where you benefit from bulk buying but if you're living hand-to-mouth you can't take advantage of it.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm willing to separate artist from art. With tools if necessary. Normally I'd agree but the romance mechanic is now especially extremely gross in Cultist Simulator.
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OwlFancier posted:Still lends fuel to my pet belief that making celebrities out of people is bad because not only does it suck when they turn out to be shits but it probably contributes to them being shits. Which I suppose ties into my opposition to intellectual property as a form of dominion. (Which I have Nina Paley to thank for, but she's now a massive TERF.) I didn't even know the guy's name before today though. Vlex posted:Normally I'd agree but the romance mechanic is now especially extremely gross in Cultist Simulator.
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https://twitter.com/RossMcCaff/status/1167104190663012355?s=20 You should read this. It's really loving dumb. Stephen Daisley is genuinely awful. Even in the cesspit of Scottish journalism he stands above as uniquely shite
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I'm not sure that reflects particularly well on them. If I saw a huge banner of JP2 I'd assume it was covering some nonces.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Now that's some top quality trolling Can I get some context on this? Is it child sex related?
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Ratjaculation posted:Can I get some context on this? It's simple. Ibrox is the stadium of Glasgow Rangers. Rangers hate Catholics. The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church.
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I want to know how they smuggled in a gigantic cut out of the former pope. I want to know where the gently caress they got a gigantic cut out of the former pope.
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OwlFancier posted:I want to know how they smuggled in a gigantic cut out of the former pope. Legia is Polish right? I think there's a non zero amount of Polish that just carry around giant pope flags in case they need to declare their allegiance to their fave.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Re Vimes boots theory: I've had it with actual work boots  But it's really applicable to so much in life.Guavanaut posted:I like to think that's Sam Vimes's copper response to Ha! Knowing Pratchett, it's entirely possible that's intentional. OwlFancier posted:Still lends fuel to my pet belief that making celebrities out of people is bad because not only does it suck when they turn out to be shits but it probably contributes to them being shits.  LISA: Even you? HOMER: Especially me. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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feedmegin posted:I mean they kinda do actually, just ask Henry VII. Surely you mean Charles the First.
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sexpig by night posted:Legia is Polish right? I think there's a non zero amount of Polish that just carry around giant pope flags in case they need to declare their allegiance to their fave. My stepdad is Polish, and his (also Polish) stepdad presented him and my mum a Pope JP2 wallclock as a wedding present. My stepdad is a non-practising Catholic, and his stepdad isn't even Catholic but some Hindu movement. Now I just assume that Polish people secrete John Paul-related memorabilia around their person for the appropriate occasion. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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My all-time favourite Pratchett line remains: (in case you're wondering why the anthropomorphic representation of death is giving away toys in a department store, read The Hogfather, and also all other Pratchett books, even the ones that aren't very good)
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Death is a very good character in a series full of very good characters.forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/BlazeQuark/status/1166911510066524160?s=20 In fairness I will totally post the churchill bit about landlords given a chance
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OwlFancier posted:Death is a very good character in a series full of very good characters. Death almost always gets the best line in every single book, which I suppose is inevitable as by definition he always gets the last word. The only exception I can think of is Soul Music which - in a book with many of Pratchett's very best punes, or plays on words, gives the very best joke (one that had built up the entire book) to a one-shot supporting character (the chip shop joke, which I'm certain was the real reason for his knighthood)
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Vlex posted:This has been discussed in the relevant Games threads too. Man's a turd. Oh GOD loving DAMMIT. Hey folks I am back. I come back to this poo poo. Christ. Hope you are all well.
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1167193129650405378 All hail our bullish PM, who is absolutely not a Lich King 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Death almost always gets the best line in every single book, which I suppose is inevitable as by definition he always gets the last word. The only exception I can think of is Soul Music which - in a book with many of Pratchett's very best punes, or plays on words, gives the very best joke (one that had built up the entire book) to a one-shot supporting character (the chip shop joke, which I'm certain was the real reason for his knighthood) Wait, which joke was thi- ye gods
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1167193129650405378 god what does this even mean? I know it's stupid to get angry about this at this point but what does 'up the tempo' even mean when his side is literally 'WE DO NOTHING YOU DO EVERYTHING GOODBYE'? How much higher can the 'tempo' go?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Death almost always gets the best line in every single book, which I suppose is inevitable as by definition he always gets the last word. The only exception I can think of is Soul Music which - in a book with many of Pratchett's very best punes, or plays on words, gives the very best joke (one that had built up the entire book) to a one-shot supporting character (the chip shop joke, which I'm certain was the real reason for his knighthood) Illuyankas posted:Wait, which joke was thi- ye gods All these loving years and I'm still learning poo poo from his books! sexpig by night posted:god what does this even mean? I know it's stupid to get angry about this at this point but what does 'up the tempo' even mean when his side is literally 'WE DO NOTHING YOU DO EVERYTHING GOODBYE'? How much higher can the 'tempo' go? "Up the tempo" = "increase the speed at which we can blame everyone else but us for this oncoming trainwreck."
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Samovar posted:Surely you mean Charles the First. Not really given the next king after him was, y'know, his eldest surviving son.
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Illuyankas posted:Wait, which joke was thi- ye gods I love that book so loving much. Airplane!-density jokes plus probably the most awesome scene (the final chase and showdown) ever written.
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Pesky Splinter posted:All these loving years and I'm still learning poo poo from his books! That was the true genius of his early-mid period books - it really didn't matter if you got the references because they were properly worked into the story. That line, to people who've never heard of Kirsty McColl, just sounds like a funny callback to the "he looks a bit Elvish" running joke, which in itself doesn't require you to know who Elvis was. That's some loving good writing right there.
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I still prefer Reaper Man. "Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not the care of the Reaper Man?" Though I love the bit in Soul Music where Imp plays a song that moves an audience to tears.
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Darth Walrus posted:Apparently, she offers PMs and ministers a lot of advice and training in their new jobs. It's not a formal role, it's just a result of her being at the heart of British politics for decades and being very experienced in how it all works. Presumably, her opinions bleed through a bit when she does that. lol if you believe this royalist propaganda lollllll Ms Adequate posted:She is supposedly happy enough to tell PMs what she thinks when they visit her (and this is entirely within convention), but accepts that she's absolutely not supposed to give any hint of what they are beyond the walls of that room. As G-man says she's also reported to take her role very very seriously, she spends hours every day reading the briefings she gets and so on. There's probably nobody else alive with a better understanding of how the government functions (lol) and the state of the country. lol
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