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Rangers had a section of their stadium shut by UEFA for some very naughty songs and the Legia fans were being great irl trolls. The best Pratchett hidden pun is the Selaachi and Venturi’s, two great households both alike in dignity
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Soul music is very good because yeah, it's basically a torrent of puns about golden age rock music, but it works very well even if you don't get any of them. I'm quite partial to leopard with hearing difficulties.
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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 For gently caress's sake is even ONE man in the industry not a piece of poo poo
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Ms Adequate posted:For gently caress's sake is even ONE man in the industry not a piece of poo poo keita takahashi
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Josef bugman posted:I still prefer Reaper Man. Yeah, Reaper Man is under-rated IMO - I suppose because he was still working on mixing the serious and the silly, so the two different storylines (Bill Door and the wizards dealing with the overabundance of life) don't really sit well together, but the Bill storyline is absolutely beautifully written.
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Total Meatlove posted:Rangers had a section of their stadium shut by UEFA for some very naughty songs and the Legia fans were being great irl trolls. Vetinari <> Medici is a good 'un too. I wonder, if he'd started a decade or so later and so been influenced by Twitter rather than Usenet, how much shitter the later books would have been?
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Ms Adequate posted:For gently caress's sake is even ONE man in the industry not a piece of poo poo I mean there seems to be loads of studios which have avoided sex pest related issues. Paradox Interactive is the first that springs to mind, and for a bonus their new CEO is a woman. Though I guess they have previously employed Alexis Kennedy.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Vetinari <> Medici is a good 'un too.  I am bad at joke apparently
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Vetinari <> Medici is a good 'un too. 
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Ms Adequate posted:For gently caress's sake is even ONE man in the industry not a piece of poo poo Tom Francis seems very nice.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah, Reaper Man is under-rated IMO - I suppose because he was still working on mixing the serious and the silly, so the two different storylines (Bill Door and the wizards dealing with the overabundance of life) don't really sit well together, but the Bill storyline is absolutely beautifully written. I do love the idea that even without Justice and Mercy there is still something out there. Not looking out for us as it were, but something that makes a kind of vast "sense" something that is not a God, but something that is just bigger. I like it also that Azrael, the Great Attractor, The Death of Universes is so vast as to be hard to describe. Reaper man was one of the first times I didn't feel afraid.
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Ms Adequate posted:For gently caress's sake is even ONE man in human history not a piece of poo poo FTFY. The answer is no, BTW. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Ms Adequate posted:For gently caress's sake is even ONE man in the industry not a piece of poo poo Sounds to me like there's selection bias happening there - the people who rise to power in a male-dominated industry probably tend to be power-obsessed assholes, exactly the kind of people you don't want to give power to. I'm sure there's plenty of small indie studios whose heads are not complete poo poo, but any kind of high profile game dev company? The people at the top are gonna be poo poo for sure But actually abolish all hierarchies and the patriarchy. Let no human hold power over another except maybe when your parents tell you not to touch the boiling pot Pochoclo fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Pochoclo posted:Sounds to me like there's selection bias happening there - the people who rise to power in a male-dominated industry probably tend to be power-obsessed assholes, exactly the kind of people you don't want to give power to. It genuinely made me lose all hope in man kind and kick started my lack of caring about humans in general when I realised bad people win and are awarded by society for their behaviour.
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AceOfFlames posted:FTFY. What about Terry Wogan? Actually I just remembered he crossed a picket line*, gently caress. *Albeit with the blessing of the pickets themselves, that's how beloved that man was.
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Wait did y'all not notice the Vetinari pun? Like his whole schtick is literally being a piss take of italian city state politics.
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Convex posted:Tom Francis seems very nice. if Tom Francis is ein sexmonster I goddamn quit
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Remember when the Lib Dems suggested Ken Clarke for interim PM, because Corbyn couldn't stop No Deal? Well Ken Clark would apparently vote for PM Corbyn to stop No Deal.
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On the one hand, Hideo Kojima is the most celebrity obsessed and horny man in videogames. On the other hand, him not being a sex pest would be the most kojima twist.
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OwlFancier posted:On the one hand, Hideo Kojima is the most celebrity obsessed and horny man in videogames. turns out he's devotedly loyal to his wife and treats his female employees with 10e25 of the respect they normally receive from Japanese corporations
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What amuses me about this whole "queen can do, queen can't do" is that the queen works on an unwritten constitution and rules based on gentleman's agreements, so she can in theory do whatever she wants. But this is the woman that used to give Hitler salutes
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More importantly queen has consistently done nothing but advise ministers in the background for her entire life. The smart bet is that she will continue to only do that.
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Josef bugman posted:I still prefer Reaper Man. That's when he plays his own bardic masterwork, Sioni Bod Da, isn't it? "Sioni bod da" is Welsh for "Johnny be good"
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Josef bugman posted:Though I love the bit in Soul Music where Imp plays a song that moves an audience to tears. The animated adaptation had a nice take on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfusJWrE0hg
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I randomly ended up with a copy of Reaper Man as a much younger person never having heard of terry pratchett or any of these books and the Bill Door plotline is just marvelous in a way most books arent.
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https://twitter.com/BenQuinn75/status/1167094770759622657Obligatory Grauniad article where they go to the heaviest Leave-voting town in the UK and speak exclusively to old people who tell them that bulldog Boris has played a brilliant Brexit blinder to deliver England from Remoaner traitors, which they relay back in hushed tones as the true voice of the working (wo)man. Anyway, they chose to let it conclude with this uncritical quote, great job everyone: quote:Like the others, the restoration of lost sovereignty was a priority but there was also a personal motivation, as she saw it, for wanting to see Brexit realised.
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Verizian posted:He literally said "I see number ten as a stepping stone to the white house" back when he was doing his big US tour after he was Mayor of London. Also recent investigations have found he never renounced his US citizenship. is there a citation for either the quote or him never renouncing citizenship? i want to lmao that america can get even dumber if possible e: cspam disproved the citizenship thing but i'll still take the quote because SCOTUS would probably just give it back to him if he bothered to make a case out of it Raskolnikov38 fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Absolutely love, love, love, to say that the dereliction of centuries of Parliamentary custom and functions is perfectly fine because it achieves what I want. The issue of Brexit itself has become only one of two issues now. I hate Brexit and I think it's a stupid idea sold by psychopaths with top-to-bottom lies, and I think the referendum was corrupted badly, but I accept that it is theoretically possible for Brexit to be something the country arrives at democratically and which Parliament implements legitimately. But now we have another issue. Suspending Parliament, while cooking up all kinds of other plots to kill time, is a huge assault on democracy as it has been practiced in this country for a long time now. Whether you want the hardest No Deal Brexit possible or want immediate cancellation of A50 has no bearing on this topic, except that the one precipitated the other. It's preventing the sovereign body of the United Kingdom from exercising its duty. The stakes are more immediate, but it ultimately doesn't really matter whether it's being done because of Brexit or because of a 5p tax on plastic bags, the problem is that it's being done at all. And whilst many of us ITT would agree the system should be changed, I don't think that having it demolished by Boris Johnson is the way we want to be going about it. The outcome of that is most certainly not one that looks good for the great majority of the country.
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I still don't really agree that he's demolishing it, parliament has had many opportunities to do something about this, they have repeatedly voted not to out of cowardice or stupidity. The problem is that probably most of the people in the chamber aren't any good at governing, not that the system itself is suddenly failing. Other than that I would characterise the form of democracy we have as being a component in producing the idiots participating in it. But it's a lot of things really, most of which can be boiled down to "capitalism" in one form or another. The problem remains firmly one of the quality of the people in charge, and the necessary critique I think is against the structures that involve "people in charge" as a concept or the structures that produce the people we have now, of which parliament is a part, but not the main part, I think. This is the checks and balances that exist in the parliamentary system happening, and parliament repeatedly saying "yeah we're sure we want to drive off the cliff anyway" and I'm not sure it's possible to build a system that refuses to be driven off a cliff if enough of the people in it want it to be driven off a cliff. The desire for that is usually something I associate with either liberals or very serious anarchists, and I only take one of those groups seriously. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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It may well be the will of Parliament that we brexit hard, and I did say as much - but the point is that he's thinking it isn't, and in an effort to pre-empt that, is doing everything he can to make sure they can't have their say.
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Oh yeah boris is being a poo poo but like, the reason he's being a poo poo is because parliament has spend the last two/three years slouching towards shitlehem. It's a bit rich I think for the tories and the press to suddenly go "oh no he's going to make us do the thing we've consistently been working towards for the entire parliamentary term thus far, clearly the system is broken!" Like no fuckers it's your drat fault.
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I just got caught out by one of the EE sms phishing scams. Immediately cancelled the card and reset my phone account details, and I use unique password pretty much everywehere, but am worried about it anyway - the biggest thing is if I should cancel my bank account or not? I imagine it would be a major hassle to do. They do have my account number and former address, but I did contact the bank right away. e: spelling Private Speech fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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xtothez posted:You're thinking too close to reality. In Tory Brexit Fantasy Land any problems will be the fault of the remoaners who dragged this out for too long, the minorities wot did all the riots and looting on TV, and the perfidious EU who withheld all our medicine shipments to punish us. "I'm free of blame!" I yell, as I watch my child slip into diabetic shock. People are going to end up travelling to the mainland to buy medicine in france/belgium/holland because the UK's run out and their package from the internet is stuck somewhere in Customs. The dutch smuggeling drugs all over is going to end up saving lives as smuggeling insulin becomes more profitable than meth.. Edit: Patchett derail is great, keep it coming. I've got all the books at home but I'm at work now. 
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
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