Hyperreality

"Let's change the subject."

Here's the first season:

https://archive.org/details/lexx-season-one

Be warned, it's very rough around the edges, occasionally soft-core, often outright insane, but also occasionally brilliant. For example, people often credit Buffy for pioneering the musical tv episode, but Lexx did it before. Brigadoom, season 2.

Because it was a crappy show, it gave the writers more freedom to go nuts.

Season 3 gets very philosophical and is often a slog. I gave up on season 4.

If you want another cult show, but with far better production values, check out Farscape. If you've ever watched Stargate, you'll recognize a few of the actors.

The dead do not poo.

It is happening now, it has happened before, it will surely happen again.

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TBF the UK's been like this for a while now.

Sir Jimmy Savile - serial paedophile, necrophile and former national treasure - had close ties to Thatcher.

Lord Mountbatten, close relative of the former queen, was a paedophile according to later released FBI files.

Kincora Boys' Home was also part of a cover-up, with allegations of state collusion, and ties to MI5 during the Troubles. For example:

It was alleged that extreme Ulster loyalists who were members of a paedophile ring committing offences at the Home were being blackmailed by MI5 and other branches of the security forces during the Troubles. In 2015 campaigners were trying to have Kincora included in a wide-ranging inquiry to establish whether the security services prevented action on the abuse so they could compromise some of the perpetrators

It's all very very murky, especially given allegations of state collusion. The Russians are famous for using kompromat, but apparently the British secret services weren't above that kind of thing either.

The whip system, where the 'whip' ensures party members vote according to party lines in parliament, allegedly also sometimes involves kompromat and blackmail.

Archive link to bypass the paywall on a New Statesman article:

“When she refused to vote for cuts in disability benefits, Labour whips threatened that the government could withdraw resources from her constituency,” he revealed. “She complained to one of the papers. In response, the whips threatened to expose her private life in the tabloids.” Kingham stood down at the following election.

Orwell on Hitler:

It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.

They probably can, given there are more famous black Americans to choose from. Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, etc.

They can name kings, queens and some prime ministers.

But given how incredibly white the UK historically was, they're all obviously white.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16AE0/production/_107469829_ab_sexuality_facet-nc.png.webp

IRC Obamacare is also heavily inspired by and quite similar to Romneycare. It's not particularly surprising that Romney has decided to not run again, given the party which elected him as a presidential candidate ten years ago, basically no longer even consider him a republican.

Is the game 'finished' yet or should I wait till the modding community has had some more time to work on mods?