WittyProfileName2

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It's all about consolidation of power, isn't it? This close to an election Labour can skip the typical candidate selection process. This allows Starmer to purge his biggest critics in the party and replace them with whatever Blairite cronies briefcase Labour has most recently shat onto his desk.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

More on Rishi Sunak during the pandemic.

His big scheme to revitalise the economy was called "eat out to help out". It involved encouraging people to go to restaurants during an ongoing pandemic. But most people just remember it for the crappy photoshopping on the signs advertising it.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Here's one from TERF island.

During the rollout of COVID furlough, the BBC decided to run a propaganda piece for the Tories that depicted then Chancellor of the Exchequer (and soon to be deposed Prime minister) Rishi Sunak as Superman.

I really don't understand why anti-communists have to go so wild with their misinfo.

Like, I get they haven't actually read shit about communist history to bring up actual fuck-ups of this-or-that revolution but, like...

It always ends up as "Mao's pisswife ate my third granduncle twice removed's egg factory!"

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shitty AI art

Did Prager fire the people who did the little stick figure drawings for him?

Lotta stuff nowadays seems to be written and edited so that you can have it on in the background while you, like, browse the web on another device or something and still get the general gist of what's going on.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gorbachev living just long enough to see Pizza Hut pull out of Russia due to sanctions and then croaking shortly after. chefs-kiss

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

spoilers for this week's Dr Whosoypoint-1 Wales soypoint-2

This episode is a hard one for me to pin down my feelings on.

I'll start with what I liked:

They perfectly captured the lost tourist wandering into a Welsh pub thing early on in the episode. Everyone in there just immediately pranking Ruby with a made up local legend.

Once more I appreciate the episode didn't begin immediately apocalyptic in its stakes.

The writers seemed less insistent on holding the viewers hands and trusted people to get that the Primeminister that the Doctor says brought Britain to the edge of nuclear war is the same one who's election material is everywhere. No sudden cuts back to dialogue from earlier in the episode this time.

In terms of how scenes were shot, I enjoyed how they played around with depth of field and camera focus in a way that interacted with the gimmick of the episode's "monster".

But on the other hand:

The politics of this episode were a confused mess. Between shadowy secret government agency UNIT attempting to grab a woman off the street being portrayed as heroic, and the whole NATO being the thing keeping rogue states from flinging nukes around with Primeminister ap Gwiliam's plot to buy Pakistan's nukes. Powerfully LIB.

Roger ap Gwiliam is a strange one in this 'cos he's portrayed in a very liberal "great man of history" way where he's so charismatic he wins by a landslide even though he can't help but immediately swerve the conversation into how much he wants to nuke everyone every time he's interviewed, but when he's removed Dr Who Tory party stand-in (Albion) immediately returns to normal.

TL:DR - not as good as last week's episode but still a solid contender amongst recent Dr Who. I'll say this much of the series so far, even the ones I thought were meh, still captured my attention more than any from Chris Chibnall's run as showrunner.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm gonna brush past everything else cringe in this to focus on one thing:

Not bothering to warp Biden's face in unsettling ways.

Commit to the bit you cowards! Like, if you're gonna do this whole soullessly gesturing at the internet trends of literal children, at least commit to the bit.

spoilers for latest Dr Who episodeThis episode was imho an improvement over the previous two. The twist of the Anglican space marines fighting a war against an uninhabited world and dying by their own munitions so that Vilenguard can keep selling them weapons was well executed. The running commentary of the episode of capitalism being inherently hostile to life (like the automated ambulances euthanising people 'cos it's cheeper than treating them) wasn't exactly novel for Dr Who let alone Sci-fi as a genre, but I think it did it ok. I liked how they did a lot with an episode largely set inside a single crater.

There were a coupla things I didn't like though: firstly, the bit where the Doctor yells at that priest about faith felt both out of character and a little soapbox-y. And secondly, I don't like that Vilenguard came up again, the Doctor running into these same locations mentioned off-hand in earlier series again and again makes the universe of Dr Who (fuck you Disney, I will not call it "the whoniverse") kinda small. I understand this is a long term issue with Dr Who, but like, I hated when they kept bringing back those fucking statues as well or when the next last dalek slithers outta a hole.

Other than that rant - I'd rate this the top episode of the series so far, but still not quite as good as the high points of last year's episodes.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the latest update thing has broken get me started (and a bunch of other mods)

There's a patcher on the nexus for downgrading fallout 4 that you might find useful.

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