Every once in a while I get the urge to.boot up the auld Discworld MUD, but there’s something quite depressing about a sparsely populated world inhabited by the works of players long past all based on the stories of a dead author.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBWmkwaTQ0k

I will second NORCO, its a sci-fi bayou adventure with some really touching moments

Also I will throw in Dreams in the Witch House (2023) by Atom Brain Games, its a very entertaining point and click based on the eponymous Lovecraft story, it has some moon logic but it kind of fits with the whole “You have no clue what the hell is going on” vibe anyway. The creator is currently working on a Dunwich Horror one too.

Honestly Fallout has always been a directionless series. Fallout 1 had a very clear focus; It was a Wasteland inspired CRPG that riffed on A Boy and His Dog. Then Fallout 2 was a disjointed sequel were all the locations were made separate from eachother and the story was basically just a continuation of Fallout 1. New Vegas then began to return to form; a Wasteland inspired First Person RPG that riffed on The Postman but then I think it ultimately got hampered by its need to follow up on Fallout 1 and 2. I also really dislike Avellone’s inability to stop writing nihilist libertarians.

Yet another reason why The Return (2024) is the best odyssey movie.

Me when I’m in a Kautsky hating contest and my opponent is Lenin

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My NHS GP has over 10,000 patients split between maybe 4 or 5 doctors. Thats double the amount of people per doctor. The only way to get an appointment is to spend several days to potentially weeks calling the clinic at exactly the time they open and praying. The idea of even high-risk patients getting a house call regularly by a doctor is laughable. Anything slightly serious will get you put on a years long waiting list that is essentially a lottery on whether you will outlast the people in front of you. Sometimes even I fall for the idea that this is normal, that the decline of the NHS is some natural cycle out of the hands of people that we must endure. Then I see what Cuba, a country that has been under siege for decades, achieves with so little and it snaps me right back to reality.

My inner accelarationist wants to believe all this online crackdown will actually reverse some of the atomization of society but I know the truth is most people will just drink the kool-aid.

Like Popeye but instead of spinach its custom branded whiskey

In Euro news, Switzerland Is currently voting on a bill to cap their population at 10 million. Seems to have a reasonable chance of going through which would probably result in a Brexit level of fuckery for the EU regarding free movement and such.

Also since bizarrely the Original British Colony has apparently breached containment I thought people might like to know that there was a pretty well attended Anti-Racist rally today, Mostly trade unionist and electoralists calling for VOTE but that’s just par for the course isn’t it.

Reposting my context post from the news mega:

Important to note that it is marching season here in the Original British Colony, these riots occur pretty much the exact time every year for pretty much any reason. Like everything that occurs around the 12th, its all part of the fear and intimidation tactics that “prominent members of the community” use to try and keep the dying spirit of big U Unionism alive. Unsurprisingly this settler culture, highly trained in the arts of being racist to the almost identical white people who live the next street over, have taken to the recent surge in far right anti-immigration sentiment extremely well.

As the inevitability of reunification looms closer it puts me strongly in mind of Gladio stay-behinds. Small u Unionists will surely integrate much like the protestant anglo-irish who stayed after partition did in the Republic, but these Prominent Members of The Community who run loyalist paramilitaries while enjoying the protection of the PSNI will be an easy in for controlling forces for decades to come.

The thing that really surprises me about this is its getting any coverage on the outside. Usually this stuff doesn’t even reach British news due to most of them not actually remembering NI exists. It goes to show how much stronger Reform has gotten.

The good weather and summer holidays definitely contributes but at the end of the day its all about the 12th. The entire month of June right up to the 12th of July is marching/riot season for big U Unionists.

There have been some incidents down in Dublin, including a notable one recently involving a similar precursor crime involving a foreign national, and there was even a small march in Dublin today with the more obvious swastika wielding fascists. It is however different from Unionists in that it is your more run of the mill euro fascism (Ireland’s one true love). Given their likely being sprung from the same American/Israeli sources they are willing to put the blinders on and work together but compared to the Unionists they are quite frankly amateurs when it comes to rioting and intimidation.

Important to note that it is marching season here in the Original British Colony, these riots occur pretty much the exact time every year for pretty much any reason. Like everything that occurs around the 12th, its all part of the fear and intimidation tactics that “prominent members of the community” use to try and keep the dying spirit of big U Unionism alive. Unsurprisingly this settler culture, highly trained in the arts of being racist to the almost identical white people who live the next street over, have taken to the recent surge in far right anti-immigration sentiment extremely well.

As the inevitability of reunification looms closer it puts me strongly in mind of Gladio stay-behinds. Small u Unionists will surely integrate much like the protestant anglo-irish who stayed after partition did in the Republic, but these Prominent Members of The Community who run loyalist paramilitaries while enjoying the protection of the PSNI will be an easy in for controlling forces for decades to come.

UK’s inner states

Presumably this excludes Northern Ireland, which definitely maintains the dubious honour of being the Original British Colony™. As someone who has been trying to find more local theory I say Good Luck. Everything here is 30 year old Trotskyist discussions of the GFA, constantly arguing over sectarianism destroying worker solidarity while completely ignoring the colonial aspects.

It also works as a great filter because all the terrible players never play the soviets because they “want to play the good guys” so you’re usually on the winning side.

NHS doctors don’t do annual physicals because they barely have time to do direct treatment to seriously engage in preventive measures like that. Go look at private doctors in the UK though and you will find that they all offer these services.

It was a Burger Town™ I’ll have you know and it was the last bastion of western civilization™

Apparently she got caught by a journalist using AI facial recognition from a 30+ year old wanted poster. Makes you think.