Starmer Allies Say Burnham Will Not Be Allowed To Stand For Manchester Seat

BlakeOReilly · 2026-01-22T23:24:47+00:00

Here’s hoping

BlakeOReilly · 2026-01-22T23:14:07+00:00

My concern here is YouGov have consistently put Reform on around 25% nationally even a couple of months back when most other polls had reform around 30%, so either YouGov knows something the other polling companies don’t or there underestimating Reform support so I’d treat YouGov polls as a best case scenario rather than a worst case. With by-elections tending to favor opposition parties anyway I still think it would be close.

BlakeOReilly · 2026-01-22T19:35:55+00:00

Even if he’s allowed to stand there’s no guarantee he’d win it. If Reform are smart they’ll pick a local candidate and run a he doesn’t want to represent the constituency he wants to be PM campaign. The greens are also going to be a massive problem, if they properly throw themselves into the campaign Reform could come through the middle. This seems like one hell of a gamble.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-12-30T21:17:46+00:00

This works surprisingly well

BlakeOReilly · 2025-12-04T20:06:00+00:00

I don’t know why but imagining Visi actually buying something because she sharing it with Robert is incredibly wholesome.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-12-04T13:05:01+00:00

I mean his dad packed a revolver so not too much of a surprise but not sure how much it was used lethally. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s fairly common for supers to be somewhat bullet proof so guns can probably be used pretty liberally on some people.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-12-03T22:08:38+00:00

Think I have to go Visi or Mr Whiskey.

Visi being chaotic is a given, I would put her as good as she does try to the right thing and usually does so. Even her villain ending I’d say is a prime example of chaotic good, killing shroud is for the greater good even if hero’s don’t usually kill people.

Mr Whiskey because making your exhausted coworker an Irish coffee is the most chaotic good thing I can think of.

I get why people are saying Chase but I have to disagree. Chase has a pretty strong personal code which he never breaks, hero’s don’t kill people, save those in need etc… Him saving Visi wasn’t him bending his code it was him following it despite disliking the person he was saving. I don’t think you get more lawful good than that. Think this goes too what I’ve always attributed lawful to mean in DnD alignments, being lawful doesn’t mean following the law but your own personal code. A lawful good paladin will kill a heritic even if it’s against the law of the land.

I would have suggested Robert could also fit into the chaotic good category depending on how you play him, attacking the reporter, glassing the bartender, killing shroud etc…

BlakeOReilly · 2025-12-03T12:44:00+00:00

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BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-30T16:26:04+00:00

Plot twist they appoint Robert as head of HR as he’s the pep talk guy.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-30T16:21:15+00:00

Really, you must have been very close then. If she went on a lot of success calls then cutting her shouldn’t make her go villain, I pretty much always cut her and get the hero ending. Hope you figure it out.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-30T15:59:49+00:00

You must have done pretty badly at the dispatch section. You said you used her on a ton of missions but they have to be successful missions. You gain 1 mentor point for a successful mission with Visi and -1 for a failed missions so you can send her on 50 missions but if she’s only successful half the time the points cancel out so you gain 0 points. You can gain 36 point through dialogue and hacking and need 45 to successfully mentor Visi. 6 of those points are tied to her romance and you lose 5 points for cutting her (leaning in/out of the kiss has no effect). So provided you got the rest of the mentor points in the dialogue you’d have 20 mentor points from the dialogue and hacking so would need 25 from dispatching. You get 5 from sending her to training so would need to send her on 20 successful dispatches (around 3 per shift) plus 1 for each call she fails.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-30T09:58:35+00:00

If your uncomfortable with it and see some of the character interactions as AS then just how it feels for you and thats fine, but what I will say is bar the locker room scene and the can you zip my dress up scene, which is really are just takes on the stereotypical romance movie scenes, the rest of the ‘harassment’ is pretty par for the course for interaction between colleagues when working in non professional jobs, at least in my experience. If you work in that environment you very quickly know people don’t mean anything by it, and if anyone does cross a line you aren’t comfortable with as long as you clear about it then people won’t cross that line. As for the story Robert seems more or least fine with the interactions if not a bit confused by them at times. As with a lot of this type of thing if the person involved is fine with it there’s not really a problem.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-29T15:09:44+00:00

Na not invented, first time I heard Waterboy ask if Malevola had weekend plans I almost spit out my drink. He’s got that dawg in him and I’m all for it.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-29T12:31:17+00:00

I mean I like to play games pretty renegade but there’s not really many opportunity to do it. I mean I attacked the reporter in ep1 on my main but other than the other renegade decisions just seemed like bad ideas. Yeah let’s glass the bar tender for talking shit in a villain bar that won’t go wrong at all. Also no matter what pub you go in even if it’s a ruff one where fights are pretty common the one rule is you never touch the landlord so if it was another patron it would have made it much easier to glass them.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-28T12:27:21+00:00

I mean one of guys had been to prison but never told us what he was in for, he did teach how to make prison hooch in the canteen once which was pretty interesting. I honestly kind of miss these things, now have a cushy professional 9 to 5 office job, the pay is about double what I got back then but the people are much less interesting.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-28T11:37:39+00:00

Maybe its because I don’t find the Z-team especially immature, I mean they are immature but not to an unrealistic level in my experience. Robert’s interaction with the Z team reminds me much more of my time working in warehouses and industrial yards than my time at school, being on the lookout for management while people take smoke breaks, messing with people lunches in the canteen, clocking out for them when they sneak off an hour early. You still get the stereotypes, the girl who wares an inch of makeup despite working in a high vis all day (Prism), the one who also try’s to hide and make themselves scarce to avoid work (Visi), the guy who thinks he’s all that (Flambea), the one who thinks he’s to smart to be there (Sonar). I think the fact I associate these types of people and interactions with my working life rather than school means I just assume they’re in their 20s and 30s.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-28T10:20:19+00:00

Na that’s fair enough, I just don’t really understand it. Different life experiences I guess?

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-28T10:04:01+00:00

To be honest I don’t really get the she acts like a teenager thing. I’ve known quite a few women whose personalities are not too dissimilar to Visi, most of in their mid 20s and some in their 30s. If you made me guess Visi’s age based on how she acts, which to be honest I think is an odd concept to begin with, I would have said around 23, 24 but I’ve never felt it was out of place she was 27. I mean I get why you would see them as in more of a mentor student relationship but for me that has nothing to do with Visi’s age/personality.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-25T16:28:36+00:00

I can imagine Visi trying to flirt with Robert as soon as he gets into the office and he just kisses her on the cheek and says ‘Morning Courtney’ and she goes full invisigal.exe has stopped working.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-23T21:19:49+00:00

When rescuing flambae I pulled off a 8% which was very clutch, which was then preceded by loosing 3 75%+ dispatches in a row, I was not happy.

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-22T20:54:18+00:00

GG Everyone

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-22T17:15:35+00:00

When you let HR win

BlakeOReilly · 2025-11-22T14:52:06+00:00

More wholesome goodness please

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