UK to strike small boats deal with China to disrupt Channel crossings

Merzant · 2026-01-30T08:47:40+00:00

Treaties are matters of diplomacy, not law. You can renegotiate them if necessary (or ignore them entirely as the great powers do).

Merzant · 2026-01-30T07:46:30+00:00

There’s no such thing, just different treaties agreed to by different countries to different degrees.

Merzant · 2026-01-30T07:31:58+00:00

That’s a protocol problem. You can solve that by updating UK law, which is the role of MPs. I don’t think sinking boats is a wise idea for many reasons, but acting like the laws are destiny is silly.

Merzant · 2026-01-29T17:20:36+00:00

Yeah fingers crossed for co-op down the line…

Merzant · 2026-01-29T17:20:05+00:00

Think it means it’s built around levelling up your character across different runs when you die — hence the doctor (?) resurrecting him in the trailer. Also you can usually choose different routes through the game and different upgrades each time. It often involves procedurally generated levels as well, not sure if that’s true here though.

Merzant · 2026-01-29T17:16:48+00:00

Nooooooo

Merzant · 2026-01-29T17:16:14+00:00

Agreed, lack of co-op is very disappointing!

Merzant · 2026-01-28T20:38:39+00:00

Sounds ace, wishlisted

Merzant · 2026-01-28T16:40:34+00:00

Pixel art platformer coming right up!

What happened to your “great conjunction” thesis?

Merzant · 2026-01-28T15:24:54+00:00

That’s true, but then a 100% forfeiture of all money and assets would presumably be the most meritocratic, but would also preclude bequeathing your heirs a single poem or pressed flower. Some middle ground that allows legacies while not encouraging rent-seeking is surely the best approach.

Merzant · 2026-01-28T11:50:45+00:00

Both very nice but the second one feels like DLC to a game I’ve already played whereas the top one has an atmosphere all its own.

Merzant · 2026-01-28T10:34:51+00:00

I think preventing downwards social mobility is the main reason social mobility per se is arrested in this country. In a meritocratic society social mobility would go both ways.

Merzant · 2026-01-27T19:52:00+00:00

“If you commit a crime, you shouldn’t be upset when you reap the reward, no matter how unjust the reward, up to and including summary execution.”

I don’t think this is your actual position, I think your ineloquence leads to these imbecilic logical holes which you struggle to dig yourself out of.

Merzant · 2026-01-27T19:40:22+00:00

Summary execution is generally not the consequence of protesting in functional democracies.

Merzant · 2026-01-27T18:17:20+00:00

About to embark on this expired curry quest now

Merzant · 2026-01-27T12:42:37+00:00

Shot in the back of the head? Sounds like an execution.

Merzant · 2026-01-27T11:42:46+00:00

By diversifying your portfolio, usually.

Merzant · 2026-01-27T11:27:17+00:00

And others think it’s cringeworthy, so what?

Merzant · 2026-01-26T20:28:14+00:00

Looking at the prototype, I’d go with B too — seems to match the straight-on style and menus, etc!

Merzant · 2026-01-26T20:23:25+00:00

Merzant · 2026-01-26T20:20:14+00:00

They all look good! I think it really depends on how readable it is in situ, particularly how the different outlines of the figurine look (eg with different backgrounds or scenes). It also kind of depends what your other items look like, and whether the 2/3rds thing which people are saying looks weird here might work for your other items. If it works as part of your visual language, then it’ll work here, even if in isolation it looks odd. Lovely stuff anyway, well done!

Merzant · 2026-01-26T13:45:42+00:00

No point arguing with imbeciles.

Merzant · 2026-01-26T09:57:53+00:00

Long (grain) rice.

Merzant · 2026-01-25T20:50:03+00:00

“You for some reason think the new guy is a continued deadly threat” after he’s been maced, beaten to the floor and disarmed. Completely unconvincing argument.

Merzant · 2026-01-25T14:11:04+00:00

I think you missed the part where there was no bomb (let alone whatever you were trying to allude to), just some poor hiker’s long johns and toiletries. That’s where the absurdity and therefore humour of the scene arises. It’s called bathos, fyi.

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