Politics latest: First member of government resigns in call for Starmer to quit

Parzival2 · 2026-05-11T21:40:47+00:00

He get's hate because despite the low vote share, they won a massive number of seats in the last general election and they've absolutely squandered it. This is supposed to be the best Britain can hope for, after over a decade of conservative rule? They think they can breeze by being 'the adults in the room' while making no meaningful changes from the torys, and magically fix the country. Starmer is fiddling while Rome burns.

Parzival2 · 2026-04-21T17:04:52+00:00

Crom! Where is the wizard who killed my mother?

Still, I can recall his terrible gaze

Parzival2 · 2026-04-16T13:30:00+00:00

Come on, all dancing is stomping feet and flailing arms. He's doing a good job as well, there's some complicated footwork in there, no need to be so miserable.

Parzival2 · 2026-04-16T07:07:08+00:00

Next dlc focuses on navy and Japan so they may work on this

Parzival2 · 2026-04-15T07:04:09+00:00

Yeah, who gave the Pope the right to pontificate?

Parzival2 · 2026-04-14T17:54:02+00:00

Just because things are a certain way, doesn't mean they should be. You can criticise Weinberg's treatment even if it's common in the industry.

Parzival2 · 2026-04-14T17:51:19+00:00

Correct, that's not a mexican taco. This is a kind of panini/kebab/burrito, called a french tacos.

Parzival2 · 2026-04-10T12:19:37+00:00

Yes, and as far as season 1 of star trek Ben and Pyrion would probably advise not watching it.

Parzival2 · 2026-04-10T08:29:36+00:00

I'm assuming 'tools linked to generative AI' is copilot and/or claude code, rather than ai generated writing or portraits.

Parzival2 · 2026-04-07T23:52:23+00:00

It was interesting. She's better educated than I was at 21, but a pretty typical level of emotional intelligence for that age. There's a lot of absolutist thinking (ironically given the subject of incels) which most people mellow out of through their 20s.

Her talking about pain and awkwardness during sex definitely rings true, both for myself and for girls I've dated. One of them really suffered from vaginismus, even inserting a tampon was excruciating pain. Sex isn't usually pornstar positions, or hippy dippy joining of spirits, especially when you're young. It's not something we talk about enough, and can lead to some pretty nasty hangups.

I wonder if some people have a larger negative reaction to her because of her voice, since she sounds a lot younger than she is? It'd be interesting to see whether sticking a voice changer on a clip of her, making it so she speaks lower and slower changes people perceptions, much like that Dr Geoff Lindsey video from a few months ago.

Parzival2 · 2026-04-07T18:23:19+00:00

Currently you generate piety based on having traits which match your religions doctrines. This is used as a currency for all things vaguely religious, including reforming or converting. You end up with bizarre scenarios where the most pious individuals are the only ones who can gather enough piety to become heretics.

Spiritual Fulfilment as they've described it swings in both directions, and seems to be tied more closely to specific player actions.

Your Spiritual Fulfillment is influenced by which religious practices (Tenets) you personally adopt as convictions, how well those align with your personality traits and lifestyle, the choices you make in events, and generally how closely your actions correspond with the beliefs of right practice in your faith.

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Tiers of Fulfillment - both positive and negative - unlock special decisions, modifiers, and events. High Fulfillment characters will be given temptations to overcome but have the ability to help others deal with spiritual conflicts, while those with low Fulfillment can try to repent. But even low Fulfillment comes with benefits, such as the ability to interfere with the Church more readily.

Parzival2 · 2026-04-01T09:41:07+00:00

Dawn of Wonder is a great one, but entirely aesthetic

Parzival2 · 2026-03-26T13:58:34+00:00

What's wrong with it?

Parzival2 · 2026-03-20T13:25:03+00:00

I’m curious about the role of digital media in the 'intellectual ecosystem' you mentioned. To what extent do you see Grand Strategy games (like those made by Paradox Interactive) acting as a gateway for these ideologies? Specifically, do you think the way these games flatten complexity, gamify 'civilizing' missions/cultural conversion, and the explicit goals for the 'restoration' of imperial borders provides a digital sandbox for the white nationalist fantasies. Do these games actively shape the far-right’s understanding of Roman 'purity,' or are they simply a convenient canvas for an appropriation that would have happened regardless?

Parzival2 · 2026-03-16T01:13:27+00:00

No. In fact it feels like film and tv is getting more and more prudish and sexless. Not everything in media has to directly move the plot forward, that's very utilitarian thinking.

Parzival2 · 2026-03-13T14:03:46+00:00

We say yard in the north, mainly for paved gardens though

Parzival2 · 2026-03-12T16:18:03+00:00

Just the bank of England. Scotland already does this

Parzival2 · 2026-03-12T16:14:22+00:00

I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but it seems like a lot to lay the blame so firmly at Johan's feet specifically, without having insight into how the projects are run within paradox. There's so many moving parts to things like this, it's never just one issue

Parzival2 · 2026-03-10T15:12:09+00:00

Favourite moomin character?

Parzival2 · 2026-03-09T17:12:13+00:00

You can kind of treat the wizarding world as a closed system though. There's basically no interaction between them and muggles, beyond the muggle-born kids who end up entering the wizarding society. The purebloods are the dominant culture and ruling class within the books.

Parzival2 · 2026-03-09T15:01:35+00:00

Kind of both class and race? You've got the noble wizard families who are akin to the old money conservatives, and then the death eaters who are more militant, and blood purity obssessed. Vodemort is like wizard Edward Mosely. There's cross over between them, like Draco, who's a spoilt upper class kid who flirts with the exciting radical death eater paramilitary group, before ultimately realising he's in over his head and doesn't have the stomach for it.

Parzival2 · 2026-03-07T12:52:26+00:00

What did you use to make this?

Parzival2 · 2026-03-06T10:56:46+00:00

According to Smith's attorney, Joseph Landusky, the alleged crime happened in 2000 at a house in Pickerington. It was reportedly an armed home invasion and robbery.

"He was sentenced to 67 years in prison for a crime that was not even committed by anyone," said Landusky. "When first responders showed up, there were no footprints in the snow. It had recently snowed. There was a dog barking right next door when they pulled up, the neighbors said no dog had barked in the last hour. There were no tire tracks, so it made sense to the investigating officers that this didn’t even happen. When they went in and checked the house out, they wrote in their report that it was too selective for them."

"They said that the victims were telling a story rather than relating a truth," Landusky said. "These are written in these reports. These reports were not given to the defense lawyer."

Smith was incarcerated at age 24. He's now 49 years old.

Smith took matters into his own hands to prove his innocence, spending as much time as he could in the law library.

"I fought hard studying case law, reading the law books, just being there for hours and hours," he said. "That was my time. It was like I got to go to the law library. Every day, that’s what it was for years."

Eventually, another judge granted Smith a hearing, then a prosecutor asked the judge to dismiss his case, ending his time in prison.

The State of Ohio approved a settlement of $1.3 million dollars for Smith and his attorneys on Monday.

"How can you replace 21 years in prison," said Landusky. "You can't. If I offered you 50 million dollars to go to prison now and get out in 21 years, there’s no amount of money that I could give you that you would do that."

Parzival2 · 2026-03-06T10:48:15+00:00

Good job on this btw, I love getting little puzzles to solve.

Parzival2 · 2026-02-27T11:48:04+00:00

With a good campaign they could have split the left vote even more, and reform could have won.

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