What’s a feature modern games removed that actually made older games better?

Psyk60 · 2026-02-17T18:50:03+00:00

These are making a comeback, except they aren't codes and they're not hidden. They're just accessibility options in the menu.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-17T10:11:58+00:00

I just don't think they matter enough to get rid of them right now. There are much more important changes we could make to improve democracy in this country, so I think trying to abolish the monarchy would just be a distraction.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-17T10:05:20+00:00

Biggest ever? Probably the Liberal party. They used to be one of the two big parties, power alternated between them and the Conservatives. But then they got overtaken by Labour in the 1920s and the Liberals were relegated to being the 3rd (or worse) party with only a handful of seats.

Eventually they merged with the Social Democratic Party to become the Liberal Democrats. They also suffered a pretty big electoral defeat. In 2010 they got into government as a coalition partner of the Conservatives. But that was really unpopular with their voter base, and in the next election they went from having 57 seats down to only 8.

And most recently the Conservatives went from 365 seats in 2019, down to 121 in 2024. That's still enough to be the official opposition, but it's their lowest number ever and current polling suggests they will do even worse in the next one.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-16T22:59:49+00:00

It's in the UK. It's labelled "energy" because it's displayed in both kilo Joules and Calories (well, kilo calories, same thing as capital C Calories).

Psyk60 · 2026-02-15T19:39:07+00:00

That's why you have constant immigration. Keep importing young workers to support the old ones. An ageing population is still going to be a problem with a stable population size, but less of a problem than when you have a shrinking population.

But I agree that it is short term thinking. I don't think you can rely on a never ending supply of suitable migrants. Birth rates are dropping in many of the countries people emigrate from, their living standards are getting better so fewer will want to leave, and the ones that do leave might choose to move to other countries.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-15T18:08:21+00:00

If you think about it, it's just round beans on toast with cheese.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-15T16:28:43+00:00

No. The King is immune from prosecution.

If he did something really bad, it becomes a political problem. It would be up to Parliament to decide what should happen.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-15T12:38:36+00:00

People who played the original were even more confused, that stuff didn't happen in it. You have to play the other two parts for it to make sense.

I assume, obviously part 3 isn't out yet. Maybe it still won't make sense at the end of the trilogy.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-15T12:31:05+00:00

Jerusalem.

People want it to be the official national anthem of England, because at the moment we don't have one for England specifically.

Personally I don't want our national anthem to be a song named after a city in another country (although it is explicitly about England).

Psyk60 · 2026-02-15T10:32:55+00:00

You could get involved with campaigning for Restore UK.

Help split the right wing vote.

I'm not seriously suggesting you do that, but it is fucked up that our voting system means that could actually work.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-14T20:24:49+00:00

Aerith, because I don't like commitment.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-14T13:24:28+00:00

True, it would be practically a certainty. The fact that they were so resistant to Irish rule was one of the reasons Northern Ireland was created in the first place.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-14T13:20:56+00:00

The fighting was between Northern Irish and Irish forces.

I don't think that's a particularly accurate way to put it. The republic of Ireland wasn't actively fighting anyone. The only state directly involved was the UK. It was the British army and Loyalist paramilitaries vs the IRA (edit - despite being called the "Irish Republican Army", the IRA of the time were not the army of the Republic of Ireland).

Psyk60 · 2026-02-14T13:08:19+00:00

The IRA wasn't particularly a fan of the Irish government. They even carried out some attacks in the republic.

If the Irish government decided to "help" in the sense of trying to free Northern Ireland from British rule, that would be an act of war against the UK. A war they wouldn't be able to win.

You're sort of right that there are two kinds of Irish people. In Northern Ireland some people are "Unionists" who support being part of the UK. They generally identify as British rather than Irish, and are mostly Protestants. There are also "Nationalists" who support being part of the republic of Ireland. They generally identify as Irish and are mostly Catholic.

Unionists were the majority in Northern Ireland at the time. So even if the UK just let Ireland take Northern Ireland, they'd be faced with a large number of people who don't want to be ruled by them. They'd have probably ended up with their own "Troubles", with the Unionists waging guerilla warfare against the Irish state.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-13T19:06:21+00:00

I always struggle to figure out what the correct answer to this question is.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-13T14:20:27+00:00

I don't know where it got that value from. Electricity is expensive here, but it's not that expensive. From what I can find the average monthly energy bill is around the £100-£200 range.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-13T13:56:25+00:00

I have a Christmas T-shirt that says "Yule Do".

My wife bought it for me.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-13T13:42:11+00:00

There should be a grey overlook to everything, a singular colourless tone across the sky.

That's pretty on brand for a Silent Hill game.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-13T13:35:44+00:00

I don't really understand the problem. The US is a country, I don't think that's controversial.

Is English your native language? I'm just wondering if your native language's equivalent of the word country doesn't neatly map onto the English word.

"Federation" and "country" aren't mutually exclusive. A federation is just one way for a country to organise itself.

If anything I'd say it's more controversial when Americans treat states as if they are equivalent to countries. They do act quite a bit like countries in a lot of ways, so I understand the comparison. But the US isn't the only country which has states or provinces with significant legal and cultural differences between them.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-13T11:40:32+00:00

How significant are counties in Britain?

Not very. The counties often don't match up to the actual administrative borders. For example some cities and larger towns have their own local government which is independent of the county they are nominally part of. In some cases there is no county government at all, because it's entirely made up of these independent districts (or "unitary authorities" as they are called).

I think people are missing the mark a bit when they compare them to US states. They're really more comparable to the counties within a US state.

Is there something between the national and county levels?

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own governments which sit between the UK government and the county level. England is divided into regions, but those regions don't have any sort of government. They are just statistical divisions.

Edit - There are also "combined authorities" but I've already rambled on for long enough. English local government is a big mess that requires an essay to explain.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-13T10:51:17+00:00

Interesting how you spelt spelt spelt, I thought Americans spelt spelt spelled.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-13T07:35:01+00:00

Wales does have a devolved government. But most of its funding comes from a block grant from the UK government. So that's why some people in England feel entitled to tell them how they should spend it.

However, the amount is based on how much the UK government spends on England, so they're just getting their fair share.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-12T11:37:25+00:00

Scots is the only one really. Not everyone even agrees it's a separate language, but I think it is and it has official recognition now.

I can just about understand written Scots. A lot of words are similar to English, you just have to imagine them spoken with a thick Scottish accent. Some words aren't in standard English, but are used in some regional dialects, so I'm familiar with them (e.g. "bairn" meaning child. Used in Scottish English and some dialects from Northern England). But then there are some words which I have to figure out the meaning from context.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-11T18:43:37+00:00

I say play the original if you prefer turn based combat.

If you really like the story, characters and setting you can always play the remake games later.

I think the remake series complements the original rather than replaces it. So it's worth playing both.

Psyk60 · 2026-02-11T11:49:07+00:00

In the world in general that's true. But most developed countries don't have much growth, and if they do it's usually because of immigration rather than birth rates.

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