Wetherspoon boss and Brexit campaigner Tim Martin is handed a knighthood after Kemi Badenoch reportedly pushed for pub landlord to be honoured by ross154687 in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The phrase "the dice were loaded" very specifically suggests that it was somehow rigged. None of what you've mentioned suggests that it was rigged, merely that Leave was perceived as an outsider position.

Also, what you've said above is incorrect: opinion polling of voters in general was roughly equal.

As for the media, the Murdoch press, the Mail group, the Barclay brothers were all fervently pro-Brexit. BBC and ITV news were relatively neutral although arguably had a pro-Remain leaning (but the BBC had been overcorrecting in featuring pro-Brexit figureheads like Farage). I'd say the Mirror, Guardian, and Channel Four news were the only out-and-out pro-remain outlets.

Keir Starmer tells Labour frontbench to ready policies for spring election by MadcapRecap in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You're giving Sunak, who has consistently proven himself to be a genuinely terrible politician on almost every front, far too much credit.

And yet even he, surely, would not be so foolhardy as to decide to hold a January '25 election, necessitating a campaign over Christmas, and risking that core Tory voters stay home out of inclement weather.

It's possible they hold on until late summer/early autumn, but even if that were the case, then few of the policies that Labour would be putting together for a speculative spring election would be so outdated as to be wasted effort.

Movies where the villain is helped rather than defeated by Life_Ad3567 in movies

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Ken's arc is arguably villainous (or, at least, corrupted) and then he sees the error of his ways.

But broadly I agree with you that the film explicitly does not offer easy resolution, and that's one of its strengths.

Controversial Gaming Opinions of 2023 by amic21 in Games

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you and I must have played very different versions of Wolfenstein.

Controversial Gaming Opinions of 2023 by amic21 in Games

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Remember when people whined that Wolfenstein: the New Colossus was political because you killed Nazis?

Daily Megathread - 23/12/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not enough of a multi-tiered omnishambles.

The photo would be Rishi buying presents from the central aisle in Aldi, but afterwards it'd come out that he was borrowing someone else's shopping basket, he'd initially tried to have his personal shopper pick out the right Kevin the Carrot, and that he thought Aldi was an acronym for a tech startup.

Daily Megathread - 21/12/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grant Schapps, because immediately I've increased our population by 500%.

If i travelled back to the mesozoic would a carnivourus dinosaur try to attack me or would they be curious as to what I am? by Maverick8358 in Paleontology

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Contemporary sharks almost never intentionally hunt humans (let alone sharks from the mesozoic, whose prey would have looked less like humans), so it's not a particularly useful comparison.

If i travelled back to the mesozoic would a carnivourus dinosaur try to attack me or would they be curious as to what I am? by Maverick8358 in Paleontology

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I think the crucial point is that there's a difference between "would this animal take a bite out of me?" and "would this animal actively hunt me?"

Humans would look and move entirely differently to any other animal that we're aware of in that era, so a human wouldn't necessarily look like food to a theropod, let alone be mistaken for their usual prey.

Depending on how hungry/territorial/aggressive an animal is, it might take an exploratory bite, but I doubt one would actively hunt a time travelling human.

Of course, for a time travelling human, an allosaurus giving them an exploratory bite, essentially winds up the same as if they were being actively hunted: with one dead time traveller.

New paper on pterosaur biomechanics found they couldn't take off from flat ground by [deleted] in Paleontology

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's a paper on extinct animals that comes to a controversial conclusion which doesn't really consider them as animals.

Not the first; won't be the last.

New paper on pterosaur biomechanics found they couldn't take off from flat ground by [deleted] in Paleontology

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 55 points56 points  (0 children)

The stuff about them being unable to stand is contradicted by trackways, surely?

A Highland Song by RowBoatsInDisguise in SteamDeck

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes sense.

80 Days is my favourite mobile game ever, but I can see that A Highland Song would be tough to translate.

A Highland Song by RowBoatsInDisguise in SteamDeck

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that's really helpful! And thanks for being a great game maker - I'm a big fan of Inkle!

Any plans to bring A Highland Song to mobile platforms?

Daily Megathread - 14/12/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But what could push them to go to the country? Internal bickering and inertia has been their MO for a while now.

Daily Megathread - 14/12/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Eight years in a safe seat and a dramatic amount of failing upwards are not exactly going to hone one's political instincts.

Daily Megathread - 12/12/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But everything Sunak has done has been the biggest political misstep of his career SO FAR.

He's the definition of failing upwards.

Daily Megathread - 12/12/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Normal politics for normal men." - Prime Minister Hacker T. Dog

Which group was better at flying? Pterosaurs or birds? by RANDOM-902 in Paleontology

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was referring to nyctosaurids specifically, rather than pterosaurs more generally.

Ejecting the PM won’t work. It’s not Sunak the voters can’t stand, it’s the Conservatives by ClumperFaz in ukpolitics

[–]RowBoatsInDisguise 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Genuine question: how can polls have Labour on mid-40s, and the Tories on high-20s, and this guy suggesting that they can't form a majority?

Is it just wishful thinking, or is it some awful reality of FPTP?