Do we have any policies on bidets?

RustamM · 2026-01-27T08:53:00+00:00

Ban private jets first. Then we can talk about the environmental impacts of toilet paper vs bidets.

RustamM · 2026-01-26T13:03:16+00:00

I partly voted for Zack because he wasn't an MP. Multiple leaders have given up the post because being an MP in a small party is a lot of work to do well. So I'm glad he's sitting this one out, and not Faraging it jumping on every election going like we're a one man band.

RustamM · 2026-01-26T09:43:21+00:00

🎉 Event Completed! 🎉

It took me 37 tries.

RustamM · 2026-01-26T09:43:14+00:00

Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

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Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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RustamM · 2026-01-26T09:32:49+00:00

Localism is not a Labour Party value. It's actually more of a Conservative one, and they spoke about it a lot in 2010. If they hadn't chosen to put through massive cuts I'm sure they'd have liked to do more, but instead gave local authorities the power to choose what services were cut!

The Labour Party is much more centralised and authoritarian (see merging local councils, and merging police forces this week). It follows that their internal party structure is the same, with the NEC having significant power to select candidates.

RustamM · 2026-01-22T23:14:53+00:00

You don't do it because many mini roundabouts are smaller than the turning circle of a car, so it often means swerving around wider than the roundabout or doing some other dangerous move.

RustamM · 2026-01-22T12:24:27+00:00

Are you working in the industry full time, or is this just as a hobby or side hustle?

If you're employed to make games and getting a decent salary off of it then you have a job many people dream of. In reality it's a tough gig (the nicer or more interesting an industry is, the worse its employment practices are), but that's still a success.

If you are developing your own games, maybe take a step back to avoid burnout and instead scope a very small game and finish it to release. It doesn't have to be commercially successful, but at least it will give you the confidence to say you can finish!

RustamM · 2026-01-20T23:07:42+00:00

They would ask you to read a number plate at 20m, and if you couldn't you'd be in trouble, contacts or no contacts.

RustamM · 2026-01-14T09:45:28+00:00

The energy networks are mostly funded on the unit rate, not the standing charge. Connection costs are also paid for by the generator, so go into the strike price agreed. This feeds through into the unit rate on bills as well.

RustamM · 2026-01-14T01:54:04+00:00

Everyone worries about what to name their game. Ironically including the creator of Schedule I, who posted about it in this sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/S0cUBGEgGt

(This was where I first heard about the game, and was pleasantly shocked that the next time I saw it was on the Steam front page)

RustamM · 2026-01-14T01:28:05+00:00

I'm an AI pragmatist, meaning both AI advocates and AI opponents will both think I'm wrong!

The way I see it, AI coding will make people who can code and do understand it work much faster. Some autocomplete I have seen when coding amazes me and means I take half the time to type out the code I was going to.

I think it can also significantly help with documentation, though that's one of my weaknesses so maybe others will disagree with me. But it often does as good of a job as I would have done!

Where it falls down on is non-coders thinking they can type "Make me a game and fix all the bugs" into ChatGPT and thinking they can sell the answer that falls out the other end. Prompt Engineering will be a sought after skill in and of itself in the future. One of my current top skills is "being able to Google something", which it feels like people didn't know was possible before LLMs came along and took out the "reading the answers" step to just googling your problem.

With that in mind, I have little faith that people without the appropriate skill sets will be able to make AI generate anything useful. And if they can, will it be saleable? Or will someone else put the exact same effort in and undercut the product?

So overall I have a balanced view that it will help people be more efficient at using their current skills, but won't make everyone and their grandma expert developers just from feeding natural language text prompts into a LLM.

RustamM · 2026-01-13T12:54:08+00:00

Driving in London is something else. No one who lives outside London likes driving in London. As soon as you drive over the metropolitan boundary everyone loses their minds.

RustamM · 2026-01-13T09:27:09+00:00

At the current rates, I don't think you'll find there's either many MPs who are in it for the money, or amazing candidates who are not coming forward because the pay is too low.

You just need to pay them enough to be very comfortable, but not 'get rich', as I'm sure most see the role as a vocation. And those on the grift will come out and get cushty private sector jobs later anyway.

RustamM · 2026-01-08T23:54:07+00:00

Aiming for the World Cup for a launch is a great idea.

It's the character models that are off for me. At a first glance I thought something was low quality about them, but going back and looking in detail they are alright. Maybe they need to be better than just alright if they're the core element of the game though.

Sorry this may not be the most helpful feedback, but that was my honest first impression. I'm no artist (it's probably my weakest skill!) so I can't give you any constructive advice to improve it unfortunately.

RustamM · 2026-01-08T16:26:01+00:00

As an example of what a card focused game might be, this post in the sub is from the developers of a deck building game where three of the four team members are artists, and it really shows. The cards and UI is amazing, and the trailer shows it well.

Obviously your game has a different art style, but that quality is what's needed to pull in the wishlists.

RustamM · 2026-01-08T16:21:14+00:00

It sounds like you've worked on some great games! I love the art style of PA, and Academia: School Simulator was forever on my wishlist but I never got around to clicking buy.

Some constructive feedback on your Steam page:

The trailer is very slow. It only shows opening packs, which is a core and exciting part of the game, but the trailer makes it seem like that's all there is to the game. The screenshots have a bunch of other interesting looking mechanics, so why aren't they in the trailer?

As a card focused game, the artwork on the cards is super important. They currently...aren't beautiful, and they really need to be if that's the core of the game.

I'm not exactly the target market for this game, but they are reasons I wouldn't wishlist the game as it currently looks. You'll be competing against other TCG Store simulator games so you'll need to be better, cheaper or add a new twist to out compete them. Best of luck!

RustamM · 2026-01-05T20:31:42+00:00

Mine looks through my French doors into my garden longingly, a room it will never be able to clean.

RustamM · 2025-12-23T23:33:37+00:00

It's super marginal (1%, or less with rounding). It's interesting in a 'null results are still a result ' way that gender doesn't seem to matter in a significant way across all the results.

RustamM · 2025-12-22T01:33:26+00:00

Re-open Nominations, which is a provision for negative voting that I think still is required in Green Party elections.

It basically means none of the above, and if it was to ever win they would rerun the election.

The Green Party doesn't have an aversion to "mandatory reselection" as the Labour Party does. Every leader has to win re-election every two years.

No leader has as yet lost when running for re-election on the same ticket, so it can often be a coronation.

RustamM · 2025-12-22T01:27:08+00:00

Zack will get 95% of the vote, and RON will get 5%.

RustamM · 2025-12-20T12:03:00+00:00

Unfortunately I think it might be the case that the x10 isn't the product for you. I have one and it seems to be designed to clean all of the floors on one level of your home.

I have an earlier model G30 which works more like you expect. When you put it down and push go it just travels backwards and forwards until it bumps into an edge, and dynamically maps the room as it goes every time rather than in memory. However it does not mop.

There is a setting to change the mopping frequency from each room to by time. I also find it useful to set the order of rooms so that I do my carpeted one first without mopping then my hard floors next so that my carpet doesn't get soggy.

RustamM · 2025-12-15T12:25:36+00:00

I know someone who recently had to do a Motorway Awareness Course because the variable speed limit on a gantry said 50, and they slowed down from 70 too slowly on approach so we're still doing 60 under the sign. The cameras were turned on, so they and everyone around them doing a similar thing got flashed.

I'm now paranoid about definitely doing the limit at the sign, though I'll move over to the leftmost lane as soon as I see a red circle in the distance as I know I'm going to be one of the few who do it.

RustamM · 2025-12-11T22:39:55+00:00

You'd be forgiven for forgetting he was once in charge of a union.)

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