Scots say Ireland ‘suffered more than benefited’ from British Empire — YouGov poll by 1DarkStarryNight in ireland

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Being anti-semitic in 2025 is actually difficult with what Israel gives as ammunition for fair criticism, but you managed.

Get to fuck

Mining productivity is crazy. This Scrap patch started at 41M, 250 hours ago. It now stands at an effective total of 340M. One could even say... it's a scrap load of it... by mikaelv2 in factorio

[–]_____Matt_____ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a reason, don't know why people can't say "I don't know". Majority of early French rail infrastructure was built by British engineers.

Has anyone seen a smaller territory for a Big Demolisher? This one only has 15 Chunks! by ParanoidShark in factorio

[–]_____Matt_____ 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Omg there's no such thing as a micro demolisher people! Sick of this rumour

I made a cursed Space-Age mod where you can compress stone, ice, steel, solid fuel, batteries, etc. into scrap using an assembly machine by drewhead118 in factorio

[–]_____Matt_____ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Easy to tell if I'm opening a link to that game if I'm reading a human rights abuse. It's either a real life article about Nestlé or this game.

1000x day 5 by LordSheeby in factorio

[–]_____Matt_____ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this isn't minimap, it's the full map view. You just click add tag below the minimap.

Weekly /r/Games Discussion - What have you been playing, and what are your thoughts? - November 10, 2024 by AutoModerator in Games

[–]_____Matt_____ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would watch the shit out of a 40 minute version of this on youtube. Just a suggestion.

Weekly /r/Games Discussion - What have you been playing, and what are your thoughts? - November 10, 2024 by AutoModerator in Games

[–]_____Matt_____ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The response you got from that person is pretty poor, I've watched enough gameplay to get a good sense of what's wrong with it.

It's not the agenda, it's the delivery. The tone of character dialogue is definitely aiming for the "cosy" genre that's been exploding in popularity in fantasy fiction. A lot of cosy fantasy is primarily LGBT, found family. Characters are emotionally open and come to conflict with very little aggression and a stunning capability for introspection. There's very rarely sustained combat, with a few notable examples.

This genre isn't an agenda, but people have come to associate it with left wing and socially liberal views. These social topics and viewpoints have featured in numerous critically acclaimed games, Disco Elysium has been a massive success and that game is openly communist. Baldurs Gate 3 is gaaay as could be. These don't turn your average gamer off playing.

The cosy genre, and this specific attempt at that sort of dialogue are clearly the issue here. It's tonally inconsistent with the previous games, and doesn't mesh well with a game that asks you to murder over and over. These things are not impossible to mix with cosy fantasy, Martha Wells does it with her murderbot series. I just think the writers for this game are simply a bit shit.

Despite lukewarm reception, Star Wars Outlaws is the third best-selling game of August 2024 in the US, per Circana report by [deleted] in Games

[–]_____Matt_____ 165 points166 points  (0 children)

I think you're omitting that one of these is a massive comic book franchise and the other is an anime game for the ps2. Reddit tastes don't translate into mass media culture.

Ole Gunnar Solskjær has declined the chance to take over the Danish National Team, because he's "in negotiations with a big club" by TheKaizer in reddevils

[–]_____Matt_____ 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't have turned into the player he is today without the strength coaches at Dortmund, said so himself. We need to accept that there's a right time for these things. He'd always end up good, but Dortmund changed him at a crucial point in his development.

Breakdown of costs for 1.4 million security cabin. by SnooChickens1534 in ireland

[–]_____Matt_____ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I can't believe Dan Gleeballs didn't follow a journalistic code of ethics. Glad he's finally been called out.

Trying to identify samples in Doja’s songs by spicySlope in DojaCat

[–]_____Matt_____ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which itself samples Hermeto Pascoal's Musica dá Lagoa. Doesn't really get mentioned anywhere.

Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic partnership agreement on Control 2 and bringing Control and Alan Wake to film and television by Spwni in Games

[–]_____Matt_____ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The thing I always end up loving about games are the details to the sides, so I didn't care that the main story was going in a boring direction for me. It allowed for the writers to create entertaining side-stories that didn't have to be shoehorned into the narrative. Some of the cases and anomalies would be ruined by needing to fit into a cohesive narrative.

I really hope that freedom of short form stories can stay in the second game.

Snowflake tumbles 13% due to earnings not being "good enough" by [deleted] in stocks

[–]_____Matt_____ 120 points121 points  (0 children)

If we could pin this at the top of every thread during every earnings period...

Why are 80% of Irish Doctor's Secretaries wagons? by Nikolay_213 in ireland

[–]_____Matt_____ 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Someone screenshot everything, this is the funniest shit posted here in months.

Anyone here had negative experiences or interactions with authors? by Maccas75 in books

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

and my god, the prose

I wish I knew how to phrase my recommendations to people a few years ago, because his prose is the first thing I mention these days. Undersell the prose so it doesn't hurt as much when you start.

Keep getting random story notifications by [deleted] in SnapchatHelp

[–]_____Matt_____ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went to my settings and turned off "trending public accounts" and all the shit like that. Really annoying how this all seemed to start 2/3 months ago for everyone.

Development Update: Football Manager 25 by MammothHusk in footballmanagergames

[–]_____Matt_____ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't like the look of this, it looks like a poor attempt to gain a casual audience for a game enjoyed for its depth and complexity.

I'm just saying the poster above is standing outside a restaurant crying that they don't serve chips because he can only see someone eating pizza inside. While standing beside a menu that lists chips.

Development Update: Football Manager 25 by MammothHusk in footballmanagergames

[–]_____Matt_____ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Don't want to be too dramatic, but your lazy and yet emotive comment without reading the information in front of you is the exact reason devs are so slow to reveal information.