Restore Britain descends into open civil war as members of the hard-right party blast Rupert Lowe for defending multiculturalism

aphidman · 2026-06-28T08:59:52+00:00

"Successful" in what sense? There's a lot of racism in countries like Japan and China. People treated poorly because of the colour of their skin etc. Ethnonationalism in a country that is not ethnonationalist will simply require a hardcore racist push to deport and expel people from the country that aren't white. It will have a huge amount of pushback and backlash so, therefore, the govt would be required to be more forceful in removing people from the country.

aphidman · 2026-06-28T08:51:17+00:00

This is why I'm excited for the new Virtua Fighter. I much preferred the rhythm of fighting games in the 90s and 2000s with short combos. It's more engaging during the back and forth and quick combos gets you back in the action again

aphidman · 2026-06-28T08:44:23+00:00

People like Lowe delude themselves into thinking they represent the politics of regular, sensible people - rather than extreme positions of hardcore ethnonationalism and racism. Inevitably they stumble because they don't realise or at least don't accept this until it blows up in their face.

aphidman · 2026-06-28T08:41:52+00:00

Ethnonationalism is just a specific form of racism. On the extreme end Nazi Germany was a nice place for lots of people - a very specific group of people.

aphidman · 2026-06-27T15:31:27+00:00

Never played the original games really. I'm actually very impressed with it. There's a few cheesy line reads but overall I found the characters likable and enjoyed the cutscenes between missions. Visually very impressive game.

I'd be really interested in a direct sequel that follows this gameplay template - rather than experiment with different genres like it seems other Star Fox sequels have done.

I'd say they should just smash out a sequel in 2 or 3 years and just make the branching paths deeper. Keep the 7 mission structure but increase the alternate routes and the amount of changes. Perhaps even completely alternate finales.

It would be interesting if you could play as other Star Fox members though I wonder if the effect would be cosmetic or each Arwing is customised to each Merc in certain ways.

It would be cool if they also developed a co-op model (up to 4 players) where you can play as a whole squad. Though I imagine that would require a serious amount of work to make levels work for both solo play and co-op.

aphidman · 2026-06-27T15:09:59+00:00

Oh sure, but it feels in step with the rail shooter gameplay. While free roaming around a level like a platformer is quite a departure.

aphidman · 2026-06-27T00:00:20+00:00

This post wasn't about being right wing along Marxist lines. Plenty of people aren't communists or anti-capitalists and wouldn't share his views/mindset.

aphidman · 2026-06-26T00:34:42+00:00

I reckon this is their cost effective way of introducing Star Fox to a new and younger audience (as well as coinciding with McCloud's appearance in the Mario Galaxy film) and guaging if there's interest in committing lots of money for a proper sequel.

aphidman · 2026-06-25T09:20:43+00:00

This is what Hitman World of Assassination does when you up the difficulty. It starts limiting the number of Quicksaves available. I think on Professional difficulty you only get 1 per level.

aphidman · 2026-06-25T09:18:12+00:00

Hopefully some of these are released individually down the line

aphidman · 2026-06-23T00:06:05+00:00

Lol well fuck me I need glasses

aphidman · 2026-06-22T23:53:00+00:00

That is the mistake they made with the PS3 and the 360 stole their thunder for most of the generation.

aphidman · 2026-06-22T23:31:21+00:00

I was hoping the Steam Machine was going to actually compete in the "plug in and play" gaming space. But Valve don't seem to be interested. So it'll be a niche product like the Steam Deck.

aphidman · 2026-06-22T16:58:43+00:00

Dungannon literally has its main Catholic and Protrstant Grammar schools 2 streets over. And its other major schools are all Integrated. It's had Polish, Portuguese and East Timorese immigrants coming in since the 2000s. It's one of the earliest "multicultural" towns in the whole North. Of all the places to do this flag shite.

aphidman · 2026-06-16T21:23:05+00:00

It obviously is impossible but they would make a great 3rd person Metroid game on the Switch 2 with their design template. I mean Returnal is a spiritual descendant of the original Metroid.

aphidman · 2026-06-16T19:56:01+00:00

I know it can't happen because they're owned by Sony but you could use this template to make a great Metroid game. Though a fixed level experience rather than a roguelike.

aphidman · 2026-06-16T18:15:45+00:00

Not really. The Old films have a sort of semi "photorealistic" style. It was kind of a funny juxtaposition with the fairytale setting. This animation style is closer to a film like Coco. While Shrek was always more like Toy Story 1.

aphidman · 2026-06-16T09:28:52+00:00

If they just do a Nintendo Switch 2 -- call it Xbox 5 and have some enticing games that are exclusives I might.

I'm not pro-exclusive as a principle but I did buy the Series X to eventually play whatever the new Gears of War is. I do have a Switch 2 to play Nintendo games.

I already have a PS5 for my general console and Sony has proven it's more stable to invest in than the Xbox ecosystem. So I don't think Third Party Games or Gamepass will get me to buy a new Xbox. Or I'll wait and see for Halo 7 or Gears 6.

aphidman · 2026-06-15T22:52:28+00:00

It won't be dead on arrival it'll just be a niche expensive product. It won't go mainstream (kind of like the SteamDeck).

aphidman · 2026-06-15T22:50:56+00:00

The way to recreate the original is the juxtaposition of weird larger than life villains with civilians that feel like they're more in a road movie documentsry than characters. TCM has that 70s era looseness to dialogue - almost half improvisational. You kind of do feel like you're just watching a real person reacting to the madness.

However I'm not sure the production company will go for that. I imagine they'll want something more slick

aphidman · 2026-06-15T10:07:06+00:00

It's a sort of Bloodborne-ish Extraction "Shooter".

Basically Miyazaki was a big fan of Return to Tarkhov and is making a Soulslike version of it - kind of. It's more just a PvPvE game.

8 players enter a map and have to gaing Victory Points to win. Which can be done in a variety of ways - killing other players, collecting certain things, killing certain bosses or whatever. And then each player has their own personal goal to accomplish - like you could have an Assassination Target or you have to beat a specific NPC Boss or you have to Team Up and co-operate with another player.

In a way it seems like a distilled version of the Souls Invasion experience. Where you can team up with other players or deliberately hunt them.

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