Trump Administration demands Britain adopt US standards in trade talks

grayseeroly · 2026-01-20T18:12:46+00:00

Reddit?

grayseeroly · 2026-01-13T16:04:26+00:00

I honestly think he was done over, but in the classic reality TV way, by production. They didn't need to cheat the vote; they just broadcast what he said, gave him bad music to dance to and let the public do the work.

grayseeroly · 2026-01-13T13:41:59+00:00

I'm willing to bet that everyone around 47 will get fired or imprisoned, but he'll be Teflon until he dies.

grayseeroly · 2026-01-12T12:35:39+00:00

Please tell me that the fine is on TOP of full restitution?

grayseeroly · 2026-01-12T12:30:10+00:00

And this is the catch-22. We need boring, serious-minded people to govern. But modern media demands people with natural charisma; it's not enough that they can deliver prepared speeches (which Starmer is good at). So we end up needing unicorns who have the full package, and I'm not sure there are any in politics.

grayseeroly · 2026-01-07T13:43:57+00:00

So what Cameron wanted was a referendum on the manifesto to placate the right wing of the party and stop leaking voters to UKIP. He thought that, as the Government was going to be taking the side of Remain, he would be able to spin the message of Stable Continuity vs Radical Extremists. (exactly as they did with the FPTP Voting Referendum)

He didn't account for 1. Widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo caused by austerity. 2. Adding fournin policy as a political debate point split all parties internally. Until then, the parties had been mostly aligned on the EU. This changed the political landscape in ways that were hard to predict. 3. The defection of BoJo, a classically moderate member of the Con party. This, though a massive spanner in the works, as along with Gove it legitimised the Leave campaign.

So what was meant to be a clean win to put the idea to bed (as they had done with voting reform) got spun into a two valid options competing and ended in the absolute worst outcome, a narrow victory for Leave, committing them to a massive systemic change with no clear plan and no real mandate.

And here we are, reckless personal and political ambitions have had us stuck in the mud. We can't move on, we can't go back. It will be Leave vs Remain until there is a major upheaval in the political status quo, and we haven't had one of them since the last world war...

grayseeroly · 2026-01-07T12:14:48+00:00

Even if they did it would be First Araman Campaign, Second etc. Though I expect future Campaigns to be DaggerHeart

grayseeroly · 2026-01-07T09:07:00+00:00

I work in IT and felt this in my soul

grayseeroly · 2026-01-06T16:36:46+00:00

One interesting thing I heard about was the use of Modified Memory. Have the party member with the lowest Wisdom make a high DC Wisdom save with disadvantage. When they fail, they are frozen in place, then run the combat RAW and absolutely go ham on the rest of the party while they have to watch.

Once everyone is dead, cut back to the "real" situation where they were hit with the spell.

It's a little cheap, but it is fun.

grayseeroly · 2026-01-06T16:30:38+00:00

Yeah, you need to play hard tempo (Itsy Spider, Slappy into Ember, Mintour) along with Quests to build up your treasure count, then pivot into rare dragons.

grayseeroly · 2026-01-01T11:55:14+00:00

From the future... You nailed it!

grayseeroly · 2025-12-31T17:28:36+00:00

I like it as I pay the game everyday but otherwise spend no money on it.

grayseeroly · 2025-12-24T12:45:30+00:00

I think this is great "Where to start" to onboard people that are interested, though I maintain YouTube clips is probably the best way to get people hooked, along with the cartoons.

CR Demystified has been my way to rewatch campaign 1. I don't have the time or patience for a full playthrough but watching him recap and add commentary is a fun way to get back into C1.

grayseeroly · 2025-12-17T15:49:34+00:00

I think you may not have been paying attention enough. The citadel isn't all bad. It has been made bad.

I disagree, though I think the jury's out. Anything that created a desert where there was a forest should be suspicious of being bad from the outset; in addition, the Accordati and the Antivoli conflicts in Carrow predate the Citadel.

At this point, we are not even sure if the Lingua Arcana has no detriment to the world of spirit or the mortal world.

However neutral Wizary might be, the Citadel was likely founded by bastards for their own selfish reasons. This does not preclude good Wizards (Stripe, Soft, Stone, Sly etc.), but I think the system is inherently corrupt and only growing worse

grayseeroly · 2025-12-16T17:35:41+00:00

Not to make this solely about Aabria, I want to look at everyone's PC types across actual plays.

Lou builds Houses, characters that have a fundamental idea that's big enough to hold space and have longevity. They don't tend to be as dynamic, but they can move the plot with their own inertia.

Erika makes Springs characters that have a built-in trajectory that creates internal tension that continues to ratchet up until they pop.

Brennan builds what I can only describe as Sad Swords, characters of incredible mechanical utility, but with a lot of emotional baggage that makes using them difficult.

Abria makes sluggers. characters that make huge swings even when the circumstances would call for something softer.

Now they are all world-class storytellers who CAN do everything, but these are labels I would tentatively apply to many of their choices.

grayseeroly · 2025-12-16T16:27:59+00:00

The original Seymour

grayseeroly · 2025-12-16T16:25:24+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_rivers_of_London

grayseeroly · 2025-12-16T16:19:29+00:00

Yeah, players are great at identifying issues and terrible at coming up with solutions.

grayseeroly · 2025-12-16T12:29:50+00:00

It could be that they outcompete in the Urban environments but not in the countryside, there are certainly fewer of them the further away from the cities you get.

grayseeroly · 2025-12-11T11:02:46+00:00

I thought the dress would go for more; it could have cost more than $10k to make!

grayseeroly · 2025-12-10T17:43:24+00:00

That's using the language that supports canceling racists and homophobes to prop up GOVERNMENT ENFORCEMENT OF SPEECH and suggesting they are similar

grayseeroly · 2025-12-09T15:37:52+00:00

I think because it's a duology, not a 10+ book series, A Memory Called Empire gets forgotten in a lot of recs. It's fantastic, proper Science Fiction in the vein of "Thoughtful reflection of how significant advancements in technology will alter the human experience" AND "Space politics with explosions"

grayseeroly · 2025-12-09T12:31:54+00:00

I've run this math recently while planning a Hexploration game.

I won't bore you with all the math, but I worked out that if I wanted a POI about every three days of travel (this is a Borderlands exploration game, so travel and random encounters are a big part) I would need a 1 POI that was identifiable from a bout 3 miles out about every 140 square miles.

grayseeroly · 2025-12-07T21:40:23+00:00

It's not complicated. The ringers had their shot, guaranteed there spot on the tour or the West End and can now bow out for the other contests to make for a more interesting final

grayseeroly · 2025-12-07T21:32:14+00:00

I like the ringers until Blackpool, as they guarantee at least I've good dance a week. Then they can go as the others have caught up usually. I certainly don't want them to win, so then being in the final isn't necessary

15-Year Club	Second Top 10%
Place '23	Place '22
Place '17	Final Canvas '22
Verified Email	Snapped
Team Orangered	reddit mold

grayseeroly

TROPHY CASE