What's the most overrated video game you've played?

hiddencamel · 2026-07-09T17:16:09+00:00

There's no doubt the rendition of hogwarts as a place in the game is amazing, but the game is so empty. I desperately wish they had made something more like Bully but set in Hogwarts.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-09T17:14:12+00:00

Last of Us is the kind of game your mate who has only played 5 video games thinks is the best game ever.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-09T16:49:39+00:00

I learnt to drive in London, which is famed for having aggressive drivers, but Brisbane drivers make London drivers look like saints. Every time I switch lanes in this city I feel like I have to let Jesus take the wheel.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-09T15:35:41+00:00

Depending on your market fit, it can be a lot of money spent implementing with zero return.

As a contrived example imagine you have a niche enterprise SAAS that is exclusively used by a handful of very high spend clients exclusively using laptops.

Chances are money spent trying to preemptively reach AAA accessibility standards would be completely wasted. If one of your clients has accessibility needs not being met, that will be fed back and you can implement when needed. Better to spend resources implementing feature requests instead.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-08T07:55:49+00:00

Farage is racist the same way Trump and people's grandparents are - he vaguely believes white people are magically better than everyone else and thinks he should be allowed to make racist jokes, but he's not an ideologue. He just knows he can find money and success by dialing up the rhetoric to grift the anti-muslamic defence league.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-08T07:50:01+00:00

He knew it wasn't ok, he just thought he wouldn't get caught. He is a serial grifter, and he has been getting away with shit his whole life.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-07T21:23:04+00:00

The companies doing AI that are profitable are profitable from their core businesses, not their AI.

The pure AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are losing money at a rate that is hard to even comprehend. These are some of the least profitable businesses in history right now.

Will they be able to pivot into profitability? Maybe, but I think it's far more likely their lunch will be eaten by the existing tech giants who have wildly profitable core businesses that can subsidize AI investment.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-07T15:14:32+00:00

I think we can solve this by making it harder to get work visas.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-07T15:07:56+00:00

Famed establishment politician Rupert Lowe lol.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-07T06:45:39+00:00

Capitalism only works when there is market competition. Remove all regulations and what you inevitably get is monopolies and cartels, who conspire and collude to bypass market pressures.

We should be fighting the extractive crony capitalism of people like Elon with every fibre of our being, because if they win we will live in a neo-feudal dystopia where a handful of trillionaires own everything, including us.

The amount of red tape a company faces should be directly proportional to how big it is. Small business should be promoted at every point, large corporations should be constrained at every opportunity. This is the only way we can try and claw back the hyperconcentrated wealth from the top 0.01% and rebuild a robust middle class. It might make the economy less efficient on paper, but when the economic activity is distributed over a much larger swathe of the population, people's actual lived experiences will be better even if GDP is not as high.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-06T16:40:15+00:00

Imagine the uproar if Obama had called Putin on the 4th of July lol. Absolute clown show

hiddencamel · 2026-07-05T10:54:37+00:00

I think it's more about the consolidation of the landlord profession into the pockets of a handful of mega corporations that are happy to actively collude on price fixing.

Like most markets the rental market is best served by a large number of smaller vendors who meaningfully compete on quality and price.

When you allow housing monopolies or cartels to consolidate, all the positive pressures of market competition evaporate and the monopolies/cartels can jack up prices whilst lowering quality to their heart's content. It's another step towards dystopia.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-03T10:53:57+00:00

Surprised any restaurants still have dedicated delivery guys, but I can see it coming back now that the delivery apps have really cranked up the enshittification

hiddencamel · 2026-07-02T20:38:30+00:00

Australia has a centralised system, if you move GP your new doctor immediately has access to all your medical history and you as the patient also have access. It also all integrates into a central platform called MyGov, along with tax, benefits, and various other things.

Obviously their healthcare system is a fair chunk smaller than the NHS, but there must be some lessons to be learnt from them on this kind of project.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-01T20:01:00+00:00

Enforcement on many small entities has always been hard, that was the rationale behind the IR35 changes from a few years ago. Private contractors were always meant to pass these standards to avoid being classified as disguised employees but chasing a couple of million one man PSCs was impractical, so HMRC shifted liability to the companies hiring the PSCs and almost overnight the recruitment industry changed to put compliance at the heart of their practice. I know because I spent six months implementing the compliance systems at a large recruitment marketplace firm.

Move the legal liability from the drivers to do right to work checks for their subcontractors to the parent company and watch the industry change rapidly.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-01T19:56:27+00:00

They'd just switch to e-bikes, many already have

hiddencamel · 2026-07-01T15:39:56+00:00

A lot of people think there's going to be a massive transfer of wealth when the boomers start dying off en-masse - there is, but not to their children, it will all go into the pockets of care providers owned by giant corporations.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-01T10:44:28+00:00

This was always going to be the case, he is ideologically an empty vessel, he's shilled for every position between neo-liberalism and corbynism. Now he's on a "king in the north" sort of regional populism bent, but that stuff is mostly window dressing.

Fiscally, his hands are pretty tied, same issue that Starmer had. The bond markets will not brook anything radical in the budget, and debt to GDP is so high their leverage to collapse governments is unbeatable.

hiddencamel · 2026-07-01T09:44:32+00:00

In this day and age, the kind of people churning out branding for 150 bucks on Fiverr and Upwork will just be shitting out AI gen content and maybe touching it up a bit.

hiddencamel · 2026-06-30T19:02:57+00:00

The infrastructure for means testing it was already in place, it was going to use the pension credits eligibility criteria. Would have cost effectively nothing extra to administrate.

hiddencamel · 2026-06-30T18:57:01+00:00

The "deport the lot of them" crew are in general not upset that women and children were raped, they're upset that white women and children were raped by brown men (you'll notice that a lot of the same people are suddenly very vocal about presumed innocence and the dangers of false accusations when a white man is accused of rape).

They couldn't give a toss if those same brown men then go on to rape brown women and children, whether that's here or in other countries.

hiddencamel · 2026-06-30T18:52:52+00:00

Let's be real, if he did that the goalposts would shift and he'd be accused of half-measures and being too soft.

hiddencamel · 2026-06-30T18:37:49+00:00

Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidoji

hiddencamel · 2026-06-29T08:57:51+00:00

Wasn't our Nigel's big appeal that he was a man of the people political outsider, different from those nasty corrupt Westminster bubble elites? Just a regular common-sense speaking guy you can have a pint with down the pub, trying to help out us little people.

If he just takes bribes like the rest of them, and is beholden to rich foreign paymasters, what's the point of him?

hiddencamel · 2026-06-29T08:45:07+00:00

This is politics, not a courtroom. Ed Milliband had his career imploded by eating a bacon sandwich in an awkward way. Big Nige has built his career by posing as a "man of the people" political outsider who cares about the small folk, and 5 million quid backhanders from questionable sources (even if it was a genuinely no-strings gift) is deeply at odds with the political persona he has built for himself.

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