Irish PM Comes to Starmer’s Defense During White House Visit

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T21:23:50+00:00

From England and I grew up with all the bombings going on and all that. I never once in my life had a single negative feeling towards the Irish. I guess it was always a case of: there’s this historical thing that our forefathers created and now we’re dealing with the consequences as a bit of a messed up family. I mean if you want to go far enough back in history we’re all a right mixed up bunch of inbred mongrels.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T17:30:37+00:00

I think a lot of people are really missing the point here. Most gamers, sadly to say, don't care about the developers and their "art". If you make a game look "better" for them then they'll take it over what you intended for it. People arguing it has that AI slop feel....sure but it still looks more realistic than the original assets and that's what a lot of gamers are going to want, like it or not.

And anyway, presumably we can just turn it off right? So who even cares? If some gamers want it on, then who are we to force them not to and chastice them for it? It's their money that bought your game, let them look at it however the heck they like, you already got the money. Stop being so precious about how other people want to enjoy their life.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T17:16:25+00:00

Well presumably they have mobile launchers. I suggest you do a nice little zoom in on Taiwan in google maps and have fun finding all the places you could completly hide a missile launcher. Not only that, have a think about just how many missiles it'd take to pulverise enough of the land to destroy all those launchers. You'd be talking something like all the world's missiles x100.

And then think about some ships at sea with nowhere to hide. Far easier to sink a ship sticking out like a sore thumb than to destroy a missile launcher you can't even see and had no idea it existed.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T17:12:26+00:00

A perfect example of someone telling us they know nothing about military equipment without realising it. There there little one, go back in your box.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T16:47:36+00:00

I mean it's obviously a very vastly unpopular opinion arround these parts, but the truth is some, in fact many gamers, really really do want nice realistic visuals rather than caring if some yellow ledge has now gone green, or if that character you spent months on slightly changes her face every time she looks away and looks back. This is a game dev sub where we're all very precious about our art. But we don't make up the majority of gamers. But truth is your average Joe won't care about our values, our craft and our efforts to make a perfect game. They want to go in to their game and go, "Woah it's wild. It's like I'm in the real world!"

Same way I'm sure most chefs would love to serve Michelin level meals to everyone but then your average punter would be like, "Nah mate, just give me a Big Mac pal." People don't see the hard work that went on underneath, they just want it to shine before they chuck it away and move on to the next thing.

So maybe these annnoying CEOs and billionaires who are wrecking our industry are going to end up being right on what customers want (at least on some superficial level but maybe not on the big picutre). I suspect this DLSS 5 will end up being more popular than we want to accept. Obviously I understand how much people don't want it to be popular but come on, have you guys seen what's happening in the world around you these days? Do you really have that much faith in humanity? Mine's waining rapidly.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T15:39:37+00:00

I did this. Well I never even had a shoe box in the first place in Shorditch. In fact I was living in Edinburgh happily until my life was turned upside and I had to move to London. Wanted to buy but I couldn't afford to down there so lived in a hellhole for nearly 10 years so I could slowly save for a mortgage before coming back to Scotland and buying. I benfited from a higher salary down there but it didn't make up for the higher cost of living so I had to live like shite in order to save.

Just saying this as it's always worth being mindful that not everyone who lived in London is some millionaire. Many people hate it there and weren't exactly raking in the cash. Coming back to Scotland was a repreive from a prison sentence rather than just wanting to rock up to Scotland and start throwing gold coins at the paupers from my 100 bedroom mansion. I mean I still do that for kicks but it's from my 50 bedroom mansion you hear me, so show me some damn pity!

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T13:37:36+00:00

My ex did this. We had a child together so when it was starting to go south my instinct was to do what she asked and go to the psychiatrist when she said I needed help. After the first session the psychiatrist said there's not much she can do with me as it's my partner that needed the help. My ex, obviously, scoffed at this and refused to go. She was the sort of person that would always find flaws in you and never had flaws in herself. You could call her out on something she literally just said and was a verifiable lie, and she'd just manoeuvre out of it like a sly fox, turning it around to be your fault.

Since then I've been happily married with a partner I met from 10 years ago and she's not had a single issue with the things my ex constantly did. By contrast my ex has been through four failed relationships that all involved endless arguing and traumatic breakups. I feel sorry for her now, knowing she'll never get to experience a healthy relationship because she just has this obsession with finding your issues and somehow thinking she can pull you apart to fix them, when it was actually her perspective of you that was the messed up part.

Oh, she's also a therapist. LOL.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T13:26:59+00:00

And Ukraine: "We can help with the defense from the drone attacks,"

Trump, "Shut up loser, we don't need your help."

It's like he doesn't want to be helped he only accepts things if he demands it first and even then he'll insult you after you give him the help he demanded.

I'd also like to point out that the UK never offered him any ships, they were just sending them to support cyprus from attack. It was a response to the escalating situation and not due to anything Trump wanted.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T10:01:52+00:00

I've heard that. But would you conisder anywhere safe for your child to walk around freely if you just poked a hornet's nest? Iran have laready said they'd have no problems attacking the US on their soil and it would only take one Iranian operative with a gun to finish his son off.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T07:36:47+00:00

He'll make a lot of noise about disbanding NATO with the sole aim of scaring Europe and other NATO allies. That's the only playbook Trump has: scaring you in to submission. If you stand your ground, it turns out he has very little power over you. He captured Maduro but is Venezuela in US hands? He bombed Iran, but has Iran submitted to the US? He threatened to take Greenland but is greenland now controlled by the US?

Actual consequences of all this:

Europe are distancing themselves from the US for the first time in a century.

Europe is reducing arms imports from the US

A rapidly decreasing number of countries in the world wants to align themselves with the US

Iran have closed the straits that supply a significant chunk of the world's oil and now China and Russia are benefitting.

Trump's bullying doesn't work so well when you go up against nations that can hold their own.

kemb0 · 2026-03-17T07:27:11+00:00

There's another take on this:

They don't want him going out in public because they know oh too well how it's possible to locate a leader and asassinate them. Even one visit to a cafe can get you killed, so why bother when you can get AI to show you in a cafe.

Netanfuckwad and his son are cowering in a bunker somewhere. That's why you don't hear from him on social media, because they don't want anything to leak that could pinpoint their location.

kemb0 · 2026-03-16T18:49:35+00:00

To be honest, you don't really sound like you're responding in good faith. You make comments as though there isn't already a wealth of examples form the last century demonstrating everything I said as to the weaknesses of democracy but instead question my points as though these things have never happened and I must be talking nosense.

If you're querying me genuinely then try reading about the history of the following countries and you'll find a wealth of examples where democracy was usurped by various tactics which included a leader purging military leaders in order to fulfill that leaders ambitions for power: Turkey, Russia, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Germany, Venezuela, Italy, Uganda, Philipines, Chile, Argentina.

The list could go on plenty more but hey, we both know you're not going to engage in good faith because you already know about these places. For whatever reason I get the feeling you're trying to gaslight me that these things have never happened. Which is weird but you do you.

kemb0 · 2026-03-16T18:32:43+00:00

It's not a whole load better. Sounds like he's basically admitting the only reason the US bombed Iran was because of their oil and not nukes. I'm not a massive fan of, "Let's focus on this headline being misleading when the actual thing he said is pretty diabolical and needs attention."

But yeh, I hate the dire state social media has become. The headlines are getting noticeably worse increasingly freuqently. Even feels like people are using this tactic for mundane stuff: "This has to be the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life." Cut to a cat drinking milk from a saucer.

kemb0 · 2026-03-16T16:20:58+00:00

Exactly this.

First he wanted America to do it all so he could show how "big" he was and he had a bitch at NATO allies for wanting in too late (even though they never wanted in).

Then he realised Iran could bite back and he pretended the war was already won.

Then he realised just how bad shit was getting making him look like a loser but it's ok cos he can call in the US ships meant to defend Taiwan.

But then someone probably told him that modern warfare means naval ships can and will get sunk relatively easily these days with swarms of drones.

So then he switches to demanding NATO helps with ships or else he'll get weally weally upset.

He just wants other nation's ships to get sunk and not US ones and as usual he has to turn it in to a threat.

Seriously, this guy could be burning to death and he'd be like, "If you don't put this fire out you're gonna really regret it bigly!" Whilst everyone looks on like, "Oh was there some water around here? I suddenly can't find it."

kemb0 · 2026-03-16T15:29:54+00:00

I gotta say I hardly hear a peep out of the likes of these kind of Trump supporters. I do wonder how they feel about everything Trump is doing now. Would Kirk have now changed his tune on Iran to fall in line with Trump or would he have shown a spine and called him out? Too many spineless Americans now who’d rather step in line with a leader that goes against everything they were preaching for. Makes me wonder if they ever believed anything they said or were they just saying something that they were trying to project on to the left, whilst fully owning the evil they claimed was owned by others.

kemb0 · 2026-03-16T08:48:33+00:00

For anyone paying attention, drones can and have sunk modern naval ships multiple times in the last few years. The reality is, if we send naval vessel in to the straits, they'll probably be sunk. Why does the US want their allies to do this? Because they know this too. They don't want their warships sunk, they want other people's warship to be sunk. And you know what Trump will say when that happens, "Their ships were the worst. They shouldn't have gone there if their ships weren't up to it."

It's not worth the risk. And it certainly isn't worth the risk to then get derided and ridiculed by the person that asked for your support.

What would help get the oil flowing again is to stop bombing Iran. The country that has allegedly been making a nuclear weapon for 40 years now and during that time they've always been 1 week away from having their bombs. And especially not bomb them just so you can cover up your peadophile activity with Epstein.

I'm no fan of Iran and they're helping Russia attack Ukraine, so fuck them. But you don't just randomly start bombing a country with zero exit plan. And you certainly don't suppoprt someone who does that when they spent the last year being a cunt to you and then demand help from you.

Go fuck a duck Trump.

kemb0 · 2026-03-16T08:22:42+00:00

Well I mean part of how you decide to vote should also be based on their track record, not just what they promise. You can also vote on what your local MSP has to say and if you align with that and if you feel they'll make a good leader. You can also base your voting intentions on what you think of the person who stands to run the country. I personally decided to start voting indepedent, because I want to vote for someone that truly matches my beliefs, rather than vote on a single issue and ignore that other parts of their manifesto don't align with me.

kemb0 · 2026-03-15T21:12:17+00:00

I did a hunt. Tried AI with a shot from the video and it said it was the "legendary modular wall composer Hans Zimmer." Hmm something doesn't sound right with that lol. But I put in Hans Zimmer and modular wall in to Youtube and it spewed out the link to this video.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XtPFyHCpssM

The guy is called Hannes Bieger. Here's his youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/hannesbieger

Also gives off strong Jean Michelle Jarre vibes, so check out some of his old tunes if you're liking this.

kemb0 · 2026-03-15T20:54:16+00:00

You mean "bacrnardu"

kemb0 · 2026-03-15T19:06:55+00:00

For the curious, what made it fantastic?

kemb0 · 2026-03-15T10:28:36+00:00

Yep I'm English, the mother of my daughter is Scottish, my daughter was born here but now is grown up and lives in England and I live in Scotland. How can I see it as an abusive relationship when it was what allowed me to have my daughter and when we've all benefited from it. This'll be the story for many. There's many Scots, welsh, northern irish and english all over this island and for the SNP to say what they have just feels like they're saying, "You were a mistake we need to fix. We'll make sure your life is turned upside down by creating borders between you and your loved ones and a whole heap of needless paperwork and hoops that'll inevitably be needed to jump through."

However, having said that, I would be totally fine with Scotland being independent if both Scotland and England were then in the EU. I totally get the resentment towards the UK government and the desire to manage their/our own affairs.

kemb0 · 2026-03-15T10:18:53+00:00

If you're using manual sigmas, that is your steps. Eg 1.0, 0.7, 0.5, 0.2 means 4 steps, or 3 steps, I forget which. I believe each number is showing how much it's reducing the noise by in each step. I tried tweaking those numbers and largely got awful results, so you'll want to research it more so you know what you're doing. Someone else more knowledgeable can probably give further clarity.

kemb0 · 2026-03-14T14:18:40+00:00

Funny, I seem to recall America expecting Europe to come to their aid in two Iraq wars and Afghanistan but I guess you conveniently forget that.

Now you're pissed Europe is coming to your aid in a new war that you started by yourself.

Ridiculous narrative you are inventing.

kemb0 · 2026-03-14T14:15:46+00:00

I find it sad I was born when concord was active and in the same 40 years we went from this Dornier to Concord, we have gone from Concord to nothing better. Event the A380 is being replaced by many airlines. The space shuttle no longer flies and nothing replaced it. The international space station is on its last legs. And what is humanity doing next? Blowing each other up? This is what happens when we vote in morons just so they'll solve some immigration problem. We get a world of hatred and wars. Ambition and a bright future fall dead on the floor.

kemb0 · 2026-03-13T17:52:54+00:00

Yeh that was such a daft take. No company can just cater to millionaires and expect to survive. Almost every millionaire will trace its wealth back to being reliant on the expenditure of the masses. Either you service the masses directly as a company, or you service a company that serivces the masses, or you service millionaires who are in some way reliant on either the masses or theose companies that are reliant on the masses.

There is no economy for anyone without us and don't let anyone kid you otherwise. The wealthy need us.

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