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Jiminy Cricket, don't write out a massive post responding to something and then say "that's it over". It makes you look like a tool wanting to get the last word in, and that kinda defeats the point

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Civilization 4 was a step backwards in my opinion, but I think Civ3 was my favourite of the series so that's to be expected.

Also Yakuza 4, just 'cause 2 of the extra three characters were mostly forgettable (or frustrating as all shit to play as) and I'm presently bemused by Yakuza 5, mostly just 'cause I've spent at least 40 hours playing it and still don't have a pissing clue how everyone fits into it. I'm not even sure what's going on yet.

Wouldn't go so far as to say they're worst sequel ever material, just... not as good as the third in the series, in all cases.

Quote from: hector13 on January 11, 2017, 04:11:01 pm

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Which is funny. If the conservatives were the ones losing and only Trump could bring them back, shouldn't the country have way more liberal policies? And shouldn't Trump has just not won?

To be fair, Trump did lose in a landslide. Just our history of compromise with slavers has come back again to bite us in the ass.

that's factually not true. getting votes is an optimization problem and he optimized his campaign according to the rules, exactly as the other candidate did. different rules, different optimizations would have been made to the campaign.

Trump received 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. The fact he won the election because reasons does not change that.

yes, and yet that doesn't make it a 'landslide loss'. it's like being first in a regularity race - it doesn't mean a thing if you don't follow the timetable, and doesn't mean that the one who was closest to the timetable 'lost' because you were fastest.

That's a pretty poor equivalency.

Trump won because he won the right states. It's more like Connect Four than a regularity race. Doesn't matter how many pieces you put in the wee thing, if you don't get four in a row, you won't win...

Anyway, politics is a popularity contest. Trump lost that contest, and won on a technicality.

Filling in the voluntary self-identification section of a job application online in 'murrica...

In a section entitled "diversity", the choice "white" covers the Middle East and North Africa, and Asian only covers the Far East + Indian subcontinent. Is this, like, regular? 'cause apparently you're not African if you're not black...

Conservative policies are neutral because that is how things should be. So Liberalism is a imposition on American freedoms.

It would be like saying Doctors treat the sick is conservative. Yet the idea that doctors shouldn't treat the old and elderly is a liberal idea.

I think your train of thought left the station with just you on it. Could you expand on those?

I'm sure Trump will build a great firewall, and make Russia pay for it.  Maybe even convince them to build it for us!

No, no. He'll build the wall, pay for it with US tax dollars and then try to recoup the money from Russia in some capacity.

Quote from: hector13 on January 10, 2017, 01:06:22 am

Quote from: Good ol' Nige

Good to see that the government have replaced a knighted career diplomat with... a knighted career diplomat.

The implication being that having someone who knows what they're doing in an unprecedented political move is a bad thing.

No, the implication being that having national interests decided by the self-interested in unprecedented political moves is a bad thing. It is the battle of career politicians interested in advancing their own careers regardless of national interest that got us with such unprecedented political moves as Brexit in the first place XD

Would rather like to suggest the unprecedented situation was brought up 'cause of populist politics from UKIP, which forced Cameron to say he was going to do the referendum in the first place for fear of splitting the conservative vote. I do agree that he wouldn't have called for it if he didn't think he was going to win, but he also wouldn't have called it if he really didn't have to. He didn't necessarily do it for his own career, but to eliminate issues that would threaten the Tories in the election.

Cammy then - though this is my biased speculation - refused to plan for a potential Leave vote 'cause he was intending all along to quit if he lost.

Fakeedit: having read over the preceding paragraphs, I can certainly see why you say he did it for his career, rather than the good of the country. Will have to change my mind without editing anything since I'm using my phone and can't be bothered :p with the exception of the initial point on why the EU referendum came up. It was Nige

As an aside: are diplomats/other civil servants considered politicians? Based purely on the letter from Sir Ivan, he seemed to be a dude who took the job seriously. I don't think the U.K. is going to be able to negotiate the terms of its exit from the EU and a trade deal in two years. It took Canada six years to negotiate its trade deal with the EU, and that's without having to unravel 40 years of politics at the same time.

I also have to disagree with your assertion the SNP are populist :p but, again, I'm biased like that. They did win a majority in the Scottish parliament in a system designed to make majorities difficult to achieve. They also received the most votes in both the seat and list votes in the last Scottish election.

It may be too early to say if their Westminster romp was a populist thing or that Scotland thinks that the  British parties don't have a clue wtf Scotland wants from politics. The EU referendum makes me think/hope it's the former.

Won't be for a long while yet, just added to the queue.

Old news I meant to post about recently:

Britain's EU ambassador resigns, mixed messages regarding why.

A letter to his former colleagues, with some analysis.

News on his replacement, former ambassador to Moscow, including a ridiculous comment from good ol' Nige:

Good to see that the government have replaced a knighted career diplomat with... a knighted career diplomat.

The implication being that having someone who knows what they're doing in an unprecedented political move is a bad thing.