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I know we were all haters but this shit is worse than you can imagine. I guess that’s kind of the point. Manmade horrors beyond our comprehension. Except there isn’t even a train wreck attraction to any of this because none of it is real. There are no stakes and no status to be gained.

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Pushing this analogy - because I don’t know the answer! - if you do a leveraged buyout then leave the company to go bust if it can’t cover the interest, does that kill your ability to ever do the same again, like getting a BTL repossessed does?

British men are driving less, and a culture is vanishing

Yes hahaha yesssss economist.com/britain/2025...

Farewell to the road warriors

right, this is what i was trying to get my head around. feels different to, eg, MS buying CoD, where the dynamics of the entire industry get warped around one specific multiplayer shooter being cross-subsidised by subscription sales. This is more… well, bad if you like battlefield.

@swiftonsecurity.com what did you do

$55 Billion Deal for Electronic Arts Is Biggest Buyout Ever

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b... am i being too sanguine to think that this sucks for EA's studios but is mostly ignorable for games as a whole?

sure, you can tax it in lots of ways, but it's not a tariff. It's not charged at import based on the value of the quantity imported

I think I use it to refer to games which are deliberately mechanically light to allow for more conversation. I remember the first time my gaming group did sea of thieves and we were all baffled that there was so little… game? But it makes sense

the real issue is the fact that substack encourages writers to use linked footnotes that don't work in email, the format for which substack is created

You come to MY United Kingdom

If I’m posting at 7pm on a Sunday night you can be assured it’s in a personal capacity

Look I’ll be honest I used a sporting metaphor

Which is just a clunkier way of saying “imagine the traffic jam not the car”

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One of the touch points of all my talking about AI these days is “do not imagine a future world where the only difference is now you are using AI.”

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“We note that the use of AI, in the end, rather than diminishing litigation, is increasing it…[AI] may be a solution, but no one’s sure if it will actually work.”

@peterwalker99.bsky.social

Mad to do this sort of campaigning when you’re the pitch hitter for the government’s transphobia

Peter Walker

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Streeting: “When I look at our main opponents at the next general election, I don't see a battle between left & right, I see a battle between right & wrong. I see a battle between progressives & reactionaries. I see a battle between patriots & nationalists. I see a battle between hope over hate.”

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The other thing that got me is that, despite focusing on the restorative, communicative, process… at no point is there any discussion of the murderer’s motive

We’ve invented Broadway

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if you're as rich as mark zuckerberg, you shouldn't be into the same movies any normal person could see whenever they wanted. there should be special elite movies that show at secret theaters where a ticket is a million dollars

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