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The specifics of who proposed this give me some hope. Monica Lennon is part of Scottish Labour, so the UK Labour party that’s currently in power in the UK parliament is less likely to interfere. The largest party in the Scottish parliament right now is the SNP, who agree with Labour often enough and have a reasonable environmental record. Good enough that they formed a coalition with the Greens, not good enough for that coalition to last after the first three years. The Greens themselves are enough of a presence to counteract a few Labour or SNP oppositions.

It’s definitely not a surefire thing though. This will be controversial and will face opposition. Scotland is both the renewable energy centre for the UK and the oil & gas centre.

Hell yeah let’s do this

“Governor” is the title of the heads of the states of the USA, but not of the prime minister of Canada. He has - probably through stupidity rather than actual malice, not that he is lacking in the latter - basically described Canada as a state of the USA.

Excluding it means we’re talking about the portion of Earth that humans can actually live on

It also wasn’t uncommon to have a (partial) set of encyclopedias

“The big book of answers” as it was (jokingly) referred to in my childhood home. It was kept near the dinner table to settle arguments. It never settled them

I don’t even like ESO much, but the trailer for Elder Scrolls Online’s High Isle expansion.

he should have won

Nailed it

Only one-way? Alright, well I’m gonna go walk Lairig Ghru, a hiking route that I like the look of that is too long for me to do there and back. I’ll walk out however far I want to go and then magically teleport back to the start

Ahhh, Tenerife and Mount Takamagahara were the two I didn’t have some awareness of the story of

Astana, Bishkek, Kuwait City, Nairobi, Tarawa

It’s great fun! So long as you’re on board with the experience it is trying to create, of course. FromSoft are good at what they do and don’t much care for whether or not what they do is everyone’s cup of tea

I’d love to try Bloodborne, because that gameplay combined with a bit of cosmic horror sounds amazing to me. I’ll have to either wait for a PC port or learn about emulation, though

The thing that stuck out to me more than I expected about it is how painterly it often feels. It’s exceptionally good at framing its environments in a spectacular or pleasing way even while the player has full control of the camera. I’m not usually one to worry about visuals too much, but this game’s environments really stuck out to me. And while it is very high-fidelity and nicely rendered, it’s less about the actual graphical performance than it is about the design of the environments

• Elden Ring. Only the base game, and this is my first run. I have been very thorough with it, though. I’m currently trying to beat Malenia, then it’s off to do the last boss

• Victoria 2. Weekly multiplayer session with a couple of friends. It’s 1915, and my people have just elected an anti-military party that is really hampering my efforts to swing a big imperialist stick around

• Lorn’s Lure. PS2 graphics, generous 3D platforming mechanics, and an impossibly vast and desolate megastructure to explore. Well I’m playing the demo of it, anyway. I am going to get the full version, it made a good impression.

I tried it out because I love the setting and we’ve obviously been somewhat starved for anything else Elder Scrolls, but I just couldn’t get into it. It felt like it never rewarded me for exploring like the main series does. There’s never something cool to find that’s just hidden out of the way.

I did also feel a bit miffed that the Northern Elsweyr story (the new one when I played, and the reason I wanted to play) was just the Skyrim civil war again, but without even the interesting idea of the rebel faction being nationalists against an empire. It was very little to do with anything about Elsweyr, and then dragons became the focal point again anyway

Obviously each to their own. I do see the appeal of it. It’s just not for me

It seems like we don’t know how it was made in nature, so probably not. We can’t replicate the process until we figure out what it is

I feel like I could suggest most of Salvatore Ganacci’s catalogue here, but I think Take Me To America is probably the winner. Join a determined Bosnian man on his quest to for a better TV signal

The ceasefire is only between Israel and Lebanon. Rockets coming from Gaza will have been fired by Hamas or an allied group. There isn’t a ceasefire with them to violate.

I think spirit guardians qualifies for the “deals damage” part of breaking sanctuary, unfortunately. An all clerics or all clerics and paladins team to do Descent Into Avernus would be really funny though

I have loved the NSX in every sim I’ve driven it in. It has never been the car I’m fastest in, but it’s always the one I have the most fun in

I haven’t tried ACC, but I do have the original AC and a JGTC modpack in it