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Would have preferred them to go for one of the less typical fantasy options in landscapes - the desert one for instance. Having said that, I will absolutely be buying it.

They've capped the number of players per server at fairly low levels, but I'm inclined to agree that this is a bit of a worry. I would willingly embrace a co-op centred Fallout experience but all that's going to happen with this is you'll get sniped from 100 miles away whenever you set foot in the open. It'll just be dog eat dog in the end.

The EU may not have the headline grabbing aggressive rhetoric of Trump, but I am totally certain that they will push back as hard, if not harder, than Trump has gone here. Largely because they aren't a gaggle of fucking idiots, unlike everyone associated with the Trump Administration.

Good god. These people can vote.

I sometimes think you consider me to be way more socialist than I actually am, mind..

That's not the same scenario CT. They actually could influence Corbyn's chances of becoming PM because there was an upcoming vote at which that question would be decided. The Brexit scenario would only be the same if we were going to have another vote on it. Brexit is failing not because the government is worrying about what remainers think, or because there is an upcoming vote that they might lose power over due to remainer sabotage - but because it is totally, pragmatically, unworkable. But to be fair to you, I guess if you can articulate what the remainer camp has done to negatively impact Brexit, maybe you have a case? I mean we didn't create the NI issue, and that seems to be the main problem presently.

Yeah I'm really not furious about this either. Prime is a fucking good service anyway (saves me every Christmas) and Amazon adding value to it is exactly what they should be doing to keep customers happy.

The thing that really gets me on this, is that so many of the people who refuse to take responsibility for their vote and its consequences, are the same people who believe in 'pulling yourself up by your shoelaces' or whatever it is, and 'personal responsibility'. Brexit has proven these people to be hypocrites of the highest order. Why are people so fucking terrified of admitting they were wrong?

Peak CT.

I fucking hate that man.

If Ashley's line is that Benitez can continue to spend whatever the club generates, then surely they just need to get together and determine that that figure is, and move from there.

Damn fucking straight.

Which isn't to say that we shouldn't grab the same deal with both hands if someone offers it now.

I'm not swallowing right wing rhetoric, I just can't see any good case for a soft Brexit that makes logical sense in terms of what people voted for. Here is my post at the time: And here was your view of my post:

Well, fair enough then. But logically it's fucking absurd.

I meant in terms of the fact that within the EU we had a clear say in decision making, and in a Norway model, we don't. For crying out loud man, simmer down.

This is where I am on it too. I don't recall a clear 'soft Brexit, pro-single market' message at the time. By Johnson maybe. By Farage?

Pre-referendum his view was that the EU was in serious need of reform but that on balance it was better to stay in and be part of the change. Post-referendum, his view is that the result should be honoured, and that the only Brexit that makes sense in the context of the question asked is a hard one. Those two statements aren't contradictions of each other, the latter is just a developed view based on a developed reality. And tbh, he and the hard Brexit zealots are right about the latter point. In the context of the question asked at the time, the only Brexit that makes sense is indeed a hard one. The Norway model maybe is the best we can hope for as remainers but it sure as shit isn't what people voted for, or thought they were voting for, because it doesn't make us any more sovereign than we were before, and indeed arguably less so. The fact that Brexit is an unworkable catastrophe is the reason we should be cancelling it, not because 'no one voted for hard Brexit'. They really actually did. Logically, I can't see any other conclusion - I think I said as much at the time. I recall making a post saying how fucking pointless the result was if all it will achieve is a soft Brexit.

Yeah ok, fair enough. I mean it didn't register remotely with me but I'm too young to remember appreciate that period directly. To me, it just looks like he was on the right side of history with that - but I have an unemotional view of it. I do worry a bit if he actually has it in him to make the changes he wants if he ever did win tbh, so maybe he doesn't want to - but why do all of this, if that was the case? He clearly never expected to be here in the first place. Yeah I think so. If we had run with a pro-Remain Labour leader in that GE, the Tories would have their majority. I have no doubt about that. Corbyn's Brexit fudging and changing of the conversation actually worked well for him there.

I don't...? I'm just saying that he's not a coward. And that our views on that GE result have changed markedly over time, I think to confirm our biases personally, but with a significant dose of Brexit related fury thrown in.

I don't know about that tbh, I think the cloud of Brexit made it a certainty for the Tories. But having said that, like what? I'm struggling to think of anything he said that would have lost him votes apart from the stuff about nuclear bombs (which he did compromise on).

I am as well, although I'm starting to hit apathy. But he did almost take control of parliament by sticking to his guns. At the time, we thought that was a huge victory. Over time we've reduced the role Corbyn played in that and increased the role the Tories being fucking stupid played in it. But he did come fucking close to sinking them. Closer than Miliband. (Renton incoming)

Well, I try. How is he hiding behind purported principles though?

I doubt you've missed it, although I daresay that Corbyn has raised policing cuts with the government on many occasions since that's well within his ideological comfort zone. The issue really, as we've identified before, is that he simply can't whip up the media into a frenzy about any of it - so he may as well not be saying a damn thing. I still don't think he's a coward though. Or if he is, I'd like to know how? It's kind of the same thing people say about terrorists - that their devotion to their principles somehow makes them cowardly. They're wrong in what they do, and clearly committing acts of evil, but blowing yourself up for a cause sure as shit isn't cowardly. Corbyn sticking to his guns despite everything can be called stupid, intransigent, and strategically useless to the point of being counter productive... but I don't think it's cowardly.

Aye but that's just a sweet spot for the Mail. They'd have a police state if they could, so attacking the government over policing cuts is a bread and butter topic for them. This violent crime wave stuff really does seem to be hitting the Tories hard now though. In fact, in a non-Brexit alternate universe it would probably be the main focal point of political discourse right now.