Edinburgh famously needs a boost to its economy in the summer nothing happening in the city,

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Oh man I hope these services die an awful nasy death

Rewatched the Dragon Age: The Veilguard trailer, and I cannot for the life of me understand why they went with that.

Looks like the trailer you’d see for Borderlands or some generic hero shooter. Stylisation and tone was just wildly off.

I was not expecting much, tbh, but hooooolyy hell I never saw this one coming.

The damage control marketing is doing right now is insane, btw.

Yeah, I’ll wait for actual gameplay for what the graphics will look like but the actual tone of the trailer seemed a world away from the RPG side of things.

Me loading up YouTube, thinking it really can't be that bad--

I don't mind the art style, but the fact it is so similar to live service/ gacha game is off putting.

What really gets me is the tone. This seems like a trailer for a marvel movie or suicide squad. Not a beloved dark fantasy RPG.

Bioware has been a shell of itself though since EA bought it. This just screams of executives forcing specific themes for "general" appeal.

Probably being a nitpicky bastard, but I’ve not seen many RPGs do a trailer introducing every companion.

Like half the mystique of RPGs is not knowing who’ll become core companions whereas this is a cast list with their specific team role told to you.

Very smart move from Lib Dems which actually open them up as a voting option in England.

Not going to lie, genuinely impressed by the LibDems manifesto. Not sure if I trust them to deliver all of it, but they've definitely opened up the playing field down south.

Some highlights:

Source.

These are strong policies that Labour will have to address.

Of course, they do oppose Scottish independence, which is their right. But they've made the mistake of also saying they oppose a referendum which makes all their 'we support democracy' schtick fall flat.

Keir Starmer says “Read my lips: I will cut immigration.”

Let me be absolutely clear here, cutting immigration is the wrong thing to do. It is fuelled by racism, and dressed up in economic language to pretend otherwise.

The UK has an aging population and declining birth rate. If we struggle to attract foreign workers, this will impact our economy and public services. A good example of this is the NHS.

‘Bad bosses’ are not hiring internationally before they’ve exhausted every option here. It’s easy to think of a large corporate doing that but even then it’s more likely they’d outsource a whole department in its entirety to another foreign company.

Also your dad’s marketing start-up or your mum’s construction company is not going through the lengthy process of hiring people who don’t already live here.

This also contradicts the UK’s push to have as many foreign students (paying as many tuition fees) as possible. These students have lives here, and should be able to work as they choose post-graduation.

This policy is aimed at those who read the word ‘immigration’ and pop a blood vessel, and it speaks wonders to how Labour thinks about the economy - no different than the Conservative Party.

I cannot stress enough that this is unspeakable rhetoric (that won't take us anywhere because we badly need immigration) but it's also what we get when nobody left-leaning votes anymore. Starmer is awful, but voting is harm reduction, and Labour are the ever-so-slightly-less-fascist party on a number of issues.

Make Labour want to win your vote again - the only way you can do that is if your vote counts for something, and the only way to do that is to be the person who consistently votes for one of the top two contenders in your constituency. Hopefully not the Tories, because they passed fascist a long time ago and more people are going to die if we don't get them out, particularly asylum seekers, trans people and disabled people.

I don't want Starmer as my PM but it *will* lift the boot off the neck of many marginalised people and awful as Labour are right now, they are not in the same league of evil as the Tories.

Very curious to hear what policies Labour have announced that have indicated they’d make life easier for marginalised people?

Labour threaten immigrants with this rhetoric, they’ve attacked ‘work-shy’ disabled people, they dropped their commitments on Palestine, they frequently engage in anti-trans and therefore anti-LGBT rhetoric, and they’ve just deselected an array of left-wing candidates made up mostly of people of colour.

Also left-leaning people never stopped voting, I don’t know where you’re getting that from.

Rewatched the Dragon Age: The Veilguard trailer, and I cannot for the life of me understand why they went with that.

Looks like the trailer you’d see for Borderlands or some generic hero shooter. Stylisation and tone was just wildly off.

I was not expecting much, tbh, but hooooolyy hell I never saw this one coming.

The damage control marketing is doing right now is insane, btw.

Yeah, I’ll wait for actual gameplay for what the graphics will look like but the actual tone of the trailer seemed a world away from the RPG side of things.

Douglas Ross resigns as Scottish Tory leader.

On a scale of David Cameron to Margaret thatcher how bad is he

Guy was collecting an MSP and an MPs salary (both full-time jobs in their own right) while also cashing in a football assistant referees salary.