Bloody boat people! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😠 🇬🇧

Digital pre-cum.

If I understand right, it’s just VPN to VPN that won’t work.

If the downloader has an open port, I can still connect and pump them full of data.

Welcome to democracy. The year is 2025. You may choose which colour tie your right-wing authoritarian leaders wear.

I suspect the device will last about as long as one or two refills anyway. This would be why they’re so cheap compared to the older ones.

This is why I scruffily daub England flags onto mini roundabouts.

I’m not sure who told the far right that flying a flag is anti-establishment. The fucking king flies them for fucks sake.

They mean neo-liberals.

This is Lemmy, where auth-left propaganda has twisted the word liberal into something else because they want to normalise authoritarianism. Just ignore them.

Campaign for Reform, from the looks of my area.

Hell I remember Soul Reaver doing that on PS1 CDs.

Ridden on the road, fine.

Ridden down canal tow paths, cycle lanes, pavements, twitchels, places with much slower moving cyclists/pedestrians, they can fuck off.

I’ve no problem with them being classified as a cheap motorcycle. For their size, they shouldn’t have to pay road tax either. But you should only be going faster than regular pedalling speeds on a road.

Best I can do is half the games spread over 4 streaming services.

Streaming hardware? Presumably like Geforce Now, only the publishers can’t say no.

That’s the hook isn’t it. They’ve been doing it for years, no harm done.

That’s how most addictions seem to start anyway.

The problem with every gambler I know is they keep track of how much they’ve won but not how much they’ve spent.

The “exposure” has been every mobile and multiplayer game for the last 15 years being loaded with it.

It’s no surprise that they eventually start gambling with real money. It’s like having adverts for BetFred in between episodes of Bluey.

Your server isn’t working today.

This is because Microsoft wants you to finish setting up your PC that has been running for ten years.

With the shadow of Nigel Farage looming over Westminster, this seems fanciful at best.

We can’t even say “I support Palestine Action” without risking jail, yet half the country seem convinced they’re channelling the spirit of Guy Fawkes himself by spray painting red crosses onto roundabouts.

In any case they need to be careful putting England flags everywhere. Israel might mistake it for a hospital and bomb it.

The price of everything is out of control, because it turns out the people who set wages have a different idea of inflation than the people that set prices.

This is the only gen I can think of where console prices have gone up from what they were at the start. And that’s before you get tariffs from everyone’s favourite orange dickhead.

And PC component prices are even worse.

Yeah, no point.

Be like preserving a printout of a steam code.

Round here in the East Midlands it’s Reform and their troglodyte followers doing it.

Whinging they can’t fly flags (they can). Whinging that we’re being overrun with boat people (we’re not, but the asylum system needs a serious rejig so people don’t have to travel half the world to do it, and so we don’t have to house them in shithole towns while we think about it).

On the one hand it’s kind of fascinating watching 1930s Germany playing out in real time, seeing people falling for the same old bollocks. I just wish I was watching from afar rather than being in the middle of it.