Hannah Dawson

Because that is what a 30% service charge is - a private tax on the transaction taken by the landlord. Sales tax has to be displayed, why not private tax?

Trading standards really should force list prices that hide hidden vendor fees to show the fee to the public. "Free delivery" is a scam.

Someone should make a Firefox extension that shows prices on storefronts as actual price + the hidden delivery price.

E.g. £40 game on Steam instead as a £26 game with a £12 delivery fee paid to Valve.

Great example of why Netflix One Piece will work - you'll only ever need two open water sets (the Merry and later the Sunny) and can get away with almost every complex scene taking place indoors. One Piece S1 shows this really well and you can see the trick in the S2 trailer (Walpol? Indoors)

"This franchise basically can hang off a number of TV character actors in costumes and two charismatic male leads, neither of which needs to be conventionally attractive, but you have to shoot 80%+ on open water" vs "yes, you need to hire Timothee Chalamet, but Pinewood has capacity next year"

Master And Commander remains a franchise that is only not a long-running series of successful movies because Hollywood strongly prefers blockbusters that can be made in a large shed at Pinewood, or funded by a tourism board who really wants films to feature long drone shots of its countryside.

Also on Android, but the text is tiiiiiiny

FISH currently has over 6,500 people playing it. Extrapolating from SteamCharts data, this means that its current active user base is higher than Highguard's peak daily userbase was about two weeks after launch.

The future of big-budget video games is going to be in finding ways to avoid further wealth transfer to the land/property-owning class. A productivity doom spiral - the more money your employees earn, the more they can be squeezed to pay in rent and other costs.

I don't think this is controversial: if you're entering the F2P market, on PC or wherever, and you try and match the quality of games that don't have to pay Cali/Austin/London/Vancouver/etc rental costs for its staff, you're at a disadvantage. 100 staff in Austin, or 300 in Guangzou or Shenzen?

Highguard EOS announced, it is dead on the 12th.

The F2P shooter launched the same week as Arknights: Endfield, a F2P game that did not get an extremely cheap marketing push from Geoff Keighley, is essentially Genshin Impact meets Factorio, and has already made several hundred million dollars.

Suspect this is very fatiguing even for Trump loyalists and an important reminder of the consequences of electing a man who can only serve a single term, and only two of those with a clear mandate.

I've generally resorted to viewing the political actions of the POTUS as being more akin to WWE booking storylines than anything else - more about filling time and getting eyeballs than any cohesive strategy for the product long-term. The current war ties into that IMO. Be seen to be doing something

It's just this signage thing that stuck out to me - there's no good reason to not have consistent good signage up at all stations when the resources are available, and agents should be aware what signage should be up at stations. It's a small part of the job, but increasingly feels important.

Yeah the actual voting influence angle is a non-story. Agents have the right to look in on stations (IIRC candidates do too but they should not be wasting time doing that) and part of that is to make sure there's no weirdness, and part of that is to re-assure their parties there was no weirdness!

Yes, hence why it's the sort of thing that needs cool heads and conversations with election professionals. I think observers here should be reminded of their responsibility being to help audit and improve election process, and how making overheated reports on the day of an election is unhelpful.

Agents have the right to observe as well, it annoys me that 10+ parties ran and not a single agent was trained to spot this

Frustrating that an observer org can say "hey, less than half the stations we went to had the signage about this" which is a specific actionable issue and that gets buried underneath inventing something to argue about

In a note about how stupid FPTP is - compare the amount of seats the Greens win with a UNS swings of 0->10% and then the amount they win just from 16-17%

Basically on a large enough UNS things get extremely silly extremely quickly.

Was able to get all three 1.0 characters and their weapons in Endfield without major expense in the end. Total outlay probably about £60 for the game and it's filled my life for a month. Reasonable AAA value for money IMO

Labour's overwhelming issue is that they are Canute on the sands pretending Brexit did not happen and that British politics realigned in 2016. Every other British party is cleanly Remain or Leave. Every other British party is "liberal" or "conservative". There is no space for a both-sides party.

The (unkind) stereotypical Labour person is someone who had an upward-moving working class upbringing, went to university, joined Labour Students, found a seat, and is convinced that the British working class is clones of their parents.

It's helpful to be a dog lover when on the oppo benches near the LDs: our spokesdog is fearsome

Anyone who things sectarian politics is an angle to talk about regarding Gorton is a moron. Manchester is above that nonsense.

I would also hope any sane political columnist does not post "by-elections are not indicative of a GE!" for this one. Yes they are in the current environment. The LD victory in North Shropshire was extremely indicative of the LD-Con fight at the GE.

At the moment on these results, and considering where he lives, hard to argue that Polanski wouldn't have a serious shot of beating Starmer in Holborn.

There is "freak loss to the Lib Dems" and "my voter coalition is very sick" and this is the latter.

Gorton by election is two things: very indicative of the gun barrel Labour is staring down of, and very indicative that Labour has entered "limp until the end of the season" mode electorally.

Expect a lot of "but where it counts we'll win on tactical voting!!" between now and 2029.

This doesn't just apply to games but it's a good demo. Rent kills economies.

If people want high-quality first party games, the rentier economy in games needs to be smashed via banning excessive sales commission fees. Until that happens, the economic headwinds are to make games in cheap countries and sell them in expensive ones.