Chris Boyd

"i hope noah sees this video and feels validated"

an absolutely incredible comment

miniboyd watched a cartoon made by a well known youtube creator, and it turned out to be a promo where the kid goes on holiday and is super into playing mobile genshin impact. i was already sighing at the glorified paid promo when the kid pauses the game and then fires up duolingo

if you showed him this he would immediately keel over and explode

what a weird miserable account that is. seems to mostly jump into threads where people are talking about things they enjoy then go MEHHH a lot

seeing a book listing on amazon which says "tiktok showed me this awards winning historical fantasy" in front of the title is perhaps the new "now on netflix" witcher sticker

crude parody of 90s ad for Yoshi's Story "TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL DEVOUR YOUR WAY THROUGH MPORE THAN 20 JUICY LEVELS" Rated E for Everyone get N or get out 12.21.1997 www.yoshi64.com"

it only really ties into inquisition (and even there it's largely the last DLC), and it does a good job of background filling-in during the opening. also does a good job of filling in blanks from earlier games if needed, so i'd say it definitely ticks that box!

me giving garth marenghi a terrible drawing at a book signing/show

a terrible pen drawing of garth marenghi which i drew in a taxi

this is worse than the time i gave garth marenghi a terrible drawing i made in the back of a taxi

jovi not long finished veilguard and i went absolutely ham on it not so long ago. she'd never played any of the others and is now eagerly smacking her way through the back catalogue. veilguard was top tier stuff

doing a lot of quests in witcher 3 which i've never seen before, and they all tie into witcher 2. i've never even left the starting town of flotsam so now i'm playing witcher 2 again. i'll just pretend it's one massive flashback fever dream because roach fell over on geralt's head or something

with the caveat that it's always possible to be horribly wrong, it very much looks like someone set up a fake hot wife account, used really bad early gen AI (and what look like a few humdinger bad photoshops), and then it's all sprawled out from there

there's lots of "and here's my model wife, hanging out with her hot friend who is also a model and we're all in a relationship. here's some photos! and wouldn't you know it, it's the same deal with five other people who are also models that we live with". all they need is an RS archer camper van

there's a photography account on here doing numbers, and i'm somewhat suspicious that all of the images and those of his supposed spouse are entirely AI generated, especially the much older and extremely fake looking ones

meanwhile my immigrant ass has allegedly paid close to £10k in ‘healthcare surcharge fees’ as part of my visa applications over the past decade…

It's Bandcamp Friday again. Who would have thought it? I haven't had a chance to make a new stupid video about it so enjoy this one again. Please reskeet! I only have 5 of the limited edition tapes left I think

hawaiiworms.bandcamp.com/album/kiosk-67

#BandcampFriday

at least we'll always have his portable keyboard

i've got him blocked on here, but he has gone in hard on labour over immigration stuff which surprised me. maybe some distance from having to be on team brexit and being right all the time has put some stuff into perspective for him at last

i saw a few weeks ago that there's a group of NHS staff who'll fall under one of the new required cut-off points by about £63 or something equally ludicrous

you literally do not understand how any of these systems work

*paper based*?! my dude we had physical biometric residence permits in 2008! the new versions were introduced in 2015! my wife had three of them! all of our applications were digital! the current system replaced physical cards with a digital system last year! *paper based*?!

like you genuinely do not seem to understand the (extremely strict, almost to point of obsession) system already in place and how it operates, or the endless ID hoopla you subject migrants to already. it's no wonder you're receiving pushback for "hey, what if we do this again but even worse"

my wife had three biometric residence permits issued by the home office. she gave them literal crates of personal information. every other visa holder who comes here does the same thing, all tied into right to rent and work systems which have existed for years. you already do this!

imagine, right, you're applying for a UK visa. our wages suck, bills are high, layoffs are ten a penny, & you find out you're down up to £20k minimum right from the off, alongside thousands and thousands in visa fees. who would find that remotely appealing? this is how you collapse entire industries

a family of four on a five year visa route needs to pay close to twenty grand in surcharges, in addition to visa fees, upfront at time of application. the new Labour ILR rules means that family will pay close to *forty grand* in health surcharges, on top of visa fees. just incredibly stupid stuff

it's funny how "combating health tourism" means visa holders who *live here* pay roughly 5 grand in health surcharges over 5 years, and generate just shy of 2 billion a year in surcharge fees not including tax/NI. and then that money mostly ends up in general revenue! what an absolute scam

I feel like it should be easy not to "clumsily" parrot people like jeremy hunt

bsky.app/profile/toby...

it's like no MP understands how the biometric residence permits you scrapped functioned, in addition to right to rent/work checks. companies which didn't bother with the old system, or the current digital system, won't bother with the third attempt at this either

i saw that post vanish in real time, like tears in the rain and so on

this is, in fact, how most of these events pan out

xmas game audio event tickets booked in. time to get ready for some real ultimate game audio xmas'ing (standing in the corner and having a nice nap)