Andy

Yes, good

Galactic Racer looks like it could be the first game to properly scratch the wipeout itch and Rev.NOIR looked right up my particular alley. There's a lot of Big Franchises I'm not that attached to but being hyped about two games does me fine

Think it's incredible how being part of XGS has been brilliant for Obsidian at the same time that being part of Microsoft has been terrible for Obsidian

As with all Japanese devs, there's no way to know from the outside to what extent this is true and to what extent it's nonsense performative bullshit to access government subsidies/tax relief for companies that demonstrate going big on AI. Same with SquareEnix.

Angeline Era wasn't on my radar at all and it looks incredible and like it might elbow its way past a pretty intense backlog

Does it help that they're appointed positions rather than inherited? Eliza Manningham-Fuller was a spook for thirty years, John McFall was a working class teacher who became an MP and likes a fancy tie. The pageantry is just that

This isn't new for the left but it's about as healthy and popular as a TB outbreak and ZS is absolutely right to ring the bells imo. There's room for triangulation and tactical candidacies operating in the same space as the Greens and any improved post-Starmer Labour, but not like this

Reading through some of the backstory it seems like a lot of the people hovering around Corbyn are deeply opposed to the idea of democratic party structures having a role in decision making or really existing in the first place as opposed to a politburo that appoints itself...

I've been thinking about this since i saw it and actually I reckon Clive Lewis is worse than Wes Streeting because at least Streeting is honest that he'll knife his trans friends to help his career.

I could swallow Labour being silent on trans rights before the election. But in power it's criminal.

For the Premier League specifically, Spurs and Everton are the traditional shouts as likeable perma-bridesmaids with big crowds and awful luck but Forest have been Storyline FC this year as a team of rejects doing incredibly well at a smallish club with a remarkable history but little modern success

It was Roy Keane originally, wasn't it?

I've used it occasionally as shorthand.

So why are you talking in the article about how important the upcoming test series are?

England have been dreadful in LOIs for some time, chiefly because Buttler is terrible at his job, and now they're playing the best white ball side in the world on an away tour. Nothing to do with McCullum there.

Alternatively: England's white ball side under Buttler's captaincy continue to have mediocre fields and unthreatening bowling sequences while the inconsistent batting lineup are unable to build a total, and the Test side are still playing well/overachieving compared to the quality of the player pool