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Similar risks I would say. The UK by and large chose “the sensible option” in the last general election. The equivalent of Harris/dems, or the “anti chaos” option.

Reelecting Trump vs reelecting the Tories is a fair comparison, especially as the Tories are moving further and further right wing.

In summary the labour party have about 3 years to make some noticeable impact to people’s lives in the UK, but all that against the backdrop of huge financial issues incurred during the past decade or so, increasing war and conflict and now the Trump presidency.

There very well maybe people who will follow the conservative party on their way further right. The UK already had it’s brexit moment and has not really learned from it fully.

What I find quite interesting is that sync is obviously very feature rich, it’s why it was many people’s preferred client.

I just downloaded a few of the others and here’s a few things:

• you can set different sort methods based on view. This feels important at the moment when communities are smaller. I have my subs set to New but Instance and All to something else
• feed view customisations are super deep. Nice to have obviously but this is where all the inherited value from the old reddit app is
• gesture navigation still feels better than all others but I might be biased because I’m used to it

However, it’s undeniable that there are still some basic things it doesn’t handle perfectly. At the moment the perks outweigh the missing bits for me, BUT I found the pricing at launch to be optimistic at best, so like another commenter, I’m using the free version and blocking ads via Blokada and I’m happy enough

It would be great if it did everything perfectly I agree but that’s true for all the apps rn

Just quit then, millions have. I have more respect for people still smoking cigarettes tbqh.

Yeah exactly. I don’t mean before the storm. I guess I was the target market for LiS2! I thought it expanded the scope of the basic game mechanics in such a cool and interesting way. It was big and bold and I’m really sad it missed the mark with most

By third one, do you mean true colors? This is much closer to before the storm I’d say, and the subject matter isn’t as ‘serious’ as LiS2. However I’d say the writing (specifically the dialogue) is probably the strongest of the 4 games.

The community is honestly very annoying about it.

The Max/Chloe shipper community, I completely agree. I’m a huge fan of the game series but I kinda blame that group for LiS2 not being super successful, and I would have loved a 3rd one with that kind of scope!

The whole article is gory. This was written by either an idiot or a robot. Paragraph 1:

Though Deck Nine has been developing new Life is Strange games for some time, the recently released Double Exposure is the first to revisit the characters from the 2015 original, resulting in some controversy.

The first Deck Nine LiS game revisits the characters from the 2015 original 🙃

I’m looking forward to the game, not sure why it’s allowed review scores on Steam before it’s released though.

It doesn’t surprise me that 1400 presumably anti ULEZ people are dumb enough to ignore their fines

They probably thought literally blowing up some cameras like a hyper local terrorist would reverse the whole thing.

It will take years more but slowly we are reducing the number of cars, London isn’t the worst out there but it’s very slow to act

Chrome in the front, Firefox in the back

He is also an amazing roleplayer

Check out Haunted City, the blades in the dark RPG actual play podcast. Abu is the chaos agent in this and has some amazing scenes. One of the best

Why would @ljdawson@lemmy.world do this?

Yeah I think that is the general sentiment on 2. I didn’t feel this way at all when I played it.

I think the themes in 2 are so powerful and explored in interestin such interesting ways. It tackles growing up and responsibility but also obviously politics, protest, immigration, racism.

True colours gets in to some of these more global themes too, albeit in a much narrower scope.

I guess 2 was a lot more ambitious and clearly didn’t land for people as successfully

I thought the writing was excellent, especially compared to the first game. It also had a bisexual storyline for what it’s worth but I generally thought it was such a great expansion of all their ideas.

Also loved the free teaser game captain awesome, and how it crossed over into the main game.

I feel like they really were stung by the overall reception of it, that we lost the storyline we’d have had if it had gone over well. I thought it was vastly superior personally. That said I’ve enjoyed all the games in the series. Before the storm feels janky at first but does have some decent writing in it also.

Nice little storyline. Always nice to have some from mum and dad’s POV

Stoked for that and Blood and Rage early next year as well

Thanks for sharing this. I love the series so I will play this, tbqh I’m not sure these events mark Deck Nine out much from the industry as a whole sadly.

Off topic, what did y’all think of LiS2? I thought it was a real shame that it didn’t do as well as they hoped.

https://youtu.be/CHZwOAIect4

Not Just Bikes video on this topic

Steve Bannon simply referred to it as “flooding the zone with shit” iirc

Same

Classic sync post