louthy

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by louthy 14d ago
I use Krita, but I miss Paint.NET It’s lighter, simpler, and faster with a much more intuitive UX. for basic image manipulation tasks it’s awesome. For creation of art I’d use Krita, it is more feature complete. But if Paint.NET appeared on
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by louthy 15d ago
If you find this stuff interesting, you can read about the failure of the first game I worked on here [1]. I replied in the comments [2] It says 1997, but dev started in ‘95, I joined in ‘96. I was pretty gutted at the time, I was just 21 y
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by louthy 15d ago
> Does it seem like companies just aren’t that well run anymore? If you mean the games industry, it was always poorly run. I worked in games in the 90s and 00s it was a cottage industry of nerds, many of whom had success with an 8bit gam
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by louthy 22d ago
I’m not being “silly”, each party is more extreme than the last. Rupert Lowe is an ethno-nationalist who clearly believes in ethnic cleansing (through forced deportation, at least) and is clearly a fascist with deep religious intolerance (a
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by louthy 1mo ago
I remember working in the games industry in the 90s and early 2000s; getting a game past Sony testing was so fricking difficult, but it was because once that black disc was cut, there was no way to get an update. You had to be on the money,
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by louthy 1mo ago
I don’t need to thinly veil anything: most people who constantly bang on about immigration are racists. Those who talk about migration from a structural perspective: infrastructure costs, capacity, etc. have legitimate grounds. But, I would
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by louthy 1mo ago
> The UK has only seen mass immigration since after WWII, by the way Pretty sure we have been invaded by: Vikings, Romans, Germanic tribes which gave us our name, Normans, Beaker folk, Huguenots, and our Empire past literally led to us g
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by louthy 1mo ago
> That's exactly why the Conservatives lost the last general election No, it isn’t. Rampant corruption, parties at No.10, Liz Truss, and then inflation because of the Ukraine war causing a cost of living and cost of energy crisis. Y
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by louthy 1mo ago
> I mean you could certainly argue that was all theater It was all theatre.
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by louthy 1mo ago
> And what they have got instead is gross migration running at 1 million per year. LEGAL migration of 1 million per year. For one year only during Boris Johnson's term. Mostly it's in the 100,000s. Most migration is legal. Peop
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by louthy 1mo ago
* Right - Conservatives * Hard right - Reform * Far right - Restore Restore are a far right party. Luckily they get about the same number of votes as the old far right parties, like the BNP.
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by louthy 1mo ago
It started with the Global Financial Crisis. The cost of that is still ongoing.
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by louthy 1mo ago
> If you were unlucky with your starting point in life, didn’t get an education in an in demand area, or did but really struggle to communicate, or got hit by some bad luck then life could feel very stalled at the moment and frustrating.
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by louthy 1mo ago
"most"
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by louthy 1mo ago
> "It rightly caused friction with our 5 eyes partners" That is such a weird take. "It rightly caused friction with Privacy International" might be a better position to take ;)
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by louthy 1mo ago
And what are you reading and listening to? It's the fifth-largest economy on Earth. Considering the ridiculous self-harm incident that was Brexit, that's not exactly a bad position to be in. The rest is governance (and debt paymen
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by louthy 1mo ago
The UK is fine, honestly. The Tory saga was mostly caused by Brexit and poor handling of Covid. Theresa May was ousted by Boris Johnson over Brexit, Johnson was ousted for hosting parties at number 10, whilst Covid lockdowns were in-place,
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by louthy 1mo ago
> you'd have expected the whole opposition to converge on him This is such a ridiculous take. In his last by-election result he got 95 votes, which up until last night's result was this highest he'd ever achieved. So gett
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by louthy 1mo ago
That’s just cynical nonsense and a blatant framing of the argument because you want to pay less tax: “I pay tax to the government. The government doesn’t represent or serve its constituents (me). Therefore I should pay less (or no) tax” T
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by louthy 1mo ago
You are part of a society. You exist and thrive because of that society. Otherwise you’d have had to fend for yourself: no healthcare, no education, no roads, no refuse collection, no security, etc. etc. People who think they have no obliga
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by louthy 1mo ago
Exactly, a house in the middle of nowhere, with no infrastructure, quickly becomes worthless. If anything, property taxes could be considered ‘maintenance’, which is an inevitable part of ownership. Nobody likes paying for the maintenance w
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by louthy 1mo ago
I don’t have that information, but I’m also not claiming I do. The GP is claiming “1990 -> 2020 was an okay 30 year period, 2026 -> 2056 sure won't be.” The fact that there was Black Wednesday, 9/11, the dot com crash, the I
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by louthy 1mo ago
> 2026 -> 2056 sure won't be. You have evidence from the future?
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by louthy 1mo ago
> Number cannot always go up. Yeah, I thought that when I was young too. The housing market can keep going up for much longer than you can hold out. Then, if there ever is a correction, it probably won't drop lower than this point
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by louthy 2mo ago
Presumably, you've never taken the Heathrow Express? That is a train journey that is always better than a car. The Gatwick Express, not so much.
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by louthy 2mo ago
I don’t think it’s fascist? More of a kleptocratic dictatorship. I agree with the general sentiment though!
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by louthy 2mo ago
The Supreme Court has already said that blanket tariffs aren't allowed, so it's all bluster, as per usual.
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by louthy 2mo ago
Oh jeez
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by louthy 2mo ago
As a Brit, I concur.
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by louthy 3mo ago
> Did the espresso drinks have milk in them? I felt a great disturbance in Italy, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Espresso does not have milk. Macchiato , is an espresso based drink wi

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