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UK. The Green Party of England and Wales won the by-election in Gorton and Denton, leading by 40%. Reform UK (Trump-lite) came second, while the 2 major parties were further behind. It is a promising sight that a party which values human rights, animal rights, and the environment can also be victorious and have the power to implement these ideals. This by-election also shows that we do not have to be locked into a 2-party system.

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That second part is easy to fix. Like me, don't have any social media accounts. ☺️

Oh wow! I had no idea that would be the case. That's a huge advantage!

First two episodes of the new season of Scrubs feel good so far. It's very close to the vibe of the old show. Would be interested to see if the janitor shows up.

From a story by the author of "Let the Right One In"

My full Ironman training is going pretty well. Since November I've done a good job of swimming regularly, and my running speed came back pretty quickly. I need to build up my riding miles, but I can do that as it gets warmer. The toughest part, as usual, has been the nutrition. Did you know that exercise causes hemorrhoids? So I was dealing with that for a bit. I am enjoying the gamification of all my training. I'm using Tridot for my workouts, and I'm almost level 17. I don't know what that means, but it's a fun carrot to chase. With the weather being bad, I did a fair amount of indoor rides using Zwift. I'm up to level 24 in that cycling MMO.

I decided to buy Atomfall with all the DLC and Im going to play it next I have heard good things about this game 🤖

While I don't know, having never developed a game myself, I would strongly suspect making a 2D game with isometric presentation to be considerably more straight-forward, and has you using your hours on something that leverages your gameplay and not something that's only under the hood. Instead of x-y-z you only have to think in x-y. I guess the most direct analogy is maths when you have to add dimensions, as the product is non-linear: 2x times 2y is 4, while 2x times 2y times 2z is 8 -- double the total of what you had to take in account going only x-y. For example you can drop everything about 3D rendering, lighting, more complex pathing, etc etc. The Pillars games' presentation is rendered 3D, so it's 2D when you're playing the game. The only things still real-time rendered in 3D are basically the characters / NPC's, and a miniscule numbers of special effects, some doors et cetera. But because the characters are in 3D, they still had to add dynamic lighting on top of their 2D. The final product is as you know absolutely beautiful, but there's still considerable time investment to achieve it. But again, the gameplay is 2D. Again, I'm not a game developer so take my thoughts for what they are. But I hope they've given you some things to consider. Best of luck to you whatever you choose!

Eh, the Jackster's going to shut up eventually, no worries. Keanu on the other hand, uh...

Just a thought it would be fantastic to see seasons in the game, however the day night cycle would have to be slowed by about 50%. Seasons would make the game pop as there would be more spiders in one season, more ants on another and so on and so on. Night-time,I rather enjoy roaming around at night. It would be great if they implemented night only creatures and perks which would be amazing. The quick selection wheel when on a mount should be usable. I haven't come across deep bodies of water yet but it would be great to be able to build a base underwater. What does everyone think about this????

Being better than Russia or China on a democracy scale is a very low bar.

French publisher Nacon files for insolvency (they own devs like Spiders [Greedfall]) https://www.vgchartz.com/article/467121/nacon-files-for-insolvency-as-it-assesses-all-possible-solutions/