Raithe

Wil Wheaton photobombing his wife...

Well Sturgeon and the SNP basically have the "Okay, so the referendum didn't go our way this time. We can do it again in a couple of years. And a couple of years after that. We'll keep having them until we get the answer we want." approach to it all. Also, much as we love the hilariously bad history of Braveheart, and the more respectable Rob Roy, the thing that a lot of people overlook these days is that Scotland was separate for a chunk of time, and they went bankrupt and pretty much sold the country to the English. Look up the Darien scheme, that's what had a large impact on causing the Acts of Union to occur. So you shouldn't take the firm image of "The English were conquering bastards that took our lands" into too much account when talking of the United Kingdom and Scottish independence.

For the minor side note.. https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/nicola-sturgeon-has-relegated-social-security-from-her-cabinet-in-a-blow-to-anti-poverty-campaigners-gina-davidson-3244518 After the SNP ran a campaign full of "anti-povery" "child security" promises, manifestos and such before the elections... After winning the election, Sturgeon has downgraded the Social Security Minister to a junior minister's brief...

Maybe not strictly funny but...

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Double Post

Politics or philosophy? (technically, that's a quote from neo-Nazi Kevin Strom, not Voltaire. For some reason it keeps getting mis-quoted)

I think part of the troubles with SWOTR is that the initial idea was great. The storytelling that went into the class quest lines, those initial planets, they way it all merged together, was quite excellent. But then they never really seemed to have an idea of what to do once you finished them. It dripped along with some generic grindy end-game content, that wasn't that satisfying because the story pulled a lot of people in, and end-game repeatable grind just isn't very "story" so it lacks that pull.

What, not this?