As a Brit who also had a lifelong reaction of 'mushy peas(?!?!)' upon hearing of it, they are legitimately way better than they sound when properly seasoned. I was finally convinced to try it with a homemade steak and ale pie. Mix in a bunch of freshly ground pepper with those mushy peas and chefs kiss. FYI tartare sauce is a common accompaniment here in Britain as well, and it is indeed the correct choice.
I've never had good fish and chips in America, but I've also never been to the coasts.
That's awesome dude, that's exactly what I love about America. I pray that the globalists don't succeed in just jamming the country full of a billion people because 'Well it's so big it can support that population, and line must go up!'. You would lose so much that is intangible in the process.
That's exactly what I do in America. I hate American cities, but then I hate all cities. I love small town America, though.
My wife is from rural MI, and when I was first dating her we were out in the countryside and she said 'Let's go for a walk down the road'. I looked at this road, which to me was fairly wide and would be classified as a main road in the UK, and I was like 'Right in the middle of the road?'. Lo and behold, only a single car passed us in about two hours, which we saw coming from miles away. It was then that I really understood the difference in population density between the US and UK. I am from rural England, but even here it's next to impossible to find a road that is that rarely used. It was a very liberating feeling, not to be crushed by the weight of humanity. It was also the first time I saw fireflies in person :D
Amen, brother.
I'm talking about an ideal world where the US is not being puppeteered by a hostile elite who are extremely anti-European, but instead undergoes some kind of WASP revival and gets back in touch with its European roots.
Obviously the current relationship between Europe and the US is toxic. I didn't think that needed to be stated.
Awesome. You should come and visit if you haven't already. There's still a lot of England that is English outside of the big cities.
I don't really care for football, but as an Englishman, I have always had a special fondness for America. I have always viewed it as an extension of European civilisation in the New World. I hear this a lot from both Americans who visit Europe and Europeans who visit America - we are so VERY similar, from laws, to language, to attitudes, to architecture. Obviously there are differences between us, but in an era where we are both being flooded by ACTUAL aliens with ACTUAL irreconcilable differences, those differences seem petty and insignificant.
In my ideal world, Europe and America would be a lot closer diplomatically and culturally. I think America could stand to revive a European style high culture and appreciation for beauty, roots and tradition over convenience, while Europe needs to learn from America's frontier-born self-reliance, distrust of authority, and masculine independence. Geopolitically I understand why we are sometimes competitors, but I don't think it HAS to be this way. We are the same civilisation, for God's sake, and the same kinds of people want us BOTH erased from history.
Thanks man. I dunno about that, but I appreciate the compliment! Just wish it didn't take so long. I'm trying to do at least one panel for each page of prose. Act 1 is 116 pages and I'm currently on Page 13 for illustrations. Only approx. 100 more to go!
Thanks dude, I'll probably be putting the whole thing up on a website for free, but I might have a donation thing so I can at least recoup the cost of hosting. The illustrations are taking about ten times as long as the actual writing, so it'll probably be awhile yet.
Here's a sneak peak illustration, since you took an interest: https://www.pasteboard.co/znuAHNzTm1NE.png
I'm very glad to encounter someone else who appreciates Soldier. I'm currently working on an illustrated novel that borrows heavily from the premise of Soldier. When I mention to people that it's one of my inspirations, nine times out of ten the response is 'Never heard of it'. It's definitely a hidden gem.
This is the correct outlook. The weak will always be with us, as will the strong. Society must be structured in such a way where each has his place. Warriors need farmers; this is the origin of noblesse oblige.
The Boomers said purpose is lack of constraint and truth found by engaging in nonsense, Gen X called nonsensr stupid, nut agreed that constraint was evil and said purpose was needed but impossible. The Current zeitgeist claims that a need for purpose IS a constraint, and that engaging with anything in a serious way is a farce, so embraces nonsense FOR its lack of purpose, rather than a path to it as the boomers did.
This is a well articulated thought. I agree with your analysis, although in my opinion you are starting to see the birthing pains of a new sincerity movement among Gen Z and Gen Alpha. The old system has completely abandoned them. Cut adrift, some of them seem to be looking deep into the past for guidance, which leads them to question the modern shibboleths. I think they are slowly coming back around to the ancestral truth of the matter, which is that constraint GIVES purpose, thus it should be embraced as the natural order of things - 'Pick up your cross and follow me.'
I agree with you in general. What was once a novelty has become trite and stale, and the female characters western devs come up with make it absolutely insufferable. Considering the demographics of gamers and the fact that games typically require athleticism from their characters, the split should be more like 75/25 male/female.
That being said, I personally am fine with female characters as long as they're not in the ugly Western mould.
As I have learned in my own career, it's 99% who you know, 1% what you know.
Slimeballs like her always find a way to fail upwards.
Looks cool! See, nobody complains about playing as a girl when it's done well.
I'm writing a story at the moment, and some of my characters are tough action girls. It's really not difficult to make such a character appealing; just have them respect the men around them, and not be insufferable bitches. Men will happily suspend their disbelief at the hypercompetence of female characters if they are 1. attractive and 2. nice.
I say 'men', but the truth is women prefer these kinds of female characters too. NOBODY likes ugly, bitchy scolds.
They should go find a sympathetic priest/pastor and have him marry them off the books. That's what I would do in that situation.
They will either pay you or threaten you to keep your peace if your relative becomes a victim. That's why the parents all come out with the same tired platitudes.
Well, I was prime age for the early 00s anime/western fusion style of animation, and I remember the writing being actually quite good. Probably VERY good when compared to the tripe we get today. I enjoyed things like Kim Possible and Totally Spies even though I was definitely not the target audience for either, and Avatar the Last Airbender was so good I have rewatched it as an adult.
When the Calarts beanmouth style started to take over in the 2010s, I completely lost interest in western animation, moved to anime and never looked back. I don't think that was just a result of me getting older, I think the quality materially decreased over time.
You know I enjoyed that pilot, I'm sure it was a titanic effort to animate, and I'm definitely going to have the guy's back if the woke hordes come for him, but I have to say the technical structure of the episode needs some work. Stuff just kind of happens, and I have no idea who these characters are. Some of that can probably be explained by this being a pilot episode, but still.
The guy has a LOT of potential, and I love his animation style, but he needs a writer.
direction of travel is almost unimaginably worse than america
I don't know about that one, man. Not that Europe is in a good place, but the US is demographically far worse and has been for decades. Is there a reason to think that trend will reverse? What do you base that on?
Dude I LOVED Freedom Fighters. I remember as a kid being thrilled about having so many NPC squadmates to control, and getting more each level. The AI was really not very advanced, but it gave a good illusion of being so, kind of like F.E.A.R, with your guys taking cover and flanking and stuff.
I also liked the controversial element of not having pinpoint accuracy with your crosshair. It meant you had to rely on your squad more, and it felt more like actual squad level tactics where you were shooting in the general direction of the enemy for suppression rather than popping heads from a thousand yards.
Always wished IO interactive would go back to it instead of making a million Hitman sequels.
We Brits have a reputation for complaining about the weather, but... it's literally just normal temperatures outside. Maybe a few degrees warmer than usual for May?
For God's sake... We live in a damn skit.
I always wished we could go back to PS2 era driving game graphical style, where the windows of the car are so heavily tinted you can't really make out the interior. I don't care about who's driving it, I care about the car.
This has the hidden added benefit of reducing the modeling that the devs have to do, so they can increase the car list and/or increase the amount of customisation possible with simpler car models. Look at Midnight Club 3 or NFSU2 vs the much more limited customisation we have in modern car games, for example.
While I have little sympathy for the woman, what the hell was that civilian thinking just walking right up to her in the middle of a gunfight? What exactly did he think was going to happen? Was he trying to help the other cop who had been shot? Maybe I am missing the context of what is happening here.