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Here are your teams! @Viva la FCB @Coma @Lucas @Rucksackfranzose @Bluewolf @CaaC (John) @Stan @nudge @Tommy First set of fixtures: One of the worst randomisers I've even done!

Just admit it, you simply can't cope with space lesbians, lol

"Less nation orientated" is an interesting way of saying "not bigoted enough".

What's this? He's posting a new Gloryhunter game when the other one is still sat there laying dormant and not updated in months? Correct. I'm working on the regular one's results but in the meantime let's get started on GLORYHUNTER - EURO 2024. This edition of Gloryhunter works in the same way as the regular versions, and exactly the same as the previous Euros and World Cup versions I've ran in the past. But, just in case we have any newbies, here's how it works: Getting Started / How Does It Work? Each player will be randomly assigned a team competing in Euro 2024 If your team wins, you will get 3 points and stay with them for their next fixture. If your team draws, you receive 1 point and get to choose which of the two teams you go to the next fixture with. If your team loses, you receive 0 points and go to the next fixture with the team who have just beaten you. If the team who have beaten you are out of the competition after that game (for example if a 4th place team happens to beat a 1st place team but is still out of the competition afterwards), you are also out of the competition. The difference is that it's a group stage competition and then a knockout so we will likely lose a few players at the group stage, and then it'll be a race for everyone else to the final. There will be a Euro 2024 winner crowned and immortalised in the Gloryhunter Honours thread, and there will be a Gloryhunter Euro 2024 Champion which is the player who is top of the standings in the table. So, if you're interested, let me know and once we've got a few players, I'll start to do the draw for the teams - once a team goes, it will not be allocated to anybody else. Anybody is free to take part, even if you don't take part in the regular season ones! (And yes, this is the exact same post as the other editions but with a few words edited and changed - I'm lazy - get over it)

You aren't seriously concerned about combat realism in a show about space wizards that fight with light swords are you?

Right wing ideology inherently believes in social hierarchies and therefore excludes itself from equality.

Results - Canadian Grand Prix A bit of a "same-y" and low-scoring weekend but let's dig into it. Mercedes threw a major spanner in the works this weekend by being actually good, with nobody's McLaren or Ferrari picks for non-Verstappen pole able to overcome George Russell on Saturday. The Bonus Question was also a blowout in qualifying with not a single person backing Lance Stroll to make it as far as Q3, so 0/10 across the board from Saturday. In the race, a double retirement on an absolute flop of a weekend for Ferrari destroyed nearly everyone's podium predictions. @RandoEFC, @DeadLinesman and @Stan were hit worst by Ferrari's joke of a weekend after they put both Leclerc and Sainz in their top three. A number of people can also consider themselves rather unlucky not to get anything from Oscar Piastri, who featured in the top four for the majority of the race but ended up just outside the non-Verstappen top three. Everyone picked up at least 2 points for putting Lando Norris in their top three, but the big winners were @Tommy and @Whiskey who put him in 1st place after Verstappen was removed from the results. The prediction of the weekend goes to @MUFC, though, who is rewarded with 5 extra points for putting Hamilton in 3rd, the only person to react to Mercedes' impressive pace in FP3 by predicting some Mercedes success. This week's random driver was Max Verstappen, and @Stan, @Tommy, @nudge, @Whiskey, @The Palace Fan, @Coma, @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush all correctly played it safe by predicting the Dutchman to win the race and pick up 5 points apiece. @RandoEFC and @MUFC miss out here after having far too much faith in F1's recent ability to see someone else win for a change. The end result here is that all but 3 competitors score 7 points. Here's what it does to the table. As we approach the season's midpoint, @RandoEFC's worst weekend of the season sees his lead slashed from 7 to 2 points ahead of @OrangeKhrush. With the rest of the field largely cancelling each other out, @Tommy is the only one who gains a position in the Drivers' standings as this week's joint-highest scorer, jumping to joint 4th ahead of @The Palace Fan. I have amended the Constructors' standings so that every week where one driver has failed to predict, the Team has been awarded some extra points, equal to 1 point less than the lowest score that week. This hasn't affected the positions but has closed the gaps a bit to make it more fair. In some cases this "insurance" score was as little as 1 point! This is the best way I have to keep the Constructors' championship somewhat competitive in the event of a no-show without rewarding the team an equal or higher score than what someone who actually predicted scored! Anyway, there is no change in the standings after Canada. Most notably, McLaren's first single-digit haul of the season sees their lead reduced from 17 points to 12 points at the top.

@Rucksackfranzose must be delighted getting England

Ethnonationalism has been the direct cause of some of the worst atrocities humans are capable of - it is absolutely bad and the people who push ethnonationalism are dangerous. Wanting to reduce illegal immigration is not a form of fascism. Fear mongering all immigrants and making it seem like a country is completely bombarded with terrorists and criminals, when it's not even taking in all that many immigrants/refugees on the grand scale of things, is a fascist move to gain power. Nationalism and stupidity caused WW1. Patriotism isn't bad, nationalism is - conflating the two is dangerous. Reform UK's a brainchild of Nigel Farage, one of the architects of the disaster that Brexit has been. That the party has only existed since 2018 does note absolve Farage of his role in the economic catastrophe he's a part of. Recent articles on India show that India's got more US dollars in federal reserve currency than they ever have before. BRICS is a joke.

India is the latest country to sell up their dollar reserve, it's a slow bleed with long term effects. Financial analysts are concerned and it will gain traction. The st Petersburg economic forum was recently held and the theme was selling up the US dollar reserve. It will not alone crash the dollar, it will however mean that to trade will require the dollar to be converted at mark up rates. The interest is less exploitation but the long term will be a gradual slide in the dollar and rampant inflation with far to many dollars going around.

I was planning on watching the first episode tonight, but I just had to watch both. Really, really good. I knew there's something wrong about twins. I've always been afraid of them.