Dr. Gonzo

The commentators on my stream saying Concedo’s awful tackle was “accidental” - doesn’t look so accidental to me though.

Commentators don’t call anybody out for that tbh. And the reason is probably they don’t want to end up slating anybody on the off chance there’s an actual injury and end up looking like the most massive cunts

Dirty that from Concedo

If it makes you feel any better these Chelsea players don’t look very confident either.

Chelsea are a weird side and I wouldn't be surprised to see them win this, even though on form... I probably wouldn't expect them to. They're just such an unpredictable side. But if we have Mo and/or Darwin fit enough to start and play around 90 minutes, I feel a lot more confident.

He's talked about the "project" (the new stadium) being a "catalyst for regeneration" of the area - but the conversation he's talking about having had is taxpayer money building his new stadium, not the rejuvenation of a rundown area. Although tbf, getting taxpayers to bankroll billionaires might be the only way to realistically get the clowns in parliament to give a fuck about putting money back into communities in the north.

Idk if there's an eyeroll emoji or not, so just pretend my eyes are rolling around in my head at this. But that's very much ignoring that: But yes, boo hoo United are being shat upon for no good reason - has nothing to do with a billionaire proposing he get a handout from a country he's from that doesn't pay taxes in, in an attempt to be more like American owners that time and time again fuck over their matchgoing fans in the name of chasing cash. I'm sure as he begs for money, he'll make the argument that if the city doesn't fund the stadium he'll have to make ticket prices skyrocket - it'll get fans more onboard. And then I'm sure he'll do the typical thing people do when they get a stadium built for them with taxpayer funds and increase the prices by a lot anyway. Like I said, he owns the club - but he works for fans of the club, the fans would do well to remind him of that. I shouldn't care if United fans get fucked over by their owner, I should think it's funny because... I'm a Liverpool fan. Instead, I'm against it because if shit like this can creep into a club like Man Utd, it can creep into any club in England. City and West Ham are also run by some pretty disgraceful people, United fans should be holding their owners to a higher standard than them.

Sentences for crimes that I think are very serious often have me confused when they don't seem to match the crime. I'm sure 4 years is a long time in prison, but doesn't seem very long to keep a rapist locked up - does it?

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68361025 "It's about time someone built a national stadium in the north of England," said the British billionaire. Ratcliffe added the potential project could be a "catalyst for regeneration" in south Manchester and would therefore warrant a "conversation" with the government about using taxpayers' money. In his first broadcast interview, with BBC sports editor Dan Roan, since completing his deal to buy 27.7% of the club, Ratcliffe added: "If it can be achieved, it would clearly be my preference. It might "warrant a conversation" - but that conversation should be "fuck off, you're a billionaire living in Monaco not paying British taxes - you pay for your own stadium."

Realistically, no billionaires should be struggling to put up a new stadium, regardless of how expensive it is. But @The Palace Fan is right that it's popular among US ownership of professional teams to ask cities to foot the bill for a new stadium. San Diego lost its NFL team because they told the billionaire asking for handouts to pay their own money if they wanted to stay in the city. Oakland's losing its baseball team for the same reason (although with teams moving to Vegas, they're thinking about tourism revenue at matches more than giving a fuck about having a solid home crowd imo). I think Kroenke's NFL team, the LA Rams, did foot the bill when they built the new stadium in LA (that they share with the side that used to be from San Diego, and charge them rent for using that stadium) - but he did fuck over the existing fans of the team when he moved them over several states to California. I don't think it's just that people love a story about United and run away with it - I think its concerning to see massive football clubs start acting with the entitlement of American billionaire team owners and start asking for handouts from the government. This "business first" approach to sports invading football is going to be concerning, because in US sports imo the local fans are truly an afterthought in most situations. Man Utd's a massive club, them taking this route is a slippery slope for modern football... and a decent amount of football fans are already turned off massively by how the game has changed. I think more than anyone else, Man Utd fans, should be vocal about telling Ratcliffe to fuck off with this asking for a handout shite. It's not a good sign of his plans for his overall respect of the United fans that matter most, the lifelong fans that care more about the club than anyone on the planet. It's like when FSG tried to copyright the liverbird - they were rightly slated for trying to claim ownership of a symbol of the city of Liverpool that had belonged to the city far before it ever had any association with FSG & backed down. Ratcliffe's a part owner of the club now - but he works for the United fans now - taking actions that demonstrate the fans are secondary is something that should 100000% be something that irritates the hell out of every United fan in the world.

Kind of immediately became canon as soon as the people who own the IP wrote the stories and made the games though? Not really the case with the mods though - that's more just fan-fiction. When Bethesda (who are located in Bethesda, Maryland) bought the franchise it was no longer the same development team - but a lot of the spirit of the original games is there & I think the devs wanted to work with the world that was closer to home (Bethesda happens to be right by Washington D.C.) - similar to what the original Fallout developers did in building out the wasteland's California (and what they returned to when given the opportunity to make New Vegas - again, not too far from California). There's generally not a lot of lore regarding Europe or the UK in the Fallout series other than mentioning that Europe was devastated by the "Resource Wars" & the UK just has brief mentions in some of the games - I think most notably Far Harbor has someone that fled the UK's wasteland to cross the Atlantic, and in Fallout 3 I think there's a holotape about someone who leaves the DC area to seek their fortune in the UK. I guess I'm just not really that into fan fiction. So this mod isn't really for me. Hopefully it's good though and the mod team gets rewarded with some jobs in the industry - the industry needs more passionate developers imo.

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This

Tried Palworld, thought it was shite. My friends love it though. I'm playing Frog Detective now.

Another reason why I don't really think this mod will fit in with the canon of the series at all. I'm not even sure how much it'll fit in with the canon of the game as it stands anyways as Europe was meant to be devastated by warfare ahead of the Great War - so seeing so much of London still in tact in the trailer has me thinking "don't think they've really read the source material that closely."

Edwards turned down returning to us and Real Madrid because he's trying to build his consultancy business and get money from as many clubs as possible, doubt he goes back to being a DoF.

lol what a dickhead

I'm not too keen on story based mods that give their own interpretation of the Fallout world tbh because I quite like the lore and story of Fallout and I think "non-canon" stories in any context are a bit off putting and weird. Hope it's good though because good modders of Bethesda games tend to get jobs at Bethesda in the future and that's always nice to hear about.

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Not Russia I’m worried about doing that, but Israel - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option#Deterrence_doctrine

I'm pretty sure public support for Netanyahu in Israel is at an all time low - but at the same time, I'm also pretty sure public support for a ceasefire and even a two-state solution in Israel are at an all time low as well. Palestinians have never really been too keen on a two-state solution either. A ceasefire is an acceptance of the status quo, I think both sides have very clearly thrown the status quo out of the window. However, these two groups left to their own devices will turn to ethnic cleansing to achieve the peace they imagine. I just don't see how the international community can keep their idea of the status quo alive and hope for peace. The west needs to stop turning a blind eye to IDF war crimes and to Netanyahu's terrible tenure as Israel's leader. The West rightly doesn't trust Hamas for obvious reasons, it's time to take the same attitude with Israel and let them know they've got to be held to the same standard of following the laws of modern warfare as the west. But it's obviously tougher for the international community to impose its will on a nuclear armed country - let alone one that has indicated in the past it won't hesitate to launch nukes if it feels alone and threatened.

The "historical justification" Putin gave for the war is basically the same argument as the justification for Hitler annexing territories under the policy of Lebensraum. Annexing territories and classifying people as people of Russian descent, passive Russian descent, the "voluntary Russofied," and the "forcibly Russofied"... that's all basically a copy of: Volksdeutsche (ethnically German), Deutschstammige (German descent), Eingedeutsche (volunitarily Germanised), and Ruckdegeutschte (forcibly Germanised). We know what happens when you appease expansionist dictators, we've seen this film before.

Armenia warns Azerbaijan is planning for a full-scale war: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/azerbaijan-planning-full-scale-war-armenia-warns/ar-BB1ijUfK Another war in Europe with the aggressor once again being someone the EU relies on for natural gas might be on the cards.

Brexit Britain has 'significantly underperformed' other advanced economies, Goldman Sachs says - shrinking it by 5% https://www.marketwatch.com/story/higher-inflation-much-weaker-growth-brexit-has-hit-the-u-k-economy-hard-says-goldman-sachs-e6d1211e .....Whoever could have possibly thought separating yourself from your main market without any planning whatsoever would weaken the economy? Why didn't the experts warn us?! Too bad the electorate is just painfully fucking stupid, because the political ruling class have absolutely let Britain down and are 100% directly responsible for the steady decline of British living standards & quality of life. People that took a 51-49 referendum vote and acted like that was an unfettered mandate for something they couldn't even define other than "Brexit means Brexit" absolutely deserve all the flak in the world for the consequences of their actions. But so many of them will likely be safe in their seats and feel no sting from the electorate they've let down. Pretty sad tbh.

Has Taylor Swift ever made any political endorsements before? It seems sort of like the kind of thing I wouldn't expect a well liked pop star to do because doing anything divisive would probably hurt her image.