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I'm not normally keen on mentioning people's spelling and grammar mistakes, but if they're going to be dickheads about the language everyone is speaking while writing "your a dumbass", "has major issue", and "germen" then it's another matter

Well they are right next door to the country that made an award-winning reindeer pizza out of spite, so probably

You'd better bring a copy of the Noita wiki with you so that you can decipher what half the late game stuff is/does. Or even just where it is. Although I suppose if you have basically unlimited time, you could just do your alchemy from first principles

Gotta be one of the Paradox strategy games. I have two reasons for this: the first is that a good game unavoidably takes ages on them, so they have staying power; the other is that I know how to mod them, so I can make myself new scenarios once I get fed up of it. I'll bring Crusader Kings 3 and Victoria 3 because I like them but haven't yet played them much

I'll add in Assetto Corsa and Dirt Rally 2 for some driving. Both have very high skill ceilings that I am nowhere near, so that gives me a lot to do. I also don't own a wheel, so if I get that as part of the deal then that'd be fun to try. These two also have an odd bonus for me: they both have courses set near my home. I can sort of visit them by playing when I get a bit homesick

Lastly I'll have Deep Rock Galactic for low effort shooty fun. I can't always be putting mental energy into games

There are games I like as much or more than these five but which lack the replayability for this scenario. Like I adore Outer Wilds, but you can only really play it once

Right, well until someone has a real plan for actually doing that, I'm still going to suggest that we should ban the bottom trawling equipment in the meantime

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359281130_New_perspectives_on_an_old_fishing_practice_Scale_context_and_impacts_of_bottom_trawling

China and Vietnam do the most and second-most bottom trawling in the world. We need to collectively ban the equipment, because the economic pressure exists regardless of which extant system the country uses

As I understand it they're basically just avoiding doing anything that might destabilise the status quo. Changing the country's name to something else is saying "we are actually a separate country from China" as opposed to being in a frozen war where both sides theoretically claim to be the same country. The ambiguity lets them be de facto independent and lets the PR of China say "it's de jure ours" without either side actually going to war about it at the moment, so the ambiguity stays

The part about the UI is probably substantially down to what you're used to. I used Inkscape for a long time and recently-ish had to start on Affinity for work, and holy shit Affinity's UI deserves to be made into a person solely so that we can execute it for its crimes. Because I'm used to Inkscape.

It's the estate that makes the income though, not the family. In the UK most of that estate is owned by the position of the monarch itself rather than by the monarch; a perk of the job, not private property. In other words it'd probably still make just as much money in a republic, arguably more since we could let visitors in to see the buildings

Additionally, a figurehead monarch doesn’t address any of the issues with a successful Trump-like politician. Here in the UK I often hear people saying "would you want a President Boris Johnson?" No, I wouldn't, but him being called Prime Minister instead of President removed literally none of his practical political power

My bad. I blame the thirty eight million times I heard people make the argument earnestly after the British queen died

It's the country's law, you can call the high commissioner "king" if you agree to. Ireland calls its prime minister and deputy PM "taoiseach" and "tánaiste" respectively, which are monarchic titles from the Gaelic clan system

Versailles gets fifteen million visitors a year

The simplest method in most cases would probably just be to change the law about succession. Keep the position of king, just make it an elected or appointed one. That way nothing else has to be touched unless you want to change it

The tourism argument is frequently bandied about, but I don't think there's much substance to it. The tourist attractions are the buildings (which obviously don't disappear in the event of ending the monarchy) and ceremonies (which you can keep if you choose to, including the fancy costumes). It's particularly unconvincing here in the UK when we are literally right next door to France, the world's number one tourist destination. Versailles does not lack for visitors.

There is no way this doesn’t wind up making an ad that's misleading enough to get Netflix and/or the advertiser in trouble

• A Highland Song. I can confirm that this one is nice to take a walk through because it is a game about running through a fictionalised version of a place I frequently enjoy walking through in real life. Possibly stretching the definition of open world a little, but the gameplay is about navigation
• Shadow of the Colossus. Which is good because you do spend a lot of time walking across it.

Also, not an open world game at all, but the environments in Pacer are amazing. You barely get a chance to look at them because you're zooming along a racetrack at 400 mph, but they're still there. Sonashahar is a futuristic neoclassical Indian city, and I want to explore that

I don't think I agree with that. None of the Souls games ever had anything like Siofra River or Liurnia. Areas like Leyndell and Farum Azula, sure, but there's a lot of variety in the Elden Ring map

The visuals were stunning but am I fuck taking a walk through:

• The ultra-plague fallout zone
• The lake of giant sniper lobsters
• The mountaintops of giant spiders made from hands with way too many fingers