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Yeah, public Bruce Wayne is a knob. The only time we see a remotely sympathetic Bruce is when he is alone with Alfred or Fox. If you only watch the Alfred and Fox interactions, he's quite likeable (imho), he's respectful of Fox's intelligence and strong moral convictions, and also of Alfred's worldly experience and treats him as an equal despite Alfred being a servant and in theory waaaaaay down the social ladder. When he's around anyone else, he's a tool. Since he is mostly around other people, he is mostly a tool, therefore you think he is a full-time tool, even though he is a pretty cool guy. Eh has no parents and doesn't afraid of anything. Sorry... After I wrote "pretty cool guy" I felt I had to follow through...

Formally, the government writes a speech that the Queen will deliver upon appointing a new government. This speech sets out the policies of the government for that term. Before this speech is delivered to the Queen to be read out, it must be voted for by a simple majority of the 650 elected officials forming the "House of Commons" or "Parliament" ("MPs"). Clearly, if your party has 326 MPs, it's a slam dunk. Your speech will get the necessary votes, and your party is invited to form a government with you at the helm. If you have say 300, and the third biggest party has 30, then you can agree to form a coalition, they will add their votes to yours, and your speech is voted in etc... If you form a minority government then there is a chance your speech will be voted down and you will not be able to form a government. There's then another period of negotiation while everyone tries to get a set of policies together that can achieve a majority.

Not quite. 1. The party votes internally for their leader. This person is also one of the 650 representatives and is aligned with that party. 2. The public vote for a representative to occupy one of the 650 seats. 3. If a party has 326 (or more) of the 650 seats, then whoever they chose as their leader will be the PM. You can only be PM if you can run the government. The most certain way to do that is to have your party sitting in 326 or more seats. Otherwise, you can form a coalition with another party to make up the numbers. Or you can say "fuck it" and try to run a government with less than a majority and hope that you can bargain with other representatives to get your policies voted through one at a time.

He's supposed to be somewhat unlikeable isn't he? He's a billionaire who shuns personal connections for fear of getting those around him hurt, pretends to be a drunk arsehole to get people safely out of his mansion before a fight kicks off and pretends to be in such a rush to be a billionaire dick somewhere that he sideswipes a police car in a Lamborghini. Just as he lets Batman become the scapegoat for Dent's murder, he lets Bruce Wayne be seen as a bit of a knob. All for the Greater Good™.

Each of the 650 constituencies votes for a representative (as in the general public vote for an individual to represent them in government, this individual will be aligned with one of the parties or an independent). If your party has less than 326 representatives, you cannot guarantee winning votes by simple majority (assuming no rebellions from your party), you therefore have a "minority government" and have to rely upon other parties to vote alongside you. If anything it makes a government more democratic because people outside of the 51% who broadly favour the majority party have more of a say.

I would bump both Cap films down that list, and push Thor and Iron man into the top 5.

All except Enchantress and Croc look like cosplayers. Also lol at Fresh Prince.

Sometimes you are scarily on my wavelength.

Wouldn't it just be a town? Towns are essentially groups of small population centres, clustered around a central area containing amenities.

Kenshi and I met an invader.

Village?

You have to get an item and go to a place I think.

Are we supposed to be using sticky out tongue smilies at the end of every sentence? I agree with Ethan to an extent, I don't think that spawning at the boss would be a BadThing™. It was a design choice. It's one that I can live with, but I get that some may find it a punishment too far. Personally, I'm finding that this game draws me in even when frustrating me. I large part due to the fact that it has such a coherent design aesthetic. Different areas are clearly identifiable, but still feel part of the same world, at least so far.

Gotcha. Yeah, I guess activating the spawn in the boss room (I think every boss I've defeated thus far has resulted in a spawn location) would be nice. It would save having to dash/creep to a boss each time you die. For me it's a minor niggle at this point as you almost always open up a decent shortcut. But it can be annoying if you get turned around when trying to run to a boss.

This is so true. While your stats and weapons do give you an edge as you level up, you are still just as liable to get ganked by a gang of low level mobs at the end of the game as the start. The real difference is that you learn optimal timing and position and you get better every time you die. Sometimes, you even die on purpose, you sprint through a section to grab an item, or open a shortcut, knowing that you are kiting a bunch of mobs who are going to wipe you out, but it's cool because you respawn with the item or with the shortcut activated, knowing that next time round you can bypass all the enemies who just eviscerated you.

I do like the occasional sojourn into the British esoteric.

It has been spoke three times and yay the bearded one doth appear with his familiar... Tremble in horror!

ASMR Video Game Dude. *Hey, you look nice today, I'm going to whisper the step by step process of playing this game with exaggerated assonance and glopping.* Re: The Mickey game, the Minnie Mouse second character thing actually looks like an interesting innovation. I know you're joking but that sounds like a channel that could actually get a following. Would likely need to swap dude with chick, but yeah, scarily viable.

ASMR Video Game Dude. *Hey, you look nice today, I'm going to whisper the step by step process of playing this game with exaggerated assonance and glopping.* Re: The Mickey game, the Minnie Mouse second character thing actually looks like an interesting innovation.

"We're not responsible for our actions, we're only doing it because someone else told us to." That's begging for a Godwin.

One of my early frustrations with Bloodborne was that you don't get your first Insight until you meet the first boss (or find a madman's skull). Having to go through so much of the game without even opening up the most basic levelling did leave me feeling like I was making no progress. I think 1 Insight (to activate the doll) should have been available somewhere more accessible, maybe a messenger in the hunter's dream offering up a skull or some such? Once you are able to start levelling you get the feeling of progress, even if it isn't all that impactful, which will keep you playing until the real game changer (you gittin gud) happens.

I think this is the most wonderfully paced game I've ever played. Not sure where to head next. But I can't wait to go there.

I don't mind Jim. Not familiar with Angry Joe. If you mean the Franklin/Boogie creature. His angry persona pisses me right off. Jim usually has something worthwhile to say and his and is normally controlled or focussed. Boogie/Franklin on the other hand is just a frothing ball of impotent rage that makes little sense to me. That said, he's very popular so what do I know?

If you say those words one more time he will appear.