Billionaires should not own social media platforms.
Billionaires should not run our newspapers.
Billionaires should not control our politics.
A free media is a democratic media - a public good that is owned and run by us all.
Kids these days don’t understand that memes used to last YEARS. Not days or weeks. YEARS. This was foundational. One of the core pillars upon which the rest of this *gestures broadly* was built.
Often, comedians are labelled as people who 'tell it like it is' and 'aren't afraid to tackle difficult topics' this is possibly the first time I've ever seen it done well lol
Look at this.
A fucking gobshite imbecile that somehow fluked his way into parliament thinking he can blag an interview with rudeness & zero understanding of the subject.
God, this country is at a depressingly low ebb.
They’ve got zero memetic resistance to our shit, the day NK opens up it’ll be the intellectual equivalent of small pox being introduced to the Americas
Can Britain afford a 6% increase in the minimum wage? With me in the studio to discuss this are an £91,000 a year Tory MP, a £250,000 a year journalist, and an investment banker who has just been given a bonus worth five times his already astronomical salary.
We released gta San Andreas 20 years ago. October 26, 2004.
Game releases were different back then.
It took 6 weeks for the DVDs to be produced, boxed and distributed. Patches over the internet were not yet a thing.
For us, all of the stress had happened at the cut-off point, 6 weeks prior. No big issues had come up.
Most devs had taken a holiday and we were already thinking about our next project.
Digital distribution didn’t exist yet. Games were typically released on a Tuesday/Wednesday in the US and Fridays in the UK. Same for SA.
The internet was crap and apart from a couple of trailers, gamers didn’t know too much about the game.
For big games, stores would open at Midnight before release day so that pre-orders could be picked up.
I only later found out, the publisher has to pay the stores to make these late openings happen.
I went to the biggest store near the R*North offices, which was HMV on Princess Street, Edinburgh. Even though it was a drizzly night, the line meandered all through the store and spilled out onto the street.
It was mind-blowing to see all those people so excited, going home to play the game all through the night.
its very cool that youtube is the largest collection of video footage ever assembled and it's borderline impossible to search. rocking up to the library of alexandria and the guy keeps showing you the same three scrolls and standing in your way if you try to look at anything else