Venning Bellasis

Mostly lurking. But I write stories.
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[Venning Bellasis @VenningB_Writes]

Pervy MPs? ✅ MPs with offensive views? ☑️ MPs shagging in unusual places✅ Debates? Many! ☑️ Blackmail & Tory Plots? ✅ Insulting still-warm-dead-royals and almost losing careers? ☑️ Floor crossing! ✅All in here for £4! https://t.co/HcYbZ7ldqM #romancenovel #enemiestolovers 📚

[Rewild Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳 @RewildScotland]

“My daddy who shot for Oxford you know had to have his pistols put in a locked box because of one wee murder in Scotland.” He is referring to the mass murder of 16 five year olds and a teacher.

[Venning Bellasis @VenningB_Writes]

My new novel came out today!

https://t.co/WlXsfqCI2c

[Venning Bellasis @VenningB_Writes]

My new novel came out today!

https://t.co/WlXsfqCI2c

[Lucy Nichol / Lucy Roth @LucyENichol]

The second is the follow up. Parklife.
Set in 96. Two years on.
Emma hits rock bottom. Loses her job and her boyfriend. It’s set against the backdrop of Brit Pop. Rat from Ned’s Atomic Dustbin seemed to love it! Here’s the link: https://t.co/c7i7mZ6u8m

[Lucy Nichol / Lucy Roth @LucyENichol]

The first is called THE TWENTY SEVEN CLUB. Opening on the day when Nirvana fan Emma learns of the tragic death of Kurt Cobain and questions her own mortality. Here’s the link: https://t.co/YVRjfj54o8

[Lucy Nichol / Lucy Roth @LucyENichol]

This is a bit of a cringey desperate post but needs must 😢

I’ve just lost a couple thousand self publishing a book - I’m a hybrid author (published traditionally and self published) and I decided to self publish my book I was most passionate about to have total control. BUT…

[ᴛᴏʀɪ ✨ @ItsToriGalvin]

If your view on this whole ‘PlayStation going fully digital and doing away with physical’ is as follows
“I haven’t bought a physical disc since blah blah blah so nothing will change for me”
“They have to cut their losses most people buy digital anyway”
“Get with the times”
You’re just telling people that you are genuinely a selfish person and are missing the whole point of why so many people are outraged by this. What they’re doing is not okay.

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

BREAKING NEWS

[Mags @MagsSnik]

Here they come. All the momentum crowd crawling out of the woodwork…

[ZombiesLvBacon @ZombiesLvBacon]

My biggest issue with PlayStation moving away from physical games isn’t just “I like discs.”

It’s competition.

Digital was sold as convenience: no store trip, no packaging, no waiting. Cool. But it was never cheaper. Physical has almost always been where the deals are because retailers compete, run loss leaders, clear stock, and there’s a second-hand market.

Remove physical and you remove all of that.

No borrowing a game from a mate. No resale. No trade-ins. No preowned copy for someone on a budget. No EB/JB/Amazon/Big W fighting over who has the cheapest launch price. No real alternative storefront.

Just PlayStation Store, PlayStation’s price, PlayStation’s rules, and PlayStation’s cut.

That’s not just “the future.” That’s anti-consumer and anti-competitive.

Convenience is great. A closed market where one company controls access, pricing, licensing, and availability is not.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

We own nothing. We own a PS download code. a Spotify subscription, a Netflix password, an MS Office license. Corporations are keeping all the power and they will weaponize it when the time is right.

[Venning Bellasis @VenningB_Writes]

A few years ago, a bad RDRO update affected RDR2's story mode. It annoyed me so much that I reinstalled it with the base disc and refused all updates until it was patched.
With digital only, we have to tolerate all their fuck-ups.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

I completely understand where you’re coming from, but for a lot of gamers physical discs are the only way they could afford to play games because they could get them secondhand. You can also give games to your younger siblings Which is a great way to introduce them to the games you were playing.

Most importantly though, as we saw from PlayStation this past week, if the media we buy is only digital, it can be taken away from us at a moment’s notice with no recourse. Imagine that, one day your entire library of games could be deleted overnight because technically you don’t own it.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

I completely understand where you’re coming from, but for a lot of gamers physical discs are the only way they could afford to play games because they could get them secondhand. You can also give games to your younger siblings Which is a great way to introduce them to the games you were playing.

Most importantly though, as we saw from PlayStation this past week, if the media we buy is only digital, it can be taken away from us at a moment’s notice with no recourse. Imagine that, one day your entire library of games could be deleted overnight because technically you don’t own it.

[Malcolm Tucker @gorbalsgoebbels]

This needs community noted.

Burnham left because he was beaten by Corbyn and thought he was finished. Then he saw a chance to prolong the grift by becoming Mayor of Greater Manchester.

It was not because “Westminster wasn’t working.”

That’s just more Burnham bullshit.

[Venning Bellasis @VenningB_Writes]

@LaindonFEMINIST I'd like Burgon out too.

[Venning Bellasis @VenningB_Writes]

My book cover before it was born. Soft pastels. #writingcommunity #notAI https://t.co/YizdbFJ6oA

[IandrewDiceClay @IANdrewDiceClay]

This was only ever aired once, and never released on VHS or DVD due to Michael Barrymore's arrested and cancellation. Jimmy Savile in Bob Martin doing the most hiding in plain sight cameo ever. Creepiest thing I've ever seen.

[PJ @PJ11819211]

A good bit in GTA V is how they set up Michael's movie hobby. It's presented as a classy, genuine thing he loves doing and it's partly the reason he moved to Vinewood.

Michael complains constantly about how shallow and uneducated the younger generation are, that they should

[Venning Bellasis @VenningB_Writes]

This is an amazing game. I recommend.

[GermanStrands @GermanStrands]

Watch Dogs 2's Steam player count increased 16x over the weekend, rising from 1,000 to 16,000.

That's the highest player count the game has seen in years and is close to its all-time Steam peak of 18,000 concurrent players.

https://t.co/0RFVflPAse

[Jmq1878 @MrH12009923]

@JocastaMoney Andy Burnham when he goes to visit his mam on Sundays