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GTA6 prices out. Gonna be $80 for the "Standard Edition", so presumably £80 here. Won't get a disk either. Lovely 😒

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1ue9yht/megathread_grand_theft_auto_vi_prices_announced/

Hot take that no-one else on the planet will agree with, the best GTA is GTA2.

GTA2 was very good, and the interface change from the overhead original GTA made the game what it is now.

Let’s hope they actually stick to the GTA6 release date this time. Some of us have already booked the week off work in November!

Gta3 was the interface change, no?

Yes yes, realised that about a minute too late!

Duplicate and in using vf

Yeah it’s still doing that. Says error but posts anyway, often 404s when refreshing on vf.pb.com.

Looks like the Vanilla/Cloudflare interface is screwed, perhaps a failed server in the pool that doesn’t show as actually failed.

I'm thinking about dumping Vanilla, and just going full self hosted.

Brave but it shouldn't be that difficult nowadays..

When PB was first started, we used standard Wordpress comments.

As the site got more popular, though, it became unusable. In particular, it was very slow, and the site was absolutely spammed with adverts for certain pharmaceuticals that I know no PBer would ever need.

So, we changed first to Disqus (until the great threading disaster of 2011), and then Vanilla.

Candidly, Vanilla is expensive, and fragile. It does not work well with Cloudflare, and we've been getting duplicated posts.

And PB is now on a fairly high performance server in Finland. I suspect that it would be easily capable of handling comments on Wordpress. And I'm equally sure that spam management, etc is all much better.

So... when I next get a day off, I will almost certainly transition us over.

Chancellor and Foreign Sec is a little beyond even his talents.

Give FS to Carns, with the sole brief of shaking Trump extremely firmly by the hand until he surrenders.

He can multitask, just like I can.

The cabinet* should lead on Britain's productivity crisis by taking on multiple roles. With AI assistance. What could go wrong?

*Might be able to slim it down enough to make it a drawer!

I tested this plan by asking Copilot, "What should the UK Government's response be to the constitutional crisis around delayed elections in Gagauzia?" It recommended:

The UK should treat Gagauzia’s crisis as a rule‑of‑law and security issue in Moldova’s neighbourhood: back Chişinău’s constitutional framework, push hard (but quietly) for rapid, credible elections under national law, and work with EU/US/OSCE to deter spoilers—especially those linked to Russian influence—while visibly engaging Gagauz society so this doesn’t look like “London vs Gagauzia” but “London for free elections in Gagauzia”.

I think that's probably a better answer than 87% of MPs could come up with unaided. It then offered to sketch a short ministerial statement that looked good. I hereby approve Selebian's plan.

Of course, if the models ever get trained on US high level foreign policy discussions from recent years, the the answer to any question will, I guess, be bomb Iran!

We could use DeepSeek instead? Then the answer will always be to support the reunification of Taiwan with China.

Duplicate and in using vf

Yeah it’s still doing that. Says error but posts anyway, often 404s when refreshing on vf.pb.com.

Looks like the Vanilla/Cloudflare interface is screwed, perhaps a failed server in the pool that doesn’t show as actually failed.

I'm thinking about dumping Vanilla, and just going full self hosted.

Brave but it shouldn't be that difficult nowadays..

When PB was first started, we used standard Wordpress comments.

As the site got more popular, though, it became unusable. In particular, it was very slow, and the site was absolutely spammed with adverts for certain pharmaceuticals that I know no PBer would ever need.

So, we changed first to Disqus (until the great threading disaster of 2011), and then Vanilla.

Candidly, Vanilla is expensive, and fragile. It does not work well with Cloudflare, and we've been getting duplicated posts.

And PB is now on a fairly high performance server in Finland. I suspect that it would be easily capable of handling comments on Wordpress. And I'm equally sure that spam management, etc is all much better.

So... when I next get a day off, I will almost certainly transition us over.

Chancellor and Foreign Sec is a little beyond even his talents.

Give FS to Carns, with the sole brief of shaking Trump extremely firmly by the hand until he surrenders.

He can multitask, just like I can.

The cabinet* should lead on Britain's productivity crisis by taking on multiple roles. With AI assistance. What could go wrong?

*Might be able to slim it down enough to make it a drawer!

I tested this plan by asking Copilot, "What should the UK Government's response be to the constitutional crisis around delayed elections in Gagauzia?" It recommended:

The UK should treat Gagauzia’s crisis as a rule‑of‑law and security issue in Moldova’s neighbourhood: back Chişinău’s constitutional framework, push hard (but quietly) for rapid, credible elections under national law, and work with EU/US/OSCE to deter spoilers—especially those linked to Russian influence—while visibly engaging Gagauz society so this doesn’t look like “London vs Gagauzia” but “London for free elections in Gagauzia”.

I think that's probably a better answer than 87% of MPs could come up with unaided. It then offered to sketch a short ministerial statement that looked good. I hereby approve Selebian's plan.

Of course, if the models ever get trained on US high level foreign policy discussions from recent years, the the answer to any question will, I guess, be bomb Iran!

Chancellor and Foreign Sec is a little beyond even his talents.

Give FS to Carns, with the sole brief of shaking Trump extremely firmly by the hand until he surrenders.

He can multitask, just like I can.

The cabinet* should lead on Britain's productivity crisis by taking on multiple roles. With AI assistance. What could go wrong?

*Might be able to slim it down enough to make it a drawer!

I tested this plan by asking Copilot, "What should the UK Government's response be to the constitutional crisis around delayed elections in Gagauzia?" It recommended:

The UK should treat Gagauzia’s crisis as a rule‑of‑law and security issue in Moldova’s neighbourhood: back Chişinău’s constitutional framework, push hard (but quietly) for rapid, credible elections under national law, and work with EU/US/OSCE to deter spoilers—especially those linked to Russian influence—while visibly engaging Gagauz society so this doesn’t look like “London vs Gagauzia” but “London for free elections in Gagauzia”.

I think that's probably a better answer than 87% of MPs could come up with unaided. It then offered to sketch a short ministerial statement that looked good. I hereby approve Selebian's plan.