European Commission Reveals New Games from Tequila Works, Zoink

Things are looking pretty good.

Revolution software are one of the 2 uk bids, allegedly making a vr game. So thats pretty big?

Not getting drawn into politics, but the impact of brexit on our gaming industry in Britain has the potential to be significant and more than a little concerning

I saw it playing the stick of truth. Yay.

@adf86 Article 13?

@get2sammyb I don’t know about UK politics, but I’ve thought that the Queen was the big deal, she can behead the traitors and stuff. Word up son.

@TowaHerschel7 Watch the news look it up check the Jimquistion. 😁

@Flaming_Kaiser So essentially the destruction of the internet, oh joy...

@Get2SammyB Will press websites like Push Square and my own be able to use press assets and links that we have permission from the owners to publish or will the online outlets simply be forced to vanish into the sunset?

@TowaHerschel7 Thats why we need some people in Brussel who know what they are talking about. 😢

@Spectra Nah, a second referendum would just further divide the country.

We all voted, we had our say, one side won. If we don’t respect that then our democracy becomes meaningless and people will feel they have no voice in this country. That is already how a lot of people feel about the EU, that they don’t listen to them, if the “powers that be” pull a stunt like that it will just cement peoples ideologies and leave them feeling even more angry.

@Kienda @Spectra
I agree the outcome is the outcome. You can’t keep voting in a democracy till you get the result you want that would be an awful way to run a country. Your vote would mean nothing

@gingerfrog
Democracy are stable precisely because any decision can be challenged. People always free to campaign against any law policy they don’t like.
A week is a long time in politics and that referendum was definitely more than a week ago.

@PS_Nation She could but she got all chop happy and got the executioners to pop off their own heads so now she has no one to do it. Very short sighted of her.

@gingerfrog More time has passed between the referendum and now than did between the 2015 and 2017 general elections. How does that square with your idea of a democratic voting system? The idea that we voted once and that's all there is to it is a tired and disingenuous argument.

@PaperyWhiteBoy The lizard people are running EU and UK dodged a bullet thanks to the referendum.

@Kienda Whilst I don't want to get into the politics, one side (leave) did get more votes - although you could argue that they voted more on the immigration and border control than the prospect of actually leaving the EU. I don't think the politicians were very clear on what people were actually voting about or the impact that their decision would mean.

However, the split was very close and if you take those that didn't vote too, over half the country didn't vote to leave. There was more people that didn't vote to leave because you have the half that voted to stay plus all the others that didn't or couldn't vote. You also had quite a divide where Scotland for example unanimously voted to stay in the EU - every area voted to stay and not one area wanted to leave. It certainly wasn't a unanimous decision overall and the country is split by this. Essentially, you have 17.5m people, of a nation of 66m deciding the future - that's just over a quarter of the population and around a quarter voted to stay.

I am not saying we should have a 2nd referendum but I don't necessarily think that the vote itself and the implications of it were handled well in the lead up - it seemed more about the immigration crises than actually leaving the EU. Whether we do leave or not, the country is split and like I said, 3/4's of the population didn't vote to leave (or stay for that matter).

Democracy is a funny thing. If you look at the voting for the political leadership, more people didn't vote for the party in control. If they had 40%, which may well be the highest single party vote, that means that 60% didn't want them in power - its hardly the 'majority' that voted them in when the majority actually voted against them. More people didn't vote than did too - maybe a sign that 60% of the potential voters had no faith in the system or options. Again not saying that any of the others actually deserve to be in power more but the point is that there generally is more people that didn't vote for a particular outcome - whether they voted for the other option(s) or couldn't/didn't vote. As I said, only a quarter of the population voted to leave - meaning 3/4's of the population didn't vote to leave.

I am not discussing the politics here, just pointing out that not everything is black or white. Yes, the higher percentage of people that voted, voted to leave - albeit by a small majority, but that was not the majority of the population or the majority of those able to vote as ~30% didn't vote for whatever reason. The same is true for the 'Stay' of course but either way, around a quarter of the population has decided the future - not the majority and the country is still split.

@PS_Nation Next week on Name That Conspiracy...!

@BAMozzy I get that completely, but you kind of answer your own question with your comment. Or at least, confirm what I’m trying to say.

You are right that the Conservatives won with 42% of the votes, but only 68% of eligible people voted. We didn’t call for a second vote after a general election though. It is decided on the night.

The same happened in the 2015 election. UKIP had 3.8 million people vote for it, yet only won a single seat. SNP had 1.4 million people vote for it but won 56 seats. One was voted for far more, yet the other held massive sway in the house of commons whilst the other was nearly none existent, despite millions more people supporting it. There was no second vote about that.

Now, Brexit is a bit of a bigger decision and more impacting that the votes mentioned above, but we all knew the terms.

No democracy is perfect in terms of representation. And, likewise, democracies can be flawed if everyone votes for the “wrong” thing. We just can’t keep voting over and over though. Everyone knew the rules, we all voted, that’s the end of it in my mind.

However, I think we can all agree that it hasn’t been handled very well after the event.

@PaperyWhiteBoy But this is confirmed by the International Institute of Scientific Truth and Knowledge.

@Spectra yeah. I think the uncertainty is what is the most troubling. We need direction and clarity moving forward.

My personal view is that whether we remain within the EU or break away from it, Britain can be fine either way. We just need to work together. And at the moment our parliament isn’t work together and the EU isn’t working with us and so on.

In the end it is the public being screwed by all of them. As far as I can tell, the public is quite united that we think the politicians are screwing us over. But that is how they have always been (in my mind at least).