Because no system is perfectly secure. It only takes one foolish mistake by someone with global access to the data, and it’s leaked forever, and they have forever to keep trying.

If we had capable leadership, I’d absolutely agree with you. Evidence is telling me that’s just not happening, and not going to happen any time soon, though. Instead, it’s far more likely any data they do get will be “anonymised”, bundled up and sold off to a company the person making the decision has a large stake in, if not by this government than by the next.

No idea why would would be downvoted without a comment, though. It might be wishful thinking, but your commentary is legitimate.

We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are.

Fuck Reeves.

Fuck Starmer.

Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.

One day I’ll get that 7 orb Liadri achievement too, lol. Every year I give it a token gesture of effort then tell myself I’ll give it a proper try later.

My Necro main is in full VoE mode right now, so I’m using Eternal Alchemist as a Male Asura Ritualist, while dressed in the Ritualist outfit.

Before that, I used “Master of the Rifts” since it’s apparently the rarest title I have, despite being relatively easy to get (just time consuming).

I use Kingslayer on one of my alts since I enjoyed the challenge of getting it as a glass-cannon DPS without exploiting or cheesing it.

Dark Traveller on another character since it’s a reasonably cool title.

Looks like the story keeps changing, it was being reported as “three down arrows” a few hours ago, now, as you say, “an up, right and three down arrows” which I absolutely agree is a Helldivers 2 reference.

Just like the supposed “transgender ideology” that turned out to be the TRN stamp from Turan Ammo, I daresay the details of the other engravings will change a couple more times before they actually release pictures of them.

He put the Antifa ↓↓↓ on there too, though. Along with another casing with the lyrics to Bella Ciao. I can’t see someone that’s not in the anti-fascist space thinking of putting those markings onto casings, honestly.

I would love for it to be a Groyper just to have every conservative awkwardly ignore that the past couple days happened and scramble to cover their tracks.

Edit: They have now been named as Tyler Robinson, and the evidence points to them being very much in-line with Antifa 😔

Remember, if you recognise him - you don’t.

Feels like it’s been less Great Britain and more Little America for decades now, with no signs of slowing down.

It really is. I’ve been recommending it to anyone that can handle its heavy content. I didn’t realise the final episode’s promo was designed to join the two manga covers though. That really is peak.

Anime is Takopii’s Original Sin.

Wow, so this is still on the slate for 2025 I guess? I’d seen so little on it that I expected it to be pushed back.

Something or someone that has been denounced by an authority, usually with a religious context. Since every Revenant elite specialisation is named according to the legend tied to it, I considered a specific character that was a villain who I thought would be really interesting to channel the powers of:

Oh nice, I haven’t heard anyone suggest the fire-fox-rabbit could be for Guardian. I wonder what we could call that? If the virtues are linked to different creatures, Menagerist could be something.

I’m going for some more unusual picks. I’d prefer the lute to be on Mesmer, but that throws everything else out, and I really want that swirly icon to represent Dervish, which has to be on Elementalist IMO.

Wow, I remember finding that story 20-odd years ago but could never remember the title or author. Pretty good short story IIRC, and more relevant than ever, it’s themes have been on my mind on and off quite a bit these past few years.

Is this from a new trailer?

I can’t imagine the data would even be readable after all this time. Hard Drives ain’t built to survive being in a tip for a decade, so the odds that water, corrosive liquid and gas got in there is pretty high. That layer that actually holds the data on the platter is incredibly delicate of course, so I wouldn’t hold any hope that the platter could even be removed and read. Must be terrible to have to get up for work every day knowing what slipped through your fingers.

Gainax may have ruined Christmas, but Trigger saved it.

After around 16,000 hours, I’ve found WoW to be a lot more fun playing with others than just restricting myself to open world and full-PUG content. The last expansion was decent (story was a bit meh, but gameplay was great) and the current expansion has been okay so far. I just hope they can get balancing right on events going forward, since it’s getting tiring seeing them create a massive artificial grind then walk back on it a week or two later.