HowManyNimons

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[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How exactly is this any different to what they were doing 10 years ago?

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

There's only one way to find out!

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, my current plan is to pass on TES6.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

My town is in England so you know the rain will wash it away soon enough.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Blocked lmfao.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Or just don't go to restaurants. There are other ways of getting food.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

servers who were bad at their jobs would get paid just as well as servers that offer good service.

Black servers would be paid as well as white servers, servers whose chefs fucked up would be paid as well as lucky servers, mice would chase cats and the world would turn inside out!

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Are you OK? I like learning about ways people speak. If I wasn't interested I wouldn't have asked.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Pokemon Red: Rocket Edition is brilliant.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That makes sense. Thank you!

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I'm English and in England. I'm having a bit of trouble with "u get left on read.." Can someone help me out please?

 

It's never a "no" though, is it?

 

Thanks to the glorious shovelling of Classic Who onto BBC IPlayer, I have been enjoying a glut of mid-80s classic Who.

It struck me how many of the CBaker-McCoy era stories are dystopian tales, reflecting the pro-establishment neo-captialist society that the writers felt was being inflicted on them.

Varos, Paradise Towers and Terra Alpha (of Happiness Patrol) are obvious examples; Necros (Revelation of the Daleks) and is a particularly nasty one. Even Trial of a Timelord was, at its heart, a tale of authoritarianism and narrative control.

Modern Britain is clearly in another phase like the 80s. If anything, the authoritarianism is more extreme, and the government's avarice more naked.

So where are the writers' reactions to that nowadays? Whenever the show has recently attempted to address societal issues, it has been either a direct sermon like Orphan 55 or an incompetent muddle like Kerblam.

Where are the dystopias?

 

I suspect there's going to be more content coming up sooner than this, but it's good to have dates for the diary.

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