online puritanism is toxic, stupid and harmful. Trying to promote such silly policies is one of the many reasons Labour is not a viable party to vote for (as well as the transphobia and the inability to engage with the EU) - you had your chance, and you blew it, sorry.

it seems to be a recurrent fantasy, largely from people that don't seem to actually play games, that having NPCs able to spew endless dialog is somehow a useful/good thing, for reasons that are often vague at best!

nerds that are great at crunchy, technical stuff aren't that rare, yeah. Nerds that can do that AND are actually good at communicating and dealing with people? That's a much rarer (and valuable!) skillset, and much harder to learn.

always funny when consultants say "oh, just tidy the data" without realising that it needs a *lot* of manhours, from people with quite dedicated and niche knowledge (as well as data-manipulation skills!) to do that. "cool, come back in, uh... 2 years, and it'll be mostly better"

I don't think they're even willing to formally commit to "closer ties with the EU" beyond the most mealy-mouthed vagueness, even though that would be really obvious to do, and helpful for all sorts of things

Guess those narwhals are going to have to figure out how to roll dice, to get the best use of the games they've got now!

I don't think even Bond nerds really care about "canon" outside of where it's a deliberate thing between movies, because it's so patently absurd trying to create anything wider! New dude on a mission, establish whatever period and tone it is, musical sting, barrel shot, opening credits, job done

he's gonna unleash the thompers! bap-bap-bap!

the owner of a building company may well still consider themselves working class, despite running a company and doing management work all day, yeah. And, culturally, that might be true (while an upperclass person might have fallen on hard times and be poor, but still upperclass culturally)

although that all sounds *upper*middle-class these days - like, lots of tuition and the opera is expensive, and a lot of middle-class people may only be on 30, 40k, without even thinking of private school, because that's a LOT of cash!

A hazy mixture of family wealth, background, cultural assumptions/knowledge, geographical origin, job, qualifications, income, accent/speech and other things! Generally comfortable(ish), probably degreed, white collar, not too heavy an accent

and someone that went to fancy school and then oxbridge, before getting a £30k/year job doing office stuff can be upper class, despite not being especially wealthy themselves (and their family could even have fallen on hard times as well, removing family wealth!)

it's especially fiddly these days as there's often not much financial difference (a degreed office worker and a skilled laborer may well earn similar wages!) but can be very different cultural *stuff*

the biscuit tin? You mean the sewing supply box, that some wierd people occasionally keep biscuits in? 😅

that's 2 minutes per record though - it's fine for a one-off, but having to do several hundred (or thousand or more!) needs loading processes developing, scope for reversion, checking etc. (plus, as you say, a lot of associated admin and Jira updates to get to that point)