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Balint Marczin

@nakamurarts.bsky.social

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Lead Systems Designer at Grimlore Games on Titan Quest II. Past: Total War Warhammer 2 & 3, Halo Wars 2, Age of Mythology. RTS Content Creator, Commentator and Tournament Host. Hungarian in the UK, with pro-European sentiments.

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · Aug 4

On Friday, we launched Titan Quest II into a (very early) early access.
Our team is absolutely blown away by the players' love for the game.

Titan Quest II shown as #3 global seller on Steam, after Battlefield 6 and the Steam Deck.

Over 4700 user reviews and a "very positive" rating of 83% is shown on the game's Steam page.

A peak concurrent player count of just over 27000 is shown on SteamDB for Titan Quest II.

Twitch viewership of Titan Quest II briefly reached 94.1k viewers for a few hours, putting it right behind GTA V, and ahead of League of Legends.

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 6d

It's increasingly looking like this whole thing can be flipped in the coming years. Finally a glimmer of hope!

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 6d

No, you Russian mouthpiece. Our weapons are preventing Ukrainian civilian deaths. You should be fucking ashamed of yourself.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 7d

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...

"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”

Absolutely. Please get on with it.

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely.
The only way Russia stops is if its war economy is crippled.
Pacifism doesn't work against barbarians.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 7d

It's this simple ...

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10d

Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering raising income tax next month.

Of course Labour are planning on going after working people while conveniently ignoring the super-rich who are hoarding this country's wealth.

The Green Party is clear - time to tax wealth, not work.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
TAX WEALTH - with image of Nigel Farage
NOT WORK - with image of a hospital cleaner
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

Brexit is an absolute tragedy.
The UK is no longer an empire that can tell the rest of the world what to do and how to trade.

It's time to admit that being a middle power means one has to cooperate with nearby allies. Especially when those allies are in a massive bloc.

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 11d

New figures by the Bank of England demonstrate how much of a negative impact Brexit has had on the UK economy. Trade weakness combined with uncertainty has decreased our GDP, Investment, Employment, and Productivity, resulting in a negative decline for the UK compared to our European neighbours.

A combination of micro and macro estimates suggest that the Brexit process has reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, Investment by 12-18%, Employment by 3-4% and Productivity by 3-4%. Bank of England.

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

Oh my goodness. That's far worse than anyone could have expected.

There's nothing Labour can do to reverse this much damage.

Brejoin has to become the most important political issue in the UK as a positive impact of similar scale could begin fixing everything that can be fixed with money.

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

The flat wealth tax is the hardest one to implement by far, as monitoring wealth would have to reach extreme levels.
Much easier to tackle the next bunch of items on the list which are much more practical and would be just as good in terms of revenues.

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

The abolishing of the monarchy would be a pretty important issue to discuss.

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

Sounds like people would like the Greens, who want many of these popular tax measures. Become a member. Vote Green.
join.greenparty.org.uk

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

Of course we have to prioritise Europe, but this message goes a bit too hard with diminishing the importance of the US.
We are technologically dependent on them, like it or not.
I'm all for reducing our dependence, but that deserves its own detailed conversation!

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

The Serbian government is in no way aligned with European values. Only the Serbian people can address this at the ballot box.

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

In 1956 the Russians killed 7,000 Hungarian revolutionaries and caused 200,000 to seek political refuge.

We must remember those who stood for what they believed in.

Russia is evil. Always has been, likely always will be.
Ukraine needs and deserves our help. It's the right thing to do.

Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 11d

💥🇭🇺Budapest marks the anniversary of the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution with two major rallies.

Viktor Orbán’s pro-Russian “peace march,” led by a banner reading “We won’t die for Ukraine,” has ended — now opposition leader Péter Magyar’s “national march” heads with supporters toward Heroes’ Square.

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 11d

Piers Morgan is the product of a wider system that is simply wrong and outdated. Future generations will leave all this in the dust no matter how hard some might cling to it. It's just a matter of time.

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 11d

Because no one else has the political guts to say it, we will: #Brexit was an utter unmitigated disaster, foisted upon us by charlatans and conmen and we are demonstrably worse off now than if we had stayed in by every conceivable measure.
#RejoinEU
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...

Zack Polanski confirms Green Party would aim to take UK back into the EU

Zack Polanski has confirmed that the Green Party would look to take the UK back into the European Union if they were in power.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 12d

Ok Lib Dems and Greens, please make a lot of noise fighting about who wants to brejoin the hardest. That's the debate we need.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12d

Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim"

Zack Polanski, "Yes it is"

And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 12d

Starmer will never go for it. He will however let us all pay the price.

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 13d

The absolute state of UK mainstream media... defending hooligans that openly threaten murder and rape in their chants.

I guess we ARE out of time.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13d

Robert Peston, "Where are you on the banning of Maccabi fans?"

Zack Polanski, "I'm Jewish, I take antisemitism really seriously"

"I don't think banning Maccabi fans is antisemitic at all"

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 15d

Trump doesn't have our nuclear buttons. Trident is US tech, but it would be years before they would break down if the US refused maintenance work.

I do wish we worked on joint European tech to replace US dependence where possible though.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk/heres-how-br...

Here’s how Britain’s nukes are ‘operationally independent’

Operational independence means the UK alone controls the launch, even though Trident depends on long-term US support. Losing this support would take years, not days, to affect Britain's capability.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 16d

"Martin Hewitt,new border security commander said he did “not immediately” have an answer to the ?."
#Brexit shredded the EU's Dublin Agreement on returning migrants. The number of #Farageboats crossing the Channel increased hugely as a result.
@the-independent.com
@oxfordforeurope.bsky.social

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 16d

You really need to do your extended episode on defence, Zack. I have some faith that your views are fit for the realities we face, but honestly you haven't been explaining them well enough to be credible yet.

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Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 17d

Goodness me Zack, we don't have time to cherry pick. Tweak the EU from within.
As both a Green Party and European Movement UK member, I greatly appreciated the conversation though.

Balint Marczin @nakamurarts.bsky.social · 20d

Spain is in the EU single market. He's going to have to go after us all then.

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