"Storytelling skill sets". We already have plenty of words for what they're looking for. Creative director. Brand ambassador. Apologist. Propagandist. Liar.

Can we just acknowledge what an absolutely outstanding bunch @teamcherry.bsky.social are with all the free extra content for everybody who buys their games. Almost every other game is sullied with constant moneygrubbing DLC; with Team Cherry it's just, thanks for buying our game, here's more stuff.

Argh, yes. Thought for a while that I might actually have broken one of my little ones the other day (in fact it's just badly bruised I think).

I cannot get past "many miles per fatal hour", which is so floridly meaningless as to snatch resentment from the jaws of sympathy.

The correct answer.

I have a few quite nice photos on the big camera, but I didn't bother bringing a wide lens with me so I just snapped this one with the phone.

I must say I haven't ever moved on from being absolutely furious about the cabal of glib dilettantes who have spent the last decade refusing to acknowledge their obvious, disastrous wrongness about everything, especially their notional area of expertise.

THIS. "I have been disastrously wrong about every aspect of everything, especially within my notional area of expertise. So, pay attention while I tell you what to do next"

I have absolutely no time for these glib dilettantes, who through their incuriosity, motivated reasoning, malice and/or rank amateurishness crush the livelihoods of those they will never even meet, treating it all like a game. Eight per cent GDP! Whoops-a-daisy! Oh well, never mind!

I will listen - briefly - if he wants to say "I renounce my association with Cato and deplore their work, I acknowledge my contribution has been a disastrous combination of hubris and confirmation bias, I apologise unreservedly for the harm I have caused & will no longer engage in policy discourse".