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Fiona Bruce on why she won’t be presenting Question Time as long as her predecessor
Obsidian CEO says it’s “not even a question” if the studio would do another Fallout
Fallout: New Vegas fans would love an Obsidian developed game, and a new interview with the studio’s CEO shows that he would love to do another one too.
It was the original Fallout’s 25th anniversary earlier this month, and to celebrate DualShockers spoke with Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart, talking to him about whether the studio would ever come back to the series. “If we ever got the opportunity to make another Fallout game, we’d make it,” Urquhart answered when asked if Obsidian would say yes to work on a new game.
“There’s not even a question of whether or not we would do it, it’s just ‘Will the opportunity arise?'” Urquhart continued. “I hung around at Interplay for probably an extra year because I wanted to work on Fallout more. I love Fallout.” Obviously this isn’t him saying that it will happen, but fans have been hoping it would be at all possible, as Microsoft acquired Obsidian in 2018, and then later acquired Fallout rights holders Bethesda through buying its parent company ZeniMax Media.
Guess what They’re Alive! ripped off? It’s not a trick question
BBC Question Time: Howls of laughter as ‘smiling’ Tory MP says Liz Truss can win election
Liz Truss has ‘gambled with the economy’, says Piers Morgan on Question Time, but panel asks Brits to give her a chance’
LIZ Truss has played “casino politics” with the economy, Piers Morgan blasted last night on Question Time.
The Prime Minister’s first weeks in office have also been an “unmitigated shambles” with a “reckless gamble” that “should never have happened”, the Sun columnist added.
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The Sun columnist said the Prime Minister’s first few weeks have been a ‘shambles’[/caption]
And he insisted she is “done”, telling the audience: “I’m not sure how she can have the brass neck to stay.”
But fellow panellist and businessman Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, 65, begged the public to give her a chance, insisting people make mistakes and it is unfair to judge her so soon after taking power.
An audience member kicked off the BBC show by asking: “How long do you think Liz Truss will be able to continue as PM?”
It comes after economic turmoil following the Prime Minister’s mini-budget last month.
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The Tories dropped in the polls as a result, with Labour currently having a 25-point lead on average.
But the markets restored itself after Ms Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng U-turned on a controversial planned scrapping of the 45p higher tax rate.
Piers Morgan told the audience: “If you come in at this stage with the polling as catastrophic as it as, which is a direct result of the very first thing you do for the country, and you play casino politics with the nation’s economy, I’m not sure how she has the brass neck to stay.
“This is supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility but it’s the opposite.
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“They’ve gambled with our economy, our finances. But I’m afraid it won’t be them who suffers.
“It will be the poorest members of our society who are going to wake up to some horrific bills.
“And they’re going to say ‘well we’re helping you out with energy bills’. Well what about the mortgages? They’re going to dwarf energy bills.
“It’s been an unmitigated shambles. I think it’s been a reckless gamble. It should never have happened and it’s got to stop at the door of the Prime Minister.”
Mr Emmanuel-Jones hit back and said it is “ridiculous” to be talking about getting rid of her.
He said: “Four weeks. We are actually trying to say that after four weeks we are going to make a decision about whether Liz is any good or not?
“We are having this discussion about whether she is going to be Prime Minister based on the performance of her first four weeks.
“It’s just a ridiculous conversation to be having. If she had 12 months, it would be a fair conversation.
“She’s been bold. What she’s trying to do is something very very bold. When you try to do things that are very bold, sometimes you get it wrong.
“The key thing for success is that you need to be able to accept that you do fail at some things.
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“The key thing when you do get it wrong is that you have to pivot and you have to pivot fast.
“You’ve got to give someone more than four weeks to decide if they’re any good or not.”
Businessman Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones begged the public to give the PM a chance[/caption]
BBC Question Time: ‘My mortgage offer went to 10.4% after mini-budget’
Husband’s question over if it’s wrong to date an old flame while his wife has dementia leaves internet divided
THE internet is divided after a man asked for advice on whether it’s wrong to date an old flame while his wife has advanced dementia.
The anonymous husband posed the question about finding love again after serving as his wife’s sole caregiver for years.
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The husband told The Washington Post’s Amy Dickinson in her advice column that he placed his wife in an assisted living memory care facility last year.
In the emotional message, the man said that having to place his wife in the facility caused him to enter five months of psychotherapy while taking antidepressant medication.
“I’ve finally conquered my deep guilt and sense of having failed her,” he wrote.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, advanced dementia patients experience “profound memory deficits (e.g., inability to recognize family), minimal verbal communication, loss of ambulatory abilities [and] the inability to perform activities of daily living.”
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The husband said that he feels it was the right decision as the couple’s “55-year history together and our four children have faded from her memory.”
One day, the man posted about his wife’s illness and his loneliness without her on a Facebook page for his high school graduating class.
He said he received a message from a woman with whom he had a “lengthy, very steamy, lusty affair in 11th grade, suggesting that we might reestablish our acquaintance.”
“We haven’t communicated since we went our separate ways, many decades ago,” he wrote.
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“I am sorely tempted to accept her suggestion.
“I have a photo of us at our prom, my arm around an exceptionally pretty girl in a strapless gown who liked to make out in secluded places.
“She played with my teenage libido like a yo-yo.”
He added: “I know it’s a fantasy memory. She’s probably gray, wrinkled, and overweight like me. But still.”
The man had not yet responded to the woman, explaining that he believed he took a vow to his wife until their dying day.
“But I wonder if her dying brain doesn’t meet that standard,” he wrote to Amy.
“Am I not entitled to some happiness, even as my wife descends into a deepening fog?”
He signed the note “Extremely Conflicted Husband.”
Dickinson, the Tribune company advice writer, responded with compassion.
“Your decision to place your wife in a memory care facility was so agonizing that it sent you into a serious depression. You were wise to seek therapy and treatment,” she wrote.
“If you override your own values and respond to this assertive advance, your mental health would probably be affected.”
She advised the man to discuss the idea in therapy and noted that communicating with high school friends could help him re-connect to the man he was before his wife’s diagnosis.
“But any person who would respond to your report of grief and loneliness by immediately implying a sexual reconnection is once again ‘playing your libido like a yo-yo,’” Amy noted.
“Elder libido is strikingly similar to teenage libido. The rush of attraction feels dangerous and wild,” she said.
“As long as you don’t abandon your wife, I don’t view this situation as adultery, but I believe that your emotional needs would best be served by a relationship that is supportive, kind and careful,” Amy concluded, noting that the decision to date could have “consequences” for the man’s entire family.
Readers shared mixed reactions on the man’s question in the comment section.
“Yes, you absolutely deserve some happiness, but you should be discerning about where you are most likely to find it,” one person said.
“This might be the kind of trouble you long for right now, but keep in mind that any relationship you engage in could have far-reaching consequences for your entire family.”
Another person wrote: “You still deserve to have a life, and to be cared for, yourself.
“A quick romp in the sack is not that. But should you find yourself getting closer to someone who can be a companion in your own older age, it’s OK to pursue that.
“Be prepared for others – especially your children – to not understand. So tread lightly.”
Another commenter said: “What kind of a woman responds to someone announcing that his wife has dementia with a sexual invitation?”
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“I can’t speak for your wife however, if I had to leave my mate & go into a care facility, I would want my mate to find a companion,” a fourth said.
“To be in old age alone with only your memories is not a good choice if you have an alternative.”
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VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough?
One could probably argue that Floodgate, the Bay Area-based seed-stage venture firm, punches above its weight. The roughly 15-year-old firm has just around $500 million in assets under management — including a $150 million fund that it quietly closed in January — and it makes just a handful of new investments each year. Yet with […]
VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough? by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch