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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • This is people living in a week-to-week manner, who’ve had to borrow £300 off a pay-day lender to cover a shortfall (sometimes an emergency or unexpected outgoing, sometimes there were just fewer hours of work available) because they literally have no other money.

    They’ve then found out the predatory, scummy lender’s practices and interest rates mean that a few months later, despite paying back every spare penny they can afford, they now owe £2000 to that lender, pushing them deeper and deeper into a poverty they cannot ever escape from.

    They didn’t ask for the debt to be paid off, but it’s definitely a need, not a want. There’s no need to be spreading that sort of victim-blaming nonsense.

    Anyway, they now owe those scum £0.

    Ideally, most of this situation wouldn’t even exist in the first place, and it’s a shame this is the only process currently available to help these people, but this is literally saving people’s lives and though perhaps not by itself lifting anyone out of poverty, it’s certainly keeping people out of more severe poverty.



  • I’ve got quite a lot of racing games - though I tend to only use the Steam Deck for the 3rd person arcade-like fun ones. I prefer realistic sims on a wheel & pedals setup.

    Anyway, there’s probably some repeats on here, but these are all ones I have played on Steam Deck and felt worked well.

    • RXC - Rally Cross Challenge (top down 3d Rally cross, arcadey but with semi-realistic handling)
    • Horizon Chase Turbo (90s style rear-view arcade racer. Think “Outrun” or “Lotus Elite Turbo Challenge” etc)
    • Art of Rally (already mentioned)
    • Wreckfest (already mentioned)
    • Descenders (downhill BMX bike racing)
    • Rush Rally 3 (rear view 3d semi-realistic arcadey rally)
    • Rush Rally Origins (3d top down semi-realistic arcadey rally)