Doctor Kropotnik

NHS - Opt out of sharing your health records

if you're in Scotland, you do not need to do this as NHS Scotland has not joined the "NHS Federated Data" platform Palantir has been contracted to run.

"The National Data Opt-Out does not apply to data being used for your care, which includes the NHS Federated Data Platform. Find out more about NHS Federated Data Platform and why opt outs do not apply."

1. data in the FDP that is being used at the national level does not include individual confidential details, so there is nothing to opt out of

2. data in the FDP that is being used at the local level is being used to manage people's care, so you aren't allowed to opt out.

by completing the opt out form you can prevent your NHS England data from being used for other (unspecified) things, but not this.

A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika

Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard

The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes

We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded

A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room

A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men

An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted

Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article

The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires

Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines

A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs

A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help

Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"

Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules

A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen

A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds

A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn

Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.

A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it

Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.

The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery

Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.

A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat

Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion

A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing

Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it

A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."

A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies

A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass

If this cruel experiment from Microsoft fails, it may be lights out for id, Obsidian, and maybe even and Bethesda within the next ten years.

God fucking dammit Microsoft, yes we want Fallout and TES games to come out faster but not at the cost of thousands of people's jobs and their financial safety and well being.

The issue of course is Microsoft/Xbox will 110% be breathing down the necks of Obsidian in the absolute worst way.

Its very likely Obsidian's future/continued existance will determined by the potential success of this game and that is far too much pressure to place that team under. Not saying they cant handle it, they are professionals after all, but is that fair? Fuck no

Let them develop their game on a healthy timeline and treat it like any other game that company could be making. I pray to god that im wrong but every instinct I have tells me that Obsidian will be under ungodly pressure from Microsoft during the development of this game