That could be pretty easily abused, imagine, by straw men siphoning state money without any prospect of winning.
At least in Europe, there are campaign financial limits so things don't get too out of hand. Corruption, therefore, is done via other means.
They got my wife's name wrong.
This whole (what's the right word for subreddit on Lemmy?), I feel so seen.
Uh, soft is the correct consistency of the brain, no...?
On the internet, nobody knows you're one of these: 
That was rhetorical.
But since we're all gathered here... I used to buy a lot of their stuff, and, well, now I don't because they've gone to shit.
He did say something to that effect, yes.
Not any more, actually. Francis rides in the open.
Yes, NES games. Now try that with Baldur's Gate.
If you can encode your entire game progress into that level code, then it's just that, yep.
Not enough info in the article to tell the difference, I'd say. Maybe because this should apply to your local games? IDK
The stated problem is actually more pronounced with a larger number of parties than 2. If the governing party is strong, but doesn't have majority, and the opposition is split, they usually need to trade favours with the opposition parties to get anything done.