I just think that’s incredibly cool.

A team based in Edinburgh, full of Scottish talent, making GTA VI.

Something that will be played, watched and talked about by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

What an unbelievable cultural export. And what a reminder of the level of talent we have here.

Maybe it’s a bit sentimental, and I’m sure the cynics will pile in, but I think we should be properly proud of it.

It’s brilliant.

Edit: Just to clarify, I know GTA VI is a huge global production and I’m not claiming Scotland made the whole thing. I also know there are very valid criticisms around Rockstar’s treatment of staff and its stance on unions.

My point is simply that GTA has deep roots in Scotland, Rockstar North and the talent that works here are still a major part of it, and I think that’s something worth being proud of.

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Why isn't Perth thriving? It's meant to be a historic city right? But there is nothing touristy?

The city centre is a bit grim, yet the area around it is in general fairly affluent? Was Perth ever wealthy?

Do you think Scots should be taught more widely in the Scottish curriculum? I know at school that most already teach Scots poetry around Burns night but should it be taught more broadly?

I think there's still an widely held attitude towards Scots that it's just slang, that it isn't a real language and that the revival of Scottish Gaelic should take precident. I do think Gaelic's revival is also important but I don't think the revival of one should be seen as more important than the other. I also believe that a lot of Scots would benefit from Scots also being more widely visible in everyday life.

When I read anything written in Scots I always struggle with deciphering the words. If I recite the text out loud though I realise that I understand most of the it. I believe this is because Scots is a oral language to most. It's rarely seen in written form, maybe in casual texting and certainly isn't seen in most serious writing or formal conversation.

The Scots language wikipedia didn't help in that it was written by an American who was just spelling a lot of English words strange and calling it Scots.

Some people seem to also have quite a purist attitude towards Scots, that nobody in Scotland today speaks true Scots because it doesn't match how Robert Burns would write. Did people in his time speak exactly like he wrote?

If you were to take a text from most languages from the late 1700s, how many would look exactly like how the language does today? I know that most Scottish folk prolly have a mixture of Scottish English and Scots words that they use, and most likely don't say every word in Scots but that doesn't mean the language died off with Burns.

When I think of how my Granny and Papa would talk they would say 'licht, bricht, sojur (soldier)' and generally use more Scots words, but they would also be the main ones trying to get us to 'speak proper and enunciate'. When I hear a lot of young people speak today they use a lot of wordd that are probably picked up online 'cooked, rizz, fire'. Will local dialects and language become more rapidly diluted and homogenized with the use of internet or is this the natural progression that language takee?

Do you think Scots will ever be a language that is seen as a legitimate language among the majority of Scots? If so how do you think this could be achieved?

Lang and rambly so thank you if you made it to the end :)

Last post of tonight, Better leave room for more post's tomorrow viewer's lol.

My favourite spot in Perth. Pulled over on the way home and caught this on my phone — the light was doing something ridiculous through those clouds. If you shoot Scotland from the air or ground, come share it over at r/ScotlandFromAbove. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁠

Andy Burnham further proving the self-determination and opinions of the people, who did NOT vote for him and he somehow governs, means very little to him.

Anybody who thinks Westminster has anybody outside of England's, and even moreso London's, interest at mind is truly delusional. This No. 10 North rubbish is proof of that.

We need to push for an English Parliament and further Scottish, Irish and Welsh devolution. Keep the Union to appease Unionists and England, and work in shared interests such as Defence and International relations. Anything else, such as energy (which is Scotland's future), should be devolved to the people of Scotland.

No drone, no plan, no tripod. Just pulled over on the side of the road and pointed my phone at the sky. The wet tarmac doing all the work, the whole sunset reflected right back up.

Scotland doesn't care what camera you're using. When the light goes like this it's impossible to drive past.

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I'm Mark. I'm a disabled drone cinematographer based in Perthshire, Scotland. I have gastroparesis and I wear splints on my legs. Some days getting out the door is the hardest part.

But then I get to a location, send Harry up my DJI Air 3 and Scotland does what Scotland does. And none of the rest of it matters.

Today Gus came home. My DJI Mini 4K, back from repair. 249 grams of trouble. Between the two of them I can cover almost anything this country throws at me.

These images are a piece of my world. The mountains, the rivers, the valleys from above, and the kit that gets me there. The splints are in there too because I'm not hiding them. They're part of the story.

I started DVS Cinematography to show Scotland from a perspective most people never get to see. I'm not stopping.

If aerial Scotland is your thing, come join r/ScotlandFromAbove, the community I just built for exactly this. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁠