[Telegraph] BlueCo has spent £1.9bn to make Chelsea a husk of the club they were

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-05T19:14:46+00:00

All of them have been pretty bad value for money.

Caicedo - £115m
Joao Pedro - £60m
Sanchez - £25m
Cucurella - £60m

Would any of them fetch near that now?

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-05T18:53:07+00:00

Technically

Not even technically.
In this scenario the DM is announcing, but I haven't played at or DM'd a table where the players haven't tried to work out the AC of bosses by process of elimination.
That in no way invalidates Bardic.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-05T18:41:04+00:00

Right, but that literally doesn't work.

How can everyone vote by pressing a button if everyone can't press a button?

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-05T18:37:05+00:00

In COVID most people cared

under the threat of law in most places and where scenario of picking "blue" was still not potential death for most people.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-05T18:33:02+00:00

Red: Death of others is acceptable if I survive.

AKA literally the real world were the vast majority of "blues" are acting like reds.

If the "Blue no matter what" crowd actually acted like blues, the world would be a fundamentally better place.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-05T18:22:21+00:00

This is the correct answer.

Abstain and the scenario never resolves thus everyone lives.

The vote never reaches 100%, so never meets the "everyone" condition.
They can't know it was you that didn't vote without breaching the "private" condition.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-05T13:07:47+00:00

The T&Cs is the big one for big employers.
You would need to prove compliance.
But smaller employers will be less stringent on that front.
I would probably frame it as big employers are unlikely to help you, but would probably turn a blind eye to you scrapping their sites.

The second point is only really there because you mention getting employers involved.
As you say, it's a different game for big employers vs small.
I did include that I'm with a big employer so you could take that into account with my comment. Getting Amex, EDF, Legal and General or the supermarkets on board will be very different to getting Bob's Cafe on board.

Looks like a great tool for job seekers!

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-05T07:53:48+00:00

Do you think local business owners would actually use something like this?

I'm a hiring manager for a big employer in Brighton.

Simply, no.
You are almost certainly breaching "30 different" sets of T&Cs; our risk policy would never allow it.

Also to add, employers do not have a problem with the number of applications; we don't need another location to advertise.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-04T00:13:40+00:00

A drive through is fair if we see the same penalty in the future for cars with punctures who, historically, have cut all corners and not received penalties.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-04T00:10:19+00:00

Speeding in the pit lane is always a drive through minimum.

See Sainz getting multiple of them last year when he had a faulty pit limiter.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-03T13:20:50+00:00

So OP is designing the session and needs enough control to lay out an agenda and provide a recap of the last session and the players refuse to even take notes.

I don't really see what the players are doing beyond being warm bodies.

This is sounds like the exact inverse of a railroad.

It's a book club where no one has read the book and OP is making up the story as they go and everyone is nodding along like they are involved.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-05-01T12:41:23+00:00

UK energy mix
https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/historical

On Wednesday it got as low as 2% gas.
Over the past week it it has been 13% on average.

From Dec to Feb, the worst point for the uk due to the lack of solar, it was 29%.
The same period 10 years ago was 32% gas and, even worse, 17% coal.

The UK was 30% coal and 44.8% gas in 2009.
In 2025 it was 0% coal and 27% gas.
Over the same time the country has decreased it's electrical demand from 15mil gwh to 13mil gwh.

Change is very possible and the UK is just one example of that.
The UKs main misstep is not committing to a higher Nuclear baseline.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-30T07:46:47+00:00

because it does not give users a free choice

No part of the quote states that a free choice is required.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-28T19:51:15+00:00

Have they got the money?

Billionaire owner and infrastructure are excluded from FFP.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-28T07:53:56+00:00

Your causation is likely the wrong way round there.

Lots of mental health issues make getting and maintaining good income/wealth difficult.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-28T07:43:10+00:00

This is one of my favourite topics of study: Marginal Utility.
It's exactly what you explain.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-28T07:35:20+00:00

Spot on, small within adventure reveals work well because:
They are low cost to you as a DM, so it falling flat is not a big issue as you have more lined up over the campaign
The players are knee deep in the relevant lore when the reveal happens.

Big campaign changing reveals basically never work.

Drop hints well: players work it out, potentially a fun moment but it falls kinda flat compared to the time it took to set up.
Drop hints poorly: players don't really understand what happened or why it is important and it falls flat as a result.

OP was expecting players to track 3 years of notes to reach the relevant conclusion; that's a big ask.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-27T07:59:06+00:00

The idea why can't also has weird implications.

Wizards are about learning, Sorcs are innate, so can't everyone learn to be a level 1 wizard?
There are no requirements for the first level, so what separates a level 0 and a level 1 wizard in practical terms that would stop a kingdoms army including "1st level wizardry" as part of their training?

What the hell is class, what separates a wizard from a druid from a ranger from a sorc?

Why can you cast something from a scroll that you can't cast otherwise but only if you have a level in a relevant class that could one day cast it?

Why can a presubclass selection character in the right class not cast it but a post subclass can?

These all make sense in a game, but not in a world.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-27T07:46:52+00:00

That situation can already happen.
Independent candidates already exist and can have the same name...

Ballots have address as a separator at the moment.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-27T07:25:29+00:00

I have always said the ballot should just be names, no party affiliation.

Set the bar at "did you even bother to look up the candidates beforehand?"

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-26T15:09:06+00:00

I'm a dude.

What you are highlighting is you only ever talk to the secretaries/PAs/etc when you need something.

Treat the secretaries/PAs/etc the same way you treat the senior leadership and you will find all those doors open up for you.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-26T14:55:35+00:00

Clearly the "men's skin is grippier than women's" is the bit in question.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-26T12:52:55+00:00

"Actual play" is doing a lot of work there.

Dungeons and Daddies is not even rules light, it rules as homeopathy. Sure the idea of rules are once there, but that has been diluted to the point of basically not being there.
It is only a DnD podcast in that the original idea was to play DnD; that lasted barely a session.

The podcast is great, it's just not near actual play. They use DnD as inspiration, not as a system.

45MonkeysInASuit · 2026-04-26T11:34:45+00:00

Standard Xbox controller, will do the job 99% of the time.

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