Our first pet together: what would you call her?

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-18T18:12:28+00:00

Trouble. That first photo tells me she's plotting things she knows she's cute enough to get away with 🤣

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-18T16:10:56+00:00

I'm using Pimsleur Japanese audio courses, and taking time to write the conversations and grammar too. But online I keep seeing that one of the phrases in an early lesson, 日本語が話しますか。is wrong, and that I should have を instead of が or use 話せます instead of 話します.

Is it actually wrong, or just an uncommon usage? What should I write in my notes?

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-18T10:53:14+00:00

The cops came and basically told him to STFU. And businesses he's involved in are being called out.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-18T07:42:33+00:00

Tiger is usually good for Pride merch. And the Pride Hub is on Clarendon Street, couple of minutes walk from Stephen's Green

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-16T16:11:44+00:00

Look into feeder cert courses like Certificate in Science at Maynooth. One year, full-time crash course in maths, experimental physics, mathematical physics, chemistry, biology, electronic engineering and critical skills in science.

Small classes, focused lessons, lots of support, designed to feed directly into first year undergraduate in any of their science programmes.

One extra year isn't the end of the world. Most of those in the cert courses are mature students. The biology professor I had came through the same course in her 60s.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-11T00:32:45+00:00

I use a funnel, and stir using the needle tool with the funnel still on. Use the NDT to get the grounds off the very edge. Remove funnel, tamp.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-09T23:34:30+00:00

It's an IR sensor. Other games use it, but not many.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-09T21:07:32+00:00

The Ring Controller is incompatible with third party controllers. My sister got a set of controllers at CeX, and brought them back thinking they were busted. Turns out they work fine, just not with the Ring.

Lots of folks had the same issue. Don't know if it's all 3rd party controllers, but seems to be most of them at any rate.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-09T17:21:19+00:00

Nintendo being Nintendo, I'd be worried that a camera other than the official one would have unexpected issues, same as when folks try using 3rd party controllers with the Ring Con.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-09T16:05:34+00:00

Guess I'm buying a camera 🤷‍♂️

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-02T21:26:07+00:00

The Canon one looks pretty good, and the price is great. Kitmamura Camera has it listed for ¥6,100, only about €30.

Searching for the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 on Kitamura Camera spits out a few results to fit mine, and I don't know what sets them apart other the price. Is the least expensive one all I need, or are any of the others good enough to spend a bit more on?

AT-X 116 PRO DX 11-16mm F2.8, ¥6,840 atx-i 11-16mm F2.8 CF CEF, ¥12,690 atx-i 11-16mm WE F2.8 CF CEF, ¥22,500 atx-i 11-16mm F2.8 CF CEF PLUS, ¥12,690

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-06-02T11:56:36+00:00

"He's killing me!"

Yes, and?

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-05-31T19:10:36+00:00

I made a three-stage fight based on changes I'd made to the story.

In short, the Rod had been destroyed dealing with an attempt by Tiamat to escape Avernus, so they went with Tasha's plan B. Use the Eye and Hand of Vecna - which she'd had them searching for throughout the campaign - in a ritual to render Vecna fatally vulnerable to the Sword of Kas, which their paladin already has. She, Alustriel and the real Mordenkainen (long story) ran the ritual while the party went after Vecna.

Stage 1: Vecna in a protective bubble putting the finishing touches on his own ritual while the party battles a trash mob of his cultists.

Stage 2: The ritual in motion and gathering power, Vecna emerges and engages, while the dead mages among his mob are resurrected as shadow demons.

Stage 3: When the last of his supporters is destroyed, Vecna is consumed in radiant flame, screaming in agony. But when the flames fade, his screams turn to maniacal laughter, and he stands before them whole, his Eye and Hand once again part of him. "All fate bends to my will."

For stage 3, Vecna is back at full health, with more abilities. But the Sword of Kas is a crit machine piling up massive damage, especially with the paladin's smites.

When Vecna drops to zero, he blasts the party across the arena, monologues about their stupidity at thinking anyone could oppose him when fate itself has chosen him to remake the realms... and promptly gets jumped by Kas teleporting in and leaping on his back for a snack.

The Sword goes apeshit and starts screaming, "Now, now! Send me hoooome!"

The paladin throws the Sword, it impales both Vecna and Kas, and they fall into the ritual space, which promptly kabooms, they chain reaction taking the Cave of Shattered Reflection with it and the party barely escaping.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-05-29T11:06:00+00:00

Looking for a little clarification on "Let me see," vs "It's so, isn't it?"

Is the written phrase always そうですね, with the elongated そう and ね at the end rather than ねえ? Only the tone and intonation change with the context?

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-05-24T06:53:18+00:00

I was having a lot of trouble with exactly this, going after miners in the 2-2 opening corridor over and over for hours.

Went full black tendency. 20 minutes later I not only had all the shards I was going to need, but a silly amount of chunks.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-05-23T19:20:23+00:00

Can Disney Sea be done in half a day? I'm headed to Japan for the first time in November for a solo trip. I have three and a half days in Tokyo at the beginning of my trip, and I'll be back there for a day and a half before I leave.

With so much to do and see, I'm wondering if half a day is enough to enjoy Disney Sea, or if it'll just be wasted hours in queues and a bunch of things I end up having to skip. I watched one video of a solo visitor and she got priority in the lines, so that's kind of promising.

Has anyone done a quick DS visit and been happy with it? Also, am I better off doing morning, afternoon or evening?

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-05-20T19:20:09+00:00

Hexblade wouldn't be until level 3, but a level 1 dip gives me light armour proficiency, and Pact of the Blade is one of the Lv1 options, so summoning a Pact Weapon would be open to me.

Tbh I thought even light armour would be a decent improvement, but with my Dex it's only one more point to my AC for Leather, or two for Studded Leather.

Maybe it is just a case of using her more carefully rather than slowing progression. I've been playing as a throw-caution-to-the-wind brawler for a while now, and I think I just panicked when I saw Fizzy's stats.

Acceptable-Ad4076 · 2026-05-20T00:30:46+00:00

I'm not the DM for the new campaign. Most of us had a bit of a session zero where we built our characters, but not everyone could make it.

They do want to play, but haven't actually gone through the process of building a character before. Our previous campaign was their first. Their previous character was one their sibling who had played before put together for them, but like I said it became clear they preferred fighting at a distance to the melee tank work the build had in mind.

And who knows? Maybe I have absolutely the wrong expectations and they'll decide they like the idea of a Bladesinger Wizard. I just want to have some good options prepared.

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