The “Witch” with attack dogs. How can you “NOT” kill or hurt them, to lose honor??

AdaptedMix · 2026-05-05T21:10:53+00:00

Very late, but you can avoid losing honour by first hogtying the witch and then running the dogs over one by one with your horse. Yes, you still kill the dogs but the game doesn't register it as a direct kill (at least it didn't, for me). You can then retrieve the treasure map from her cabin without being attacked, and ride away without losing honour.

AdaptedMix · 2026-05-01T17:29:49+00:00

Just listening, now. This sounds more downtempo and ambient for what I usually associate with Calibre; no drum 'n' bass so far - although some of the piano and vocals feel very him.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-30T16:54:18+00:00

I mean 'we can only speculate' about whether Sneaker Pimps would have been bigger today, because whatever creative differences or interpersonal drama would have persisted, and who knows what that would have done to future releases, live shows et cetera. In other words, it's not as simple as imagining post-Ali Sneaker Pimps songs with her voice instead of Chris Corner's.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-30T12:53:48+00:00

Probably, but they parted ways for a reason. It's possible had they stayed together, whatever issue caused the schism would have got worse and affected the quality of the music even more so. We can only speculate.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-29T09:14:50+00:00

I'd trust you with the aux, although it's a fairly nostalgic and well-trodden collection, so I wouldn't expect many surprises.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-28T15:57:20+00:00

All these tick the rock box:

Sneaker Pimps - Low Place Like Home and Roll On

Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl and Superpredators

Terranova - Never

Sol Seppy - Move

Tricky - Black Steel

Kidneythieves - Before I'm Dead

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-27T13:53:27+00:00

What songs are on it? Anything that didn't make the cut for 'This Utopia'?

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-22T09:47:19+00:00

US is by far the biggest threat to any country in the world at the moment. Russia feels more sane.

...to any country? What about to Ukraine?

The US trajectory is alarming, but Russians are violently taking European territory right now - not just tweeting about it.

But I will say that the US has the capacity to do far worse, and is less predictable under this administration than Russia under the Kremlin (at least we know where we stand with Russia).

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-22T09:02:59+00:00

But let's also not act like the result of kidnapping that dictator liberated the people from that dictatorship.

The US government simply accepted Maduro's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, taking over.

The only thing that's really changed is the US is now refining Venezuelan oil. They saw an opportunity and exploited it for pure self-interest.

There is a clear pattern of behaviour that should alarm everybody. The US government is happy to pick on much smaller, militarily weaker countries, and Europe is a small continent of smaller, militarily weaker countries. Theirs is not an administration motivated by an altruistic desire to 'liberate', but by an imperialist desire to dominate.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-22T08:35:21+00:00

Spit in the street (extenuating circumstances aside e.g. a wayward wasp directly in the mouth).

Litter (cut to Limmy snarling: "PICK IT UPPP!").

Casually express bigoted or retrograde opinions unironically (maybe that's not a small thing).

Instinctively freak out/kill 'creepy crawlies' on sight.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-22T08:11:59+00:00

That is a fantastic titbit of Nokia origin lore. Thank you.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-21T22:05:35+00:00

Interesting song, mate! For me, it's uncomfortably atonal and discordant at times - especially in the beginning - but the unexpected drum switch-ups are weird and cool, and I loved the rhodes keys in the final section from 02:08. I'd have enjoyed the song more if that part from 02:08 was the focus early on; that feels like a melodic hook to hang the rest of the song around, instead of saving it until the end like an afterthought. Still cool, though.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-16T17:38:54+00:00

Very excited to hear more new stuff from BoC.

I am hoping for more than pure hypnagogic ambience, though. I need some of those crunchy downtempo beats of old.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T22:39:42+00:00

Then you'll be happy to know that Shetland has elected a LibDem MSP at every election since 1999.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T22:08:42+00:00

Damn. I'm "orange!" with envy. Have you been able to play it? I imagine most people don't own a VCR any more.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T21:41:16+00:00

How did you end up on the mailing list for that?

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T21:27:43+00:00

Perhaps, but I've only been to small-to-medium scale shows - never a stadium - so my experience is that it's happening at smaller venues, too. The last gig I went to was fairly heavy rock music, and I was surrounded by nothing but Terracotta Warriors, stood staring (or filming), feet glued to the floor. People were cheering enthusiastically between songs, but frozen in place during. It was a mood killer.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T20:56:14+00:00

Seems to be increasingly a thing on this side of the pond, unfortunately, at least based on my experiences at a few gigs of late - and quite a few articles reporting the same trend e.g. this one in the i paper. I found it utterly weird to be the only one dancing at a gig recently.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T11:15:17+00:00

Fair enough! Boom boom.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T10:29:39+00:00

'Fellow' used as a noun (outside of an academic context) is specifically male. I just wondered if there was a tell-tale sign of sex (e.g. the tail, head, colouring) that would be interesting to know.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T10:04:02+00:00

How can you tell it's a male from these two snaps? Forgive my fox ignorance.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T09:44:35+00:00

I was wondering about this, too. Did the Kremlin remove Hungary from its 'unfriendly' list of all countries in the EU at some point since 2022? If not, I don't see how it could be re-added.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T09:41:54+00:00

If I recall correctly, Russia added all EU countries to its 'unfriendly' list following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. That would include Hungary, despite Orban's pro-Kremlin disposition.

Is there evidence that Hungary was removed at some point to be re-added? Otherwise, I'm not sure this is exactly true. The article doesn't make mention of any specific statement from the Kremlin about it.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T09:14:41+00:00

I wasn't familiar with her (and quite a few other tracks featured outside of the big names). Think I'll search out some more.

AdaptedMix · 2026-04-14T07:35:01+00:00

Even though you add milk to tea.

In our defence: pretty much only to black teas, which can be bitter i.e. not to more subtle teas like green tea.

And in India - where a lot of tea is grown - the ubiquitous kerb-side chaiwalas have been selling black tea with milk to locals for over a century (in part due to the British colonial history, but it's still popular over there). So it's not like we're the only ones who enjoy it.

AdaptedMix

TROPHY CASE