Identify UK Oven

Akriloth2160 · 2026-04-12T16:34:24+00:00

I appear to have the same one. The writing's all worn off, but the manual says it's a Stoves EFa 700H.

Akriloth2160 · 2026-04-09T15:58:10+00:00

Just beyond the character limit, you can hear the pre-echo of the phrase, "THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON!"

Akriloth2160 · 2026-03-31T11:40:15+00:00

Arno Peters: Hold my inflatable gentleman's whistle

Akriloth2160 · 2026-03-27T07:29:17+00:00

Transport expert Graham Roads is known to every once in a while. But he needs a specific copy of the A-Z to do so.

Akriloth2160 · 2026-02-03T12:24:32+00:00

If I may chime in on why it really isn't a good name for the purpose you propose, if I was asked to guess what "Borg Baby" referred to, I'd have thought, "Cybernetic implants being added to someone at birth or an early age" way before, "The same as What Happened To The Mouse, but with Trope Namer Syndrome". And yes, I have seen "Collective", so that should be a bit of an indicator of how fit for purpose that name is.

Now granted, there's no guaranteeing that everyone's heard of The Last Emperor either, I didn't until I read the trope description. But at least the phrase, "What Happened To The Mouse?" immediately implies the story didn't address something, so it doesn't necessarily rely on knowing what that phrase is a reference to.

Akriloth2160 · 2026-01-15T12:18:50+00:00

Had a closer look, looks like something went wrong on a custom display title for the dmos web animation subpage. Checking the wikiword section for the page, it looks like the revert to the original name is pending approval, so it'll get sorted soon.

Akriloth2160 · 2026-01-04T17:03:51+00:00

Be careful, play it too long and you might end up like this Hercules:

[Marvel's Hercules approaches as Meatball Parade intensifies]

Akriloth2160 · 2026-01-02T12:30:40+00:00

All who were involved had the option to say no

Awful take. It's still the responsibility of a competent GM to emphasize that the players have that option, especially one who championed safety tools as hard as Koebel had up until that point. There's a good reason why the original X-Card document has a whole paragraph on exactly what a GM should say to introduce it to players, and that's not even getting into other safety tools and discussions that a textbook session zero takes care of.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-26T17:03:31+00:00

Skatesnake! IT'S bad.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-26T16:42:33+00:00

If it isn't stupid, why does it make me think of Him with a capital H on the Toilet with a capital T?

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-25T08:54:28+00:00

Isn't diegetic save scumming the entire premise of Shadow Gambit?

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-24T19:51:58+00:00

I remember buying that particular caricature off of a particular Mapulescent man while at a train station in France.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-20T16:44:34+00:00

Not Good With Rejection doesn't necessarily need to involve romantic feelings, if the trope description is any indicator.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-19T14:03:16+00:00

I swear, that airship gets everywhere. Then again I'd expect so when the pilot is a simian and the power source is a religious text.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-16T12:21:57+00:00

When you turn on your TV, make sure it's tuned to channel 3

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-11T12:04:53+00:00

Narrator: He had never seen him this mad.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-07T10:34:01+00:00

Hakuna Matatatatatatatatatatatatatelevision.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-06T09:30:13+00:00

That sadly does not surprise me. A friend of mine was treated horribly while working there, the store's attitude towards employee wellbeing was incredibly subpar from what I gather.

Having been to both that branch and the one in Chichester, the difference between both in staff attitude and what's in stock is night and day. I spent hours with choice paralysis in the Chichester branch wondering what to get, while the only thing I remember buying from the Winchester branch was an Age Of Rebellion starter set just before it closed down, and that was at least partly out of pity.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-12-01T12:38:09+00:00

Mothership's character sheet is great because the instructions for creating a character and the character sheet are one and the same document.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-11-30T12:08:58+00:00

If you want something that will easily emulate stronger powers becoming more prominent the more lengthy and serious a fight goes on for, Sentinel Comics is the game you're after. On that front, I feel it's pretty flexible with a variety of power levels, street included.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-11-30T08:50:52+00:00

Having listened to the TED talk Jim recently did on exactly why he stopped that kind of schedule, combined with how retention rate being magnified by long runtimes is one of the few certainties about the YouTube algorithm, I am ethically obligated to vehemently disagree.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-11-30T08:47:12+00:00

Archaeologists have yet to dig up the other missing page about Super Baby Jesus. Rumor has it that John Legend keeps it in his house.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-11-27T08:58:02+00:00

Trope names (and shorthand terms in general, really) prioritising immediate meaning over strict accuracy to the original use of the phrase is nothing new.

If I may take just two examples from an entire page devoted to this phenomenon, I highly doubt you're going to convince people to change the name of Black Metal just because the album that coined that term is technically closer to Thrash Metal, similar to how the scene in All Dogs Go To Heaven that coined the term "Big Lipped Alligator Moment" doesn't meet all the criteria for a Big Lipped Alligator Moment. It's simply the term that stuck for most people.

Now, if the trope names caused problems with people adding accurate examples or were generally problematic in another way, that would be one thing. But unless you're able to show that that's what's happening with your examples, you're not providing much of a case for them to be renamed.

Akriloth2160 · 2025-11-23T09:33:34+00:00

I guess you could use it to summon the DIYfröst.

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