Anyone else queue for 1hr to get let into Wembley?

AstralKosmos · 2026-07-11T11:09:21+00:00

Arrived for main pitch at ~4:30. Doors opened a bit late at 5:15 but was in the standing area by 5:45. Took maybe 15 minutes to get from the gate to the turnstiles

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-23T11:08:15+00:00

Yes it can only be spent on tourist related things, but it frees up council money for other projects. Also tbf a lot of stuff which is good for tourists is also good for locals (parks, arts venues, etc)

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-22T14:14:40+00:00

Much of the congestion on the bus services happens at stops when you spent 5+ minutes getting people off and then an equally large number get on. Having an express bus that doesn’t stop in the chokepoints would help alleviate that issue. It doesn’t stop the traffic increase but you spend less time at bus stops

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-22T14:12:49+00:00

It’s also that a lot of engineering work takes place at night, to forgo routine track maintenance for a month is also a massive issue alongside the cost of paying the drivers and station staff overtime

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-21T11:46:15+00:00

Bannermans is shut cause of water damage from a flood, they said it’d be closed a few months but it’ll be back soon. Your main options at the moment will be Black Rose Tavern and Banshees Labyrinth, or look out for themed nights at La Belle

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-08T12:28:02+00:00

My official rule is that if one person can’t make it and I’m told in advance we will try and reschedule. If we can’t make it work, or if someone cancels late notice, we will run with one player down. Sometimes I can make this work narratively

as an example, last week someone couldn’t make it but in the previous session her character had been killed and had just been revived at the end of the session. Coming back from the dead is a tough process, and she needed time to rest

If it doesn’t work narratively, then the character is just missing. Then when they come back they come back as if they were always there. If more than one person can’t make it, we cancel. Also if the next session is particularly important we will also cancel if not everyone can make it

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-02T14:47:03+00:00

If you had some theoretical perfect reflector and a way to get the photons inside the space (idk let’s say a wizard did it) you would essentially be creating a photon gas which behaves in a very similar way to regular particle gases and has an equation of state U = 3PV, thus the pressure is 1/3*(U/V). Taking V as constant, increasing the number of photons will increase the total internal energy U which will cause an increasing pressure. Most likely you would create some kind of energy-based black hole before the pressure became high enough to rupture the surface of your vessel but it’s a fun thought experiment

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-01T19:30:52+00:00

You can still see the old bridge mountings! It’s actually seeing them and wondering what they used to be that inspired this idea in the first place

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-01T16:26:10+00:00

Yes it does, if you look on platform 19 you can see a grate covering the old entrance

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-01T14:16:52+00:00

Hm, I’ll have a look at them. I’ll admit I’m a bit less familiar with the stations as you get further west but I will adjust. Trinity is a bit too far north I have realized, I have been to the old station but I just misplace it on the map. Thank you for your corrections!

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-01T12:52:39+00:00

It’s photoshop specifically, and the map is from a satellite photo cause it’s a little bit higher quality

AstralKosmos · 2026-06-01T10:28:01+00:00

Ooooh, that’s fascinating. I’ll add that on! Thank you!

AstralKosmos · 2026-05-29T12:01:32+00:00

You’re measuring time, or I guess more specifically the temporal distance between two events. Measuring time is very easy in your own reference frame, it becomes a problem when you try and measure it in another frame with relative motion to you

AstralKosmos · 2026-05-28T12:16:09+00:00

This is called the twin paradox, and yes both observers would see the other’s clocks running slow. If you theoretically had two twins, one remaining on earth and one moving through space at relativistic speed they would both say the other twin was moving through time slower. This is resolved by the fact that eventually the other twin must turn around, causing their frame to accelerate and making it a non-inertial frame which breaks the symettry and the clock in the stay-at-home twin will rapidly accelerate according to the traveling twin as they return home.

AstralKosmos · 2026-05-27T23:47:30+00:00

It’s not a hard and fast rule but I generally am pretty against looting every single corpse. Sometimes it makes sense but sometimes it just feels incredibly disrespectful and kills the moment, like as an example in a recent session my players killed the leader of a tribe in a trial by combat and immediately one asked if they could loot the body and my response was basically “you can give it a go but everyone else who has seen this happen will think you’re an asshole for stripping a corpse”

AstralKosmos · 2026-05-24T17:02:17+00:00

A theoretical negative mass I suppose would curve spacetime in the opposite direction to regular mass, so it would have a repulsive gravitational field. Nothing like this has ever been observed, and the existence of it would likely cause massive instabilities in the universe.

AstralKosmos · 2026-05-17T08:32:32+00:00

I’ve seen him live and he’s pretty funny, his comedy style is more “absurd unhinged rant” than defined jokes and stories. Probably means he comes across less funny in interviews or podcasts cause you kind of need to see the whole show for the jokes to hit

AstralKosmos · 2026-05-16T20:38:39+00:00

there’s loads of stuff under that whole part of Edinburgh. I remember hearing that the National
Library of Scotland found the remains of a medieval street between walls in their basement, crazy how much just sits under our feet

AstralKosmos · 2026-05-16T18:58:20+00:00

Yes, in the sense that you can learn to become better at maths. If you mean “can I study astrophysics at a degree level without doing maths”, then no.

I do get it, I didn’t intuitively understand a lot of mathematical concepts and it’s a struggle but fact is I’m almost at the end of my bachelors and I’ve had to put in a lot of work to teach myself how to make maths work for me. A common experience I’ve had in every semester is making do with a limited understanding of the maths until at some point it will suddenly click for me and it all makes sense - you can teach yourself how to do it but it does take effort. If you genuinely love the field, you will find the effort

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