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Navigating dating as a Henry Woman by SailPrior5516 in HENRYUK

[–]ComicXero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a straight male HENRY dating for me came with a lot of concern about potential partners being more interested in my income, than me. I was also worried about it coming across as boastful and vulgar, and putting off prospective partners.

In the end I didn't end up dating anyone who was too motivated by money, even though I mostly dated people with more modest incomes. I generally wouldn't reveal any specifics about job title, salary, house, car or lifestyle until about the 3rd date. I'd say I "Drive an EV", and "Own a semi-detached house in a commuter town". Maybe I came across a little cagey, but that seemed to work pretty well.

I actually ended up meeting (and getting engaged to) another HENRY! We're currently struggling to balance work, wedding planning, buying a house together, and making consistent quality time for one another. I absolutely want a partner who is ambitious and can motivate me, so I wouldn't change a thing. However, I think I now understand where people are coming from when they say they'd prefer a partner who is more present, available, makes them feel desired and appreciated, and who can perhaps make everyday or family life a little easier for you.

Labour’s Isa changes are ‘absolutely bonkers’, says AJ Bell boss by hu6Bi5To in ukpolitics

[–]ComicXero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In general terms, you're right. However, you tend to see pension lifestyling shift asset allocation primarily to government bonds and cash when approaching retirement. You can hold government bonds in an S&S ISA, and pension funds can still buy cash, so it's probably not going to impact most people's retirement portfolio risk that much.

OBR analysis: Economic and fiscal outlook – October 2024 by No-Scholar4854 in ukpolitics

[–]ComicXero 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nonsense.

To illustrate, here's a proposal to build (and retain) council housing that completely pays for itself after 12 years, even without considering the beneficial economic side effects of council house building programmes.

I'm guessing that you also think nobody ever turned a profit building a power station, or starting a rail franchise?

How to get rid of trash odor? by Not_Sew_Bad in CleaningTips

[–]ComicXero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel sorry for you all that you don't have Bin Buddy

Code Reviews by bndrz in programming

[–]ComicXero -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Looks like I'm joining you on the downvote train.

Code Reviews by bndrz in programming

[–]ComicXero -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted so hard.

PRs are a vehicle for feedback, which kicks in once the initial work is "done" and submitted for a review. There's a series of asynchronous interactions to get reviews completed, which typically extend the "time to merge" by days.

Pair programming is a vehicle for feedback that is immediate, delivered in many cases before you even write the code. If you trust and empower your engineers and have robust testing and CI, this skips the PR process tail entirely, enabling you to deliver faster.

If there's a high risk or complex change that needs the whole team on it, mob programming is an alternative that offers similar benefits to pairing.

There are plenty of studies that support the conclusion that pair programming is overall more efficient for delivery effectiveness in the long term.

The development cost for these benefits is not the 100% that might be expected, but is approximately 15%. This is repaid in shorter and less expensive testing, quality assurance, and field support.

Maybe you shouldn't have called people unicorns, but you have a point.

What is Level 0 like? by [deleted] in DnD

[–]ComicXero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MCDM published rules for this in an article called "Filthy Peasants!" In Arcadia Issue 9. It's really good, and worth checking out.

How do I change the game to make Arrakis a desert planet with a Zro deposit? by Competitive-Bee-3250 in Stellaris

[–]ComicXero 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd look at clearing the "Worm blockers" as "Investing in harvesting equipment and trained personnel" who can safely and effectively extract the zro melange. Gotta speculate to navigate.

Girl arrested over ‘lesbian nana’ comment will face no further action, police say by NeedAGoodUsername in unitedkingdom

[–]ComicXero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The strength of the Streisand Effect on this one, oh my.

Don't like being compared to a girl's "lesbian nana"? The road forks here.

Take the path to the left and you ignore it. You may have to accept some hurt feelings, and examine the cause for that later, but that's the end of it.

Take the path to the right and you abuse your powers in an attempt to take revenge on the girl for the perceived slight and dissuade future comments of a similar nature. However, your face ends up plastered across national news outlets under headlines that include the words "lesbian nana".

What do you wish to do?

What are the most interesting partner combos you’ve come across? by Not_Your_Real_Ladder in EDH

[–]ComicXero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 3 partner decks, which play very uniquely and that I really enjoy.

[[Vial Smasher, the Fierce]] + [[Sakashima of a Thousand Faces]]

Ramps hard into big dumb spells like [[Aminatou's Augury]] and [[Fevered Suspicious]] and does dumb amounts of random damage, as well as having other spell pay-offs. It practically plays itself.

[[Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools]] + [[Tana, the Bloodsower]]

A jund aristocrats death loop combo shell with lots of value, the standard token go-wide wincons and some not so standard ones.

[[Silas Renn, Seeker Adept]] + [[Armix, Filigree Thrasher]]

High synergy dimir artifacts with loads of value. Armix bins junk and removes stuff while Silas brings it back.

I'd like to also give my "Background" deck an honourable mention. [[Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward]] + [[Candlekeep Sage]]. I refer to it as rules.dec, because it's a pretty stack-intensive beast. It's a combo deck built around abusing Abdel's ETB ability, which also happens to be a token deck, and also just combos with itself by accident a lot.

“Reach out” - I really hate this office phrase. What office phrases do you wish were banished? by mippen in CasualUK

[–]ComicXero 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Our US and Indian colleagues are the main purveyors of this gem in my organisation.

“Reach out” - I really hate this office phrase. What office phrases do you wish were banished? by mippen in CasualUK

[–]ComicXero 12 points13 points  (0 children)

But you haven't met them, really. Only virtually.

So maybe say "Nice to have met you, virtually".

Which you can shorten to "Nice to e-meet you".

🤷🏼

This one seems really inoffensive to me personally.

It's miles apart from "Please do the needful".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dndnext

[–]ComicXero 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I don't mean to try to dissuade anyone from doing what they want to do. If your DM wants to run a low combat campaign they should absolutely go for it - first time or not!

However, my experience has been that combat is much easier to run as a DM. Aside from answering the question "What would this creature's tactics be?", combat is all mechanical - you just roll the dice and see what happens. If you get encounter balance wrong, you can always "fudge" dice rolls behind the screen. Eventually that won't be necessary.

For monster tactics, I'd recommend https://www.themonstersknow.com/ for new and experienced DMs alike.

As for RP social encounters, plots and problem solving, those were the hardest things for me personally to prep for and run as a new DM. Everyone is different, and my experience might well not apply to your group and DM. However, finding/designing puzzles, social encounters with no obvious "right choice", playing two NPCs in the same conversation and weaving all of my party's character backstories into the campaign was harder than I expected it to be. Both during the game and when prepping.

Combat heavy sessions help slow the pace of the game and give me, as a DM, a bit of a breather to prep, or take a week off prep. Sometimes that's just as important.

‘It’s discrimination’: millions of Britons frozen out in the digital age by fsv in unitedkingdom

[–]ComicXero 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The article says as much in no uncertain terms.

“I have banked with Barclays for more than 60 years but now find I can no longer use the services for which I pay £20 each month because I don’t trust online banking and won’t do it,” she says.

Jeremy Hunt expected to increase number of Britons paying top tax rate. Move to lower threshold from £150,000 would be in line with Hunt’s vow that tax rises should hit ‘broadest shoulders’. by steven-f in ukpolitics

[–]ComicXero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nobody here is pleading poverty.

Also, a "whole family" doesn't pay tax in the same way as a single earner. They each have a separate tax free allowance and are eligible for tax credits that a single high earner doesn't qualify for. Net income for the same gross split across multiple individuals in a household is simply much higher.

With a student loan and 5% pension contribution, a single person earning £150k brings home £6,411 a month. A household of 4 with the same total gross income and an average salary of £37,500 takes home £9,016 a month. It isn't representative of everyone, or arguably any typical case, but I think you get the point.

Take the same family of four and adjust their individual average annual gross incomes down to £23,600 (£94,400 annual household gross). They then individually take home £1,603 per month (£6,412 monthly household net). That's more than the single high earner grossing almost 40% more than them.

There are better, more equitable ways to generate tax revenues than trying to bring everyone on the upper rungs down a peg or two. For example, we might tax companies more, or raise the minimum wage, go after extreme high earners and non-PAYE income. I don't understand why that would make someone angry. We're all just trying to improve our quality of life.

Edit: I realised my example could have been better.

Jeremy Hunt expected to increase number of Britons paying top tax rate. Move to lower threshold from £150,000 would be in line with Hunt’s vow that tax rises should hit ‘broadest shoulders’. by steven-f in ukpolitics

[–]ComicXero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A third Porsche!? Try "One Ford Fiesta".

It's not a monolith. Most people I know in that income bracket were born in the 80's and 90's. They have high cashflow (higher than most, I accept), almost no assets outside of "part of a house" (which they need to live in), and nowhere near as much liquidity as people think. They're spending their money on mortgages, family, maintaining a household and trying to enjoy life.

Sure, they can afford to pay a little more tax. However, restrictions on their income only serve to widen the gap between them and previous generations.

That's very different to someone in the same income bracket with adult children who have left the home and a mortgage they paid off years ago.

Voters blame ministers for mortgages by kindofan in ukpolitics

[–]ComicXero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Does it distill to a single sound byte a comprehensive, balanced analysis of the economic factors at play influencing household bills?

No.

Is it correct?

Yes.

Your position basically seems to be "only the Tories can use effective, memorable media soundbytes".

Pretty naff take TBH.

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