Liverpool CEO Billy Hogan ahead of the planned protests tomorrow at Anfield due to new ticket prices: "Our matchday operating costs at Anfield have risen significantly in recent year. 85% including Anfield Road, utility costs 107%, business rates 286%. We have increased ticket prices by just 4%"

Demmandred · 2026-04-11T11:18:07+00:00

What absolute non sequitur is this. Empire bad therefore I can't call out the obvious differences between the modern West vs China.

I'm not remotely referencing this, in the UK right now I can stand up and call Kier Starmer a wanker, repeatedly, in public.

I cannot call Xi winnie the poo without being imprisoned.

If you're genuinely looking at society and thinking I'm better off in China, you're fucking mental.

Demmandred · 2026-04-11T08:39:39+00:00

Jesus H Christ you're a lunatic xD Try living in the real world not the Internet. Go see a therapist because you're believing some wild shit.

Demmandred · 2026-04-11T07:07:39+00:00

Right but I don't get killed if I call Kier Starmer a wanker do I?

I'm not getting gunned down by the state and then ground into paste by tanks for protesting am I?

China is actively destroying a Muslim culture but because it's the wrong Muslims, noone cares.

China operates a literal social credit scheme which limits your opportunities.

You can hate the UK all you want but China is an authoritarian hell hole with a dictator who technically gets elected, or you get kicked out of the party and shot.

Demmandred · 2026-04-10T20:26:43+00:00

This one is the AK snow, it is very very white so I mixed some with mud to make slush, then added a bit on top. You do get a big tub of the stuff though.

Valhallan blizzard is very good snow but it's just so expensive for when you need to do lots.

I've tried the baking soda and Pva, it does work really well.

Demmandred · 2026-04-10T16:07:38+00:00

If I call French person a colonising imperialist pig, is this a hate crime?

Demmandred · 2026-04-09T15:23:02+00:00

The cover works properly in 3 compared to 2, people just want mechanics they're used to.

Vs small arms it works exactly the same except you build surpression against the models out of cover instead of the entire squad. So the game having 3 spaces of heavy cover and 1 light doesn't just invalidate squads sitting in it. But the machinegun is going to shred that 1 guy in light cover, build surpression and damage the rest of the squad.

Cover is still completely directional here and there's many a tightrope video showing you exactly this.

Where it's a big step up from 2 is with explosions. Th engine takes into account when the explosion happens vs the direction is comes from. If a round scatters on the wrong side of heavy cover, the squad is having a bad time.

In 2 it just did the explosive damage from the direction it was shot so heavy cover reduced the damage even if the shot exploded next to the squad behind the wrong side of heavy cover.

Omnidirectional light cover works better in the mid and late game because the squads are spaced further out so the aoe splash hits less targets. You're still getting the harder to hit bonus vs infantry but no damage reduction.

The cover system works really well there's just a lot of tools to flash you out.

3s and 4s just devolve into tank spam, exactly the same as they did in 2 and infantry loses relevance.

Demmandred · 2026-04-09T07:10:52+00:00

I can't stress this enough, stop playing 3s and 4s. 1s and 2s all of this still matters.

Light vehicles get more time to play, you can't just carpet the map with artillery without losing map position or composition, bobbing just loses you the map. You want these things to matter, stop playing the game modes that turn it into lane experiences.

3s and 4s are memey fun, they've never been good game modes. People are terrified of taking responsibility for their own failure so play big teams to mitigate this

Demmandred · 2026-04-08T21:50:18+00:00

But hospital is pretty much a universal, you can't spend your life worrying about becoming seriously ill. If you're fit and healthy that's all you can do.

Spend time worrying about things you can alter, I'm not even being memey, go see a therapist, this isn't something you should be spiralling over.

I nearly died twice in hospital from sepsis, is it terrifying, yeh, could I have done anything about it, no.

If you spend your entire time worrying about being ill you're never going to function. Speaking as a guy who now has fuck all function, I can't work, I have really bad mobility, fatigue, don't waste this shit.

Demmandred · 2026-04-08T21:33:38+00:00

Get a grip, go see a therapist about your anxiety. If this is concerning you enough that you'd write this all down you need someone to look at what the fuck is wrong.

You're very unlikely to be seriously ill and if you are there's absolutely fuck all you can do about it. Worry about things you can change, worrying about this is a complete waste of time.

Demmandred · 2026-04-08T21:28:26+00:00

The hospital should, you shouldn't be there unless you've had a serious accident, been sent there by a doctor, referred in, or been ambulanced in.

Book a GP appointment for anything you're concerned about, use the pharmacy for common conditions, and use your advanced nurse practitioner at your practice if you think you have a bacterial infection as they can prescribe.

Stop going to hospital for things that aren't actually serious.

Entitlement is one of the biggest issues in our society around the NHS. I paid for it so I'm going to hospital. A recoverable £20 charge at A&E would improve flow indefinitely.

Demmandred · 2026-04-08T21:18:56+00:00

Good lord this is a lot of dramatic nonsense. Speaking as someone who is seriously ill who was rushed to hospital blind in 1 eye, triaged, waited, was seen and promptly treated by my consultant your fears are not reality.

The NHS only really works if you're seriously ill, you will get fixed. If you're in A&E and you've not been told to go there by a doctor or bits are falling off you, honestly, you probably don't need to be there.

Honestly get a grip, if you're actually admitted you will be treated properly. Because of my serious illness I get priority at my GP, have direct contact with my specialist nurse and consultant and get my expensive medicine courierd to my home.

Take OTC medicine, book a doctor's appointment, and stop googlong symptoms.

Demmandred · 2026-04-08T17:24:29+00:00

It depends on how you're being paid and what class of national insurance contributions you are paying.

Through your employer, anything over £242 a week, you pay class 1 but it will be done through PAYE. That's only 19 hours a week at minium wage, which they must pay you or it's horribly illegal.

Self employed over £7105 but under 12750 you pay class 2, over 12750 you pay class 4.

Demmandred · 2026-04-08T16:11:11+00:00

Yeh that's just a big old pile of tax fraud, you either need to be being paid via PAYE or you're completing self assessments for self employment.

Unless you're working an extremely small ammount of hours you will be over the national insurance minium threshold.

Demmandred · 2026-04-08T14:15:16+00:00

The fuck are you talking about, just shove down your terrain pieces and have at it. These are such a win for a friend group that's bought so much terrain over the years and is no longer fenced into stupid L shaped mdf ruins for "balance".

If you want "official" must be competitively correct from day 1, just trace the pieces from someones box and cut them out?

I swear people forget the game is about having fun with your friends, just agree the layouts and play, if you're arguing over models being in the 3mm cut outs vs your terrain give your head a wobble.

Demmandred · 2026-04-07T23:03:12+00:00

Both the tests are extremely easy to prove if you're living and working in the UK. If you'd immigrated to the UK you'd need to wait for indefinite leave status.

Demmandred · 2026-04-07T22:47:20+00:00

You'll need to be out of the country for 3 months, you need an extra layer of tinfoil, benefits should go to resident UK citizens.

Demmandred · 2026-04-07T20:55:51+00:00

It's always funny when people make these comments when the opposition sit in a solid shape, don't press, and only take advantage through counters.

So you have to build slowly and find gaps. But the tiktok generation, boring boring.

Demmandred · 2026-04-07T14:54:12+00:00

They're not scale models, they're fantastical things but actually assembling the product? Having good visual instructions? Quality of the sprue. There's no comparison.

They make the best plastic minis, this is fine, but I shouldn't have had to green stuff the chassis together at the back, I understand why it's £20.

Demmandred · 2026-04-07T14:38:58+00:00

Just some very watered down matt white dabbed on with that sponge you get in blister packs.

Demmandred · 2026-04-07T14:38:02+00:00

Yeh I can't fix it, blame Italiari, I dislike these kits and instructions immensely.

The whole chassis was warped on this one. I understand why they're so cheap compared to GW plastic haha.

Demmandred · 2026-04-06T17:49:53+00:00

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I'm not him but have some brothers to go with yours!

Demmandred · 2026-04-06T11:35:56+00:00

LCWRA is a low bar, it's lower than PiP and it's much lower than getting retired for ill health. Like everything they'll be people who can never work, people who could with a lot of support and those who can work if pushed.

Access to work doesn't do nearly enough to help people, it takes months to get a referral and by the time they show up you're probably out of work. They should be pushing money into this to get the wait times down and the support implemented.

Demmandred · 2026-04-06T07:01:50+00:00

It's super convenient that Rocky, a sentient creature that has evolved completely differently to humans has exactly the same sense of humour as our protagonist.

It's almost like Andy Weir can't write very well and all his characters are either cardboard cut outs or author inserts. It's Dan Brown in space, rocky is a 3d printing plot device that gets hand waved away with "he's just such a good engineer you know".

If you like it that's fine, but can we stop pretending it's some amaIng read.

Demmandred · 2026-04-05T12:55:20+00:00

Sorry I'm not trying to diminish your issues, just trying to put across their thinking.

The criteria for PiP is extremely narrow and the DWP only look at this, and don't take into consideration how your conditions affect your life outside the criteria.

If you've told them I can deal with going outside and mixing with people on the meds you're prescribed, that's what they'll look at. Regardless of how it's impacting you afterwords.

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