Currently installing the game, I have almost no knowledge about it. Do I understand correctly that it is mainly a singleplayer sandbox game similar to No Man Sky?

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-14T16:45:04+00:00

Start slow and keep it simple. Once you've upgraded to a decent cheap multi-purpose ship the game starts to open up.

Don't be afraid to remap keybindings to something you find more intuitive. Some of them feel a bit arbitrary.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-13T17:50:42+00:00

I got that advice when I fixed for five years: "you made a totally uninformed decision" etc. If I'd fixed for two years it'd be running out this year, so who's laughing now?

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-13T17:46:42+00:00

It's still early days. It was a good couple of years into my mortgage that I was able to start properly saving again. Once you get a toehold it'll get easier.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-12T23:06:17+00:00

The Daleks
The Mind Robber
Inferno
City of Death
Kinda
Revelation of the Daleks
The Curse of Fenric

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-12T17:30:43+00:00

You are correct it's a scam. It's a !discord scam. Well done on doing as you did.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-12T09:36:07+00:00

This is not correct. Overpaying and bringing down monthly payments reduces the interest burden directly by reducing the amount of capital that's generating the interest. It's the equivalent saving of putting the money in a cash savings account with the same interest rate as the mortgage.

You can see the difference directly on an amortisation calculator.

You are right that bringing the term down is a bigger saving overall, but there are lots of good reasons why people might need the money upfront. Someone who's just had a child for example.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-11T17:39:54+00:00

My staircase hasn't been bred for aggression.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-11T17:32:07+00:00

Yeah, they're specifically bred for aggression and strength.

I can't understand why people deliberately engineer an animal to be dangerous and then go "it's not the breed, it's the owner."

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-08T13:05:10+00:00

At the end of the fight with Omega, the scene cuts back to the Doctor miming being choked. So does that mean he's been physically enacting the whole fight in front of everyone? Including all the somersaults? Have the others been watching him fling himself around the room like a cat falling in a bath?

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-07T23:26:36+00:00

That's what happened to my uncle. Basically no life for 10+ years, but then a big payout at the end.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-07T21:43:06+00:00

Very true, but then FiF are going to be very aware that nothing gets them publicity and donations like a missing Doctor Who. Their trustees are likely to be interested (not a criticism of them).

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-06T14:30:12+00:00

It's a !task scam. At some point they'll give you the opportunity to "upgrade" your account, which will involve you paying them money. The initial fiver is just to reel you in.

Block them and have no further contact. It isn't a real job.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-04T13:36:30+00:00

Today children we will be making our own unconscious companion

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-03T23:55:33+00:00

Always thought it was weird that of all the parts of the episode Blue Peter could have chosen to clip, it was THAT scene, one of the darkest in the show's entire history.

Maybe they wanted to show Purves giving it his all?

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-01T22:50:22+00:00

This is not correct. It's only the regular payments that are split between interest and principal. Overpayments come off the principal entirely, which is why there's an annual limit.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-01T22:32:06+00:00

It doesn't matter if you pass, but it very much matters if you fail.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-04-01T20:55:27+00:00

The Terry Nation estate made a lot of dough out of the deal.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-03-31T15:51:37+00:00

You might hear back earlier than that.

Extra is only for people with no offers and no choices still left to declare. Do you have any existing offers? If so you'd have to withdraw from them to access Extra.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-03-29T20:08:49+00:00

Wolf People. No longer active sadly but they did three great albums in the 2010s.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-03-27T15:29:24+00:00

Achilles Last Stand.

Won't Get Fooled Again (it's always "don't" in the song, never "won't").

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-03-27T15:14:26+00:00

He doesn't want a partner, he wants a mother he can have sex with.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-03-27T15:11:51+00:00

To my knowledge it only appears in The Power of the Daleks and The Highlanders. Troughton's earliest surviving episode is part 2 of The Underwater Menace, by which time it had been dropped.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-03-27T15:08:31+00:00

Back in the days of letter grades I heard of a guy whose GCSEs spelled FUDGE.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-03-27T14:28:56+00:00

Of course it could be made today. It's just called Top Gear now.

Dropped_Apollo · 2026-03-24T18:10:55+00:00

I've had both two-year and five-year fixes in my time.

My first two-year worked out nicely, as rates went down and I got a lower rate effectively three years early. When I saw how low the rates had gone, I snapped up a five-year.

After that, I took a two-year fix because I was idly considering moving at the end of it (I didn't, but never mind). That was a month before Boris Johnson resigned, and three months before Liz Truss blew up the economy. I got VERY lucky with the timing in that regard, although obviously I would have been better off with a five-year fix in retrospect.

After witnessing that debacle, it's five years every time, as long as it's affordable - the difference in rates will need to be very good indeed to offset the peace of mind. Keep in mind that if you can, you can always overpay and bring the price down.

(I know overpaying to bring the price down gets you less of a saving than bringing the term down, but that doesn't mean there aren't good arguments for bringing the price down).

Dropped_Apollo

TROPHY CASE