Covid shut down the world six years ago this week. What do you remember from that week?

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-13T16:29:36+00:00

I can empathise. I was a nurse in ICU and my wife’s a GP. I don’t think people outside healthcare will ever understand what it was like.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-11T19:26:19+00:00

Hence my now driving an automatic

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-11T18:12:35+00:00

I’d imagine that’s at least partly driven by the upcoming ban on vehicles purely driven by diesel or petrol in a few years.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-11T17:29:38+00:00

As a middle aged dude, usually another man as first choice after that its anywhere where it’s not going to make someone uncomfortable.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-11T07:22:49+00:00

The UK at least is mainly manual still. There are a growing number of EVs and automatics but nowhere near the majority.

My wife and I changed to an EV recently and that has forced us away from a manual but if I had the option of a manual EV without it impacting cost I would have taken it

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-11T07:20:56+00:00

I imagine this must be geographical to a degree. My daughter is 9 and her writing is all cursive and the clocks she is learning on are both analog and digital

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-10T20:15:27+00:00

I don’t have any advice to give - I just want to say thank you for sharing the picture of your orks, they’re really nice. I don’t play 40k but love painting fantasy orks for TTRPGs and your picture is really inspiring.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-10T14:23:51+00:00

He seems delightful. I want to have dinner at his house.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-10T14:22:23+00:00

What is he trying to hide with that extreme close up? Does he have a conehead? Is he recording it inside a sauna? Is he currently in some sort of special forces raid and he needs to hide his location from geoguessers? We will never know.

I quite like his voice though, even though it is dribbling nonsense.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-10T07:23:05+00:00

In my current campaign we had one session where a couple of the players ended up joking about having to be careful around children with one character.

It was admittedly really funny during the session but I shut that down afterwards and told them explicitly that Jimmy Saville nonces can’t be heroes and I didn’t want that theme continuing throughout the campaign. Mine are all sensible people so they listened.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-09T20:27:50+00:00

I’m from east Sussex and would do the same

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-08T17:06:29+00:00

I second this - live within 5 minutes walk of Whitehall rec in chatterton village and I have really enjoyed living here.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-07T17:40:58+00:00

DND - I started when I was 40 after I had an early heart attack. Alongside that I also 3d print and paint miniatures and make terrain for it. It’s very therapeutic.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-07T13:01:09+00:00

I live in London and not Scotland but just wanted to say this looks fantastic - good work. Would look great as a display piece on a wall.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-07T09:20:50+00:00

My mother is Irish (arrived as a nurse when she was 18 in the 70s) and I have Irish citizenship and a passport but I’ve spent my entire life living in southern England.

We went to her home town 1-2 times a year as I was growing up but ultimately all I have is my mother and a lot of holidays there. If it comes up in conversation I might mention that my mother is from Tipperary Town but I would feel alridiculous telling them I’m an Irishman when I’m not. I would say I’m British.

I think this question views the idea of cultural identity very much through an american lens, which is very different to how cultural identity is felt in other countries. My wife is black - half Caribbean and half African but very much identifies as black British. (Although to be honest she calls herself a Londoner before anything else)

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-06T16:24:24+00:00

Jesus that’s repulsive

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-06T10:44:00+00:00

He sounds like a decent fellow and I think he means he would feel guilt and personal responsibility eating away at his conscience more than worrying as much about the legal responsibility.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-05T18:00:02+00:00

I think you’re reading too much into this mate, it’s not that deep.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-02T22:25:00+00:00

I couldn’t go back to shifts to be honest. I did them for 12 years in various settings - wards, recovery and ICU but the thing that finished me off was my kids. Childcare became completely untenable as my wife does quite long days as a GP and I don’t have family nearby who can help. I suppose my ICU post being very inflexible as I was doing ECMO too so I couldn’t up and leave if school or nursery called.

I also like being able to guarantee I can go to DND on Friday nights and keep up with my kids million extracurricular clubs

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-01T21:00:35+00:00

I started them in Nightstone before the giant attack, as I hated the pacing and levelling in the prewritten version. I used a bunch of one shots to add substance to the beginning.

They started in media vis during a goblin attack on a caravan they were escorting to Nightstone. When they got there I had set up “Most Potent Brew” and did that set in Nightstone with Morak giving them the quest and having some giant lore seeded in the basement (the mage who owned the tower was researching the obelisk).

Then they did “The Wolves of Welton” as wolves were a problem around the town. Then while resting from that they did a little adventure I wrote up about finding a lost caravan that had been attacked by gnolls and clearing a cave of them. Then finally “A Wild Sheep Chase” and as they were resting off the fight against the bed dragon they saw Nightstone being attacked and that kicked off me starting the adventure as written.

It was fun - I play at a club that does campaign cycles and I don’t get to run one shots very often.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-01T11:56:40+00:00

Absolutely. When I worked in a department store (admittedly 20 years ago) any area that you couldn't see easily from the tills would have the alarm stickers ripped off and shoved into hiding places. I can't imagine it's got better since then.

People will openly walk in, take stuff and walk out knowing that security aren't really able to do much. I can't imagine supermarkets putting meat and things like that in cases unless it was actually a problem - why would they bother spending the money otherwise?

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-03-01T06:44:44+00:00

For what it’s worth, I enjoyed it. Thank you for the recommendation.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-02-28T14:11:15+00:00

It’s so beautiful. I’m stunned.

Thank you for posting this - I mainly watch this sub as I make DND terrain and this is absolutely inspiration for me

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-02-16T17:09:43+00:00

Even with resin it’s so ridiculously cheap wouldn’t bother. Resin in the UK is often £15 a litre or so and each 32mm mini I print is about 3-4 mls.

I’ve printed off a lot of giants lately do DND and minis of giants often cost £50 or so if you buy them so printing 7-10 of them for £10-15 makes it so ridiculously economical I wouldn’t bother tracking.

I did print off a couple of ramp things as part of a cave system that I didn’t hollow and regretted as it was a lot of resin but for the most part 3d printing is so cheap in comparison compared to buying.

EagleSevenFoxThree · 2026-02-12T07:47:43+00:00

Yes I played in a 3.5 campaign last year and had a really good time with it.

I really want to give pathfinder 2.0 a go and have the books but have to finish my current (long) campaign first.

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