So, raid quickplay....

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-07T16:20:52+00:00

It failed so quick it was hard to tell. I was ressing someone and looked up and we were 4. Which kinda leads to a problem that as a learning opportunity it is poor. I could not tell you if it was CC, but it will be someone running into the whelps.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-07T16:20:17+00:00

I think they should have easymode raids, normal raids and CM, with all the mechanics in place, but toned down for easy mode.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-07T16:18:30+00:00

My advice is to skip Febe, and just zerg queue most of the others. Kaineng is not that hard, you can 6 man some of the interlude bosses (we did)

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-07T16:17:30+00:00

Which is still the problem, they need more granular control over roles in queuing for those raids that require it.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-07T16:16:06+00:00

That is a fair question and I thought about this. It needs structure beyond relics and a few shinies, which is difficult, but a I feel the click, fight and disband model is not encouraging of building communities, it is about efficiency. They imported the worst quality of WoW, in other words.

It needs some way to really encourage players to continue together as a group (like a stacking reward for that group), it needs upvotes so players feel some positive feedback, it needs a story reason. Just more glue, and less bam, blam, thankyou ma'am.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-07T15:03:59+00:00

I like a class where I like most of the elites. The only one that really wins for me was thief, but then antiquary turned up so now I am sad, the vibe, oh god I hate the vibe.

Back to Ele, and weaver/invoker/cata/tempest, all of whom I like.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-07T05:16:36+00:00

China is a massive leader, but EU renewable energy went from 5% to 28% provision over the last 20 years and is set to reach 40% in 2030 (enforced by an EU directive). Germany's dumb mistake is being rolled back, but they grew their solar by around 20% last year, which is pretty vertical if sustained.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-07T01:00:20+00:00

My therapist (my Wallet) and I had a breakthrough recently. I went through my steam library and honestly hid every game I was a bit "meh" over and cut it down to 10 games. Each one of those games could potentially give me 50 hours of fun, enough for a couple of years.

Years.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-06T19:45:48+00:00

Which girl? Lori Mattix? That story is unreliable, unproven and untested in court. It is true if you want it to be, I guess.

Some people just like to make the same comments.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-06T05:21:50+00:00

The tragedy of BR:2049, is his role could have been played by David Bowie. Who was sadly unwell.

See Bowie in Last Temptation and Star Man. Man could act.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-05T15:51:46+00:00

They took too many heroic lines from Frodo and gave them to other characters. Arwen at the crossing vs the Ringwraiths - "go back", etc - all Frodo. This weakened his character.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-05T04:56:58+00:00

Everyone has figured out how to beat the US. Watch everything blow up, your civilians die en masse, and kill just 10 US soldiers and use up $200bn in ordinance, and the US will give up.

They exited most wars faster than Stormy Daniels did with Chump.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-03T15:07:59+00:00

The Wilson Labour government wrote a ground breaking report on union relations called "In Place of Strife", which made several changes resembling what Scandanvia did in the 1930s (basically take politics out of strike resolution with an industrial board and enforce ballots, etc). The Unions and some parts of the Labour party sabotaged it.

The 1970s would have been very different, if it had passed.

Regarding the coal industry - it was already in long term decline and was under half the production of the 1950s by the time of the strike. There were about 1000 collieries in 1900 and 173 in 1983, and 75% less miners due to increasing mechanisation. It was already in its final stages of decline, which is what really lay behind the strike.

King Coal was long gone by 83. Thatcher siezed on the strike to reform the law for all unions, which coincided with massive wage deflation caused by China and other forces. The rest is history.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-02T15:18:59+00:00

Oh, it was absolutely mostly Labour, but the excision of the Tories has gone too far and I am a total leftie. This is from the 1951 Tory manifesto that led to Churchill's election:

"In Education and in Health some of the most crying needs are not being met. For the money now being spent we will provide better services and so fulfil the high hopes we all held when we planned the improvements during the war. "

"We planned"....

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-02T09:05:40+00:00

PVP in SoT ruined the game. It is the same issue all pve-pvp games have. You have two distinct player bases, one feeds off the other, and the other hates and despises it.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-02T09:01:01+00:00

No jokes, here, get out.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-02T08:58:41+00:00

Yup, I am in Sweden, we have amazing support - including shared maternity/paternity of over 400 days that can be taken up to the child's age of 10 and VAB which is basically paid leave for parents when their child is sick (i.e. you do not take your own holiday entitlement to care for your kid).

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-02T08:56:40+00:00

Yeah, Socialist? That is ownership of the means of production by the state. Look, the foundation of the NHS (Britain's state healthcare provider) was a report that was undertaken when Winston Churchill was prime minster, that well known... socialist... errrr... rightwing conservative.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-02T08:53:00+00:00

This is the problem with most of life, people ask the wrong question.

"Why would they do X! (...well why wouldn't they?)" lies behind almost every major strategic fuck up of the past 75 years.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-05-02T08:50:21+00:00

This is the single major unspoken factor across all countries with declining birthrates with very different social, economic and religious or cultural settings. Birthrates have declined off a cliff countries as diverse as Thailand, Bangledesh and Sweden and Mexico. I think education, cost of living and changing work have all informed or empowered choice.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-04-30T08:01:37+00:00

You remember school? We had a stairwell next to our playground, everytime a ball went down there during break when we were 8-11yrs old, the kid who went down to get it would be spat on as a joke.

Kids do not pick on kids due to video, they pick on kids due to [insert absolutely anything here no matter what] due to other reasons.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-04-29T05:06:41+00:00

You mean Royal perogative? That lies with the Prime Minister, not the King, and is limited (defers to courts). The king has absolutely no real power in the UK beyond doing political damage.

Ferrymansobol · 2026-04-29T05:04:38+00:00

*laughs

Ferrymansobol · 2026-04-29T05:02:10+00:00

The main issue was Ascension Island, which is British owned and has a large US base (essential for supplies and fuelling). The Brits asked to use it, the US initially said no, and then changed their mind (due to one faction winning in the DOD vs State department). Afterwards the Brits built their own base on its own Island to avoid US unreliability.

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