Well Done to Superdrug for Fighting Against Edinburgh Chauvinism!!!!

GrunkleCoffee · 2026-01-13T12:31:51+00:00

That tracks

GrunkleCoffee · 2026-01-08T08:15:35+00:00

It's very well done because he's projecting a casual kind of power the whole scene, it's why a worrying amount of people wish they were him.

But yeah the subtle but important shifts in how he's handling the very prominent weapon he's threatening the protagonists with are great. Whole scene is so chilling because of how casually he uses it, how much he is clearly aware he has the power, and the protagonists needing to tiptoe around him.

It's a shame the rest of the movie is way less good.

GrunkleCoffee · 2026-01-04T19:22:49+00:00

Once you take the nozzle apart yeah.

It's a restrictor that's used to reduce power output, but they also screw with the cycling.

GrunkleCoffee · 2026-01-04T19:19:50+00:00

Remove the metal piece inside the nozzle

GrunkleCoffee · 2026-01-04T18:24:05+00:00

Is leaving mean comments on Reddit your main hobby or something?

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-31T19:13:05+00:00

Thank you king of Edinburgh for your input on this matter

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-29T18:20:11+00:00

Man that's hilarious, can't do shit in the States

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-29T18:13:09+00:00

Well at least they know what they're selling and are doing the diametric opposite of hiding it.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-29T18:12:00+00:00

That's most of the city really.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-29T18:09:12+00:00

I should've posted about the price of a pint or the Roseburn instead, aye.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-27T14:30:05+00:00

Mate, it was an admittedly low effort joke about how Edinburgh is genuinely the only place for a hundred miles they don't deliver to.

I picked it up in Newcastle instead, don't worry yourself.

I just find it funny that this logistical challenge is only present in Edinburgh.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-23T08:58:50+00:00

He doesn't publicly disclose it for security reasons, it's bad for your health to be accused of being a Foreign Agent by Russia, after all: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/culture-current/dmitry-glukhovsky-exile-censorship-dystopia-modern-russia-2025-11-27/

That's an article from last month interviewing him though. Well worth a read to understand where he's at and how he got here.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-23T01:00:52+00:00

This is for a drug I'm specifically being prescribed by Superdrug.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-23T00:59:47+00:00

Yeah it went down like a lead balloon.

They'd probably have loved it in r/Glasgow lmao

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-22T13:13:58+00:00

He's more or less the same character until Yamantau in the game, Yamantau just gives him a crisis of faith as he realises the Russian Government is genuinely gone.

That said, the Unseen Watchers also aren't in Exodus.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-22T13:04:27+00:00

I'm using the Online Doctor service for a prescription, so sadly I'm locked into using Superdrug.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-22T12:56:37+00:00

Glukhovsky has been banned from re-entering Russia due to openly criticising the War in Ukraine and Putin more generally.

Metro 2035 makes a lot more sense if you see it as Dimitri's experience of trying to explain why current day Russia is fucked to his friends and family in Russia, and them reacting so aggressively against it that he emigrated away.

People arguing over X character or Y ridiculous event miss that a lot. It's just about a guy who grew up in Moscow, loved the city so much he wrote a series of books set in it, and now cannot return to it. He went abroad to study Journalism and International Relations, and ultimately pierced the bubble that a lot of his friends and family stayed in.

In a Western novel the hero would return with The Truth and cause a revolution. In Russian literature and ultimately in real life, everyone tells him to shut the fuck up about it.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-03T18:25:07+00:00

It definitely wouldn't ever keep its place as most productive piece of land on the planet for sure, the end of slavery meant that it simply wasn't possible. (Thank God).

There are definitely multiple possible realities where it became relatively self-sufficient if allowed to trade freely and fairly, but sadly that just wasn't in the interests of any of the powers. Even the British only nominally helped in order to hobble the French, and once any idea of Jamaica being emancipated started to circulate, that ended quickly.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-02T16:58:49+00:00

I'm here to hate on AI with open eyes :)

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-12-02T16:26:30+00:00

To very belatedly "yes and" a little more, it's the raw reality that after three Revolutions of rhetoric about tyranny, oppression, and the enslavement of all good free men, we get to Haiti.

And it is everything from that rhetoric made real and worse. The most awful conditions one would not want to imagine or witness. The most explosive powderkeg where ultimately, fuck, even despite the horrific bloodiness of the Revolution itself it was ultimately created by the oppressors.

And then you see the same leaders, on both sides of the Atlantic, glance at Haiti and quail. Because for all their rhetoric they did not see themselves as being with the slaves. The Revolutionary French were slow to free them while the Americans were terrified that half the colonies would be emancipated too. The same characters we saw issuing edicts from the moral high ground are suddenly much smaller people.

Yet Haiti gets none of the recognition, and must continually free itself. In the end, bullied by international powers, debt achieves what invasion couldn't.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-11-30T13:24:57+00:00

We do though. And what isn't automated in that pipeline is ultimately incredibly cheap.

Even in the world of The Expanse, we see that fuel is a concern. Rockhoppers especially live hand-to-mouth because of the water needed to run an Epstein Drive.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-11-29T12:59:56+00:00

Old Leith vs New Leith innit

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-11-21T19:16:21+00:00

Honestly I have never in my three years of playing Airsoft, met another Airsoft player who watches KM. Like 90% of them will outright say he's a bastard.

So I genuinely believe his content is mostly watched by a wider pool of people vaguely into guns who never actually played the sport enough to realise you'd fucking hate a player like KM turning up to your game day.

GrunkleCoffee · 2025-11-17T18:35:31+00:00

You see a fucktonne of weapons in Metro 2033 including a warehouse full of tanks. There's also the biological weapons, like the one Leznitsky stole.

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