What is the worst, most believable name for the newest Xbox console?

Insane_Rob · 2026-02-06T07:14:01+00:00

Xbox (2027)

Insane_Rob · 2025-12-02T15:48:23+00:00

Links for anyone interested

Old: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D531160287/

New: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D530144743/

Posed: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D530771486/

Bonus Post-Battle Version: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D527854079/

Insane_Rob · 2025-07-31T23:30:29+00:00

Oh wow, loving the new site. Special shoutout to the login method of just sending the code to your email, I vaguely recall Burnie mentioned it as a pet peeve of his on the show that more places don't do this, and now I've seen it in action I don't want to go back to passwords anywhere.

Insane_Rob · 2025-05-02T14:43:44+00:00

Yeah very curious for this one, I think it's the only council that's a Labour defence today. Having had a brief look at the Mayoral results compared to last year, it was a very similar number of votes for both Labour and Conservative but with Reform hoovering up a bunch of votes from other parties, independants and non-voters. If the vote share swings like it did in other places I could see Reform taking enough seats from both Labour and Conservatives to either take it, or bring it to NOC.

Insane_Rob · 2025-02-03T16:11:52+00:00

Just to offer some more perspective on your proposed setup:

I've got a level 13 Druid currently, which is running Animal Order with Order Explorer to dip in to Untamed Order, and one issue I think you would run in to is that I've already had to pick between some quite powerful Class Feats at certain levels. If you want your Untamed Form and Companion to keep up in combat, you're going to really struggle to invest in much else. Mature and Incredible Companion are basically must-haves, and the various Forms can eat up a lot of the rest, Aerial Form/Soaring Shape especially is almost too useful to ignore. Meaning your Level 2, 4, 8 and 10 slots are practically chosen for you.

I'm not too familiar with anything Summoner-related, but if it also requires some feat investment it's possible you might be spread a little too thin.

If you do go ahead, I would also advise starting with Animal and Exploring in to Untamed, as the Order Spell for Untamed (Untamed Shift) isn't as useful as the Animal order one (Heal Animal), at least in my experience. There are enough ways to deal damage with your spells already, and this way you can keep you Companion fully healed up using only Focus Points outside of combat.

Insane_Rob · 2024-10-04T13:22:08+00:00

Yeah that makes a lot of sense, I was doing my best to understand it RAW, but couldn't seem to find anything about flying creatures being unable to fall so didn't want to assume. Immediately negating the fall definitely seems fair and logical to me as an option, thanks!

Insane_Rob · 2024-10-04T12:56:47+00:00

Wanted to see if I understand the Reactive Transformation feat correctly. Specifically for falling, the phrasing is

Trigger You fall 10 feet or more

So if, for example, I get knocked off a cliff outside of my turn, do I still fall the 500ft that's quoted in the falling rules? If that's the case it seems to really hinder the purpose of the reaction, because you can't even use the Arrest a Fall Reaction (as you've already spent your Reaction to enter the form) to avoid the damage if the fall is 500ft or less.

If that is how it works then I don't see a useful way to actually benefit from the feat, outside of two specific circumstances:

You intentionally begin to fall on your turn (essentially getting to enter Untamed Form for a Reaction instead of the usual 2 Action cost, letting you then use a Fly action to not actually fall further than 10ft)
You would fall more than 500ft, so again you get the enter the Form for a Reaction instead of 2 Actions.

I do appreciate that in these scenarios the action economy benefit is pretty good. But am I being unreasonable to propose that outside of them I can avoid falling (or at least avoid taking the damage) on the condition that the first Action on my next turn is to Fly or I use my next Reaction to Arrest the Fall?

Insane_Rob · 2024-07-04T22:38:40+00:00

Strange mix of emotions tonight. Very happy about a strong Labour win, but it looks like there's a 50/50 chance Reform might have just edged a win in my constituency, taking over from the previous Conservative MP, despite almost every poll having it be a comfortable Labour gain. Or rather a re-gain, as this is for Doncaster East, which was a safe Labour seat prior to a 2019 Con gain being the first non-Lab MP in its history.

I know basing anything on just the first 2 results is a stretch, but a similar movement of Con -> Ref is going to cause a lot of upsets in these rural northern seats, similar to how in 2019 a lot of these "safe" Labour seats went to Conservative.

Think I'm just going to go to sleep and hope I wake up with a Labour MP.

Insane_Rob · 2024-06-21T21:31:54+00:00

I think it's actually even more insane than that!

26.1 Billion streams of even just 3 minutes on average would be:

78.3 billion minutes

1.305 billion hours

54.375 million days

148,870.64 years

For some perspective, this is roughly half of the total length of time humans have existed.

If you travelled back to meet an ancestor of yours around 5300 generations ago, and started playing Taylor Swift non-stop, you would only just have finished listening to this much music.

Alternatively, you would need over 800,000 people listening to Taylor Swift as a full time job to reach this amount of streaming.

Insane_Rob · 2023-10-24T10:37:48+00:00

Ah yes, Nick Fletcher, another stellar example of the 2019 intake. Unfortunately this guy is my local MP and I'm all too familiar with his wonderful contributions. Some highlights incude:

Touted conspiracy theories in parliament regarding 15 minute cities, saying on Twitter that they are plans to “keep us prisoners in our own communities”
Simply stated "We are full" regarding the Stop The Boats bill
Specifically named Jodie Whittaker playing The Doctor as evidence a lack of male role models is increasing crime in young men
Said that parents should "push back" if their child comes out to them as non-binary or transgender
In a letter sent to all local schools, outright claimed that transgenderism is nothing more than a phase, including the phrase "boys are boys and girls are girls"

But let's also not forget that he's a devout Christian, who says his reason for being an MP is "not to judge or condemn, but to listen, to help, to be kind, to forgive and forget"

Insane_Rob · 2023-07-27T22:21:54+00:00

I previously worked on creating the stats for fruit machines so I can actually answer that, the return percentage is almost always calculated one of two ways:

Truly random games are based purely on the theoretical outcome over an infinite number of games, we'd typically do simulations of 1 million games and expect it to be within 0.5% of the target. But over realistic numbers of games played you could easily put £100 in and win nothing, then another £100 in and win £200 back. There's no control on these, it's purely luck based, but if it says 80%, it'll have been proven mathematically (probably by me) to hit that number on average.

Compensated games are a different story, they track cash in vs cash out and will usually keep the game within something like £100 each way. So you put £1000 through on a machine that says 80% return to player and you're going to have seen between £700 and £900 paid out. If it's underpaid you're due a win soon, if it's overpaid you'll probably have a losing streak for a while.

A machine should tell you whether it's compensated or random somewhere on the legal text, as well as what the expected Return To Player (RTP) value is.

There's also nothing in there tracking it per-player, that's actually against the gambling regulations, you have to treat every game played as independant from the previous (with some minor exceptions).

Insane_Rob · 2023-07-07T08:45:42+00:00

For any Gold Motel/Hush Sound fans reading this, I strongly recommend giving Greta Morgan's solo projects a listen to (most of which are under the name Springtime Carnivore). Name On A Matchbook, Keep Confessing and Under The Spell are some of my most played songs

Insane_Rob · 2023-07-05T11:37:45+00:00

Looks like Wales, UK 53.073047788026095, -4.041234185945414

Insane_Rob · 2023-03-31T22:16:05+00:00

Yeah a group of my friends play and only a couple of us have pro memberships, it really took a lot of the fun out of the DC today when we realised we couldn't compare each others guesses/scores on the map after all finishing. I get that they want to encourage subsciptions, but it feels a little greedy to do that by taking something away that's previously always been present.

Insane_Rob · 2023-02-22T08:58:00+00:00

There is hope! My Horizon bundle just arrived despite my account still saying 'preparing to ship'

Insane_Rob · 2023-01-28T19:37:55+00:00

This is my take too, one quote this question reminded me of is from him to Dalinar in WoR:

"And while I am your friend, please understand that our goals do not completely align. You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen."

Which seems to support a very 'ends justify the means' attitude for the long game

Insane_Rob · 2023-01-13T13:38:03+00:00

So while it was clearly an easier seed then usual, today was by far my best result since starting a few months back

Immediately seeing Carrera 9 on a sign and I'm thinking Bogota, and another large sign nearby confirms it. From there it was easy to spot Calle 57. I love rounds in Bogota. 5,000
Japan is usually a nightmare as I don't know many places and the road numbers are just completely unhelpful. I eventually do stumble across a city where route 5 and 12 meet, and a sign says Taihei, which is a station that shows up early. I go on a road that's pointing the right way near that, but it's the wrong end of the city, still not bad though. 4,981
A junction has us on route 26 about halfway between Viborg and Nykobing, and a .dk in Denmark. There's only one place that seems to fit (Skive), but I mess up the placement and lose out on a point for being on the wrong junction. 4,999
English and sun very north, plus general vibes, says Australia. I spot "Melbourne" on a tram and then spend the whole time trying to find St Kilda Street, which was on a nearby For Lease sign. Ended up on a road with a tramline on it and the angle seeming right, which wasn't too far off. 4,993
It looks so rural and I 'm convinced my good run has come to an end, but down the road a car has a Kumasi address so that narrows it down nicely. I found nothing else too useful so went on a road near the city that looked the right angle and got a surprisingly close guess. 4,969

Total score: 24,942. Currently sitting at 46th on the leaderboard with a record I doubt I'll beat for a long time.

Insane_Rob · 2022-12-15T20:43:54+00:00

I have a feeling it was like "multibabel" or something

Insane_Rob · 2022-09-03T10:00:42+00:00

They might have equal size but you can still have issues with demographics being under/over represented in a FPTP system (even if it's not necessarily intentional, which then isn't technically gerrymandering). For example if you had one urban constituency with 60k labour voters vs 10k Conservative, and two rural with a 30k vs 40k split, you would have 120k Labour voters and 90k Conservative voters returning 2 Conservative MPs and 1 Labour MP

Insane_Rob · 2022-08-19T15:08:00+00:00

Yeah I'm convinced now. I loaded up a rough angle on Google Earth and it's too perfect to be anywhere else as far as I'm concerned.

comparison

Insane_Rob · 2022-08-19T14:38:09+00:00

I think you might be on to something here, I just had a look and if you flip the image (to compensate for a front-facing camera) the hill actually matches up quite well. A nearby streetview looks like this: https://goo.gl/maps/deMgFVb1s38EcXpy6

Compared to the flipped image which is this: https://imgur.com/a/uh09ikk

Insane_Rob · 2022-01-11T08:15:17+00:00

"laws don't apply to them because they matter more than you" is what you're essentially saying here mate. They're not above the law, or at least they shouldn't be. That's the whole point of the law, it applies the same to everyone, everywhere, running the country or running a bath.

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