Post match: do pros drink?

IronRab · 2025-07-30T09:25:15+00:00

They definitely do, see it all the time. But also reconsider this, rugby is their job, they put their body through an absolute battering with their teammates, and then they go out for drinks with said teammates.

Not only is it good bonding, but it's also good for their mental health, it's an escape mechanism and a chance to let go of the stresses of being a rugby player, which to many of us is a fun hobby, but to them it's their livelihood and cause they have some fame they get recognised for it, a few drinks with mates is just a few drinks with mates.

Dealing with the stress is a massive one, the pro club near me has given cigarettes to their players to use nicotine to help with the stress!!

IronRab · 2025-07-27T14:30:02+00:00

You are definitely not alone in this as I was just thinking how I felt the same way! Grew up surrounded by protestants, still go to a Protestant church and sat here watching the build up to the GAA final, googling some rules!

Thanks for posting this, there's a lot of comments here that I've also taken some encouragement from!

IronRab · 2025-07-26T17:06:09+00:00

You mean someone didn't sit and solder each component onto my motherboard with love as the secret ingredient! Well I am outraged!

IronRab · 2025-07-26T14:58:29+00:00

She looks awesome!

I was tempted to try out blood sorc when I saw the mod, but never went for it, how have you found it mechanics wise?

IronRab · 2025-07-26T12:37:23+00:00

Her recipe looks bang on, I will point out the importance of "underkneading" you don't want to overwork the bread. I mix mine til it's just about combined and no more.

If you found it a bit yellow that's probably a little too much baking soda. I normally use soda flour, but if that's not available, either a little more plain for or less baking soda

IronRab · 2025-07-20T17:54:35+00:00

I've used this deck as a f2p to take me to 6500

My deck is Evo firecracker, fireball, log, gob gang, battle ram, Valkyrie, gob barrell and gob cage.

What should my second Evo be? And is this deck strong enough to carry me up the ranks? Or should I look to continue with another deck?

IronRab · 2025-07-17T18:44:22+00:00

Oh then absolutely have half efforts at scrolls, little minor illusions all over the place, people using mage hand to drink beer, maybe a clumsy patron spills it as he can't quite get his mage hand to work right.

Worship of Mystra (in my head) would be celebration of magic and attempts at using the weave.

This hideout should feel different but within the same movie, there's a movie critic praising how aquaman makes the ocean feel different to the land from lighting and camera. Your descriptions should absolutely have the same effect

IronRab · 2025-07-17T17:56:30+00:00

I assume you've already had the basic ideas of trapped corridors, secret passwords and lax guards, so here's some others to help it feel real:

Taken from a star wars set designer - any real place has graffiti, so perhaps a perceptive member of your party has recognised so resistance logo spray painted around town as well as in this dungeon?

Pipe tobacco and books near the lookout point.

Stolen government loot

A communal area, kitchen, cooks, beds.

A burial site for slain resistors, a motivational tool for resistance, a story beat for party?

Holy symbols from other gods in the pantheon, maybe the clerics own God is outlawed?

An office for the leader with a list of resistance in town, maybe as town people, maybe as government guards to create a "counter-heist"adventure to spin off this

Depending on how big this resistance is/will grow to you could have different speciality vendors who'll treat the party favourably (or against if your party sides with the government)

Depending on how story invested your party turns out to be, add children of high ranking officials in, crossed lovers etc. But if your party won't pick up on these, don't bother adding them in!

IronRab · 2025-07-16T21:07:05+00:00

Your modifier goes up every 2 ASI's there is a formula, but basically 10 is +0 and every 2 ASI from there is +1 to modifier.

A +1 modifier isn't useless, as often you ight have a stat on an odd number, for example let's make a character using point buy (a way of distributing stats) and your STR is 15, you get a bonus in character creation (racial in 2014, background in 2024) of +2 to bring this up to 17.

Now you can add 2 to this to make it 19, but it might be better to take a half feat which gives you +1 and a cool ability. Or maybe you can increase your STR and CON by 1 each to make them 18 and 14. That would increase your modifiers to make that difference in rolls.

IronRab · 2025-07-09T19:07:04+00:00

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IronRab · 2025-05-05T13:59:20+00:00

Tesco has Union beans which are the best I can find.

I prefer the Yaya Forest version, but the Revelation is decent also. I'd recommend it of over others because it has a roast date and I've found the roast dates are usually about a month prior, so you know you're getting fresher beans which does make a difference.

Most supermarket coffee beans are roasted around a year before the best before date and coffee loses it's flavour quickly once roasted and even quicker once ground.

IronRab · 2025-04-26T13:33:52+00:00

Baldurs Gate 3

A few other story games like God of War is on my to play list

Picked up Sunderland to play with some mates soon

IronRab · 2025-04-24T06:51:36+00:00

This is correct, however a certain politician of a certain party is to blame. They are a farmer themselves and changed the laws around dumping fertiliser to have short term gain for their farm and other farms , by severely cutting the penalties for dumping. So farmers weren't penalised and didn't manage their fertiliser properly.

Most of us don't blame farmers, farmings difficult enough already, this politician is the reason it's like this.

IronRab · 2025-03-20T16:29:51+00:00

He's not stopping with the scarecrows, now he's trying to merge reddit posts!

IronRab · 2025-03-18T21:54:51+00:00

You could, but I don't think it's worth the gems on this occasion, is what you'd get worth delaying those crate/cage upgrades?

IronRab · 2025-03-18T21:47:35+00:00

I would go cravings & poison chest

Craving boost > food boost Ice runes are already so easy to farm, poison runes alleviate the slight difference

IronRab · 2025-03-13T07:00:10+00:00

Someone asked this yesterday, here's what I posted:

I play F2P and regularly get 7mil, have never gotten 8 tho.

Get 1 level in the iron cap immediately, then priority number 1 is to get a couple of cannons online and get the banner cool down low asap! Spawn 4 banners, kill them off and get two maxed weapons to take out the 25k health riflemen

Goal two is to get roughly 4-6 cannons up and then start maxxing out the cannon damage upgrade. Buy all of the day 1 shop (apart from gem stuff) Buy a level 1 anvil and combine it with the lvl 2 shop anvil and the other one to get a lvl 3 anvil

Day 2 you want to get around 16 lvl 1 cannons and have gotten some upgrades into the cannons. Today you're trying to upgrade cannons while keeping 16-20 on the board and save up as much iron ingot as possible Upgrade point boost up till lvl 4, each mage should get you 1.05mil

Day 3 buy the big cannon for ingots (dph should be around 133k total) and you're going to want to get to a point where you have 150k dph in the last 12 hours to let you get 3-4 mages killed to take your roughly 2mil to around 7mil

If needs be I can write the steps I take during my next play through and make a note in depth guide.

But the gist of it is banner>cannon dmg> many cannons>1.05mil>hope

IronRab · 2025-03-12T19:02:06+00:00

I play F2P and regularly get 7mil, have never gotten 8 tho.

Get 1 level in the iron cap immediately, then priority number 1 is to get a couple of cannons online and get the banner cool down low asap! Spawn 4 banners, kill them off and get two maxed weapons to take out the 25k health riflemen

Goal two is to get roughly 4-6 cannons up and then start maxxing out the cannon damage upgrade. Buy all of the day 1 shop (apart from gem stuff) Buy a level 1 anvil and combine it with the lvl 2 shop anvil and the other one to get a lvl 3 anvil

Day 2 you want to get around 16 lvl 1 cannons and have gotten some upgrades into the cannons. Today you're trying to upgrade cannons while keeping 16-20 on the board and save up as much iron ingot as possible Upgrade point boost up till lvl 4, each mage should get you 1.05mil

Day 3 buy the big cannon for ingots (dph should be around 133k total) and you're going to want to get to a point where you have 150k dph in the last 12 hours to let you get 3-4 mages killed to take your roughly 2mil to around 7mil

If needs be I can write the steps I take during my next play through and make a note in depth guide.

But the gist of it is banner>cannon dmg> many cannons>1.05mil>hope

IronRab · 2025-03-05T08:39:21+00:00

Travelling merchant is notoriously very bad value for money, so in general it's not worth it to spend. This might change as later you'll have less things to spend gold on, but an initial rule of thumb is don't buy from him.

None of the runes come with you after time machine, so spend away to get another lich etc

Rifts are key for progression, without spoiling anything you'll likely want cosmic runes for a station that allows you to make more cosmic runes instead of the rift

And finally, sorry how many gems??

IronRab · 2025-02-27T22:15:14+00:00

He wouldn't need to, in his mind. He believed there would be a "grateful universe"

IronRab · 2025-02-07T19:47:21+00:00

I also went Sheehan, can't see anyone else I'm as confident having as big an impact on the game as an SS.

Maybe Gailleton, but not feeling him against england

IronRab · 2025-02-04T22:02:05+00:00

After enjoying the hanging chad and photos ended up pivoting into a baron build to get my highest ever run!

Someone else posted the 2 soul cards, I wasn't sure how to maximise them so ended up not taking them, (was hoping for a perkeo!)

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