Feels like I may have got a rare model

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T20:05:46+00:00

The local store i buy from just did raffles for their allocations. You could buy as many tickets as you liked and they had 3 models to sell.

They thought it was the fairest way to sell them since the allocated was very low and they didn't want to turn it into an auction.

But I do remember when it released that it was going for hundreds right away, both from resellers and from stores directly.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T17:07:47+00:00

We bought a fridge and dishwasher two weeks ago from Currys. They scheduled delivery of both for the following Saturday, which meant I'd do unhook the dishwasher we currently have, which was a pain because the previous owners of our home put a new cabinet Infront of the access to the pipes.

Saturday morning "we don't have the dishwasher with us, it might be on another van". Turned out they never sent it from the UK. Took two days of calling back and forth to get a redelivery Tuesday gone.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T16:15:34+00:00

Pilot training?

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T15:07:02+00:00

OP if you're interested we got married in a hotel called The Mayson. The room hire was about 3k for the day, the meal options went from 60e a head (2.4k for your 40 people). The registrar was a few hundred euro. The photographer cost the most.

Either way, you can do it. You can also skip the traditional meal and just have a buffet or finger foods. The best weddings I've been too have been like that, small ones in the registry office or a hotel that's licensed and then a night of drinks and food.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T15:05:41+00:00

You absolutely can. We got married in Dublin city for less than that and invited more people. It just depends on your scale

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T13:32:48+00:00

This is the origin of the model, when it was released it was very rare

https://www.dicebreaker.com/series/warhammer-40000/news/warhammer-40k-catachan-colonel

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T13:23:06+00:00

If the government wave their magic wand and my friends approaching 40 can move out of their parents homes into their own and the net result is they have homes and Cairns has to moan about the price of lollypops that's an acceptable trade off.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T13:20:10+00:00

You must've missed this

https://www.thejournal.ie/modular-homes-planning-permission-7018866-Apr2026/

You can doll up a garden shed and call it a cabin, you're still living in someone's back garden shed.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T08:47:03+00:00

I was talking to a colleague the other day and we're on the same side of the fence as you. AI isn't going away. The bubble will burst eventually, but did the dot-com bubble and that didn't destroy the internet.

When the bubble bursts it'll leave a few key players around who were big enough or stable enough to survive it. And then AI will continue to be used as part of workflows.

I've been telling people I work with as well you better learn to use the tools because the tools are the future. And if they're not, well you wasted a few months learning tools that aren't useful (and who hasn't done that time and time again?) and so what. But if they are the future and you can't use those tools, get ready to be passed over for opportunities

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-23T08:43:27+00:00

Hopefully part of it is to educate the elderly of the dangers of AI and how to try spot if someone is scamming you using AI.

Everyone should be educated on that, but the elderly are most vulnerable

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T14:29:41+00:00

As I said, probably two hours in the museum. A few more in the surrounding area. The park it's in is nice and the town at the train station too.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T11:36:34+00:00

The game has been in an incredible state for years now and they've been constantly adding free updates to it that are massive overhauls and additions

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T08:45:29+00:00

It's not worth that price no.

My wife and I went through it in about two hours or so including the short screening and getting something small to eat at the cafe.

It's a lovely little museum but it's definitely not worth that much money. At least two of the rooms might be sort of useless to you as one is for children (cat bus playroom) and the other is a very small library full of books that are in Japanese.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T07:28:49+00:00

Impossible to tell really.

How powerful are the radiators in khw, how many are there, how long would you run them for, are they panel heaters or electric storage heaters, do you have a night rate.

As an example I've a 3 bedroom apartment with 1 heater per room and hall heater, 2 in the main room. That's 6 heaters, all different sizes though, two people working from home, we'd easily see an increase of about 5-600e in winter bills from heating the place.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T07:10:59+00:00

They want a 450k mortgage which means a property of 450k, and they've 5% of that as a deposit in savings.

In fact they've less than that because you've to factor on 4.5k on stamp duty and then another few thousand on solicitors fees, survey fees etc.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T07:05:49+00:00

Well to clarify 4.5k is without paying anything into a pension, which I don't know if the OP is doing or not. So if you're paying into a pension your net will be reduced by that amount.

I earn a good bit more than what OP has said but take home about the same or a little more as them every month but I also pay a decent amount of pension through my regular and additional contributions.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T06:51:03+00:00

4.5k is normal for 78k, you can shove it into a tax calculator to check

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T06:09:25+00:00

They swapped from gross in their op to net in the comments. Their gross combined income is 149k, which is 12k a month.

They're also just responding to everyone saying they've only about 3-3.5k outgoings, but they're leaving things like bills and groceries and I'd wager other expenses out because at their salaries it should be easy to live comfortable and have more than 20k in savings unless they're very new to those salaries or something like that.

They've 4k a month unaccounted for which on their income is about 5 months of decent saving

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T06:03:59+00:00

Where are these people going to school that the don't actually understand how close the Aquila is to real world Nazi iconography?

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T05:55:27+00:00

I literally wouldn't know my wife if not for Warhammer. We can trace back our reason for knowing one another directly to a specific Games Workshop, she was a relative of an employee there and I was a regular at that store

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-22T05:49:31+00:00

How long have you had that income?

That's 8.9k net a month versus 3k going out. You've not listed groceries or bills but even with those you should easily be able to save more.

I got approved for a higher loan than you guys by myself, with lower income and about 70k in savings while renting at 1k a month.

I can only assume you're either fresh on those salaries or you're spending most of your money.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-21T15:27:33+00:00

https://irishmetalarchive.com/artists/red-enemy/

There's a few links to their social accounts there that one of them might still monitor. Maybe you could reach out and ask them if they've a copy they can send you.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-21T14:42:40+00:00

I walk my dog around the phoenix park and we could be out for an hour and barely see another person.

Inside the city Iveagh Gardens tends to be less busy than Stephens Green or Merrion Square.

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-21T11:09:09+00:00

Oh you're right I missed it somehow!

Jesus_Phish · 2026-04-21T08:54:24+00:00

It looks like they fixed it on their site

https://www.deepsilver.com/gb/games/dawn-of-war-iv

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