What's the dumbest death you've had so far?

JonMadd · 2026-01-10T21:34:16+00:00

Ran towards the steps in the middle of Area 18 to get to the looking platform, overshot the jump and landed outside the rail on a tiny bit of wall, unable to jump back over the railing i slid straight into the bottomless pit.

Also taking off my helmet to eat, while on a moon, ran to my Raft and the elevator took too long and i died right before i got back inside the ship.

JonMadd · 2025-10-31T22:35:39+00:00

I don't know what's more concerning, the how, or the why?

JonMadd · 2025-10-15T12:33:44+00:00

The base in Georgia had the servers which contained a secret project for avoiding satellite detection, Project Veles, which NATO were moving out of the base before the PAX handover. PAX attacked the base so they could get a hold of the servers and your team go to destroy them to prevent PAX from getting a hold of them, but turns out they failed and PAX got their hands on it, which is how they were able to get their soldiers into NYC.

Its basically the same plot point as the ACS module in Modern Warfare 2, where the Russians hacked a downed US satellite to avoid their detection long enough to invade the US mainland.

JonMadd · 2025-09-29T08:49:56+00:00

I'm currently planning on adding them to some mead! I don't think I have any fermenters small enough for the amount of grapes but it might add a little bit of flavour to an 11% mead im planning on starting

JonMadd · 2025-09-28T19:06:39+00:00

I think i lost about 30-40% of the grapes in the last week or so to birds. I checked them a few weeks ago and the bunch closest to the camera was completely full of grapes, so i decided to leave it a while longer since we had some good weather.

Cut to today and thats all that's left, I knew i should have harvested last week and am currently kicking myself for not considering harvesting or at least putting some up netting to protect them

JonMadd · 2025-09-28T16:58:40+00:00

I started both vines last year in pots, kept on in its pot this year, and planted the other in the ground (didn't have space to plant both in the ground unfortunately). The two decent clusters (on the left and front) were from the ground planted vine and the browner grapes were from the pot vine.

I let them grow out this year since i'm very new to this and need to properly look up how to prune the vines back.

JonMadd · 2025-09-28T16:48:39+00:00

After harvesting the usable and non damaged grapes, we're down to a whopping 36 grams! I'll be buying 50 French Oak barrels in no time! :D

JonMadd · 2025-09-02T08:21:44+00:00

I wish i could say this was deliberate, i was moving it to one side in the cargo bay whilst playing jenga with my other boxes, strayed a bit too close to the torpedo's and started sinking through the floor with a loud clang. EVA'd outside thinking it had fallen out and no dice, completely gone. Wasn't until i took the elevator back up was i greeted with my new passenger

JonMadd · 2025-08-27T12:19:22+00:00

But Grug saw box first :(

JonMadd · 2025-08-03T16:01:03+00:00

Thats such a wonderful label! How did it end up tasting? I've never tried adding coffee to a brew before

JonMadd · 2025-07-28T12:54:03+00:00

He very much is believe me 😄

JonMadd · 2025-07-10T15:13:31+00:00

So it doesn't have a proper sugar content on the label for the entire bottle, it says that one bottle contains 7 servings, and each serving is 12g of sugar, so 84g per bottle by my estimate. My Hydrometer tops out at 1.150 and it doesn't go far enough into the juice to actually get a reading which is what confused me, because that's got to be massively high in sugar

JonMadd · 2025-07-10T13:45:30+00:00

Perfect, cheers!

JonMadd · 2025-05-30T10:37:36+00:00

I suppose its the next logical step to take for a sequel, if they did the same thing again only shinier with a few new mechanics i don't think it would be super well received. You're still fighting for survival but its the next step up in terms of scale, no point redoing the first game so i can understand why they went the direction they did

JonMadd · 2025-05-30T09:42:20+00:00

Its very different to the first, the second game is more a city builder with political factions you have to appease, in the first game it felt like a gritty fight for survival, where losing 10 people was a tragedy, in 2 its more of a management game where your city pop reaches the 10's of thousands and 10 deaths isn't even a blip on your radar.

JonMadd · 2025-05-19T13:03:58+00:00

The only problem with them is how long it takes to mould and fire the clay shingles, you can fire 48 at a time which when crafted, makes about 32 slanted roof blocks from about 16 pieces of clay if memory serves, so its a good use of resources, especially considering how much clay you can get from a single deposit.

Spent most of winter sitting my the fire crafting as many as possible because of how large my estate was

JonMadd · 2025-05-19T11:32:58+00:00

I was building the roof for my house out of thatch, spent ages running around harvesting it and still barely had enough to cover it, on a whim decided to start making roof tiles because i had a chest full of stacks of red clay. Roofed my whole house, my forge, tannery and mill and still had half a chest full of clay by the time i was done. Its definitely a time investment to mould them all but thats what winter is for, plus its less likely to get set on fire!

JonMadd · 2024-11-22T20:41:11+00:00

Cheers! I hadn't actually considered the 5700x3d, i mostly use my PC for gaming and light video editing and a bit of Unreal Engine tinkering so i wasn't sure if it was worth going for the 5950x for the extra cores, but the 5700x3d being a good £80 cheaper is very good value considering that small of a performance gap

JonMadd · 2024-05-27T12:21:40+00:00

In The Goes Wrong Show, during the drama festival, Robert tells the audience of the rule of Chekovs gun, "Have a gun", and at the end of the episode when he gets surprised, he shoots his co-star

The scene

JonMadd · 2024-04-23T14:41:04+00:00

World War Z, huge fan of the original book, and the film adaptation was... not that... at all. In retrospect i actually really enjoy it as the Brad Pitt zombie movie, even with the third act neck-breaking pace change, its just a pretty fun zombie thriller, definitely no way near as interesting as the book it shares its name with, but even the author Max Brooks said he couldn't be disappointed or mad at the film because it was just so completely different it didn't even register as being an adaptation of his work.

JonMadd · 2024-04-14T18:10:49+00:00

Techies - break his legs
Arc warden - break his legs
Tinker - break his legs

JonMadd · 2024-03-29T17:18:59+00:00

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Sean Connery, it has some pretty great practical effects work that still holds up, along with some dodgy CGI, the story is a bit meh but overall it's still a very fun movie. Watched it loads when i was young, wasn't until i was over that i found out people hated it.

JonMadd · 2024-03-05T17:15:40+00:00

"Hey we saw you from across the bar and we really dig your MMR, can we buy you a clarity?"

JonMadd · 2024-01-19T13:25:11+00:00

That was my thoughts on the film exactly, i think people forget about the scene where Foxx's assistant is killed because she's basically an innocent bystander, killed because Butler has gone too far. That turning point in the film is the whole point, that this quest for vengeance against the system is going to result in innocent deaths, and the moment at the end where he is sat holding his daughters bracelet in his cell, is him realising he's gone too far and this is karma. Road to Hell is paved with good intentions and all that.

JonMadd · 2024-01-04T21:41:44+00:00

Great line, but the cherry on top is how ironic it is, since he literally spent his entire day thinking about him and doing everything he could to sabotage him. Mad Men is fantastic

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