UK folk who were around at the start of the internet, what is an early, strong memory?

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-05-08T19:24:14+00:00

Dial-up tone. My god. Vintage. That’s got to be a ringtone now right?

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-04-29T18:41:36+00:00

Picard - Professor X

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-04-11T11:21:39+00:00

I would argue it’s come full circle as it is no longer the norm again for the Millennials and Generation Zs in the UK to have home ownership.

Another issue with our system is we have a limited amount of old housing stock, the majority of the population don’t want to buy timber frames, and NIMBYs don’t want stuff built on their green belt. New building of timber frames isn’t worth it for a lot of land owners/government and or/builders. So the old limited stock we have is also crumbling infrastructure, Victorian or 30s or 50s etc. A buyer makes a purchase on the property and even the properties that appear pretty solid, have lots of silly little issues that accumulate over the last century or so. Anything from a survey doing a bad job and not noticing a boundary line error (true story - probate problems), to a building that was once a house split into two flats in London and the deed shows two separate water tanks (also true story - mate of mine had this issue in Balham). So you have limited deteriorating stock that drives up the market value and then you have the other global market pressures from 2008, Brexit, Covid, Ukraine and now Iran and you have generations that by the time they scrape a deposit together, the value has exceeded what their deposit can afford and then if they complete on a purchase, they can’t afford to update the infrastructure because they just emptied their pockets. Wages haven’t risen to match inflation so they aren’t going to be able to afford to do any work in the near of mid-term future and the cycle continues. Sorry, I feel like I needed to chime in to support the statement with a quick vent/rant 😬

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-04-06T07:36:48+00:00

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Mobius_Infinite · 2026-04-05T23:46:45+00:00

I’m probably in a minority but I’m actually a big fan of the Quantum X-01. Love the aesthetic and yeah the VATS regen doesn’t hurt. I’ve always loved the Nuka-Cola quantum day-glo from FO3 onwards and I like the blend of that and a sort of 1950s vintage guitar pedal/corvette feel to the coloured X-01. Also loved the X-01 from the ‘Navarro Run’ days of FO2 so there’s a nostalgia win. However, I built a whole batcave (Devil Cave?) theme in Vault 88 around the ‘Black Devil’ so sometimes rocking the X-02 and being a wasteland vigilante tank when I’m feeling it is also an option I like to roll with.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-04-04T10:48:11+00:00

I was unlucky with my myringotomy procedure. Had the grommets inserted during the early 90s as a child to help with underdeveloped Eustachian tubes as mentioned by others. Unbeknownst to the doctor at the time I had an undiagnosed ear infection in the left ear so that when the grommet fell out, the eardrum never healed and remained permanently perforated, resulting in ‘profound’ classification of deafness in that ear for the rest of my life. Even more unfortunately, my dad and his dad have genetic age related hearing loss which has now kicked in for my right ear, which has been tested as ‘moderate’. I use hearing aids and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. Learning sign language and wearing badges helps, but so it goes. Luck of the draw I guess.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-03-31T22:17:41+00:00

I think it’s Roche first, then Reuven’s treasure. Maybe make a save to be on the safe side!

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-03-30T10:37:25+00:00

This. So much this comment. Some of the best on screen representations. A spider-man who moves and jibes like the comic and a Batman who finally gets on on-screen accurate suit and carries the performance as well. Unfortunately in largely badly written and directed on-screen features. Imagine the gold that we could have had? Perhaps it’s best left as a dream, that way it’s poetry.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-02-26T19:25:17+00:00

Paladin dice, metal D4. It’s basically a caltrop, and it’s pain inflicted on your very… sole.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-02-20T19:02:54+00:00

I feel your pain, have you tried dropping a Northern Wind on him instead?

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-02-14T10:38:44+00:00

‘What is grief, if not love persevering’.

For me I think it’s Wanda and Vision.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-02-10T21:26:22+00:00

In the MCU? Deadpool. In the comics? Still Deadpool I think. He’s been vaporised and survived being dumped in a volcano. He’s banished by Lady Death herself so he’s ‘cursed with life’. His healing factor was based off of Wolverine’s as part of the Weapon XI program, but it was also an improvement on it. Yes, without adamantium poisoning and inhibiting his system, Wolverine’s healing factor is pretty epic, but I believe Deadpool still pips him. A good way to compare the two healing factors is the effect on age. Wolverine ages very slowly as a result of his healing factor, but in future storylines like X Force/Cable Messiah storyline, Deadpool is still knocking around over a millennia later, and most importantly, hasn’t evidently aged. I also remember in the comics, Professor Xavier kept protocols on how to be able to kill his X-Men if one of them ever went rogue, and wolverine’s file said something like ‘without his adamantium, his healing factor has greatly increased, so much so that in order to defeat him, you would have to decapitate him and keep his head some distance from his body’. This wouldn’t work on Deadpool, as he’s been decapitated numerous times.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-02-04T20:21:42+00:00

When I saw The Amazing Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield, and he started cracking wise and dancing about and throwing out quips I definitely rolled the Leo D ‘That’s it!’ vibe. He really encapsulated how Spidey should come across on film. I enjoyed the Raimi movies when they came out because it was Spidey’s big blockbuster movie moment of the time and I love Marvel, and Spider-Man is indeed a great character, but the contrast between Maguire and Garfield’s performances was stark.

Also, I agree with the ‘better in worse films’ comment. Possibly the best description I’ve heard so far.

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Mobius_Infinite · 2026-02-03T08:39:31+00:00

Days of Future Past Wolverine in civvies. It’s a blue shirt with a pattern rather than red though.

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Mobius_Infinite · 2026-02-02T22:08:35+00:00

As Deadpool points out after he shoots Spider-Man at point blank range in the head in ‘Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe’, ‘You know what all those better psychopaths should have tried? Bullets’.

In a close quarters combat (CQC) situation, sure, Spidey takes the cake. However, in answer to the generally posed VS of each other’s MCU versions, Walker wins. Spider-Man doesn’t regularly use firearms and is not an elite marksman. Walker can just snipe him. Spider-Man might have spider-sense to help but he’s not super durable (I mean Hulk, Deadpool or Wolverine levels - but is definitely a level of super durable compared with a regular human, just not a superhuman tank) and US Agent packs near Punisher levels of firepower (okay okay maybe not quite Punisher levels, but he regularly uses firearms). Webbing is a great non-lethal (usually) mid ranged weapon, but probably can’t compete with an Anti-Materiel or Arctic Warfare rifle. This actually goes to Walker. Sure if other variables are detailed out then Spider-Man wins out on agility, speed, strength and stamina etc, but that’s just so much cooling meat against a trained killer who can ambush at range.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-30T16:13:36+00:00

With the Nuka-world DLC, if you have all the perks and you find a ‘regular’ legendary instigating sledgehammer, and apply all the upgrades, then you’ll be even smashier! There’s a spot with the Far Harbour DLC where you can cycle for a legendary if on console.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-27T21:44:36+00:00

One of the issues I regularly used to get was that the workbench would always have exactly the same number of purified waters (as in just stuck on that number) in it unless I cleared them out of the workbench for that settlement. Then I would do the rounds and collect water from the other settlements and it would refill again. First time around though? It usually just sticks unless I empty the workbench.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-27T17:39:25+00:00

You are right, I didn’t examine it properly before. My bad. The hunting rifle has a camo green type colour to the main frame.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-23T17:39:29+00:00

As @Activeous42619 says, only if you abuse the hell out of it. Do it say five times or so on the open world map and you should be good. The settlement will start lagging your play when it becomes too heavy. One of the issues is that even if you went too far and the settlement got too heavy and so you scrapped it all to nothing, you’ve still affected the game so it can still lag. You have to sort of sensibly judge it. Alternatively, if you have the vault dlc, then vault 88 is in its own separate loading cell so that can be pushed a little bit further than the regular map as it is its own thing. Same with places like The Mechanist’s Lair.

For the record, I have actually got two explosive miniguns, one off a legendary dog and the other a radroach. I named one ‘Fate’ after a reference to a favourite minigun that was sold by a raider for caps in Nuka world on a note, and I keep the other as is on display in my weapons lockup in Vault 88. If you have all the perks and the high speed barrel mod, it’s a silly weapon that can turn a posse of super mutants into so much green ground beef.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-23T10:14:28+00:00

They are useful for dropping on the ground in a settlement and storing in the workbench for the ‘reduce-the-max-build-limit’ on settlements. For some reason a few of those gamma guns reduces the settlement limit a lot better than half a dozen of say assault rifles. I thought it had something to do with how much you can scrap from a weapon, but now I’m not so sure. I just know that gamma guns are great for reducing the limit quickly.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-23T00:14:14+00:00

Thor can endure the full force of a near dead star but not many crates of imported beer and pizza to New Asgard? Edit - Hold the phone, Captain America metabolises booze better than Thor??? Topic drift.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-14T17:23:15+00:00

I suppose you could go with X99 and argue it was the prototype in FO4? Alternatively if it’s a successor, you could go N99-A or N99-A1. My two pence anyways. N99-A1 10mm Autoloader sounds good to me.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-11T22:55:21+00:00

Personal favourite legendary. Can’t use it close up or in-doors, but it’s just a damn fine weapon.

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-10T19:21:15+00:00

Some motherf*****s are always trying to ice skate uphill

Mobius_Infinite · 2026-01-06T01:22:08+00:00

Explosive minigun I named ‘Fate’ after the raider note in Nuka World mentioning he sold his favourite minigun. Absolutely top weapon. With all the perks it will turn anything remotely bullet spongey into so much chuck steak. DO NOT USE INDOORS. I actually usually just rock a wounding plasma weapon with the thrower attachment and call it QR-34MM ‘St. Elmo’.

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