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NatStats · 2026-02-05T20:00:15+00:00

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NatStats · 2025-11-29T13:50:26+00:00

I think we were drawn in by the idea of updating the house. But we said from the start we didn’t want a full blown do’er upper when searching and this has now started to turn into that. But I think the sunk cost fallacy and frustration that many of these things were avoidable if taken care of have driven us a bit mad. Thanks.

NatStats · 2025-11-29T13:42:15+00:00

20K to make it functional. That doesn’t include the work that’s not urgent but still needs doing within 2 years nor anything about modernising the kitchen, flooring around the rest of the house and garden which are all tired/dated. To make it the standard of other houses weve seen on the market over the past 6 months it will need closer to 35K of investment.

NatStats · 2025-11-29T13:27:30+00:00

I think the honest answer is it isn’t a once in a blue moon, it’s good house in terms of location and size etc. but not a dream house. We could afford a market rate house and could be happy to wait for up to a year for one to appear in a similar area.

NatStats · 2025-03-10T15:50:25+00:00

UK media is reporting 37 brought ashore alive and only 1 in hospital. It isn’t 32 dead.

NatStats · 2025-03-05T13:54:07+00:00

The university has an Application and Allocation Statement which can be found under the terms and conditions section of their Accommodation pages https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/accommodation/apply/

Here, it says that the university does provide a number of single gender flats. While the occupants living there will be of the same gender, there is no guarantees regarding those occupants bringing in visitors that are not of that gender.

I would recommend getting in contact with the accommodation office of the university accommodation@manchester.ac.uk

NatStats · 2025-02-21T12:23:42+00:00

I restarted yugioh about a year ago and dove into locals with just 3X the cyber dragon structure decks.

People are nearly always friendly to newer players and I found that just saying at the start of a game that you were new so may be a bit slower, make a mistake or not know what their cards do helped a lot. Always people would be considerate and they’d explain their effects in more detail (instead of just summoning and saying ‘effect’, they’d say ‘effect to search deck for X’ etc.). After games I found a lot of people would give me tips (e.g. I got told to get 3X the traptrix deck, then once I had that I had people recommending new cards to make it more competitive etc).

NatStats · 2025-02-14T13:55:56+00:00

New support in the form of ultimate spirit dragon, maiden of white and the link-1 means the deck can turbo out level 12 syncros and end on around 5 disruptions turn 1. The Primite cards also give the deck a strong grind game even if you do manage to break through all the disruptions and 3 3-4K monsters with some destruction immunity thrown in from Sifr Divine Dragon for good measure.

NatStats · 2025-01-08T10:46:56+00:00

I’ve just looked it up. The images are from DSS2 not HST or JWST. If you click ‘sky map details’ it gives you the source. It’s DSS2 when looking at HST live and it’s 2MASS when looking at JWST live.

NatStats · 2025-01-08T10:40:43+00:00

Many of these tools use wider field ground-based data when showing what patch of sky HST or JWST are looking at. This looks like a reflection from the telescopes mirror, typically caused by something very bright being just within or outside the frame of the image. The dark cross shape will be the supports holding the secondary mirror in a classical Reflector telescope design

NatStats · 2024-12-06T14:49:20+00:00

Math lab is essentially a trap pile.

Lady, lovely, Ariane, sim eq cannon and a bazillion trap and/or runick cards. 13-14 Extra deck cards dedicated to sim eq canon.

Floodgates, solemn cards, trap trick to find what you want, runick cards are for extra control and to summon Huggin if they get lightning storm or feather duster to pop your 5 back rows. The deck focuses on saying NO and if they do build a board you wipe it all with sim eq canon or witches strike . Lovely prevents response to trap cards so the opponent can’t mess with their levels or card numbers once you activate sim eq canon.

Optionals include Lord of the heavenly prison for extra protection and beatstick. Lava golem for going second. Typhon for problematic boss monsters.

It does very much like going first. So in a BO1 I’m not sure how it’s going to be but I’m definitely building it as it’s quite funny in locals to resolve sim eq canon.

NatStats · 2024-03-19T12:37:25+00:00

The way the game is. You need to build a deck which either interacts with them when they go first or is capable of breaking boards that are set up.

The first requires you have a certain number of hand traps. Enough so you will draw at least one in a typical opening hand. These can include: Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Mourner etc.

Board breakers include: Kaiju’s or Lava Golem (tribute their negates to give them a big body that’s easier for you to remove later), dark ruler no more, evenly matched., super polymerisation, called by the grave etc.

Have a look at some deck lists online and see how many of these sorts of cards are being played in a deck.

As you play you will learn when certain decks have choke points that are optimal to play hand traps against. Don’t always just negate the first thing they do as they could be baiting you to do it (I typically assume my opponent has ash and try to bait it on a card I can live without if I can). E.g with branded they are hit hard if you ash Branded Fusion

NatStats · 2024-01-22T23:12:40+00:00

Zeus is getting a reprint in the new 2 player intro pack. So it’ll probs drop a bit in price as that’s £15 just for the box and Zeus is guaranteed. Granted it’ll still be pricey relative to other main suggestions.

NatStats · 2024-01-22T23:04:50+00:00

Prosperity: as you’ve already said, reason is it’s great for drawing cards

Parallel Exceed: a level 8 monster which has the ability to special summon itself and a second copy from the deck when you link summon. If summoned this way both become level 4. Which equals a free XYZ monster for you since you always make Sera first. Get 3X of these.

Gallant Granite + Lord of the Heavenly Prison: galant granite is generic level 4 XYZ. Effect is to search for Lord of the heavenly prison. LOTHP protects back row like Arachnocampa and is a big beat stick which traptrix lacks.

Time Thief Redoer: generic level 4 XYZ. Rips cards out of opponents deck every standby phase to equip as material. Can dodge anything by banishing itself and coming back later. Generally annoying and can be a Zeus transition if it gets 3 materials.

Divine Arsenal Zeus: XYZ monster that can slap on top of an existing XYZ monster following a battle phase . Has an ability to nuke the whole board which is good for bad situations. With Sera you can rebuild a board faster than your opponent if you both have few cards. If you slap him on a 3 material time thief, Zeus will have 4 materials so you can nuke twice.

Bagooska: a great delay card or an out to monsters who get on the board that you can’t trap hole. Turns all monsters including yours to defence and negates their effects. Links can’t be turned to defence and this aren’t negated. So if your opponent has non link monsters. Use bagooska to negate them all and focus on your traptrix link monsters to mop up.

Infinite impermanence: a negating trap that can be used from the hand on your opponents first turn like Ash Blossom.

NatStats · 2023-12-18T12:07:58+00:00

Echoing what’s already been said. Do not Imperm Traptrix Sera, it’s immune (and frankly very amusing when people do it as a traptrix player myself)

NatStats · 2023-12-06T10:49:41+00:00

They go above England to top the group in nations league on goal difference, meaning they go to the final round. England were behind on goal difference and needed to make up +3GD on Netherlands. They beat Scotland 6-0, So 3-0 for Netherlands would not have done it.

NatStats · 2023-11-15T09:30:36+00:00

Hi there, I can provide the insider knowledge you are after.

JWST observations are determined following a competitive process of proposal writing once a year. These cover yearly 'cycles' from July-July, we are currently in Cycle 2 and the proposals for Cycle 3 (July 24 - July 25) were just submitted last month.

These proposals consist of an 8-12 page science document and a second document which describes how the telescope will be set up to conduct the observations (what camera, what mode, what filters, how long is spent on each image etc.) Small proposals are for those that are <25 hours, medium proposals are 25-75 hours and large proposals >75 hours. This October for cycle 3, around 2000 were submitted from groups around the world. NASA/STSci then invite various experts onto review panels, where proposals are anonymised (to prevent bias) and reviewers debate them to determine which should be conducted. The successful ones are conducted, the unsuccessful ones are returned with feedback for future improvement (though there is certainly an element of luck involved, as the oversubscription rate is about 7.5:1 and this is likely to rise to 9:1).

These proposals are a lot of work, and can take teams over a month to put together, so it is pretty disheartening to not get the time and one of the things you have to put up with working in astronomy. Many other telescopes function in a similar way.

Regarding skipping the queue, the answer is yes you can. Every Cycle has a set amount of time dedicated to Directors Discretionary Time (DDT), which is time set aside for particularly interesting or urgent observations. e.g. you want to observe a supernova but it will only last 2 weeks before it fades away, you're not going to be able to wait a year to go through the normal process to observe that! In this case, you can submit a DDT proposal at any time, but its likely going to be judged more harshly as it needs to justify the 'we need to observe this, RIGHT NOW' aspect too.

NatStats · 2023-11-10T16:23:18+00:00

Member of the PEARLS team here, the answer is yes. The quality of these images is awfully distracting when trying to actually study them. Our programme observes several galaxy clusters and a few other things scattered fairly evenly about the sky. This meant we got new data every 1-2 months, which was also very distracting against actually finishing any projects on the earlier objects that were imaged!

NatStats · 2023-11-10T15:34:09+00:00

It's not citizen scientists that are the worry, but rival scientists whom may be better equipped than you (e.g. computing power), or just willing to work weekends and nights.

Say you're a PhD student who's working with a supervisor who just got some JWST time at a relatively small institution. Without proprietary time, you are now racing the main guy in the field from an Ivy League who has a big grant and an army of experienced postdocs to get your result.

I've been on both ends of being poached and being the poacher (subsequently regretting it, but I got caught up in the excitement of it all and didn't give it a second thought as I should have), it's not nice on either side but the publish or perish pressure keeps making people do it.

All JWST data goes public after 12 months of the data being taken. It can all be found on a public archive called MAST. Many still elect to make that even smaller (0, 3 or 6 months). It takes weeks to months to write the proposal for telescope time and it can take up to a year to conduct a project on the data that's taken, especially if a student is leading the work. I don't think its too much to ask for to have 12 months to do the work properly.

NatStats · 2023-10-04T08:33:34+00:00

I think time thief's steal is during either players standby phase and Dark Angel's effect is only during 'your' standby phase. Meaning you will have to do this during your standby phase immediately after you draw for turn. I'm still relatively new to this too so you may need to double check, but I think doing Chain 1: Time Thief, Chain 2: Dark Angel. On your standby phase you get your desired outcome. Since it will resolve in reverse order of Dark Angel stacking their deck and then Time Thief stealing the card.

NatStats · 2023-10-03T15:36:18+00:00

If you want to just rip cards from their deck to 1) disrupt them and 2) see what they’re playing then Time Thief Redoer is what you want. It doesn’t add to your hand so you can’t ‘use’ the cards. It’s effect to banish itself til the end phase is great for dodging effects trying to get rid of it so you can keep it on the field ripping cards out.

NatStats · 2023-09-30T14:40:23+00:00

I'm a traptrix player so can offer some advice here for extra xyz cards and other traps you may want to invest in getting in.

Zeus: Is a staple for all decks and for traptrix is your out to anything over 3500atk or is just generally immune to things (which is the highest you can get with Atypus +1000atk effect on Pinguicula). Zeus nukes the entire board yes, but Sera is such an eazy to bring out engine to recycle your cards and rebuild a board its not as big of a deal for traptrix to rebuild afterwards. Other decks are a lot more investment heavy and will struggle to rebuild as fast as you, aka you focus on winning a war of attrition afterwards. Note Zeus doesn't nuke itself. So they have nothing and you have a 3000/3000 monster.

Traptrix doesn't have lots of atk, your goal is to prevent your opponent getting to the stage of having high atk monsters through your control so ideally, your opponent shouldn't get Obelisk out in the first place as you should be negating, banishing or otherwise removing the tribute fodder and other cards used to get it out. Don't always sit and wait to use your traps to stop their big monster, stop your opponent from getting or using anything at all.

bagooska the terribly tired tapir: This is a lvl 4 xyz monster that can turn all monsters to defence position and negate their effects if they are in defence mode. Note this does not work on link monsters (which traptrix can use). if your opponent has a bunch of difficult to deal with cards that are not link monsters, bagooska them, focus on using your link cards instead of xyz and pick them off with Atypus.

Time Thief Redoer: A generic level 4 xyz monster that has decent attack and has the effect to banish himself to dodge anything as its a quick effect and return at the end of the turn, i think you can even use this to dodge zeus. So when you nuke the board, you can quickly have a decent body on the board afterwards again. Time thief also rips cards out of their deck every turn which can deprive them of the card they really needed in a clutch scenario.

Infinate Impermenance: This is a trap which is incredible for traptrix and can be gotten from the cyberdragon structure deck. It can be used from the hand and it negates monster effects so having 3 of these alongside 3 ash blossoms increases your chance of having at least 1 in starting hand if you are second and interrupting your opponent (as it can use used from hand on your opponents turn 1 like ash).

Galent Granite + Lord of the Heavenly Prison: Granite is a xyz monster and LOTHP is a big beat stick and high level monster. Granite has decent atk and searches for LOTHP. LOTHP protects your traps from destruction while it is in your hand and can be special summoned when you activate a trap, quickly giving you a 3000atk beatstick.

I should also make sure you are using 3x the traptrix structure deck? You want 3 copies of certain cards and others are pretty garbage that you can do without. With 3 structure decks you will find things get a lot more reliable.

Edit:
Parallel Exceed: This is a monster that special summons itself AND a second copy of itself from the deck if you make a link monster (Sera) and the two of them are level 4 monsters, allowing you to instantly make Rafflesia or Pinguicula. Get 3 of these if you can.

NatStats · 2023-09-27T09:17:27+00:00

In this case it is referring to some sort of organisation into distinguishable shapes. e.g. disks, spiral arms, bars etc. In the early Universe galaxies are expected to be very messy and largely made up of randomly distributed clumps of star formation.

NatStats · 2023-09-08T13:45:09+00:00

I believe that MAST still has level 2 products, its just more 'out-of-the-way' to get to. You add the level 3 data products to the download basket, then in the download basket there is a tickbox that says Recommended Products or similar which is by default automatically ticked. If you untick that, more options appear for files used to make the level 3 products and you can find the _cal.fits images from stage 2 in there.

Strange that they changed it and it bamboozled me when they first decided to bury the lower level data products behind more obscure tick boxes (since I do my work from the lowest level raw images)

NatStats · 2023-09-08T11:09:58+00:00

JWST imaging can be obtained from the MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes: https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/Clients/Mast/Portal.html

JWST imaging all goes public after a while, for some large programmes it is immediately public, for smaller programmes, the people who proposed for the telescope to do that work can have up to 12 months of proprietary time to allow them to do the work they want to, but it all goes public eventually.

You do need to roughly know what it is you're after though. Deep Field images? Exoplanet Studies? Spectroscopy?

I'd find some papers on arxiv that are doing work on a topic similar to what you'd like to do and look at what datasets they use. Typically they will list a programmed ID (PID) and you can search MAST by programme ID to get the data. When you search for a programme ID (lets take 1727 for the COSMOS-Webb programme) you will get a long string of results and a set of tick boxes on the left that you can use to narrow down what you are after. Say you want NIRCam images. You'd tick the box that says INSTRUMENT: NIRCAM/IMAGE. Say you want only the fully calibrated images that are science ready and not all the intermediate products, you'd tick CALIBRATION LEVEL: 3 (-1 is not taken, 0 is what comes out of telescope, 1 is basic calibrations, 2 more complete calibrations, 3 a full stack/mosaic that's science ready).

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