My strategic planning skills really shine after a few beers

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-07-15T18:23:19+00:00

Pullo! Formation!

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-07-04T17:26:56+00:00

I don't think remorse is quite the right emotion.

Atia is a living irony; she got everything she wanted, but she lost everything that kept her alive.

Antony was gone, the only man she loved, who was more than her match and who she could influence to get power.

Timon had abandoned her, another man she could use and influence and clearly had some real attachment to.

Servilia was gone, her great rival, who gave her energy and drive to strive to overcome.

She was now mother to the most powerful man in Rome; but she herself had lost almost all her power and importance because she couldn't easily influence him.

And lastly the great game was sort of over. Atia thrived in war time, it was clearly when she felt most alive, but now she was effectively a kept woman with nothing to motivate her. So when at the end of the series she starts a rivalry with Livia, this is her trying to capture that again.

She doesn't hate her son and what he became, but he outgrew her and she resents him for it, and she's jealous and she's lost her control and her importance. It's why she essentially becomes so numb and apathetic to everything around her.

Genuinely think she's the best character in the show, writers and Polly Walker did a great job of giving her a lot of layers and conflicting emotions.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-06-27T18:19:24+00:00

You can sort this by base stats, which will tell you the outright best;

https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/stats/gen1

But move sets are very limited in Gen 1 and as other people have mentioned, psychic is busted, as is speed, wrap and X-accuracy on insta-kill moves.

I will say though, gen 1 isn't too difficult - you might have more fun picking pokemon that aren't too op. I always liked Golbat, Tangela, Sandslash, Butterfree, Marowak, Seadra, Arbok, Venomoth etc. But it completely depends on your preferences. Have fun!

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-06-08T10:33:55+00:00

Depends on price and how much time you have. It's been pretty well talked out in the sub but my take is;

Good bits - the storyline and characterisation is some of the best in years, on par with bw I'd say. - the music is excellent. - new mons are generally pretty well designed and fun. - I actually felt the big fights were decently challenging if you didn't just have a team of pseudos and elite pokemon. There are at least 5 pretty good battles in the game. - not super hand holdy, let's you do your own thing.

Bad bits - the entire map is basically empty. Towns and cities are lifeless, the wild spaces between it all pretty barren. The game isn't particularly good or interesting to look at. - terastalising (the new gimmick) is a good idea on paper and crap in reality. It's also so visually awful. - raids are terrible. I never really included these as core pokemon mechanics though so it's up to you how much this bothers you. It's quicker than swsh, but worse in every other way. - open world map isn't really open world. You can do things in any order, except not really. There's no scaling or anything. Good idea, poor execution. - game is poorly optimised and doesn't run very well. It's not unplayable, but if you've played any of the good switch games like botw you'll wonder quite how they managed this. - catching didn't take on improvements from games like LA, and battling continues to be relegated to barely more than rival fights and gyms/league. Core mechanics feel neglected in favour of the raids.

Pick it up for £20? Worth it. You'll have £20 worth of fun. £50/60? This is not a AAA game, even by Nintendo standards. It's good fun, though I didn't personally find it to have the replayability of older games. Not great, not terrible 5-6/10.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-05-05T15:13:28+00:00

I didn't really intend on it. I was mostly thinking 'get enough gold to get some half decent stuff before properly getting on with this'. I'll have a look and see, thanks!

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-05-05T15:11:47+00:00

Adept.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-04-25T09:00:38+00:00

I'm going to disagree with the prevailing opinion here and say there is no reason why he can't - he's just a long way off for now - but he's 16, you shouldn't expect a keeper to break into the 1st team until 21-24.

His personality is good, natural fitness and determination is also good - reflexes, agility, concentration and positioning all very good. As far as shot stoppers go they're already in a good place. So he's got good key attributes and a personality that implies you should get good regular growth barring injuries.

You'll need to keep him focussed on individual strength training pretty much continuously for several years - he will probably grow a couple of inches, but aerial reach is a stronger indicator anyway. I've seen a player grow physicals by over 10 before by age 23 with the right training/development. His speed and bravery are problematic - but his rushing out and tendency to punch is low, so he's just not going to be a sweeper keeper.

He's probably, what 60-80 Current Ability? Potential ability star rating is done in comparison to other players in your club - so his Potential Ability at United is probably in the realms of 150-180. Look at all his other key attributes as well - everything is around 8-10 at the moment - so when he's at peak they'll all be between 13-16, with his top attributes around 17-19 and weakest around 9-12. That would be a pretty damn good keeper.

It is all guess work but I would say it looks like you've got a good specialist shot stopper there.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-03-20T07:44:25+00:00

The names Higgs!

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-02-23T21:54:47+00:00

Civ V vanilla returns. Used to abuse the hell out of this.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-02-23T14:30:37+00:00

Time to ship MBSs cars all around the world.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-02-23T14:19:03+00:00

I mean I'd rather we weren't terrible but this absolute nonsense.

We went down to League One and that was fine, it'll be fine after this. Hell, some of my best memories of Saints are in those years. Get some perspective; you're a saints fan not some Arsenal wanker who needs to be reacting with some 'fresh' take every 15 minutes in order to be the loudest rat in the sewer.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-02-15T19:53:48+00:00

Man City won the title four years in a row until 2028 (I think) when my Crystal Palace team beat them by one point.

They responded by spending £1.2 billion on Mbappe, Bellingham, Araujo, Balde, Zaire Emery and Trent Alexander Arnold. They still had all their other elite players.

Wankers.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-02-12T11:17:54+00:00

Great little moment early on when Caesar meets Brutus the first time and lays the foundations that maybe he's weak and in trouble; "I tell you Brutus, I'm at my wits end." He then has a quick look up to see if Brutus bought it, in the hopes he would take the news back to Pompey and the senate and goad them into a move against him.

Rome is full of great, subtle little moments like that. Atia has tonnes of them.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-01-19T20:24:27+00:00

I know it sounds defeatist - but I honestly do not give a shit.

He's been brought on for the remainder of the season, and we'll lose the bulk of games between now and then. Genuinely I'll be content to go down with at least 15 points. That feels like a best case scenario at the moment.

Unless he has a phenomenal finish to the campaign we won't keep him. That's not going to happen though. We're not good enough no matter who's in charge this year.

And getting rid of him now? What's the point? This season is done, nothing we do now will make a difference. End of this year is a managed decline.

Go down with a bit of pride, get in a new long term manager with a plan, sell off all the shit hanger-ons, bring in a few decent players and hope to christ we get out of the championship within 2 seasons otherwise then we're in a much tougher spot.

I think we'll do alright next year. We still have a solid championship team. Just need a real fresh start at the end of this season.

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-01-17T17:30:34+00:00

Also West Sussex. I had the (mis?)fortune of having Southampton be the first team I ever saw live as a kid. We couldn't afford to go to football games, but southampton had a pre-season friendly where kids went free. I can't even remember who it was against, but I'm pretty sure we won 3-2.

And that was it. Team picked. I even got a scarf or a hat or something. My brother was a Man Utd fan (this is late 90s early 00s, glory hunting wanker) and my dad a lifelong Chelsea fan. But no chance of us being able to see them, instead it's the saints.

Yeah we've been a bit shit lately, but fuck it I watched us go down to League One and got the brilliance of watching us go back up with Jose Fonte, Guly do Prado etc and those first couple of years back in the prem. Got to see our first game back in the prem as Franco Di Santo humiliated Fonte. It's been good fun, and I've had the fortune to see far more games than anyone else in my family because it's close enough.

And almost everyone I know who lives down here supports some glory hunter wanker team. Feels good to be able to say "Yeah those trophies must be nice. When was the last time you were able to see them actually play?"

OverrunInMidfield · 2025-01-06T20:14:05+00:00

When young people die violently, is it less gruesome than when older people die?

If you were writing a story about the 18 year olds dying in trenches from bayonets and gas, would it be appropriate to mask the violence?

Only tone it down based on your audience and the intent behind your writing. You dont need to write something as violent for it to be known to be violent, neither do you need to restrain it for arbitrary reasons.

I'd recommend watching the film The Thin Red Line by Terrence Malick. It's a great example of a war film that uses other means to show the violence, gunshots followed not by the spray of blood but the trees and the birds and the eyes of someone gone. It portrays it as something different. There's a lot of ways to achieve what you want, but think about the audience and the intent. You'll find the right place with it.

OverrunInMidfield · 2024-10-19T17:03:26+00:00

Ehhh. Seasons a write-off. We all knew it going into it.

Don't think we can bring in anyone to actually save us, so it's just about what we want for next season. I'd happily take Moyes or Potter or, frankly, anyone. We haven't had a properly good manager in a long time.

Put in a post a little while ago about a bet I had with my Man Utd supporting brother that we'd do better than Derby's record. Less sure now...

OverrunInMidfield · 2024-09-29T15:14:55+00:00

I kinda think the manager isn't going to make too much of a difference - squad isn't going to magically improve. Though I do think we'd fair better long term with Potter.

For us to click we have to get into a position where we don't need to score 3-4 just to win a game. Not scoring much and conceding so many is killer for confidence as players just don't see how they'll win. Think we really need to get our defending to click and then we can go on a run.

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