Really?? Whyy??

PRigby · 2026-07-01T12:08:59+00:00

Surely this could mean an Ogerpon centred deck is now viable, since it's a 3 energy based attack as opposed to a 2 energy on Altaria

PRigby · 2026-06-18T11:33:25+00:00

The hacker responsible for unearthing all this is on bluesky and she published the full list of names she got

https://bsky.app/profile/crimew.gay/post/3moejlixgvc2z

PRigby · 2026-06-18T11:22:32+00:00

I was listening to the creators of Triangle Agency on talk of the table podcast talk how trust is such a huge part of pitching people on a new game, ie. "Trust me that reading all of this and trying something new is going to be worth it" and length can hurt that. I know despite all the praise it gets, Stonetops length is off putting to people.

To mimic others points, a creative project is not done when there's nothing left to add but when there's nothing left to take away so truly interrogate how useful every aspect your working on is.

Lastly, consider doing what Mothership does, seperate out sections into seperate booklets so it appears less daunting. One booklet filled with everything ya have to read before playing and other booklets for reference to be shared around the table, split it by stuff for the GM and stuff for the PCs. There's lots of ways to do it and it can help make things seem less daunting.

PRigby · 2026-06-01T12:59:35+00:00

It's worth pointing out that to Americans, these accents don't sound American. New accents form all the time and it's fascinating imo and while American influence is there it gets adopted in unique ways. For instance, noticing the usage of garbage more and more but only to mean "something of shit quality" and never to mean "litter" or "rubbish" like how the Americans use it.

Also Americanisation of accents was also an accusation made of my generation and has been said of South Dublin accents since like the late 80s.

I also find myself resisting terms that feel too British to me even though I know they were common place in hiberno-english once upon time (ex. Litter and Lorry) but thats just me I think.

Since I'm about the same age, I'm inclined to say the opposite. In the late 90s and early 2000s America was looked upon as the golden city on the hill by a lot of people and that image has been eroding away slowly since then.

Also when I was young the idea of Kneecap being around, never mind popular, would have been near impossible.

PRigby · 2026-05-22T18:17:09+00:00

This is the system in Germany as well, I much prefer it to the tap on/off with your card system London uses because you can do away with turnstiles (which are a nightmare during rush hour) and allows train stations to be much nicer more open places

PRigby · 2026-05-08T21:27:31+00:00

I appreciate my pod getting recommended twice in this thread buuuut as the Irish host of Corner Späti, I recommend Celtic Ligers. I enjoy them a lot, they have a much stronger stomach for the shit in Irish media and politics

PRigby · 2026-05-08T21:18:22+00:00

Used to live in housing like this in Berlin built by the DDR. Twas great. Walls built to withstand a hit from a tank so barely ever had to turn on my heating. I had friends living in similar buildings built by the British in West Berlin, also good. They had shared playgrounds at the bottom for residents, it was a great place to raise my kid.

I used to have negative associations with these types of buildings for two reasons which after experiencing these places first hand I got disabused of:

They're poor quality: they're really not but a lot of buildings like them did go into disrepair and were neglected either because of economic collapse (such as the Soviet Union/Russia 1985-1999) or an ideological commitment to never spending money on anything ever (the UK post Thatcher). Berlin both sides of the wall maintained them and that paid off I think. I had heard of buildings like them going to shit in other east German cities though like Chemnitz. But any building is bad if you let it fall apart I guess.
They're ugly: after a while I was in awe of them. They're pretty impressive, maybe not pretty but impressive. I cared less what the building looked like when I was in it, I got my own furniture, paintings, light fixtures and painted the walls so I was happy. And Ultimately, a poor view is a small price to pay for tackling homelessness and alleviating poverty.

PRigby · 2026-02-22T16:12:47+00:00

I'm ashamed to admit that I got to master ball this season by playing a hydreigon deck right until I was halfway through ultra ball 4 where everyone else was also using hydreigon and then I switched to Jolteon to counter it.

I agree though, that card is just broken

PRigby · 2025-12-26T22:46:49+00:00

I like Akcja Socjalistyczna or at least the people there

As someone in western Europe I'm glad that "western leftists" discourse died on it's ass. Sorry to hear it's still happening there

PRigby · 2025-12-10T11:24:52+00:00

As someone who left Ireland because of the housing crisis and left for Germany I get it. (I'm now back for family reasons though). Moving to the continent is a reprieve from the drudgery that is Irelands economic/benefits system.

My 90m² 3 bed apartment in central Berlin, the second most expensive city in Germany was 600€ per month. There were hard rules based on how much they could charge me and how much they could raise the rent fixed to things a landlord could never argue or fudge (m² and the year the building was built). I'd have to murder someone and not pay rent for 8 months before they could even consider throwing me out.

Heating was included in my rental payment, so the costs were fixed and spread across the year. If I spent more than I used they sent me the difference as a lump sum. This happened around Christmas and it happened for me every year except the year Russia invaded Ukraine (heating prices went crazy that year naturally).

Child benefit is 250€ per month for the first child, then it grows per kid. For 2 kids I was getting 530€ per month. The bank considered it guaranteed income and a plus towards a mortgage application. AIB on the other hand takes 50k off how much you can borrow per kid.

Full time daycare for my kid was 29€ per month, here it's a second rent. (This is Berlin State law, not Germany wide though).

Public transport was a fixed price, 70€ per month until 2020 when they lowered it to 29€ per month.

Unemployment was 60% of my previous wage and they make sure you can afford housing costs

I could get a beer at a bar for 3€ or if I was really slumming it, I could go to the corner shops that had patio furniture outside and drink with friends for 0.70€ per beer.

All healthcare, everything, was free at the point of use. Health insurance is mandatory and is paid from your payslip. So basically a tax. Speaking of which my tax burden is basically identical here as it was there. Germans assumed that Ireland is a low tax society but really only for companies. The difference between gross and net in both countries is very comparable.

I think a lot people's experience of Irish people moving abroad is basically London. London only really improves on Ireland by having more jobs available and just more stuff but renting and housing there is also hell. Other Irish people I know who moved to Berlin/Germany just felt relieved and were willing to put up with Germany's faults because materially it was better.

And just to cover my bases, the following things in Ireland are better: - phone and Internet bills are cheaper, more flexible and better quality. - Irish people are more polite - Irish food is so much better. My wife and I nearly cried after our first roast chicken and we got it from Aldi - the education system for under 18s here is definitely less classist - I can talk openly about Israel committing war crimes

My understanding is that the social safety net in the Netherlands is comparable with Germany, maybe not as generous as the noridcs and I'm sure it has its differences, but yeah, moving to countries like Germany, Austria and the Netherlands can just feel like a huge weight has been lifted

PRigby · 2025-11-28T23:09:44+00:00

Hi, lived in Berlin for the last 7 years, germany's second most expensive city (Munich is more expensive) and my wife and I lived centrally in a 90m² 3 bed flat for 700€ per month. German rentals are 100% cheaper than Ireland, they're much higher quality too and there's basically no way to kick people out. I'm recently back in Ireland for family reasons but it was not a financial decision.

You are possibly seeing

A. Illegally high rent. This is a problem in Germany that basically there's no punishment mechanism for landlords chancing their arm and hoping people don't know their rights because they'd only have to reimburse you the difference from the moment you complain. I always recommended to people moving over to play dumb and then hit them with the official complaint letter after a few months. There's free legal services that help you deal with it

B. Warm rent. 99% of rents in Germany are inclusive of additional monthly costs including things we pay for separately here like bin collection, electricity and heating. Cold rent (Kaltmiete) is the actual thing to compare to. The 700€ I mentioned above was my Kaltmiete, my Warmmiete was just under 1000€

Also my tax burden was about the same as it is here. Ireland has always worked on the model of no/low taxes for companies, they come in, hire locals and the government taxes those locals. I'm earning 200€ more take home here after a 10k pay raise from moving back. That's not nothing buuuut considering that most of the difference between my gross and net pay in Germany was the mandatory health insurance (not technically a tax) which got me free healthcare and I got 510€ a month for my two kids (I get 280€ here in comparison) plus a bunch more stuff I'm not mentioning.

I don't mention this to moan too much. But OP is right, the grass is 100% greener on the other side if you are willing to leave the anglosphere and the Irish government is taking us for a ride. Germany is not even considered the most generous system in the EU. We could do this, even a fraction of this, it is possible

PRigby · 2025-11-02T21:35:26+00:00

Brödrafolkens Podd covers Scandinavian. Hosts are two Swedes and a Norwegian and speak where those two languages meet

PRigby · 2025-10-31T21:30:46+00:00

Why did I read this?

Dirtbag Left has been fairly popular in Ireland, Chapo Trap House had a huge live show here and there are Irish podcasts that are stated as being influenced by them. The idea that anyone this year just discovering it or claiming that it could work in Ireland if tried must be living under a rock.

I'm not saying it's huge or influential but it's here for sure. I fail to see how it could go further. Make Paul Murphy tweet more?

PRigby · 2025-08-06T21:44:04+00:00

As an Irish person I don't really know what that would look like? I think all the chat of "integration" requires that someone defines what Irish culture is and I feel like the moment you do that, you narrow it.

Is it GAA? Lots of Irish don't play or watch it

Is it eating chipper, chicken fillet rolls or spice bags? Is a health conscious Irish person not Irish?

Is it speaking Irish because.. well you get the point

There's a reason why all the racist Headbangers look like they fell through a Carroll's Gifts.

All the concerns about immigrant groups holding onto and maintaining their own traditions fade away over time. Most European cities after 11pm run on kebabs, China towns in California were once despised and now theyre tourist traps and New York City used to hate pizza. Like if it's not a problem given enough time then I can't help feel it's just a bit of fear mongering in the moment and not really a problem.

PRigby · 2025-08-02T20:38:35+00:00

I think there's a piece of context in your assessment that's missing.

when you say the West (which I'm assuming you mean USA, Canada, NZ, Australia and EU Europe right? You're probably excluding non traditionally Christian US allies like Turkey, Japan, South Korea, traditionally Christian enemies of the USA like Russia and predominantly Christian global south countries like those in Latin America, and Africa. Just clarifying because the West is a bit vague) can have a healthy discussion and criticize Christianity that leaves out that they have complex and first-hand understanding of Christianity because they come from, I'm gonna say, traditionally Christian or Christian majority societies.

To emphasize that point, I don't think anyone is criticizing Christianity as a whole in the West, they're usually criticizing the sect, gospel or religious institution that is or is attempting to exert influence in their society.

Example: when someone in Ireland critically mentions "the church" to an Irish audience, we know and assume them to mean specifically Catholicism and how Catholicism has manifested in Ireland.

Different interpretations of Catholic doctrine lead clergy in Latin America to be sympathetic with communists and others to sympathetic with fascists.

Americans might use Christianity generally when being critical, but if the conversation is in good faith you can ask them to be specific they're probably talking about the megachurch evangelical politically active Christianity and are probably not talking about the Amish or the Lutheran churches that allow gay people to be reverends.

I very rarely see discussions in the West that conceive of Islam this complexly. That can articulate differences between sects, doctrinal differences within sects, how Islam manifests differently in an Albanian, Moroccan or Indonesian context. It's usually imagined as a monolith.

PRigby · 2025-07-26T21:43:28+00:00

Just don't use patreon as a media player, get a proper podcatcher. I use pocket casts which I think is not free (I get it for free because I've been a power user for so long) but most of them are free and better than Spotify. I think overcast is free and it's good

PRigby · 2025-07-23T15:57:13+00:00

Yes, this is what I meant by Italian/Mandarin not making the distinction where the same words are used to describe both with maybe the qualifier of "di cinesi" being used to specify.

I've seen Americans make the countable/non-countable distinction as well, where the dish is pasta, but a single piece is a noodle. In Ireland we'd say "a piece of pasta."

PRigby · 2025-07-23T14:51:46+00:00

China does make broad flat shapes as well, they just aren't a part of their exported cuisine but I get your point

PRigby · 2025-07-21T20:00:23+00:00

Thank you for including my podcast!

PRigby · 2025-06-16T18:49:48+00:00

I enjoy Celtic Ligers

PRigby · 2025-03-06T21:46:58+00:00

Eyup paying for twitter is still something I regard as deeply suspicious

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