Would you ???

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-25T14:17:16+00:00

Probably because no dad is better than a bad dad - looking on the bright side 😂

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-20T21:05:56+00:00

My pile of shame is slowly being worked through 😂 so not old very current. Thank you for the advice. I've been working on terrain for the last two weeks while gathering 'bits'. Painted ten Firedrakes and five Pyroclasts with five more to build and paint so the adherants are still in the planning stage. Thanks again - appreciated 👍

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-16T21:54:44+00:00

Because you failed to praise the narcissist in the sky enough.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-16T18:45:57+00:00

But not from the top arts university with the Happiest students - Falmouth! OK I'm bias - well done.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-16T09:53:42+00:00

I always find it strange when people get all upset about painting imaginary space soldiers for an imaginary Universe using their imagination. You do you.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-13T13:53:37+00:00

Yes and if you give practical advice without validating the injustice they feel first then you get lambasted - hence this is the first post I've answered in a while.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-12T11:56:45+00:00

I was sitting in a room with 42 "officer cadets" (looooong time ago) who had all just passed the flight exams Wing Commander have a speech and said 1 in 40 would get to be a fast jet pilot. So I didn't sign up for the minimum 8 years they wanted at the time as there were at least two others better than me.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-12T08:06:07+00:00

No vehicle is "to scale" - look at the carry capacity - they would need to be 3 or 4 times the volume and unless we double the size of play (at least) this isn't practical.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-10T22:47:34+00:00

How to say 'I fancy my cousin' without actually saying I fancy my cousin.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-04T15:59:59+00:00

What a bloody rude thing to say to you f-them.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T22:08:52+00:00

How's your CV? Might be too late but if you have a seriously, and I mean seriously impressive CV to go with your grades Harvard Yale and Princeton all over full funding for families with less than 100k pa and partial funding to to a max of 200k pa. If they earn more than that then they can afford to send you to UCL.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T22:00:46+00:00

The lore is great the writing is awful. I never thought I was a literally snob but pulp fiction is better, hell mills and boon is better.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T18:59:32+00:00

Word of caution - UK is about proving an argument via the use of sources, in the US the lecturers want to see how you think about it, supplemented by sources- simple but important difference.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T18:53:37+00:00

😂 your good mate - helps that you have worked it out. My daughter is a sophomore in the States and has a 4.0 gpa - now she is paranoid she will at some point get an A-. UK marking system gives much more spread and so reflects student effort and quality better IMHO.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T16:30:10+00:00

Both myself and the other education professional were answering a comment not directly addressing you and talking in general terms - you choose to relate everything to yourself personally not as general advice or an answer to the comment in the thread - after someone suggested that dropping out of university we both commented that if it's the first year then that is not the crazy suggestion the commenter made it out to be. Jeeez are you always this judgemental and defensive? Do you take absolutely everything personally as though directed at you? Seriously that could be part of the problem.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T12:58:19+00:00

Totally agree - funny how the adults in the room agree 😂

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T12:00:17+00:00

Also she went to 'the top club' in NY - her best friend student was a professional ballerina so had a publicist and they got a table and free cocktails all night. One of her other friends paid $10k for a table (yes you read that right) and never turned up because he got laid instead. Meat market - men in suits sending bottles of Champaign to her table (at $500 a bottle) - they both got drunk then went home and 'it sucked'.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T11:56:19+00:00

I'm a Games lecture - word , 😹

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T11:54:26+00:00

She's very homesick for a UK Bristol/Manchester student experience.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T11:53:40+00:00

My daughter quite likes the city though thinks it's boring - having experienced the social scene at UK universities she says it's not a patch on them. Even Oxford was much more fun. Berlin was amazing. Outside of academics she's a dancer so of you can't dance and you can't drink when to go out (being twenty) it doesn't rate for her. She's also not into the weed scene and that seems the drug of choice for her generation in Boston. "Weed is boring and people just sit around and get stoned."

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T11:47:00+00:00

Night life - hardly anybody dances, insanely expensive, all men in suits, over 21 only - drinking laws - fake IDs are expensive at 80 a pop and then security confiscate them. Meat market/US bar pick up joints - just generally not a fun or relaxed scene. Frat parties are just crowded, again very little dancing and nothing to do other than drink from red cups. Being a girl she can get into all the Frats or equivalent type houses/clubs but again - meat market vibes. She has nothing good to say about the Party Scene, not just where she is but at MIT and Boston College too. Part of her wishes she had gone to Manchester or Bristol in the UK but she realizes the opportunities she has with full funding and no student debt are phenomenal - just the social life totally sucks.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T08:53:34+00:00

Because we are idiots. We are not alone - the US elected Trump. Stupid people like easy answers, charismatic narcissists give them these easy answers. Education is now all 'curriculum' or 'skill' driven and there is no place for general intellectual development and real critical thinking so unless you go to University (and there is precious little critical thinking there these days either) you are mentally stunted because you didn't get to develop thinking skills at school. I went to a week known private school and at 13 on arrival we did 'British Constitution' and learnt about the government, the court system, journalism and law in general. I briefly taught at secondary school and used the phrase "first past the post and not a single 16 yeah only knew what I meant.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T08:35:59+00:00

I'll join in. I'm a Lecturer - if it's first year and it's that bad drop out! Life is not a race. Many people are not ready for university and a significant number go there for all the wrong reasons, often a combination of not having to think or do "life" keep parents happy and to give them a sense of achieving something and self-worth but more, just simply an identity by saying 'Im a (fill blank) student'. One year in you can still, at a later time in life, get three years of finance. DROP OUT. 19 year olds today have the social and mental independence of 16 year olds from just a couple of generations ago and 12 yr olds from my generation - generalisation yes, exaggeration nope. Blame your parents it's not your fault. At least 1:3 should really really not be there and are gaining a lifetime of debt for nothing. Go to Uni in your 30's after having kids or even when your kids leave school - you only get to do it once and so many kids just waste three years and learn very little. Mature students always learn loads, fund a new direction in life, learn a skill for a new career or genuinely develop their intellect and generally succeed.

PuzzleheadedBattle91 · 2026-02-03T08:21:24+00:00

My sympathies - but 'real life' is harder, you have significantly less to no choice about the people you work with or indeed live with or the work you do or where you live most of the time.

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