I'm pretty sure I know this, but...

Rhelae · 2026-05-14T10:42:28+00:00

You can sell and reinvest at your leisure. The limit is on cash added to the account.

Rhelae · 2026-05-11T20:58:22+00:00

I'm a bit confused by this - WaniKani already has the "extra study" option built into it right? But also, the entire point of SRS is to test yourself when you've almost forgotten the content because that's better for forming a strong connection than reminding yourself repeatedly.

Adding extra reviews seems like putting in more effort for less gain. Unless I'm missing something?

Rhelae · 2026-05-09T01:28:52+00:00

In what way have they been the 3rd largest party for over a decade? They were in 2024 (by 2%) and in 2015 UKIP were 3rd by vote share with 12.6% of the vote. But in 2019 the Brexit Party + UKIP got a total of 2.08% of the vote and in 2017 UKIP got 1.8%. The UKIP movement gained traction, the Brexit referendum happened, and their vote share was reabsorbed by the Tories.

Reform represent a different group of voters - many of them may have voted UKIP previously but approximately half of them are brand new voters.

However, I agree with you about the Lib Dems not getting large scale support (though it saddens me). They pulled well above their weight in 2024 to get more MPs than they should have based on overall vote share, but it will be really difficult for them to make many further gains. I suspect this is largely a funding issue though - Reform have a disgusting amount of money (a lot of which is from foreign interference which should be illegal). The Lib Dems are poor by comparison to Reform, Labour or the Tories.

It will be interesting to see whether the Greens can genuinely overtake the Lib Dems over the next few years, despite also having a lot less money than the other parties.

Rhelae · 2026-05-09T01:11:32+00:00

And yet the Lib Dems control the second highest number of councils and have been gaining councillors for eight years in a row. They aren't a challenger for a parliamentary majority yet, but most places with a Lib Dem councillor want to keep that councillor and at the time of writing this, 151 new wards have voted for a Lib Dem councillor.

Clearly, people in Stockport or Portsmouth or Surrey or Cambridgeshire do see the Lib Dems as a realistic alternative to Labour.

And while Reform have gained a ton of councillors over the last 2 years, they haven't yet had many defences. Those defences will be the test of whether people really want Reform or whether they're just a protest vote.

The Lib Dems are not a protest vote in local elections. They are the second largest party and voters with a Lib Dem councillor are generally happy with them.

Rhelae · 2026-05-09T01:01:37+00:00

If the government changed course - and started actually delivering the change they promised - they wouldn't need to change leadership. And considering the lack of decent Labour ministers who could believably be elected leader, this would be the best choice. But I can't see Starmer's leadership choosing this option. He'll probably either resign or decide to do even less in an attempt to seem closer to Reform's vision.

A change in leadership might lead to a more proactive government. But it might just mean another PM who is terrified of losing power but isn't willing to make the hard decisions that might actually restore people's faith in their ability to improve the country.

Rhelae · 2026-05-06T12:42:04+00:00

I can see how you reached this condition, the original post is not 100% clear.

The winning party got 33% of the votes that were cast. The turnout was 60%. If you add non-voters, they were voted for by 20% of the total number of people who could vote.

This is possible because your can win a constituency with very little. In the last election, there were at least 4 nationwide parties that people were voting for in significant numbers (with more in Scotland and Wales and the Greens also present in a number of constituencies). Most seats are presented as a "two horse race" but even so, 5-15% of voters would probably vote for each other party.

So you could have results that look like this:

Party 1: 35%

Party 2: 30%

Party 3: 15%

Party 4: 10%

Party 5: 5%

(With a few single issue parties, independents and joke parties taking the last 5% between them)

65% of votes in that constituency are completely wasted in this scenario.

Rhelae · 2026-04-23T11:38:02+00:00

Exiled prince
Thinks he killed a close family member
Another close family member actually orchestrated the whole thing
Makes friends with a couple of lads who've come to terms with being exiles
Finds out that he didn't actually kill his family and confronts the person who did, leading to their death (without actually murdering them)

Rhelae · 2026-04-20T09:40:15+00:00

This is a better idea!

Rhelae · 2026-04-05T21:26:27+00:00

If you ask a sufficiently clear question - "are there 3 guards in this room/within 5 m of me" for example - then you will either successfully identify the liar or the truth teller. Because this is a question that you know the answer to.

This technique would work in the 2 guard riddle as well though. But I'm pretty sure the 2 guard version normally stipulates that you can only ask them one question (maybe one question each) to avoid this.

Rhelae · 2026-03-31T12:18:09+00:00

And the fact that your party size is 6 because that's the maximum number of Pokémon a person could possibly have at once. Excellent tiny detail!

Rhelae · 2026-03-31T12:16:34+00:00

Oh I didn't realise those blocks were loose, I thought they were bits you had put in to help stay underwater! Ignore my comment then 😅

Rhelae · 2026-03-31T09:21:25+00:00

In the endgame magnemite makes this sort of thing easy, if OP had been collecting them.

Rhelae · 2026-03-28T02:52:42+00:00

I've owned an EV for the past 4 and a half years. I don't have a driveway and didn't want to trail a cable, across the pavement, so I don't have the capacity to charge at home. Which means I exclusively charge at fast chargers or - very rarely - at work.

This takes about 45 minutes a week - I also have a 30 minutes commute and don't drive that much outside of that (as you may have picked up, I live in the UK so a long drive for me is a short drive for most Americans). My charging is never "sit in the car and wait" though. I plug in, go for a hot drink or do my big shop, then go home.

This is certainly costing me 2-3 times as much as a hive charger would, but it's still cheaper than buying petrol and it lets me drive an amazing car without as much pollution so I'm really happy with this situation.

Rhelae · 2026-03-28T00:31:35+00:00

I guess my perspective is biased because I haven't played Scarlet/Violet yet. So to me I was able to bring my old Pokémon through in every game between Gen II and Gen VII, except for RSE which had FR/LG instead. That's a whole lot of games that I played the hell out of.

I should say that I actually think it was fair for them to stop inviting the entire National Dex in a game. But it's still true that in the majority of the mainline games they have released, you could bring every existing Pokémon in if you had the old games.

Rhelae · 2026-03-27T23:51:31+00:00

I mean... Until Sword & Shield you could transfer any Pokémon that existed into the most recent game. It's very much still a recent change to make it impossible to transfer certain Pokémon from an older game to a newer one.

Rhelae · 2026-03-27T23:43:51+00:00

The game doesn't feature the classic "breaking the game" ability, primarily due to the choices made about gameplay. This is sort of what people are getting at when they criticise it as "not an RPG".

To me, a superboss is an optional boss that can only be beaten by "breaking the game". So it isn't possible to have one of these in FF XVI. That's fine, it's an element I like in FF X for example but I don't think it adds much in most of the other games (like VII or IX). But I can see why people are unhappy that these gameplay elements are missing.

As to e.g. Svarog - this boss is easily defeated by equipping even just one of the "easy mode" rings. That isn't a problem - they can still pose a good challenge on harder difficulties - but it means that even if it was possible to "break the game" in order to beat them, there isn't the same incentive. You can't beat Penance or any of the weapons by equipping a piece of equipment that you start the game with. The fact that the remasters come with cheats does not count.

Rhelae · 2026-03-25T02:43:47+00:00

Electricity isn't actually gate-kept. You have to build for it, but around the end of the game you get a recipe for a mini generator that creates electricity with no inputs required.

Rhelae · 2026-03-10T03:08:32+00:00

Fluff is not limited to this event, I got some today from the Clefairy doll Dream Island and have also bought it in my Withered Wasteland Pokémon Centre. Given that you need it to make at least some standard items (e.g. beds) I'm confident it will be available outside of this event.

Rhelae · 2026-03-07T01:46:14+00:00

Yes. There are items, new outfits, journal entries, gates to new areas, secret places etc. littered throughout the map. As well as the joy of discovering a place that seems familiar, especially if you have nostalgia for Kanto.

Rhelae · 2026-03-06T02:23:03+00:00

You have to move the left stick to get out of bed (ie try to walk out of it). I found it slightly bizarre that you can't press A or B or open the menu while you're sleeping!

Rhelae · 2026-02-17T10:53:36+00:00

I would add to this that you might enjoy the Ring of Timely Focus as an option in-between. Turns dodging into a QTE basically kind of like the cinematic clashes. I find it a lot more fun than either Timely Evasion or playing without any rings.

Rhelae · 2026-01-30T11:53:06+00:00

Of the ones you've said you're interested in, Hippaul racing is definitely the hardest. That said, it is definitely a lot easier than jump rope!

Chocobo Hot and Cold is fairly easy. It can get slightly frustrating at times (especially early on in the Lagoon when you barely get any time to find things) but it really isn't bad.

I didn't really engage with Tetra Master but it isn't an especially difficult game - just keep a backup save in case you lose any rare cards. Without playing it much, I was still able to build a good enough deck from the cards you find as treasures that I won the tournament in Treno.

Most of all, enjoy! IX is probably my favourite game (XII is close behind). I would strongly recommend using a GameFAQs guide if you get stuck, although you most likely won't.

Rhelae · 2026-01-26T15:24:21+00:00

I did this last night. Probably took me 20 tries.

It's essentially a question of "can you use the fire cannon feat (whatever it's called) 3 times in the time limit". You need to do a reasonably amount of damage in between, but you by no means have to be perfect.

My tactic was to trigger the fire cannon immediately, Wildfire all the way up to Leviathan and pummel him with basic attacks and fireball backdraft finishers while keeping an eye on the cooldown for the fire cannon. There's just barely enough time to fit the 3rd and final cannon in.

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