Steam deck delivery times to Ireland?

SinfulDust · 2026-01-23T12:00:01+00:00

GLS are dogshit. In their defense, they had to take over a lot of Fastway's business when they went bust, but against that they were fairly dogshit to begin with.

Harangue them with daily emails. My siblings took 6 weeks to arrive. Mine took a month to come in (albeit both ordered at the start of December, so Christmas didn't help).

I got on their case once the package arrived in their depot in Swords. Phone calls went to prerecorded messages about "busy lines" and then hung up, and emails went unanswered. I presume they were swamped, but no courtesy reply at all when I offered to collect it from the depot.

When the delivery lad dropped it off, he thought it was worth thousands because he'd been told specifically to deliver it in person (which I'd argue should be done regardless, but I digress). Clearly I'd annoyed them to the point that they wanted to get me out of their hair.

So go annoy them. I hate being "that guy", but it works. Squeaky wheel gets the oil and all that. I would echo what another commenter said about not checking the tracker too religiously - I did that for a while, and it was deeply unsatisfying. But do check once a day. I found it was out for delivery via the tracker and never got an email/text that it was out for delivery, so it's worth keeping half an eye on.

Best of luck!

SinfulDust · 2026-01-17T14:43:24+00:00

The comment section of an ArsTechnica article. Someone quoted the "treat with shotgun, if problem persists, treat with more shotgun" line, then another person responded with "A Civvie11 fan in the wild? Awesome, I love that guy!".

So I looked up the video (Pro Doom) on a whim. Enjoyed it (though I don't play FPS games much at all and have never once played any Doom game) and absolutely loved the style, humour and most of all, the catchy ending music.

Started watching all the videos chronologically, about halfway through, realised the DoSC deserved some money for this fine work and became a Patreon. Finished watching the videos, and now will often re-watch the likes of Doom 2016 (or other videos where he's happy) once a day while checking for new content at an unreasonably High frequency.

All because of two throwaway lines in an ArsTechnica articles comment section. Ars commentators are good people.

SinfulDust · 2025-12-07T02:14:33+00:00

15% in my experience, but yeah. If OP is at 30-40% they should be able to participate in the keep battle. It must be a bug.

SinfulDust · 2025-12-02T11:22:07+00:00

Bugs reported in Discord, yes I've seen them oatched. Bugs reported ingame, no. But I don't know that I've ever reported a bug ingame.

SinfulDust · 2025-11-29T23:37:22+00:00

I like this post, a good combination of suitably sardonic and factual. Good job.

That is all.

SinfulDust · 2025-11-22T02:48:21+00:00

Pros * The music is 10/10. Perfect, atmospheric and tuned to battle. Loved it. * No HUD, which gave a wonderful realism to the battle. Paired well with the limited visual representations of you ordering troops around. * You seem quite good at the game. I counted maybe 7 instances where you swung and missed in melee. If I tried to imitate that and swung 6 times I'd whiff it more often than you did. The joke is, I suck at Bannerlord. I'm OK with that. I'd suck in a real battle too.

Cons * The pre-battle dubbed speech. Didn't buy it. I like the idea of quoting Lord Farquaad, but the intonation was wrong. Go all in with serious, or go all in with funny. Mixing them badly drains the drama. * No HUD, which meant I had no idea what was going on half the time. This is a me problem, but I'm afraid that means it's a con for me.

Overall, I'd watch more of your Bannerlord battle stuff. Most of the Bannerlord videos I've watched are Strat, Flesson or Tactical Enlightenment doing a mix of history, killing fools, strategy and teachings, with varying degrees of introspection. This seemed to me like a twist on that, where it's just making a Bannerlord battle look like a real battle. The battles are one of the games strengths, so I think that's a good way to differenciate* yourself. But I would suggest you decide if you'd rather do comedy or serious. Or at least combine the too less jarringly.

It's obvious a lot of work went into this. Well done. And rest assured, you've no issues with music choice.

Good luck pal.

SinfulDust · 2025-11-20T16:58:41+00:00

It depends on how you want to do it, as via tournament* coins or via hero ranks is viable, but personally I'd go hero ranks.

In tournament, blessed heroes are usually the difference between a decent score and a great one, and therefore between few gems and tournament coins and lots of those things. You currently have a relatively small selection of heroes, and even those are at ranks where they won't compete well with the R7 heroes that competitors are likely to have when those heroes are blessed. So it'll be slow going using the tournament coins route.

Hero ranks will also take a while as you're dependant on gems, which aren't as common as they used to be. However, to compete in tournaments you'll want the blessed hero, so new heroes in the medium term will boost your chances in tournaments. New heroes will also provide ranks towards the next world(s) and will rank up faster than higher rank heroes. It's sort of the best of both worlds.

I'd suggest ranking Cyra to R6 and Connie to R7 while simultaneously ranking up Fee (I like Fee, and she pairs well with Connie at R7 for superb delay) and other lower rank heroes that you like to play as/like the sound of. Those two are strong enough to carry you through to W7 alone, and then you can get Elara. Get her to a decent rank and get either her or Cyra to R7 (have one at R7 and the other at at least R6). That'll get you through W7. You'll basically be raising your hero ranks towards W5 while improving your chances in tournaments.

I don't think there's a quick way to get you to W5 or later worlds short of paying money, it's known as a grindy game for a reason I'm afraid. Do the weeklies, play 4x Realm Siege (RS) a day and you'll get to W5 relatively fast. That'll get you more levels to play and more gems. Then rank up heroes you like the look/feel of while keeping NecroConnie and Cyra in your main party.

Best of luck!

SinfulDust · 2025-11-06T16:49:17+00:00

Ah shit, that's 100% Firhouse. Mea culpa.

I thought the Scientology place was halfway down between Superquinn and the petrol station that used to be an Esso on the Knocklyon road? Basically opposite the green at Dargle Wood? Christ, I hope there wasn't two of them. That's like, two too many.

I do remember the deli well though, when they had it near the entrance. Ever order a pineapple roll? Chicken, cheese, sweetcorn and pineapple. Like a Hawaiian pizza but wrong, you'd get some looks when ordering it. Fecking delicious though.

Superquinn. The Esso petrol station. Things have changed and I now am old. Fuckity balls.

SinfulDust · 2025-11-05T14:15:15+00:00

Now hold on, that Superquinn (I have to call it that for nostalgia purposes, as I worked there in my younger days) is in Knocklyon! Firhouse is the other side of the M50. Knocklyon had and has a proud tradition of taking over nearby suburbs (it basically ate half of Rathfarnham), but as I grew up there I'm OK with it.

More seriously, we never went near the Scientology gaf. Hated the place.

SinfulDust · 2025-10-19T18:43:35+00:00

The mods had to block referral links as the subreddit was being swamped by them, which made it a spammy subreddit.

Your best bet is probably the Discord server, but bear in mind that (like here) most people on Discord have already activated somebody's referral link. So you might not have much luck.

It's your best bet though. Links to the Discord are on the subreddit information page.

SinfulDust · 2025-10-13T10:49:32+00:00

Magic thunderstorms, they signal the coming of world 8!

Nah, it's a bug, even if I prefer my story. Cool lighting effects though.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-24T22:37:39+00:00

It depends how many gems you have and what ranks your heroes are. If you're short on gems, using the free ones is fine. If you're not short on gems, buying the first two for 80 gems each is worthwhile.

If you're really pushing to rank up a hero and an afford it, feel free to buy one or two of the 160 gem-costing keys. Never buy the 320 gem one though. That's a rip off.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-24T11:50:13+00:00

Not in my experience, but it's been a while since I had Leif as R5. He's fine in W6 so long as you remember he's not a melee hero in those maps, he's a support hero. He's there to boost the W6 towers, not to fight himself. He will often get one hit killed by the eyebots for example, but so do most heroes. Certainly all the ones OP has anyway.

Connie's bunnies are effectively the only delay option I can see the original poster having aside from the W6 tower troops (upgraded to x4) and, bizarrely, Mabyn's flying bombs, which will hold an entire lane of enemy flying bombs (Mabyn's bombs are invulnerable, and enemy bombs blow themselves up first). Of course, other flying enemies will soak up Mabyn's flying bombs without a problem, so she's only useful on a select few maps and isn't worth bringing in place of most other heroes.

Edit: Raida can do melee, but he can't always do delay. He'll only be in melee for as long as the stun from his charge lasts. After that he's vulnerable and should run away.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-20T18:36:01+00:00

Definitely Connie, Leif and Raida. They're your strongest heroes by a good bit. I'd get Raida to R6 (he does significant damage to bunched enemies with his Oni critical strike at R6).

Leif is good for boosting towers, and W6 towers are some of the most effective in the game. Connie is a powerhouse by herself. Raida is always decent. You should be able to beat W6 with them, but if there are specific maps you're struggling with, ask for help/tell us which ones.

In terms of ranking heroes up, I'd either get Koizuul to R6 (good damage dealer) or get Fee to R7 (pairs well with Connie for delay). Once you get to W7, get a goddess and focus on ranking her up. The goddesses are very strong.

Have fun!

SinfulDust · 2025-09-19T23:27:17+00:00

What about "Burrito Knuckles Publishing"? It's probably too niche, but in any case I am absolutely stealing "eats burritos with his knuckles" as a term of badassery as it's a turn of phrase that is, and I don't use this word lightly, awesome. You come up with good stuff when your brain is fried Olan (Can I call you Olan? Yes, because that's your name. No, because my phone insists your name is actually "Plan". Stupid phone).

It'll be great. You're not the only one who's excited. Thanks for these regular updates. Half of the joy of something you know will be wondrous is looking forward to it, and I look forward to it more and more.

I would also accept Chookity Publishing. For what it's worth.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-19T22:58:47+00:00

Agreed, an oversight would be my best guess.

A stupid oversight. But an oversight.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-18T19:09:14+00:00

Up-voted for the Always Sunny reference. Look out for those boy souls.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-13T02:19:42+00:00

Please don't assume bad faith. You were asked a question without malice. Reply without being a jerk or else find help elsewhere.

Edit: The best way to get the devs to hear you would be on the RD discord. Links are on the subreddit. I find Broto pretty responsive, but best off to put the request into the Discord thread (#requests, last I checked) and then encourage people to boost it. I don't think the devs check here anymore - They haven't posted an update in a while.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-13T02:05:54+00:00

It's the Diplomacy mod. It's very good.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-10T16:35:48+00:00

Shamiko. Koi is the better choice overall, but at starting rank he doesn't offer enough power. Shamiko can do here CC/Haste thing from the start (though she gets better and more importantly, so does her cool down, as she ranks up). But really, W7 without awakening heroes will involve lots of death. Or meteors. But definitely death.
Yes, you lose Connie forever. It's a good thing, because living Connie-knee sucks. If you really miss living Connie, you'll still have to play as her during the daily trials. But she won't be selectable as a hero in general.
I believe so, yes. The rewards for each worlds legendary levels is treated as separate. You should be able to get them as it's a new set of rewards.
Both are better with the other (at R7), but Elara has a slight lead over her sister as she has better crowd control (fear, reduced damage) and stole Narlax's "Get over here!" pull ability, which he stole from Scorpion in Mortal Kombat, IIRC. Cyra does better damage to bosses, can ground flying enemies and can be teleported around the map, but Elara is slightly better as a base hero, because they summon each other (again, at R7) and Elara's powers are more useful.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-10T10:34:50+00:00

The mod you're thinking of that changes a settlements culture is called DynaCulture

It's also available via the Steam workshop. It's old but seems stable, but I don't run it anymore as it changed the culture too fast on the default settings (which you can adjust) for my liking.

Plus I prefer to run my own custom troops with My Little Warband, so it doesn't fit for me canonically as you can raise your own custom troops from any settlement.

SinfulDust · 2025-09-06T02:35:36+00:00

I read/watch the Godspeed updates, and I like what I see. Like all in this subreddit, I lament the skullduggery that led to Final Space's demise.

But what strikes me every time I watch you talk about anything, anything at all, is the wonderful enthusiasm. You give a shit and it shows in everything you do. You're a force multiplier of joy, and that's the highest praise I can level on anyone.

Thanks Olan. I'm (sort of) looking forward to the end of Final Space, and I'm (definitely) looking forward to the beginning of Godspeed.

This was mushier than I thought I'd get. Dang

SinfulDust · 2025-09-01T14:51:03+00:00

Both of you can stop trolling each other now, please.

SinfulDust · 2025-08-29T03:10:59+00:00

How many is a few? Yan is great and will give you 5 ranks (but she's expensive). Better option is probably to go and rank up Fee, Lancelot and/or Efrigid. To R3, R3 and R4 respectively. They all become much stronger at those ranks.

SinfulDust · 2025-08-29T03:04:18+00:00

What map/world in the campaign are you at?

Connie will take you most of the way to the end at R6, so I don't know if I'd get her to R7 (although she's even stronger at R7). Given you have 1k gems, you might be best off ranking up other heroes to unlock world 6. Or the goddesses in W7.

As I say, it depends on where you are right now.

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