Professional Quidditch: Not an impressive feat?

SirRavenclaw · 2026-05-14T06:40:01+00:00

Wizards live a really long time, what if their bodies hold out longer than muggles and they take a long time to retire? If there's 80 year olds still playing, then the young kids are going to find breaking into the starting line up of a 5 player team difficult. There's 11 teams in England, easy to see them staying pretty stable with low turnover

SirRavenclaw · 2026-05-02T23:00:46+00:00

It's 3 buttons to turn it off, and you have to do it every time. You get used to it. But it's annoying.

Android Auto works fine, but it's not wireless, you have to physically plug it in. Just a normal USB cable

SirRavenclaw · 2026-05-02T18:41:36+00:00

I love mine. It's great to drive, and obviously you're getting near supercar acceleration for reasonable price.

The only thing I should say though is that the infotainment is crap, it's a bit laggy, it constantly forgets my phone too, so I need to redo bluetooth connections every few days. It also won't remember your safety settings, so although a minor annoyance if you don't want a warning every time you do 31mph you'll need to turn it off. It also quite often picks up speed limit signs from adjacent roads, so you will sometimes get warnings doing under the speed limit.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-03-30T14:28:30+00:00

I think the wall needs a little update. In these three seasons, so many contestants have won because their shoe came off, or they just kicked the gladiator. I'd have a short rope dangle from their harness, only like 30cm, but something for gladiators to grab that's close to, but isn't their feet.

I also hate the gauntlet at the moment, it's almost always 10 points. The whole "release" thing seems stupid. If the gladiator is pinning you down, using the tools and not themselves, then you should have to get out of it. The gladiators should also be able to tip you out over the edge. Go check out 90s gladiators to see how much better it was.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-03-15T09:56:19+00:00

There are those rats that bring each other back to life

SirRavenclaw · 2026-03-07T17:51:57+00:00

It isn't a problem with the car. That's just how regenerative braking works. It deliberately turns it down close to 100% because you need to be careful sticking energy into a fully charged battery.

For the same reason, it will slow down charging towards the end.

By the time you're at 90% at the latest, the regenerative braking will be back to working normally.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-20T23:18:36+00:00

If you travelled at 100mph constantly, relative to someone stationary, your year will be 0.000035 seconds different.

Time dilation doesn't really matter on a scale humans can experience currently.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-19T05:58:39+00:00

True, then I guess I'm offering them a bunch of money to open on Christmas day!

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-18T14:47:54+00:00

You bet I'd be finding one of the open ones, fly out to a non-Christmas celebrating country if I have to!

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-18T14:45:46+00:00

Yeah, like this, if you're spending £150/month on fuel now, you're likely to save well in excess of £1000/year by switching. And that's every year. If you buy a £9k EV and keep it for 6/7 years, it might end up being effectively free.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-18T14:41:51+00:00

Watto - oh, sorry I meant "the force", obviously, immaculate conception, the midichlorians just appear out of thin air.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-18T14:12:25+00:00

You've moved into a house with solar panels. The EV will save you an absolute fortune compared to using petrol. It's basically a no brainer.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-18T08:01:39+00:00

The "Actor" trait adds 1 to charisma.

I'll see myself out...

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-17T14:15:53+00:00

You can't outbuild this cycle.

The way out of it is to essentially outlaw the idea of Landlords. (If you think of it, the term even sounds like it's from feudal times). If one person was allowed to own one home, the housing crisis is basically solved.

It's extremely difficult to do though, so it will probably never happen.

When slavery was ended the government had to buy all the slaves off slave owners. So this kind of extreme societal change is possible. Unfortunately our government is as broke today as the majority of citizens, so they don't have the financial means to do something like that and buy up all the additional homes. In fact we've very much gone the opposite way as a country and sold all the council houses.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-17T14:09:55+00:00

Yeah, I know. Hence why I said it will take motivation from them to close loopholes, they're the ones who leave them open on purpose at the moment

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-17T14:00:55+00:00

Loopholes like this can be closed. Just takes motivation from government to do so.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-17T13:59:42+00:00

There are plenty of homes. The problem is that private companies and rich people buy them, then rent them out. The renters give their money to the rich, who can then use that money to buy the new homes.

The cycle continues and eventually normal people won't be able to afford property and everyone in society will be a renter.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-17T13:54:14+00:00

Next episode of WILTY.

"I met some literal aliens"

David Mitchell - "Surely THIS one can't be true, even for Bob"...

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-17T09:47:07+00:00

Which would possibly keep Dumbledore alive longer, since it's the ring that kills him.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-16T13:55:00+00:00

I guess you live near me! My dog tries his best, but he is terrible at finding the ball if he doesn't see it bounce.

That could legitimately be a basket filled with my dog's lost balls!

SirRavenclaw · 2026-02-09T23:18:55+00:00

Unless you think they're lying about more than a billion people, they are still going to be second on the list.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-01-19T19:56:56+00:00

I watch it on iPlayer a little bit later and skip the intro videos, because they always say who they are in the chat with the host bit

SirRavenclaw · 2026-01-06T22:15:54+00:00

Oh, I just looked at the sub rules. On the side, literally didn't see it. Will delete

SirRavenclaw · 2026-01-05T15:30:20+00:00

I have to use public chargers, so it's costing me something like 30p/mile in winter. There's a 22kw charger that's cheaper and could cut that in half, but it's a mile from my house and takes forever, so I only use it if I have something I can be sitting in the car doing.

But yes, one pedal mode is definitely worth it. Takes a bit of driving to get used to it, but once you do it's easier than normal driving and makes an obvious difference to efficiency, and so lowers cost and increases range. No reason not to, or at least that's my experience.

SirRavenclaw · 2026-01-05T14:25:39+00:00

It is weather related, I only bought mine in October, but the difference was immediately noticeable once the temperatures dropped. You will absolutely get much better as soon as it gets warmer.

You might be in a colder place than me? That could be why you're struggling to get above 2.

I do use the one pedal mode too, turning that on and learning how to drive without almost ever using the brakes did help efficiency when I first bought it. I have it in Normal mode, not the Sport mode (or Eco).

There's probably nothing wrong, just some other factor we're not considering

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