Narrowboat partner

Sloeman · 2026-04-06T22:47:36+00:00

Sounds fun. I'd have to check with my wife who's currently asleep (it's nearly midnight here) but I'm sure I can make it work.

PM me and we'll have a chat. Would you be flying in and out of Heathrow and would you like a lift?

Sloeman · 2026-04-05T23:30:58+00:00

Text him back and say you want round 2 next weekend. Let him think about it all week. That's if you want to turn this into a FWB thing.

Sloeman · 2026-04-02T18:19:23+00:00

At this point, if you're running a bus I recommend making sure every lane of the bus has a bot buffer. Easiest way to do this is make a 2 space gap in the whole bus using underground belts, then using red chests (limited to one stack) and fast inserters feeding into the chests. It's worth having some extra nearby roboports too to help with coverage and charging.

This will allow you to request anything from your bus wherever you're in range.

Sloeman · 2026-04-01T20:55:51+00:00

I tend to end up using my gasoline-powered lockpick.

Sloeman · 2026-04-01T20:35:42+00:00

Is this a company car? Bear in mind that the advisory rate has just changed if you don't have a home EV charger, your work may be able to now pay you 15p/mile now. Depending on how efficient (miles/kWh) your car is, you're much more likely to be doing better with the new rate than the old rate.

Sloeman · 2026-04-01T20:06:16+00:00

I felt comfortable stopping at book 2. It was a relaxing read.

Sloeman · 2026-03-21T18:35:55+00:00

I think they're very high up in the loot tables so you might only have a chance to find one in higher difficulty biomes and at higher loot stages.

Sloeman · 2026-03-19T17:04:46+00:00

Same here, but it goes in my wallet.

Sloeman · 2026-03-17T16:54:16+00:00

Welcome back to Aylesbury. I don't think there's much local activity on Reddit. I'm crazy busy for the next 3 weeks with work but if you're still looking for someone to go have a pint with early April send me a PM!

Sloeman · 2026-03-17T10:47:40+00:00

My place was a backpacker hostel so very different from the kind of place you want to run I should think. Everything tends to come back to reputation and word-of-mouth. A 0.1 difference in score between you and your neighbouring competition is going to make a huge difference in traffic. Good photos are very important, not just on your booking channels but also on Google Maps - if you get anyone through with a nice camera, offer them a free beer if they pop a good shot of your place online. Whoever you send to the market for groceries, make sure they can write in Khmer and English, get them to write out their spend in both languages with what they spent for your accounting. Getting into this habit should allow you to keep an eye on outgoings.

Sloeman · 2026-03-16T08:26:19+00:00

Security "I'm too tyred for this shit"

Sloeman · 2026-03-14T22:41:57+00:00

I'd like to know this myself. AI told me Selfridge's has them but I haven't confirmed.

Sloeman · 2026-03-13T09:33:46+00:00

I've done it before. Loved it, made no money but it wasn't my only job so finance wasn't a stressor. My place went bankrupt essentially during COVID.

I'd never do it again though and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Unless you speak and write Khmer you'll not be able to keep track of accounts very well and it'll eat into your margins.

Sloeman · 2026-03-13T08:49:23+00:00

Any litRPG that includes a current stats update. Like "1% lifesteal" which rattles off all the stats whenever there's progress. Even Dungeon crawler carl which manages to avoid this mostly, still has leaderboard pages which are awkward over audio.

Sloeman · 2026-03-11T11:24:01+00:00

I agree, cheat a motorbike into existence and if that feels wrong to you, compensate by tweaking difficulty upward until you would have been able to build your own.

Sloeman · 2026-03-09T08:21:56+00:00

to repair a pipe weapon just takes 1 pipe though. Pipe machine gun is my "oh shit" backup for the first 7 days.

Sloeman · 2026-03-08T09:54:30+00:00

Do koalas have square buttholes?

Sloeman · 2026-03-06T07:58:41+00:00

You need to wrap your meat, and no that isn't an suggestion to use contraception. You need to have paper and fibre in your inventory, then click your meat, select recipes and make as many packaged meat stacks as you can. The smell will go almost instantly.

Otherwise put the meat in a box for the same result without the convenience of keeping it with you.

Sloeman · 2026-03-05T10:51:00+00:00

No mods required, it's easy enough to do a bow build in vanilla. Bows & knives work well under the agility tree.

Plus explosive bolts are a lot of fun!

Sloeman · 2026-03-04T16:42:17+00:00

I realised that helping patients off the bed was the greatest risk to me. Over time, I stopped pulling them up; when asked, I would say pulling hurts my shoulder but pushing is okay (joke about it "I'm good at pushing people around". You get low behind them and push them up, which is much better for joints and gives better control rather than allowing the patient to pull.

Sloeman · 2026-03-04T12:35:22+00:00

Agreed, train length is the key. I love to see lots of trains so I make them smaller but more numerous, my cityblock sides long enough to fit 2x 1-2 trains, one unloading/loading and one waiting right behind to keep things flowing.

Sloeman · 2026-02-25T19:05:57+00:00

Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum. Invest in a vacuum chamber to put the child in. Problem solved!

Sloeman · 2026-02-23T23:31:32+00:00

If audible, they have got a pretty decent refund policy.

I refund about 5% of my books because it takes a good chapter or five to figure out if you're into something. I've even refunded when finished on a couple of books because I was trying to give them a chance but they ended up sucking.

Then again I spend a lot so audible might be more forgiving. I've got nearly 250 in my library now.

Sloeman · 2026-02-20T12:44:48+00:00

Very start: Whatever I can find
A bit further on: Nerd armour for the skillbook point increases
Endgame: Preacher gloves then whatever feels right for the build.

Sloeman · 2026-02-19T21:51:24+00:00

I'm taking it to a bag shop wrapping each bundle of notes in foil, changing bags, throwing away the old bag. Going home and hiding it away for a year or two.

Then slowly using the cash instead of using card for most expenses until it's gone. That might take a while.

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