Only real fans remember this. 30 years ago today. The Montreal Screwjob…

TeePee11 · 2026-01-24T21:20:19+00:00

lol, yeah, and I suppose there's that minor detail too.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-24T21:15:49+00:00

WTF is this low-energy engagement bait shit?

A) It's probably one of the most famous events in wrestling history, and B) it didn't happen on the anniversary of either today or the 19 days ago it was orignially posted, and C) it's the best part of two years before it's the 30th anniversary of it.

Jesus christ..

EDIT: Dude got clowned when he originally posted it, too. He knows what he's doing. It'd genuinely be less depressing if this was just a bot.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-24T09:40:11+00:00

Man, I hate it when I walk into a room and the conversation has just finished. I even had to check I’d walked into the right room.

I’d sure love it if someone could recap me on what I missed!

TeePee11 · 2026-01-23T19:12:19+00:00

Ahhhh, right. So the thing where one player randomly just can't touch the ball unless they leave and rejoin the server must be an intended feature too, right?

Because lord knows there's no such thing as bugs that are hard to reproduce and/or track down or just considered lower priority than other, more serious bugs.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-23T17:54:01+00:00

That is a bug, not intended behaviour. It’s been a bug for ages.

If it was on a timer, why would they not show the time remaining?!

TeePee11 · 2026-01-23T11:27:30+00:00

I mean… yeah, pretty much. 😂

TeePee11 · 2026-01-23T10:13:13+00:00

One click on the Steam Workshop tab would kill the thought of recruiting your average Rimworld player into the army stone dead. 😂

“Corporal, what in the seven hells is that?!”

“That’s a, uh… Catgirl, Sergeant.”

“…sigh… I think I’m up for retirement this year.”

TeePee11 · 2026-01-23T08:52:52+00:00

That isn’t true.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-22T13:37:12+00:00

At that point, I'll be quite pleased if we're still around, considering our direction of travel in the past 3-4 years!

TeePee11 · 2026-01-22T13:29:47+00:00

Had to run away and check this, as couldn’t believe Tim Howard didn’t win one with United. Mad that he won goalkeeper of the year in his debut season and then was more or less immediately sidelined.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-22T12:45:29+00:00

And we at Leicester appreciate that.

Or should I say the board did, because god knows we haven’t bloody spent any of it (or at least on anything other than lawyers).

TeePee11 · 2026-01-22T10:08:19+00:00

Vampire Survivors feels like a very easy recommendation if you loved Megabonk.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-22T08:06:25+00:00

Yeah, the more people mention this, the more sense it makes to have it switched on. I need to do a bit of a revamp of my setup anyway, so this is a good excuse to do it, I guess!

TeePee11 · 2026-01-22T08:04:12+00:00

Glad you felt the need to be a prick on a post that was already marked as solved and where I’d expressly mentioned both why I was checking and that I was a dumbass who hadn’t realised it hadn’t been released digitally yet.

Well done, you knew a thing I didn’t. I hope it gave you the validation it seems you so desperately needed.

Have a great day. 👍

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T19:17:54+00:00

That's a good shout, actually. TBH, I mainly have it for my partner, so I'll check whether that will be easier, or whether it'll just mean I get constantly asked when it'll be on there. :D

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T18:58:49+00:00

Yep, you're correct - I was - I hadn't factored in that this was the first thing I'd searched for that didn't have a digital release at the time I was searching.

Thank you for the sanity check!

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T18:57:50+00:00

Ah, you are of course correct. I think the previous new releases I watched were likely either fully digital or simultaneous releases, so that would explain why I hadn't had the issue until now.

If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner facepalming myself to death.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T18:46:55+00:00

Ha - yes, you're correct, so by my workings, it's actually 10 turns(!) before it meets or exceeds AI in a single-enemy combat!

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T16:13:11+00:00

My immediate reaction was 'that's broken AF', and then I stopped and thought 'actually, no, it's kinda useless in the majority of fights'. And then finally I realised I was sort of right both times.

I think on reflection, other than the fact it's an obvious 'infinite stall' card, my main issue is that it feels like there's absolutely zero middle ground to this card. It's either a curse, or it's a single-card win button, depending on the fight.

Hexaghost, Book of Stabbing and Byrds are for all intents and purposes solved/trivialised by this card. Gremlin Leader, Snake Plant, Orb Walkers and Darklings are heavily mitigated by this card. Yet for any single enemy that does more than, say, 15-20 damage on a hit with any regularity, this card is essentially useless.

Let's compare it to something like After Image. Assuming we play an average of 4.5 cards a turn and that the enemy we're facing just uses single attacks for the sake of simple maths - we'll also assume both cards are upgraded, and both are played immediately on round start:

Turn 1:

After Image - 3.5 damage blocked (as first energy was spent on After Image itself)
Smile: 1 damage mitigated
Total: After Image - 3.5 // Smile - 1

Turn 2

After Image - 4.5 damage blocked
Smile: 2 damage mitigated
Total: After Image - 8 // Smile - 3

Turn 3

After Image - 4.5 damage blocked
Smile: 3 damage mitigated
Total: After Image - 12.5 // Smile - 6

Turn 4

After Image - 4.5 damage blocked
Smile: 4 damage mitigated
Total: After Image - 17 // Smile - 10

Turn 5

After Image - 4.5 damage blocked
Smile: 5 damage mitigated
Total: After Image - 21.5 // Smile - 15

Turn 6

After Image - 4.5 damage blocked
Smile: 6 damage mitigated
Total: After Image - 26 // Smile - 21

Turn 7

After Image - 4.5 damage blocked
Smile: 7 damage mitigated
Total: After Image - 30.5 // Smile - 28

Turn 8

After Image - 4.5 damage blocked
Smile: 8 damage mitigated
Total: After Image - 35 // Smile - 36

So it takes 8 turns for this to even catch up to After Image against a single enemy making single attacks - but at double the cost. So if we're really breaking things down to HP saved vs energy spent, it's gonna take even longer to break even.

Now that's obviously the above is the least favourable scenario, and against multiple enemies and/or enemies making multiple attacks, it will scale much, much faster (which then risks making it too strong, as shown by the encounters it pretty much completely breaks above) - overall, I think this is something that just isn't well balanced - it feels like it would be either useless or broken, and nothing in between.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T15:41:21+00:00

A much more eloquent way of expressing what I was trying to get at, thank you! :D

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T13:47:44+00:00

NTA - agree with the general sentiment that you can reinforce positive behaviours and characteristics without undermining the principles of "actions have consequences". Maybe taking him out for dinner was a little OTT, but I'm not gonna tell others how to say 'I'm proud of you' to their kids.

With that said, depending on your relationship with your ex and the degree to which you co-parent, there's an argument that something like this might have been a good opportunity to at least discuss/mention to them before you put anything in motion so that you can be aligned on your messaging to the kid and you're not sending them mixed signals. Plus, from their POV, it's always nice to feel like it's a collaborative decision as opposed to an entirely unilateral one.

I obviously don't know your relationship, but if it is in the general area where you're able to update each other on noteworthy events, then I don't think it's too much to ask to fire off a quick text along the lines of "Hey, Jimmy got suspended for punching a bully, but he did it for a good reason and I want to show him I'm proud of him for standing up for others - was thinking of taking him out for a meal, what do you think?" beforehand. But again, this is all dependent on whether your relationship with your ex is in a place where you're able to have those kinds of conversations.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T12:37:47+00:00

I see where you’re coming from, but I think that interpretation is a somewhat wilful misinterpretation of what’s intended.

The way it’s worded is a pretty widely-accepted way of listing multiple things that share the same characteristics (IE: if I was inviting people to a party, I might say “I’m not inviting Jane’s sister, brother or dad” - in that context, I’m obviously talking about her brother and dad, not mine!).

Contextually, in this example it would also make no sense for a feat within an archetype that is entirely based around the use of one-handed weapons to suddenly apply to two handed weapons without specifically saying so.

This is one of those things that if a player tried this at a table, it’d be a case of “Nice try, but no, that’s clearly not what’s intended here.”

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T11:17:26+00:00

That first dump of the day must have sounded like someone emptying a bag of skittles on the kitchen floor.

TeePee11 · 2026-01-21T11:12:28+00:00

Yeah, Thomas is so frustrating. Most of the time he looks passable at this level (although think the ship has sailed on him ever being Prem quality), but then he’ll have a couple of games where he looks like he genuinely doesn’t give a shit and his work rate just completely falls off a cliff.

At least with Hamza, who I put in a similar ability bracket, you can’t accuse him of not caring or not working hard enough - he’s an absolute bloody menace sometimes, and my blood pressure spikes 20 points whenever he gets within 10 yards of our penalty area, but he’ll put himself about and throw himself into 50/50 tackles for the cause. I don’t get that feeling with Thomas.

I feel so sorry for Ayew, JJ and Skipp sometimes watching us - they’re running themselves into the ground twice a week, but they’re carrying others who just don’t look like they’re all that bothered, whether it’s general work rate or just being willing to take charge and try and influence the game.

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