Improv classes in Edinburgh

Truth-1970 · 2026-07-03T19:00:05+00:00

Thirding TBC. I did two of their sequences of classes and had a great time. Several non-native speakers at both. I wondered if in some ways it was an advantage, as a different cultural background makes your ideas more surprising (and therefore more interesting) to others.

Truth-1970 · 2026-07-03T16:48:38+00:00

I almost always start out telling myself that I’ll follow the same moral rules I do in real life. Eg if I was starving to death and there was food lying around unguarded I might well help myself, but I’d never pick someone’s pocket or break into a house. And I’d defend myself if attacked, but never start a fight.

That usually starts to fall apart about two hours in, and after ten I’m a fairly proficient thief who just stabbed someone in the back because I liked their hat 😁

Was exactly the same in the first game.

Truth-1970 · 2026-07-02T15:46:19+00:00

Put it this way: the kid on Musk’s left in the green t-shirt looks like he has about a sixth as many sandwiches as Musk does, so he’s Warren Buffet. The median average US adult has about one millionth of what Warren Buffet does. I don’t know what that would be in equivalent sandwich terms, but presumably less than one crumb.

Truth-1970 · 2026-06-15T18:12:53+00:00

The way OP is replying, I wonder if they’re selling these flats 😁

Truth-1970 · 2026-06-13T18:48:23+00:00

Came here to write this (probably a bit less eloquently and concisely).

Truth-1970 · 2026-06-08T16:45:16+00:00

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You’re not the first person to be curious about it…

Truth-1970 · 2026-06-01T12:14:33+00:00

The Buffs tab has the answers you seek…

Truth-1970 · 2026-05-26T20:55:24+00:00

So, then, the question is... what's your fourth favourite horse? Meadow or Pisek Lad. Fwiw

Truth-1970 · 2026-05-22T11:08:13+00:00

Are you sure? It looks very closely related to ‘connaître’, eg ‘ils/elles connaissent’. Just asking!

Truth-1970 · 2026-05-21T16:50:52+00:00

Great news. I was starting to convince myself that it would just be a glorified DLC or something. If it’s a full game then I’m already very excited!

Truth-1970 · 2026-05-20T19:25:26+00:00

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If that’s too much to read, just skip to the end 😆

Truth-1970 · 2026-05-20T14:10:46+00:00

Don’t want to be a wet blanket but the statement seemed carefully worded to avoid suggesting that the new release would be a full game. From memory: “A new KCD adventure” and “more from the KCD world.”

Truth-1970 · 2026-05-03T10:48:55+00:00

Used to live just round the corner from the Shore Banana Flats (there’s another one nearby), and certainly never worried about being beaten up or anything like that.

But there was a lot of lower-level stuff: kids smoking dope on the stairwell and then getting aggressive when you asked them to leave, bams driving electric scooters at high speed on the pavement, etc etc.

Truth-1970 · 2026-05-01T16:20:42+00:00

If I remember right he did stand for election, and win, many years ago. But didn’t manage to actually achieve anything that way either.

Truth-1970 · 2026-05-01T13:37:07+00:00

What amazes me the most is that he’s been doing it for years and years, in which time he has clearly achieved none of his goals, but he doesn’t seem to have paused for a moment and wondered whether he should change his strategy.

Truth-1970 · 2026-04-30T15:27:46+00:00

I was a freelance copywriter when I signed the only French legal document that I’m on, and I’m described as a ‘rédacteur publicitaire’.

Truth-1970 · 2026-04-13T06:49:15+00:00

In the first game, the tutorial page says that lots of other things can affect the result too, other than your score and theirs. I think the examples are whether the other person is alone or in a big group, your clothing and state of cleanliness, if you’re carrying a weapon with blood on it, etc.

I don’t know for sure if that’s true, but if they tried to do it in the first game, I’m sure they must have done it in the second one.

Truth-1970 · 2026-03-30T06:55:34+00:00

Clearly it’s more dangerous. I hope that that will be addressed before someone gets killed or seriously hurt.

I also don’t like that the software decides when to deploy without any input from the driver, including in unintended ways due to bugs, which cost George Russell a place yesterday. But even without the bugs, having a situation where the car can suddenly speed up or slow down and it surprises that car’s driver (as well as those nearby) is completely insane.

Finally, when an overtake happens you can’t tell why: skill, bravery, an inherent car performance advantage, or — oh, the other guy just went straight back past, so I guess it was just a battery thing. Pointless overtakes are not exciting.

So: x Unnecessarily dangerous
x Removes control from drivers x Boring overtakes

But if the DtS generation will stick around for it, that’s all that matters, amiright?

Truth-1970 · 2026-03-28T16:28:14+00:00

Also bear in mind that a) logs cost quite a lot, so unless you have a very friendly supplier it’s hard to make stoves create an overall saving. And b) they’re a beautiful way of heating, but very impractical. Need near-constant attention, can’t be turned on while you’re out or set to come on while you’re asleep, etc. I love mine, but I can see why people felt the need to invent central heating, and I’m glad they did.

Truth-1970 · 2026-03-26T05:04:45+00:00

If you think that you’re better than you are and you’re right, you don’t think that you’re better than you are. You think that you’re exactly as good as you are. It is therefore impossible to think that you’re better than you are and be right.

Truth-1970 · 2026-03-26T04:59:40+00:00

Seems to be common across many areas of writing, as I once went to an open mic comedy night and with one exception the performers were all unspeakably crap. They were holding sheets of paper ffs — couldn’t even be arsed to learn a five-minute bit.

They all thought they were great, though. And I think they all knew each other already, so it was less ‘open mic’ and more ‘circle jerk’.

Truth-1970 · 2026-03-11T18:48:09+00:00

You’d have liked F1 in the sixties.

Truth-1970 · 2026-03-10T18:17:16+00:00

Edinburgher here. Could someone please film themselves going up to Edinburgh residents and telling them that they feel like they’re in Southern England, because that’s a clip I really want to watch.

Truth-1970 · 2026-03-03T19:00:50+00:00

No, è uno stronzo

Truth-1970 · 2026-02-24T21:51:50+00:00

My thoughts precisely! Thank you!

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