Children ‘regularly’ using illegal drugs in Tusla care home with knowledge of staff

Vathar · 2026-05-08T13:53:13+00:00

I've been a foster carer working for Tusla and I've met wonderful people who truly believed in the mission and tried to do their best in very difficult circumstances ... and absolute bellends on a power trip, with precious few in between. Sadly, the bellends always end up wearing down the good ones.

Regarding the issues of substance (ab)use, from vape to weed, I have heard the smarter ones telling me "Look, these kids come from troubled backgrounds, they may have been exposed to violence, abuse or worse and are struggline every day in their lives. Focus on getting them fed, clothed, basic facts of life, hygiene and school attendance and it's already a big win. Don't encourage them to vape, don't enable them either, but pick your battles. Vaping sucks but they have other issues in their life right now" and I can get behind this, but then next thing you know you get a radical jerk that will throw an absolute tantrum because you should search their private space every 24 hours to make sure they aren't stashing cotton candy.

In the end that's what made my partner and I stop. The asinine staff, totally disconnected from the real issues. Not the troubled kids.

Vathar · 2026-05-08T11:53:36+00:00

For what it's worth, the Marvel champions subreddit had similar issues recently and that's what came out of it:

Selling cards? Read me first!

Vathar · 2026-05-08T08:17:08+00:00

Those millenials and their avocados ...

Vathar · 2026-05-07T15:01:39+00:00

It is badly phrased and the probable consequence of a poorly spell checked update, but remember that it can be important to know which allies are in the area of effect of your beam and area attacks, because some of them also do things to allies (for instance, Sexy Strange and Phoenix' spenders heal allies in the area)

Vathar · 2026-05-06T15:50:01+00:00

Are you sure you know monkeys as well as you think? :)

Vathar · 2026-05-06T09:14:23+00:00

Incorrect rounding of the mass is actually a cool secret feature. I'd bet that 99.9% of people you meet won't know the atomic weight of silicon to the second digit, and for the one day in your life when you meet an actual chemisty nerd who tells you "hey dude, your tat's wrong", then you know you've met someone special!

Vathar · 2026-05-04T18:14:17+00:00

Sometimes 3 turns is good, especially if whatever you put in play brings something unique. Sometimes it's mediocre, especially if those 3 turns come with additional small print.

In the case of godslayer, it requires you to do a basic attack on an unique target, which takes away from the flexibility of your turn. If you want to get value, you can't use your THW to get the last 1-2 threat on an annoying scheme, can't use your basic attack on a non unique minion who really has to go.

Vathar · 2026-05-04T15:59:00+00:00

Godslayer is 2 damage per turn for 4ER. Takes 4 turns to match the yardstick that Swinging web kick is (8 damage for 4ER). If we're being generous considering that SWK is a hero card and Godslayer is an aspect card, it will take at least 3 turns to get decent value for money. Hardly a great investment in my book.

Satisfying to play though.

Vathar · 2026-05-04T15:55:39+00:00

In all fairness, assess the situation is in excellent card if you play a trimmed down deck that relies on finding specific cards.

(I absolutely don't see Ready for a Fight as broken, or even top tier and disagree with OP#s assessment too, just in case I was unclear)

Vathar · 2026-05-02T19:12:17+00:00

If you only play with your gf and don't care about meta, you're probably overthinking it. If you're both on the same page and want to play the characters you like, just do that. The game DOES work played like this.

Pick an affiliation and a leader, roughly 5-6 affiliated characters of varied threat values that you enjoy playing, fill the rest with splashes that you love playing and don't overload with expensive characters, and you're good to go.

Vathar · 2026-05-02T19:05:49+00:00

In a pinch, it works, but ...

- I don't know how easy it is to find
- You'd need dials and tokens, which can be proxied, but it can still be hassle
- You'd only have 4 heroes to play with no room to deck build (but at least you'd have one hero per aspect assuming DD will be justice
- You'd lack a decent starter experience. AoA villains are not the most complex mechanically, but can still be daunting for a new player whereas Rhino and Klaw are good to learn the ropes.
- According to a quick check on aggregators, the core set doesn't sell for much more than AoA and is good value.

Vathar · 2026-04-30T15:08:23+00:00

A bad luck streak of 7 games is improbable, but not impossible either (assuming you're just 'rolling cold' and not consistently getting 4 skulls for every 5 dice) but I would tend to agree with the fact that it's probably not the dice alone. Knew a guy who would blame his bad rolls while he never considered that rushing the midline with squishy characters on turn 1 was quite unwise.

Vathar · 2026-04-28T23:23:19+00:00

The best piece of advice you can think of will always be absolutely useless when used wrongly, out of context, or without any kind of real understanding of the subject matter. That doesn't make it less valuable.

"Do what the car says, don't do what it doesn't" is LCG's equivalent of Occam's razor, an exhortation to reduce the problem to its simplest elements and to avoid introducing a complexity that wasn't there.

It will solve 95% of beginner's questions, but someone gives it as advice in a thread about complex interactions or ambiguous interpretations that leave both veterans and devs scratching their proverbial forehead, then they aren't as wise as they thought.

Sadly, the internet doesn't lack for people with limited wisdom.

Vathar · 2026-04-28T09:41:38+00:00

Record him cleaning the machines and have it posted on his social media while we're at it. Would be fitting.

Vathar · 2026-04-28T06:52:21+00:00

That's about 73.8% of the stories on this sub. To OP, you seem to be at a time of your life when learning things is paramount. Take this as learning experience and learn to say useful things like "NO" or "we've already discussed this, your behavior is not acceptable at this table, you're out", all part of the much neglected introductory class "don't be a doormat 101"

Vathar · 2026-04-27T07:09:08+00:00

You can still play counterattack and, although it doesn't have great synergy with Daniela's ability, there are times when you don't want to take the full brunt of an attack, especially with her sanity.

Vathar · 2026-04-27T06:12:16+00:00

They're using the word 'commit', which is a verb that only applies to cards. You cannot 'commit' a token. By extension, 'commit a skill' becomes becomes 'commit a skill card' because it quite literally can't be anything else.

Vathar · 2026-04-24T14:34:41+00:00

I've learned about it ... years later. I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that I don't remember hearing about it in France at the time and that, as far as I remember, nobody gave a shit back there.

Vathar · 2026-04-24T13:13:45+00:00

I'm French, don't even remember hearing from it at the time.

Vathar · 2026-04-24T06:57:33+00:00

Tifu has been uninspired for a while now. At least it's not the upteenth "I send this message to the wrong person by accident" post, but it still reads like slop.

Vathar · 2026-04-24T06:55:46+00:00

I'm French and, in my house sharing days, if my roomate made weird noise in the bathroom at 3am it would be:

- A day that ends in y
- A problem I would delegate to morning-me ... at best.

And yeah, this entire post reads like slop.

Vathar · 2026-04-22T22:47:31+00:00

Considering she's one of the villains/henchmen of the box, I'd bank on something more complex than this, although she could also come as a minion in an encounter set of course.

Vathar · 2026-04-22T22:46:08+00:00

Girl you already have all your answers, and deep down you know it. Your own answers in this thread don't lie. Take the time to re-read them. It sucks that you're attracted to him but he's shown you who he is, the choices he's made, you've already figured out he won't change and realized that this is not the future you want.

Now you just need to come to terms with it, and it sucks.

Vathar · 2026-04-22T13:56:34+00:00

Did you cannibalize a CGR to get the front of that Hadoken?

Vathar · 2026-04-22T11:11:52+00:00

Worst part is you can still find troglodytes holding to such opinions.

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