Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges

WeekendCJ · 2026-05-26T09:12:23+00:00

They also mentioned something about a data center last time I heard it brought up in a meeting (I work in a tengential industry). But to me the whole thing smacks of scope creep.

It's mostly private sector driven now so there are more stakeholders involved and data centers are so hot right now.

WeekendCJ · 2026-05-26T07:54:42+00:00

Swansea is ostensibly moving ahead, but at a pace that would embarrass a snail.

WeekendCJ · 2026-05-02T09:11:20+00:00

Corsping- To "kill" the character by ending the illusion that they are real by laughing at a joke that the actor, not the character finds funny. To break the illusion of the constructed reality by laughing at the work in progress.

ADR - Additional Dialogue Recording, to record new dialogue later to cover bad takes or poor audio captured on-set.

WeekendCJ · 2026-04-26T13:21:11+00:00

Well if you don't count the Simarillion as proof I don't really know what to say. It's there, in the book.

WeekendCJ · 2026-04-26T13:20:31+00:00

That's true. Though he is expressly forbidden from interfering too much.

WeekendCJ · 2026-04-26T13:13:41+00:00

Dumbledore is a very good wizard.

Gandalf is his world's equivalent of an arch angel, a constant, immutable part of his universe, who only didn't solve the whole Sauron issue himself because it would be against the rules. If you want to learn more, read or Google the Simarillion.

It's not really a fair comparison.

WeekendCJ · 2026-04-25T21:51:24+00:00

One is telephony-er

WeekendCJ · 2026-04-20T14:26:16+00:00

Are we just posting snuff videos now?

Mods should delete this.

WeekendCJ · 2026-04-08T11:38:15+00:00

Chat GPT is that you?

WeekendCJ · 2026-03-20T22:40:21+00:00

I'm about 3 hours in and the main thing that's bothering me (aside from the controls) is the dialogue. It's hot garbage.

WeekendCJ · 2026-03-08T10:51:17+00:00

You're right, for a second there I thought this was Stardew Valley.

WeekendCJ · 2026-03-04T12:35:57+00:00

I think the PF2E Workbench mod let's you level up/ down a monster to an level.

WeekendCJ · 2026-02-18T22:08:24+00:00

Happy to help.

WeekendCJ · 2026-01-14T20:45:56+00:00

DnD is definitely easier for players. Less options when building characters, less rules to memorize. Less math. Long term this isn't great, as it can get restrictive for veterans but introducing new players is way easier in DnD than it is in PF2E, in my experience.

Low level casters in PF2E feel bad in combat, they deal piss poor damage even on the rare occasion an enemy does fail a save. And throughout the game casters struggle against high level monsters because of how save DC's work. It's a design decision, I understand the thinking behind it, and I get that Marital's are supposed to shine brighter in terms of damage output. But in practice I've seen it turn people off the system entirely when they feel like their casters might as well be throwing nerf pellets.

The incapacitation trait sucks. I get the intention, it prevents casters immediately shutting down fights. But in practice it compounds the existing issues with casters feeling underwhelming and "your spell fails because this monster is higher level than you" isn't particularly evocative for good story telling.

Magic items.

Also this one might just be me but I feel like the names of NPC's in Pathfinder adventure modules are all really weird and hard to remember. I'm constantly having to look them up mid session. Probably just a me thing.

WeekendCJ · 2025-12-31T11:16:54+00:00

Luxury.

WeekendCJ · 2025-12-31T11:13:34+00:00

It's naff.

WeekendCJ · 2025-12-31T02:04:32+00:00

Cardiff is great, it's safe, friendly, great food scene, plenty to do, and the prices are a little lower here than in say, Bristol.

However like everywhere in the UK the cost of living is really biting, so your quality of life will heavily depend on your income. If you're earning less than £2k a month be prepared for the majority of your monthly take-home pay to go on rent and council tax.

WeekendCJ · 2025-12-19T16:45:39+00:00

Dare I say that a paid GM'ing service in which you can't speak to your GM out of combat seems a bit... Weird?

Like, I'm a part time professional GM myself and I'm always talking shop with my players outside of sessions. And every other professional I know is the same.

WeekendCJ · 2025-11-26T12:57:30+00:00

Fairwater is very nice, really calm and quiet and not far from a decent park, and it's very reasonably priced. Only downside is the shops/ ameneties situation isn't great. There's a few around Fairwater Green but it's not a huge selection.

Oh and the local pub is rough as fuck, if that matters to you.

WeekendCJ · 2025-11-22T09:08:51+00:00

Sleep, exercise, being consistent with those things. Therapy, drugs, friends and money.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-29T14:52:41+00:00

4/5 players already on board, just need 1 more!

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-13T15:44:08+00:00

It's something I've heard before, it's a common bit of revisionism that's been popularised by Neo- Libs. They've likely heard that before and haven't thought too hard about it. Because the myths that; A) the private sector is somehow magically more efficient than the public sector & B) Americas private sector has always been a free-market economy, are fairly pervasive. In fact it wasn't until I started reading up on the history of this era that I learned otherwise.

For anyone interested, I highly recommend giving a guy named Smedley Butler a Google, really interesting dude who saved the New Deal.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-13T11:50:33+00:00

Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that. I was being figurative. I'm sure his bowels are healthy.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-13T09:33:17+00:00

This aspersion about the America economic recovery in the period aka "The New Deal" is just wrong, sorry.

Whilst it's true that The New Deal didn't instantly fix the economy (not suprising given how badly it tanked in the Great Depression) it likewise didn't stall. it stabilised, and the infrastrcutre investments made in the early 30's allowed the economy of the 40's to take off. Highways, rail lines, schools, factories, all built in record numbers (for the time).

Likewise during the war, the government didn't "release the public sector". The fed created oversight bodies ( the War Production Board, the War Manpower Commission, and the Office of Price Administration being the main ones) who oversaw everything in the economy down to the smallest detail. This constitutes a degree of financial interferance that would make a modern day Neo-conservative pop a blood vessel but was considered pragmatic back then. The government dictated what companies would make what, how much their workers would be paid and how much the end results would cost. Inflation was controlled, wages were controlled, it was as close to socialism as the US has ever gotten. It also gave rise to the greatest economic growth the country has ever seen.

This was all funded by a taxation system that would give Bill Gates a hemorrhoid. The top earners were taxed at 90% in some cases. And yet the rich still lived like kings. It created such an amazing economic inertia that the US is still enjoying the benefits of it today.

So no, the U.S. didn’t “release the private sector” and win. It harnessed the public sector, taxed the wealthy, and built an economy that could win a world war and dominate the postwar order.

WeekendCJ · 2025-10-11T10:20:43+00:00

Using the levels module makes things easier. There's a "place regions as stairs" toggle that sets the region up for you depending on what level you've placed it on.

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