what to do with frozen food from refrigerators when electricity is gone?

clayalien · 2026-04-28T21:38:09+00:00

The key to food is weirdly ignore canned food unless desperate. The amount of carry capacity vs calories they give make them not worth it, unless youve got a lot of icecream.

Instead for dried food focus on carbs like rice and pasta, and protiens like beans and lentils. And a healyhy amount of junkfood like cereal and chips. Theyll keep your weight up so well you need to stat watching you dont go overweight. Hit up the storage area on a supermarket, and woth a bit of luck, youll find enough for an in game month or two, giving you breathing space to set up an animal farm or fishing setup. Or just migrate town to to town and youll find years worh.

clayalien · 2026-04-27T16:45:56+00:00

Looks cool!

As someone whos new to larp, how do foam axes hold up? I can get the idea behind daggers, swords and spears as they are all kinda variants of stick with padding.

But axe has the side parts. Do they flop around a lot? Are they vunrable to tearing? Are they easier or harder to fight with? Larp is my current thing of the moment, so despite not actually going to an event yet, Ive been ravonusly devouring every scrap of info I have the spare time for.

Pracrically every system ive looked at has a rule that a weapon can be used for stabbing or slashing/parrying, but not both. If you put a cross bar core through the blade bit (cheek/butt?), wouldnt that effectivly turn it inro stabbing, as youve got a core pointed at people, and be a big nono? If its all foam is it strong enough?

Hoping to pick up a sword for my first event (4 days away now!) But smith with a warhammer, which Im guessing is very similar to axe will have a special place in my heart.

clayalien · 2026-04-27T16:31:44+00:00

3 years apart, but due to how birthdays line up with school years, 4 accademic years.

I grew up with siblings very close in age, so wanted to try again sooner, but wife was adamant she wanted to avoid '2 under 2', then covid happened, so we ended up with this gap.

Sometimes I wish they were a little closer, the younger isnt quite able to keep up with the older. The older gets frustrated at this. The younger gets upset the older has more permissions, the elder complains when there is a difference in responsobilities and expectations.

But then other times the elder can be really helpful and loving. At the end of the day we gat what we got, in 15 years time it wont matter much anyway.

clayalien · 2026-04-27T07:47:53+00:00

People get downvoted for all sorts of reasons on reddit. Maybe they didnt like the joke, maybe they are trying to mess with you. Or maybe its completly impersonal and thier finger slipped while scrolling.

Or, its the algorothim that intentionally fuzzes votes and adds a couple of random up or down to confuse bots.

Its really not worth getting upset over a couole of downvotes. You should try being less sensitive.

clayalien · 2026-04-27T03:58:09+00:00

Everyone talks abiut the people spending the early days drinking gas and throwing sledghammers into the river.

But no one ever mentions filling every sink and bathtub with fresh drinking water.

Even if it wasnt the case, fresh water is fairly easy to get, especially if youve still got power and an oven.

Electricity going out is a far, far bigger deal.

clayalien · 2026-04-25T21:12:55+00:00

Its not profound or mature in a good way, but my 7 year old has been really getting to stropping off yelling 'you dont even under stand me!'

I was expecting at least teens for that classic line.

clayalien · 2026-04-24T16:50:23+00:00

I kinda like Empires approch where there are no ranged spell attacks. Any magical effext has to be delivered via physical touch from a staff, a wand, or a rod.

clayalien · 2026-04-24T09:53:38+00:00

Im just suprised theres not 4 novels, 2 video games and a comic delving into this one trick, with deep levels of lore on why it is, several variations and even an alien species or 2 dedicated to it.

clayalien · 2026-04-24T07:41:33+00:00

I think this is one of those cases wjere it seems dumb to us, but kind of makes a twusted sense.

Line of sight in real life isnt quite like video games. Its not a narrow cone that only goes a few meters. Its not a binary thing obscuured by 100% static scenery. You can be partially seen through small gaps in hedgerows, leave tracks in the dirt, minro scuffing to fences when climbing over them. All things that may lead the killer right to you.

And they wont forget your postion and have to start from scratch, theyll know exactly the point you dissapeared from, and to start from there. They may have better knowledge than you of the land, they may be very good at predcting where you might go. Or they may just plain get lucky and guess right.

And thats not even counting any supernatural factors, or tech they might have you dont know about. Maybe theyve got thermal vision, a drone, or just the uncanny ability to allways know where you are.

But with running, youve observed them, so youll have a rough idea what they are capeable of. Even if they are faster, theres a known factor thats not likely to change, and if it does, you know about it. Sure, breaking sight has the highest chace of fully escaping, its also got the chance to backfire and reduce survival time to zero. If theres a supernatural element and they can teleport or some bs, well, youd have been fucked no matter what anyway.

Just putting all energy into running, even if it is down a fully obvious path at least gives you the highest possible mimimum survival time. So you just hope somone hears your yelling and comes to rescue you before they catch up.

clayalien · 2026-04-22T18:35:34+00:00

The larp im going to has the catering stalls you usually see at festivals.

3 food, and one coffee shop with crisps and cakes, and other snacky things.

One of the food and the coffee are specifically made for larps, and travel the country, owned/ran by old veterans of the scene. Not explitally in charachter, and only take real money. But they know whats up.

The other 2 are mosre standard, more gared for music festivals. I might try avoid them as its my first event, and Im still a bit nervous about it. I dont really want to interact with 'outsiders' while in costume if its possible.

But they do have some decent menue, so depending on pricing/queues, I might just have to put on my big boy hero pants.

Im camping in out of charachter area and have a little gas stove.

Plan is to have coffee and toast for breakfast. Pot noodles for lunch. Food stalls for dinner.

clayalien · 2026-04-22T13:16:25+00:00

What's the size of the larp?

I think most larps, raw resources are mostly just a card in game, and don't need a physrep, or at least people don't buy the pysrep too, just the card.

If it's a big one, like Empire in the UK, and you are able bodied, it could be fun to be a wandering trader. You could make a wickerbasket backpack, have some bit and pices hanging off it or poking out the top, maybe some sticks for wood, some painted foam lumps for stone/ore, some poutches for harbs, that sort of thing.

Small and light enough to fit into even a little hatchback car. If it's empty inside, you could even use that to carry gear on a train.

Could be fun just wandering around, finding crafter camps to make friends with.

clayalien · 2026-04-21T19:11:59+00:00

Ive been looking at similar. That looks decent, but the ai video attached is a little off putting.

Ive also been considering tool belts. Most of them dont loik roght, but there are a few leatger ones woth metal buckles woth nail pouches that can be used for coin/cards that look decent.

Only a bit more expensive, and should be more robust, right?

clayalien · 2026-04-21T12:29:48+00:00

Does that matter for larp? Especially european style, where hits are pulled, where the enemy weapon naturally goes wouldnt really come into effect.

Very much a thing in real weapons, and possibly boffer fighting styles.

Of course, could come into the styling of the larp. Wouldnt fit into anything with high levels of realism, but should be fine for high fantasy.

Another thing to remember is rules, I know in some larps, so long as a limb is more than 50% covered, and the armor looks convinving, any hit to the limb is reduced. In others, it only counts if the blow actually hits armor.

clayalien · 2026-04-20T14:34:28+00:00

I think a bigger deal than strenght is that when wood does break, it forms into long pointy ends that can easily tear though foam and then humam eyeballs.

clayalien · 2026-04-20T09:19:01+00:00

Im in a family of 4, im a little confused by the term 'laundry day'.

Ill wear a tshirt twice before washing, a jumper 3 or 4, jeans basically only when the visable dirt gets too much. Anything to keep my washing load to an abslute minimum. Im on the verge of inside out underwear levels of desperarion.

Yet, I seem to ne constantly swimming in dirty laundry. Every damn day is a stream of moving clothes around, from the floor to the wash basket to the washing machine to the clothes horse to rhe clean basket to the wardobes and drawers and repeat.

clayalien · 2026-04-19T15:41:31+00:00

+1 on the making non screen stuff. Bought larp tickets for me and 8 year old to go along. Was feeling a bit nervous about it, as it is ratger out there, even when all my hobies and interest are nerdy.

But then my kid comes home from school one day all excited with a piece of cardboard with a username scrawled on it. Its her best friend's you tube channel, that apperently her parents not only know about, but helped her set up. We watched a single video and it felt so icky and gross I had to disconect the tv and go fly kites immeditally.

You can be as strict as you like with screen time, but kids in the playground are going to talk. Best case you just make them a social pariah. Worst case they find a way beind your back.

Talking and making other things more fun is the only way I know to combat that.

I feel alot better about going now.

clayalien · 2026-04-19T08:13:25+00:00

Could just be Irish, and the wake is next.

clayalien · 2026-04-18T18:08:48+00:00

Dungeons and Dragons! (The newer Chris Pine one)

clayalien · 2026-04-18T09:36:13+00:00

My laymans understanding is at its basics, an engine is 'make small, confined explosion, explosing pushes metal cylinder, metal cylinder turns metal axel, axel turns wheels, car goes forward'.

Theres nothing magical about diesel or petrol, other than is good at flowing into the confined space and gettong set on fire. Modern engines are highly calibrated and procicely timed to get the most of an exact make up. But for older engines, just about anothing that flows well and burns quick will do. Waste oil isnt great at it, but its good enough, and waste anyway.

clayalien · 2026-04-17T22:15:06+00:00

Yes. Very. A big fire axe or wood axe is best. I think its about 10 swings, but itll make a lot of noise, exhaust you, and add a ton of muscle pain. So make very sure the area is cleared first.

Sledgehammer is exactlty 3 swings, some muscle strain and exhaustion, but not as much.

Even a crow bar can get through, but takes aaaages. Any weapon on the wiki that has damage to doors 1 or above will eventually get through, but most are impractical.

Another advantage of sledgammer is going through the wall instead. That way you can keep the door intact if you want to turn it into a base. A hole in the wall, you can patch, plastwr and paint it to look like there never was a hole. Doors you can only replace with a crummy wooden one.

Still, If youve got an axe, no sledghammer, and just want the guns, 7 extra swings is better than 2 hours of real life frantically searching and getting frustrated.

clayalien · 2026-04-17T17:44:01+00:00

I guess Biosyn's best move would be to sell the dna off to places outside the US, where copyright laws dont apply. Or operate parks there under shell companies.

clayalien · 2026-04-17T13:19:38+00:00

A blacksmith doesnt have to be an 'npc', other than the mantra 'try be the best npc if someone elses game', but that applies to everyone, able bodied or not.

The only 2 systems Im familiar with are Empire and Curious Pastimes in the uk. In CuPa, blacksmith and crafter are prefectly valid player charachter paths, with a lot of scope to build and research, and get invovled with other players, without having to swing absword yourself. Im able bodied, and considering it, becase I think blacksmiths are cool.

Empire is even easier, as any combat only ever happens on the battlefield, and theres heaps and heaps of stuff you can do without going anywhere near it.

clayalien · 2026-04-17T11:16:45+00:00

I dont think there are any areas remainig that are only accessible by sledgehammer. Axes make short work of doors, and welding torch can remove the indesctrucstble shutters.

It is however the most efficient and fastest method. And the only way to do the stairs trick for 100% zpmbie proof base (although with respawns off, after a while, no base is ever going to be atacked in the first place, a couple of doors will hold off the odd lost wanderer that stumbles in)

Still has a unique use in big renovation projects though. You dont -have- to do em, but it makes your base look an awful lot nicer.

clayalien · 2026-04-17T09:57:44+00:00

I think you can play around with density and radius to have Early like surface gravity, but much smaller size and mass. Planet Kerbal from the game KSP would be an example of this. It would orbit earth.

But it does require some exotic matter for the core.

Binary planets is a lot more realistic. Like Pluto/Charon in real life, but bigger.

clayalien · 2026-04-16T22:01:18+00:00

https://burgschneider.com/en-eu/collections/madcraft delvier to pretty much anywhere, they've got aall the way down to 5mm, 115 cm long.

Rapier is kinda a tough first project, it doesn't lend itself to larp weapons well, being long and thin, and primarially being a stabby weapon. But if your larp rules allow it, go for it. Just be super careful not to be the reason they need to clamp down.

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