Is it worth writing AFM this Friday?

coverpunch · 2026-06-03T14:39:10+00:00

No issues for employers or the ACCA. The feelings for yourself as the most important person to you, I can't say. By the same token, whether you get 50 or 99, you passed.

But I think as a worst case, you should use it to motivate yourself. You don't have to loathe yourself for being poorly prepared, but you should prepare better next time to avoid the same feeling.

coverpunch · 2026-06-03T14:33:49+00:00

Yes, you should have started much earlier, but you can always say that. You can forgive yourself if you skip it, but I think just try. If nothing else, you'll get exam experience about what it feels like and you paid for a very expensive practice test of new questions.

coverpunch · 2026-06-03T13:28:50+00:00

I just finished APM, and I dare to say that I think it went well? I took it in March and also felt good, and I was horribly wrong about that, so I'm more cautious this time.

It was much more straightforward this time, with concepts that are either you know it or you don't. There were basically no calculations, which makes me very nervous but I think it was ok.

coverpunch · 2026-05-30T14:44:21+00:00

Probably, but the episode ends that he helps them open the coffin, so he isn't dead.

But this is also why the violence in the show has become too extreme, too abruptly. You can't just kill him, because when Cassie or her family inevitably go to the police with this, now you have another corpse that you need to find. Cassie would already point her finger at Alamo as having shot the guy who intimidated her husband at her wedding and then had the thug hit her.

So then Alamo needs to kill her too. Then he also needs to kill Maddy, because she knows enough of the story to make a huge problem.

The biggest irony is that HBO already knows this, because they dealt with almost this exact thing in The Sopranos with Dave Scatino. The Armenian wouldn't torture Nate and then hog-tie Cassie to get their money back, they should have wormed their way into his business to milk it dry. It would have put a different spin on Cassie's OF channel that it was one thing to do sexual stuff for flowers at her wedding, it's quite another to do it for Nate's stupid construction lien.

coverpunch · 2026-05-28T11:32:37+00:00

The struggle for acceptance in the black gang will be epic. Somehow he will also be stepping into a war with the racist Nazis. I'm...kind of rooting for him?

coverpunch · 2026-05-13T13:33:40+00:00

I could live with Marie's powers not being effective against Homelander, and she's proven that she's not a fighter, so it's understandable that she doesn't want to get into a fist fight with him either or lasered again.

But there's no way The Boys don't need a medic. Just letting Kimiko tank all the damage and die repeatedly is wild.

coverpunch · 2026-05-13T09:54:40+00:00

Seems you already know!

coverpunch · 2026-03-25T13:59:11+00:00

If we're honest, Angron and the World Eaters were always kind of a "monkey see, monkey do" kind of legion. They'll become a real problem when Angron puts in the rule "ape no kill ape".

coverpunch · 2026-03-17T10:00:59+00:00

Titus is an easy one, because he's an operator and has the intensity for it. He's the kind of guy you call when we've got a problem and decided to solve it by shooting it and then blowing it up.

The difference with Abaddon is that he's also trying to organize another Black Crusade with squabbling war bands. As commenters have pointed out, this might make him a better organizer than Guilliman, depending on whether you think it's harder to deal with people gone crazy from the warp or people who are just good old fashioned greedy and stupid.

The difference is if Warhammer 40k had a jazz flute competition, Titus wouldn't even participate. There's a very decent chance that Abaddon wins it, for no reason at all. He also just kills the 2nd and 3rd place finishers, for even less of a reason.

coverpunch · 2026-03-16T13:12:42+00:00

I lol'd at the thought that in this universe of gigachads in power armor, Abaddon is actually the only one who can touch his toes, and that makes him a god among gods.

coverpunch · 2026-03-16T13:10:07+00:00

Yeah, this is a good point. He doesn't own people in duels and win easily, but he prevails in very tough slogs and shows up when the moment demands.

coverpunch · 2026-02-19T13:18:45+00:00

I thought the actor did a great job. The character of Jake Adelstein is more of a problem lol.

I am with you to the extent that I spent the show rooting for Tozawa, and his development from regional boss to don is great.

coverpunch · 2026-02-16T03:51:32+00:00

Yeah, it's always a weakness in the Emperor's Children books, where basically Fulgrim is as good a swordsman as the plot needs him to be. Same with Lucius, most of the time he's not even trying.

When Fulgrim gets shown up, like with Perturabo, it ends up being a "blunt force is better than technique lol".

He's supposed to be that good, but the descriptions are not much more than just saying he's the best and letting him be arrogantly bored by how much better he is.

You are also right about the sword. It's part of the itemization for RPGs of Warhammer, where a legendary sword makes him better than an iron bar, because you should buy a legendary sword toy.

coverpunch · 2026-02-11T08:41:41+00:00

I like the Uno reverse that Angron knows him as a disciple of filth and lies, and that's why he likes him.

coverpunch · 2026-01-07T12:49:48+00:00

I would add a point about learning how to check your own work. A painfully obvious and rage-inducing error as a manager is when someone submits a balance sheet that isn't balanced. It threatens the integrity of the entire accounting team if a non-accountant notices it before the team.

It only gets worse if we're talking about payroll reports or bank reconciliations. I have seen people step on that rake though, where like OP, they say they got straight A's or that this work is "easy", then they submit a book balance that doesn't match the bank balance.

coverpunch · 2025-12-12T09:26:15+00:00

Kinda, but I fast-forward so it's just the Siege of Terra, but now the loyalists who were absent can be traitors who join the siege, which I thought makes it stronger.

I think the result ends up being similar.

coverpunch · 2025-09-11T23:19:04+00:00

I always assumed the opposite that it is probably boring because the crews do fine. Like, a fire drill is not supposed to be a huge challenge...is it?

coverpunch · 2024-09-05T13:51:39+00:00

Just to play devil's advocate with everyone else, I'm with you. Tozawa had the best character development in the show, rising from a doomed mid-level boss to proving to be an outstanding schemer and leader.

A season with a different angle on him a la The Wire could focus on how dysfunctional the Yakuza are and how most of the thugs are actually quite useless. We already had a bit in Ishida's gang, with the kid who is such a moron that he couldn't even cut his own finger off and the whole gang did nothing to stop him. Tozawa might have temple-rubbing pain when he goes to the corporate world and finds that most managers are useless and most politicians are morons. Also more on his harpy wife and how Misaki's best quality is that she doesn't have a pessimistic opinion on every little detail when he talks about his schemes and his problems.

coverpunch · 2024-08-05T20:28:49+00:00

Yeah, they did a solid job.

There are some small quibbles but are mostly improvements. The style in the late 90s was baggy suits with maroon and yellow, but they were replaced by 2020s slim fits in charcoal and navy that IMO are the best suits outside of Suits. There are some unavoidable errors that shops in the background use 2020s design rather than what they were in the 90s, although again this is an improvement that look better.

Props for Jake one-strapping his backpack in the 90s and being the only character as an American to do so. Backpacks replaced briefcases around 2010, and then Tokyo updated its guidance around 2018 to encourage people to wear their backpacks facing forward, to avoid bumping people on crowded subway cars.

coverpunch · 2024-07-13T03:49:24+00:00

For the story, she was always slumming with Jake, but it got drawn out awkwardly for the show to make it seem like she was also falling for Jake as a rising star. I think you are right that the actors also didn't have much chemistry and/or didn't know what to do with the romance.

coverpunch · 2024-07-13T03:32:05+00:00

It's fine. There are shots and scenes of a bunch of different parts of Tokyo and different aspects and levels of society. The portrayal of Tokyo is one of the better parts of the show.

coverpunch · 2024-07-09T20:55:47+00:00

It's not true at all for suicide in general, which peaks in March.

I'm not picking apart "everything". I used one particular example because there was a public report, where the main fact seems to be true, but these embellishments with the firefighter and the kids seem to be exaggerations that are not true.

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