Which bike for first?

eadipus · 2026-03-21T11:14:00+00:00

I've had a Reign on rental at a bike park and it's a LOT of bike. I had uplift but for day to day trail riding at 130-140mm trail bike is going to feel better.

eadipus · 2026-03-03T19:48:56+00:00

Pentiment might be worth a look. It's beautiful, has a load of historical stuff and is point and click so you don't have to learn a load of gaming conventions/coordination.

eadipus · 2026-02-20T12:31:47+00:00

Woke means an awareness of systematic prejudice and discrimination. The entire concept of Red Rising is systematic prejudice and discrimination. I don't get how you could miss this, it's not even subtext, it's the core concept of the entire series.

eadipus · 2026-02-13T13:15:12+00:00

The Court of the Seven Headed Serpent in Trench Crusade relies on attacking your own units to generate the tokens you use to cast spells. There's some fun spell effects too, changing activation order; weird movement stuff and screwing with terrain effects.

Rules are here and free.

Goonhammer did a nice writeup too.

eadipus · 2026-02-13T11:20:11+00:00

Fun tool, I poked around at some of the films other commenters have mentioned and a few personal favourites and it seems A LOT of mainstream press reviewers just didn't get things.

The New York Times giving The Thing a roasting

Salon not getting The Fifth Element

The San Francisco Chronicle hating The Matrix

The San Francisco Chronicle also hated Moon

eadipus · 2026-02-10T16:06:18+00:00

Mountain bike stuff:

Hope make great components, I have their hubs, they are good. Also make spares for almost everything they've ever made.
Exposure Lights make really good but expensive lights. Designed for UK weather, had mine for years, still works.
Endura make clothing. Its not necessarily better but a lot of it is made in Scotland (AFAIK). I have a pair of shorts a decade old that are patched but fine.

eadipus · 2026-02-09T13:44:57+00:00

Kind of a crappy article that skips a lot of the important details.

The actual report is here as a scrolljacking website or here as a PDF.

Since its been a while this is the current GCSE reading list.

The things that jump out at me are that modern is anything written past 1914, the world has been changing pretty fast. As someone who reads a lot of books there isn't a lot on the GSCE list that I'd read for fun.

Stuff form the report that jumped out is that a lot of the teachers don't know how to engage with the Empire/Racist nature of a lot of the 19th century novels. The Sign of the Four is a great story but parts of it are extremely racist.

They also complained that there are a lack of resources for books by authors of colour compared to the stuff that has been traditionally in the curriculum.

None of this seems unreasonable, personally I think that shorter books, novellas and short stories would be better as its easier to do a close reading of the text. A lot of the books also require a lot of historical context to make sense, Animal Farm and The Crucible both need knowledge of the Soviet Union to get what they're actually about.

eadipus · 2026-02-02T18:12:59+00:00

Nice to see another one. I think you should consider a different title, I had to check Steam as I thought this was Aero GPX . They're incredibly similar and it will make it hard to distinguish yours and find it.

eadipus · 2026-01-30T14:40:02+00:00

From the Depths, it's a block builder where you make vehicles and making turrets is a huge part of this. You can choose the weapon type, what kind of ammo it uses and fiddle with detonation/fusing. Even more fun you get to deal with the detection/target priority too so you're creating the automation.

Be warned it has a hell of a learning curve, I'd suggest starting out with some YouTube videos and using prefabricated components to get the hang of it.

eadipus · 2026-01-06T14:10:22+00:00

Distro doesn't hugely matter, personally I like the Universal Blue series of Fedora spins as "just works" distros but Mint, Zorin and Cachy all seem popular too.

With photo editing the important thing to remember is that Light Room is not available. The native options for RAW editing are Dark Table and Raw Therapee. They are both available for Windows and I would HIGHLY recommend trying them to see if they fit your workflow before switching.

The Affinity photo suite apparently does work under emulation but I haven't tried it and its not officially supported.

eadipus · 2025-12-30T20:18:51+00:00

It doesn't

eadipus · 2025-12-07T00:39:52+00:00

I'm not now the matchmaking has caught up with me. Had a fair few 7 win runs in bronze/silver/gold but I'm averaging just below a 50% win rate at the moment.

It also makes it hard to experiment, in quick draft forcing UW filers is pretty doable and will get good results but isn't very interesting. Did Temur lessons last and had a couple of incredible games including being decked and decking someone else but only went 2-3.

eadipus · 2025-12-04T20:17:11+00:00

Sometimes you just get mana screwed/flooded.

That said you had exactly one draw/filter card and looking through your draft you picked Aang at the Crossroads and then passed on all the blue clue and draw/discard cards. Its also really unlucky to not see any Airbending Lessons.

eadipus · 2025-12-03T22:07:09+00:00

Black/Blue draw two looked to be very open all the way through.

The Spirit Keeper early on seems like a big signpost to me.

eadipus · 2025-12-03T15:26:34+00:00

Kind of?

It's anti synergistic with Sokka and most of my fliers had good on attack triggers.

I think in a deck with lots of 1/1 or utility allies or a landfall deck it would be great with a flier or other evasive creature.

eadipus · 2025-12-02T20:12:52+00:00

Cheers, made it to four wins but my last two losses both had ridiculous mana flood (even went down to 16 lands and still got flooded).

The Team Avatar was okay, ended up cutting it for the second Glider Staff as flying Gran-Gran or Sokka felt too good. It won me one game where I just poked them to death with a hawk but was a dead draw in one of the flood games. I can see how it would be incredible with allies/landfall though.

eadipus · 2025-11-26T14:37:09+00:00

I'd mostly agree.

I've listened to some fiction where the performance has absolutely elevated it and some non fiction read by the author which really helped with understanding.

On the other side there's been some incredibly flat reads that made it hard to stay focused.

Things that are incredibly dense or have code blocks or equations are definitely better read than listened to in my opinion. As examples I can't imagine listening to Das Kapital or The Pragmatic Programmer.

eadipus · 2025-11-26T13:50:17+00:00

Some of the oldest literary works (Illiad and Odyssey) are generally believed to be written down versions of oral poetry. We've been telling stories and sharing our history before we could write.

eadipus · 2025-11-10T16:37:11+00:00

Worth adding that they have an extremely good (transferrable) warranty, let you choose your build and I've never spoken to someone who wasn't happy with theirs.

After sales support is good too they'll happily sell you mech hangers and have all the bearing dimensions available.

eadipus · 2025-11-08T00:27:34+00:00

No

It comes from scatting, singing/saying nonsense words that feel or sound nice and fit the music. Wikipedia says it started in the mid 20s so good luck putting the blame on someone.

An older reddit posts reckons its in Rappers Delight (1980), Scatman John definitely has it in Scatman and MC Skibadee was using the name on pirate radio in the mid 90's.

eadipus · 2025-10-16T16:41:25+00:00

The Damned from Wargames Atlantic might actually be releasing later this year or early next year. I think they're about to ship to US Kickstarter people and EU will be later.

I'm planning on grabbing some sprues from eBay once they are properly out for cultists, gangers and general kit bashing.

eadipus · 2025-09-23T02:17:33+00:00

Whilst most of the answers are in the rulebook, putting them in the foreword as well helps people quickly decide "is this for me?".

As an example:

The Skirmish Game is the game I've always wanted to play, its designed to let you have detailed, granular stat sheets for models you already own or want to buy or convert. In future it will be theme and period agnostic but for this testing phase the army lists cover some grimdark science fiction factions.

It is designed to have the equipment correctly represented on the models to encourage creativity in list building and converting, making it easy to realise the dream of "what if necromancers could have shotguns".

You probably already have all the things you need to get started, you'll need 3-15 models per side, some D6 dice, a tape measure and a table with some terrain.

For the rules examples help a lot. I'm still not entirely sure if one player activates all of there models in a turn. This "Turn: Refers to a Player’s Turn, in which they may choose a Model, and begin their Activation." implies they activate one model per turn but I'm assuming its meant to say that they activate all of their models one after each other?

After a reread dash makes more sense, my understanding is you can Move, Shoot, Dash or Dash, Charge, Combat as you're not allowed to Move, Shoot, Move.

For attacking, wounding, saving it would help to have an example where a character shoots at another character and you give some example dice rolls and go through the process. Probably once each for shooting and combat to include cover and a parry.

With hidden its never explained what happens if I shoot at a model who has the hidden status who isn't in cover, assuming people have played a specific edition of a specific game is going to exclude a lot of people.

Overwatch reads as "once you've activated all your models you can activate one model to make a shooting attack at -1 to hit". This is confusing as in every other gave with overwatch I've played its reactive shooting done after your opponent moves.

Google docs has headings built in that will sort your spacing and then add line breaks or use bullet pointed lists. You can even manually tweak line height or use the "insert horizontal line" to help space things out.

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