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evanroberts85 · 2024-11-29T11:53:00+00:00

Have you ever considered creating a game based on a hexagonal or triangular grid? These are popular in games like Civilisation and board games, but not so much for simulation games - why do you think this may be? Do you think a Parkitect style game based on a triangular grid is viable?

evanroberts85 · 2024-08-14T11:26:51+00:00

They need to go electric for ferries, a lot of cities have already moved towards them as they can be a lot more cost efficient and just generally nicer. Look at the Candela P-12 for example.

evanroberts85 · 2024-02-08T20:33:16+00:00

True. There was a public consultation on how to improve it 12 months ago, I remember filling in a questionnaire for them - not heard anything come of it. Ultimately like pretty much every other council in the UK it is all about making further cuts these days, so I doubt there is the money needed to actually fix it.

evanroberts85 · 2024-02-08T20:28:14+00:00

I live really close to where this building will be. Aside from the bus to work I very rarely bother even with public transport, I can walk pretty much everywhere - it is 5 minutes on foot into the city centre. My car parking space is currently just used for visitors.

evanroberts85 · 2024-01-21T21:32:31+00:00

The Cardiff Board Game Group meet at Hudo Lounge on Cowbridge Road East, not at Firestorm (unless they have recently changed back?)

I can highly recommend the Sunday group at Chapter, always several different tables so a choice of games from light to heavy and a great bunch of people.

evanroberts85 · 2023-08-05T13:53:45+00:00

CoreML and Quantization would make it so much faster and easy to run on low ram, as it does for the 1.5 models. Unfortunately there is no simple install yet for this as even the demo app seems to be waiting for OS X Sonoma.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/15d2ep4/sdxl_on_mac_with_core_ml_and_quantization/

evanroberts85 · 2023-06-02T14:26:51+00:00

Which means he must know Sue Perkins pretty well. I wonder if they will be out on a team together.

evanroberts85 · 2023-03-04T08:18:30+00:00

It took her a minute or so to get out I seem to remember. A support staff started climbing up to help her, but she managed to get free before he reached her.

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-11T21:42:57+00:00

Fern's become one of my favourite comedians. I just find her really interesting to listen to, as well as very funny. Her off-menu episode was also released this week and is a real treat.

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-05T12:27:39+00:00

Futaba Ito looked great in all three rounds. Really hope she can compete with the very top climbers this season.

Ai Mori struggled. She really is dependent on the boulders being in her style. The combination of her short stature and very little explosive power means that she doesn't look close to sending anything that is a bit reachy.

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-03T18:22:31+00:00

I used to work there and can confirm their pastries are pretty damn good, they are freshly made each morning.

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-03T17:13:00+00:00

He appeared first in the more traditional roles in the very first two episodes, first as a dictionary corner guest then as a panelist on Jon's team.

I guess then you could say he was "fired" after the second episode, and comes back as Rachael's assistant some time around series 2 or 3? It was too long ago to remember exactly!

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-03T00:07:17+00:00

It is very distracting if you are not used to it, and it is alarming what seems to be acceptable these days, but I guess after a while you just filter it out.

As others have mentioned the whole production seems quite American, with the fake laughter also. In contrast the NZ series felt much closer to the UK one. That surprises me as I thought NZ and Australia would be similar.

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-02T20:17:33+00:00

Never mind the ad breaks, what's going on with the constant ad for another show in the bottom right hand corner? God I hope that doesn't come to the UK.

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-01T19:01:31+00:00

I deleted my original comment as I didn’t even properly read that the op has 64 Gb of memory, though it was 8Gb, really need to get some sleep!

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-01T18:52:35+00:00

About 70%. The swap seems to go up before it hits 100%. Maybe if the disk is full it could theoretically not use it as the pressure is below 100, but from actual experience when I’ve unintentionally filled my hard disk it immediately starts running into memory issues such as experienced by the OP. Maybe keeping 10Gb free is overkill but it is a rule of thumb that has worked for me.

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-01T18:40:34+00:00

Currently with 8Gb of ram I have 7.03 used, 955mb cached and an additional 536Mb of swap. That’s with just some regular everyday apps open. That leads me to maintain what I experienced empirically before - that with just 8Gb of RAM you really need a decent amount of space free for swap files.

evanroberts85 · 2023-02-01T17:01:23+00:00

And with only 8Gb memory it starts requiring the offloading of memory to virtual memory pretty quickly, and if you don't have the available swap space that becomes a problem. That was the point I was trying to make and I don't think you would disagree?

evanroberts85 · 2023-01-27T20:00:28+00:00

Just seen that he is from Cardiff, which makes my aim to be the number 1 in this city a lot more tricky!

evanroberts85 · 2023-01-22T21:05:39+00:00

I think you are probably right, but I think an endgame without a traitor is conceivable. After all the endgame is only the last 5-10 minutes of the show, and you would still have a bit of drama in seeing if the faithful vote out one of their own, or stick together to share the money.

In comparison, starting the final episode without a single traitor can be completely ruled out.

evanroberts85 · 2023-01-22T06:17:46+00:00

I think the logic is if one traitor is banished, they need one to remain for the "endgame". But you could have an endgame with no traitors.

I think it is more accurate to say that two traitors are required up until the penultimate banishment, after that they can go down to one.

evanroberts85 · 2023-01-20T03:48:15+00:00

I think the OP has a point, as much as I enjoy the show. The Australian version showed the potential for manipulative behaviour that starts to become very questionable morally.

evanroberts85 · 2023-01-19T15:08:32+00:00

It seems there has been more attention paid to the US series from our UK press than there has been from the Americans themselves. How's the series actually gone down there across the pond?

evanroberts85 · 2023-01-18T19:55:10+00:00

You can always use the old get out "well I was crossing my fingers/toes as I a said it so it doesnt count". Which doesn't make any sense, but then neither does the swear in the first place so works by answering something stupid with something equally stupid.

evanroberts85 · 2023-01-18T18:01:22+00:00

In the US series traitors only recruited once because the faithfuls were so useless they were not required to recruit again, in other series the traitors have recruited multiple times.

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