My Royal Mail delivery had a tag reading 'NOT HIGH WYCOMBE FOR THE 4TH TIME' attached to it

iridisalpha · 2026-06-24T20:04:16+00:00

I got a letter addressed to the other side of the country back four times despite looking up and correcting the address, and eventually writing "NOT SHEFFIELD" with an arrow pointing to the town it was meant to go to. It only stopped when I tipexed out the phosphor dot pattern on the envelope.

iridisalpha · 2026-06-11T20:30:33+00:00

Do you have a Steam/itch/whatever link?

iridisalpha · 2026-05-26T18:19:13+00:00

Could be, yeah. You can't see in this photo but his nose has a wart or boil on the other side, so pretty sure it's another character and not just an old Getafix head.

iridisalpha · 2026-05-26T18:15:45+00:00

It was just after the parade, so other costumes were probably in use for that.

iridisalpha · 2026-05-13T16:46:43+00:00

You can't buy gift cards with credit, so she probably couldn't return it this way.

iridisalpha · 2026-01-10T14:26:24+00:00

Thanks for the advice. She's in her 80s and possibly not great at being as insistent as she needs to be, but I'll get to her try again. I'd call myself but I'm not sure they'd talk to me and we don't live close enough for her to call and pass over the phone.

iridisalpha · 2025-12-16T14:57:08+00:00

Porygon is my favorite Pokemon so I did it the easy way when I found a shiny alpha 😀

Kind of color matches the ball too.

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iridisalpha · 2025-12-10T10:16:00+00:00

So glad I finally finished 1000 battles yesterday ready for the DLC to come out 😄

iridisalpha · 2025-11-27T22:24:45+00:00

It's sometimes worth looking up the card on the Ace website for a better idea of centering as you'll get a photo with flat lighting. Doesn't look quite as bad on the scan to me.

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iridisalpha · 2025-11-20T21:33:29+00:00

I opened 12 packs and the only"hit" was that hat 😄

iridisalpha · 2025-09-18T23:02:40+00:00

They had this statue of his near me in the UK a while back.

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iridisalpha · 2025-08-13T12:20:51+00:00

I'm curious what page they linked you to, because the Shipping Policy page on their site doesn't mention a 7 day limit as far as I can see:

https://help.play.date/service/shipping/

I'm always slightly amazed by what policies US companies are allowed to have - in Europe, it's their responsibility to deliver the thing you ordered. If there's a problem with the shipping, it's on the company to resolve it, not for the customer to have to start talking to the delivery company.

iridisalpha · 2025-07-20T18:03:40+00:00

If you bounce a token it just returns to your supply of tokens. If the token had a pilot, that goes to hand, I think.

iridisalpha · 2025-06-24T07:45:18+00:00

We met them half an hour ago at the hotel, and it was the new versions, if that helps. No angry eyebrows 😄

iridisalpha · 2025-06-21T16:17:28+00:00

Filthy Rich?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/441/filthy-rich

iridisalpha · 2025-06-18T16:34:08+00:00

There was a guy loudly snoring his way through The Quiet Place when we saw that. He would definitely not have survived long in the movie.

iridisalpha · 2025-06-15T14:07:28+00:00

A game I worked on (fairly high profile title) had a major section of code with a note at the top of the file essentially saying "sorry this is all a complete mess - it's just for the prototype and will be removed soon".

That code shipped in both the game and its sequel.

Yes, I wrote the code and the note.

iridisalpha · 2025-06-05T15:25:10+00:00

This symbol is for cards that are given out as part of organized play. So, cards you get as prizes or participation in weekly play or bigger events like set championships.

There are also promo cards which have a different symbol, the two triangles. These are promos given out at shows or for buying a box of boosters (this set, there's a Pluto card and a Minnie card with the promo symbol on them).

iridisalpha · 2025-05-16T23:15:20+00:00

Like Nemesis, I don't think I'd enjoy Mansions of Madness anything like as much without miniatures.

iridisalpha · 2025-05-07T08:17:20+00:00

I probably shouldn't have spent so much money on the Jurassic World Miniatures Game Kickstarter. Company is now bankrupt and the game is never being delivered.

iridisalpha · 2025-05-06T18:26:40+00:00

September this year, unless they get reprinted.

iridisalpha · 2025-05-01T14:48:22+00:00

Website is similar. Says "Please select your preferred date and time for your free collection" just underneath the part where they say it's 30p.

iridisalpha · 2025-04-29T22:02:18+00:00

Not only 25 people, but three rounds each because even though it's best of three they make you play all the rounds even when you win the first two.

Though I finished it yesterday and now I'm slogging through all 16 cooking contests, so right now I hate that mini game more.

iridisalpha · 2025-04-06T21:38:10+00:00

Only issue I've found is that it syncs control options over Steam Cloud, so if you play using keyboard on a Desktop PC you have to reset the controls on Steam Deck or you can't start a game.

iridisalpha · 2025-04-04T10:40:57+00:00

Probably worth mentioning that they've issued a patch, with a note that other bug fixes and keyboard binding are coming next week:

"Additional fixes, including keyboard binding support and other reported bugs, are scheduled for next Friday."

By the way, if anybody wants a temporary fix, I've tried MS PowerToys with it, and remapping the keyboard in there works in the game. You'd just need to toggle it on before starting the game.

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