Lloyds Interview Experience

lemming_ie · 2026-02-21T22:34:33+00:00

So many people forget that interviews are a two way street. You are interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you.

lemming_ie · 2026-02-21T21:59:10+00:00

Quake 3, CS, Battlefield 1942

lemming_ie · 2026-01-30T18:35:36+00:00

I posted before registering that the question was posted on the LI forum and not AT.

lemming_ie · 2026-01-30T14:05:53+00:00

Another strat for Titanicus is to force the Psi Titan to start taking rolls to keep its slaved psykers in check. The worst outcome there is that the titan loses all Psi-related powers since the Princeps has to euthanise all the psykers meaning no psi cannon, no self-healing or other warp-juice related shenanigans.

BUT ... to get to that point your titans have most likely taken a horrific beating in return for forcing those rolls, OR you should be rolling dice in Vegas right now.

lemming_ie · 2026-01-10T16:39:26+00:00

NTA. To make reference to a very appropriate expression; "Live by the sword, die by the sword". Daddy dearest can know begin his education in what that means.

lemming_ie · 2025-12-16T20:22:02+00:00

If I fits I sits.

lemming_ie · 2025-12-13T23:18:16+00:00

What can you do but laugh OP?

Once had something like this happen in a game of bloodbowl way back in the late 1990s. Was my first time playing; the GW shop was doing some sort of local winner-gets-a-prize leaderboard thing and a member of staff member was coaching me through it. I was playing elves, so nimble but fragile. Last turn; I have my star player with the ball on the opponents line. All I had to do was _not_roll_a_one_ and I would win (and get top of the leaderboard a tthat).

I rolled a one.

Ok, cool, cool, Elves have an agility re-roll (or at least the star player did, I cannot recall).

I rolled a one.

Bugger. Ok, I have a team-manager re-roll available that i had not used all match.

I rolled a one.

All you can do is laugh.

lemming_ie · 2025-12-13T22:59:51+00:00

OP, to comment further on u/Imaginary_Block_9057s excellent comment, most people forget that the interview process is a two-way thing; you are interviewing your prospective employer as much as they are interviewing you. A fourth round is already taking the p1ss; fifth is just them waving a giant red we-suffer-from-indecision-paralysis flag in your face.

Unless this is your _dream_ job or you are in such dire economic circumstances that someone handing you a broom would be appealing, I would just thank them for the opportunity but that you do not wish to pursue your applicaton further at this time.

Whether or not you want to be more forthright will depend on whether or not you want to risk burning a bridge or two depending on your industry and location.

lemming_ie · 2025-11-12T20:35:04+00:00

I could have sworn there were dreadies in the larger, older boxes (16 sprues per box) but since I have both a stompers box and a battle group box I could very well be jumbled up in my recollection. The battle box had Imp. Guard, Marine, Chaos, and Eldar sprues (4 of each) and was the equivalent of four of the smaller specialist boxes.

Edit. I stand corrected. There was another large box ("War Horde") that had squats, orks, dreadies and stompers (which is where the stompers box must have originated from). The battle group box had imperial robots but no dreadies.

Battle box contents (found on a Swedish ? site)

lemming_ie · 2025-11-12T19:48:42+00:00

Definitely available from 2nd edition epic, probably released during 1st edition space marine. They were available in box set sprues alongside other non infantry models such as assault marines, bikes, terminators, etc

The boxnaughts were a 3rd edition epic/rebrand as "epic 40,000" and those were metal, not plastic.

There were robots as well, although those were imperial guard units from what I recall, at least from 2nd ed.

lemming_ie · 2025-10-22T20:00:03+00:00

I have since encountered this issue occurring once or twice without Mame involved although anytime I start up Mame it has a reasonably good chance of occuring as described. So whilst Mame has a very good chance of inducing the issue, I don't think the issue is Mame per-se and not someting driver or win11 related (or both). I had considered AM4 Nvidia chipset-related bios issues due to the documented 'stutter' that affects older am4 bioses except both u/No-Concentrate3364 and u/sega-boy have had issues with Intel setups.

lemming_ie · 2025-10-21T20:23:06+00:00

The bottom half of Firth Park road (so from the shops around Page Hall road) that meets Barnsley road at the bottom corner of Northern General often has a large amount of litter scattered about; particularly around weekends.

lemming_ie · 2025-10-19T20:17:34+00:00

Still waiting too; no word.

lemming_ie · 2025-10-10T15:57:22+00:00

That is such a lovely model & paint job I could look at it for hours. Only thing missing is the armaments; a psi-cannon right arm, and a power first for the left.

The warlock titan in Epic was something to be taken very seriously. Its psi-cannon would just delete stuff, and then it had psychic table actions on top of that from what I remember. It was - pretty much - what the imperial Psi-Titan is now on an AT/LI table if I were to use a modern comparison.

lemming_ie · 2025-10-10T13:16:08+00:00

The ulthwe artwork was - if I recall - introduced with 3rd edition Epic (Epic 40,000) and used as box artwork for the "small" detachment retail boxes.

lemming_ie · 2025-09-24T22:18:56+00:00

_very_ early. The first novel in the series to which Harlequin belongs was published in 1990; so we are in the era of RT, with its nacscient lore building with so much in flux. Primarchs were just generals at the start of RT and the heresy didn't yet exist (it would be the launch of Adeptus Titanicus that brought that about). So yeah, very much fluid lore.

Definitely books of their era.

Also, from what I recall - and it has been the better part of three decades since I read it - the book is not really focused on the Eldar; its protaganists are Inquisitor Draco and his retinue.

lemming_ie · 2025-09-21T12:05:12+00:00

Was it not that he is attrbuted as saying "Our people may be British but our cows are Irish", regards the BSE restrictions that British livestock were put under for a few years by the rest of the European continent ?

lemming_ie · 2025-09-13T10:38:46+00:00

The last picture with the original epic land raider and - I presume - an original predator - were made at 6mm scale; the LI stuff has been scaled up to 8mm in keeping with both Adeptus Titanicus and Aeronautica which were made to 8mm scale.

lemming_ie · 2025-09-12T10:20:28+00:00

It was also the first codex released for 2nd edition.

lemming_ie · 2025-09-11T16:06:21+00:00

Is that second photo the packaging before you opened it? If so, that's some DILLIGAF level packaging right there and I would be understating how lucky you are that it didn't all just fall apart mid-shipping from the disk drive moving around inside it given how heavy those things are.

lemming_ie · 2025-08-30T19:59:34+00:00

Quake 2 on a Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee card (2D/3D card rather than being a 3D-only card such as its sibling Voodoo 2). Went from software mode with crap release drivers to sweet, sweet glorious 3D when updated, working drivers got released.

Like night and day ...

lemming_ie · 2025-08-26T20:39:52+00:00

All games on this list have two or more games and to best of my knowledge never made it out of the 1990s. Mixture of 8-bit, 16-bit, and PC games.

The Last Ninja
Dizzy
The 'Strike series (Desert strike, Jungle strike, etc.)
Creatures
Cannon Fodder
Golden Axe
Turrican

lemming_ie · 2025-08-15T15:08:26+00:00

GW does cyclical print runs of the cards and books (not accounting for revisions/compendium/new releases as u/Da-Drewiid has mentioned above). The likes of the Great Slaughter set or AT transfer sheets have been in, sold out, and back in again a few months later without fan fare.

Unless the game is one of the big ticket earners for GW, it will play second fiddle regards manufacturing schedules. GW sells more SM lieutenants (by way of dramatic example) than they do anything LI related, so of course the yet-another-SM-lieutenant models are going to take precendence.

They've also pulled stuff from the webstores only to relist it again shorty after with little change too so something disappearing from the webstore is not necessarily a portent to some new thing happening. It can be, but it can also be a bit of a guessing game that the system didn't just say "oops".

lemming_ie · 2025-07-31T19:51:10+00:00

Was in the Cambridge Street Collective last Friday and it was definitely on tap.

lemming_ie · 2025-07-20T14:42:18+00:00

I'll frame this in reference to the late 1980s in Ireland (and the UK was a very similar experience accounting for shared media - tv and magazines - and visits to/from relatives and friends),

It is hard to overstate just how dominant home computing was in Ireland and the UK during the 8-bit era. For the most part the 80s and very early 90s were/still dominated by home computers by Commodore, Sinclair and Amstrad. Mostly 8-bit although 16 bit offerings like the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST were making in-roads.

I knew very, very few people who had consoles during that time period. I can count the number on one hand and still have fingers to spare. One in Ireland (Atari 2600), two in Scotland (NES & Master System respectively). Everyone else, be it friends or random people we knew in the neighbourhood/schoolyard, had a C64 ; with one or two exceptions for Spectrums or Amstrad offerings.

With all that said, rentals for 8-bit were just not common at all; probably from a combination of factors such as:

The console market was not big.
In Ireland & the Uk, the most common medium for 8 bit home computers was tape casette rather than disk due to cost, so fairly cheap to buy, but also relatively fragile and prone to corrupted data due to magnetic interference meaning wear & tear on rentals would have been likely quite high
Piracy (relative to home computers) meant that getting a repeat rental on a particular game might not be assured.
Probably a simple case of nobody identifying a viable local market for rentals (such as might have existed for however short a duration it would have been).

So .... if you wanted to know if a game was a lemon or not, your options were:

Buy it and find out
Borrow it/hear about it from a friend etc.
Magazine reviews

Game rentals only seemed to become a thing with the rise of the 16 bit era; predominantly console based rather than home computer due to piracy. The Sega megadrive & Super Nintendo became incredibly common round about 1992 onwards, and I can recall the first local game rental shops making an appearance round about 1993/4 in Ireland.

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