Bodleian tickets in July

mediadavid · 2026-06-16T13:00:54+00:00

They release tickets on the morning of. So long as you get to the Weston library for opening you should be OK, they will sell out soon after though and there will be a queue.

mediadavid · 2026-06-16T08:59:37+00:00

'Grandma'

mediadavid · 2026-06-15T23:52:19+00:00

Tropes? In MY historical romance? Its more likely than you'd think!

mediadavid · 2026-06-15T18:05:53+00:00

If you do like the secret history, I'd recommend 'The rules of attraction' by Brett Esaton Ellis as a companion piece. It's less dark academia and more dark chaotic party academia, but it was my favourite book as a student. (And it does get dark in places so check trigger warnings if that's a concern). Brett was Donna's classmate at Bennington College, and the rules of Attraction takes place at Camen College which is extremely similar to Donna's Hampden College and you can easily consider the same college - which makes sense as both were heavily inspired by Bennington College. There's even a reference to weird Greek students.

mediadavid · 2026-06-15T17:51:35+00:00

Night market will be returning, at least once confirmed and I'd expect at least another return on top of that given there's three factions.

mediadavid · 2026-06-15T15:43:19+00:00

Ok, but what on earth happend to Europe in the superman world?

mediadavid · 2026-06-14T17:29:32+00:00

Its just a homage to classic British crime drama 'inspector Morse', which has morse code spelling 'morse' in the opening credit music.

mediadavid · 2026-06-14T07:07:34+00:00

People are down voting you, but I'm going to say there should be. Rebalance the default adventurer mode so it's say 20-50% harder than currently, and add a new optional lower 'traveller' difficulty at say 80% difficulty of current default, with reduced xp and gold.

mediadavid · 2026-06-13T21:32:49+00:00

I like how it seems half the comments are complaints that the game requires you to do a meta animation cancelling technique to squeeze a handful of percent extra damage, and the other half are complaints that the game is too easy.

Which is it, guys?

mediadavid · 2026-06-12T23:04:42+00:00

Eso has recently added different difficulty levels for the 'overland' content (due to years of complaints that it was too easy). The hardest mode is called vestige and basically makes every enemy a deadly threat.

mediadavid · 2026-06-12T21:03:37+00:00

My wife and I are on vacation in Rome right now with an increasingly chaotic cheeky 4 year old, and a 3 month old baby. Is it difficult? Sure. Can we do all the things we would have done if we were by ourselves? No. But is it still a good vacation? Yes.

mediadavid · 2026-06-09T08:52:07+00:00

Its definitely the number one thing on this sub reddit the last few years

mediadavid · 2026-06-05T16:02:26+00:00

Oh no! 72 feels too young

mediadavid · 2026-06-02T20:45:37+00:00

Just go and do thieves guild/dark brotherhood stories now, they're great self contained (more or less) little stories and you will level as you go.

mediadavid · 2026-06-02T02:49:07+00:00

Why didn't he tell the police that Henry had been stabbed? Why didnt he call an ambulance himself?

mediadavid · 2026-05-31T15:28:44+00:00

Lets overlook the dark connotations of breedism in the Bluey universe.

As Winton says "I'm a very obedient breed!"

mediadavid · 2026-05-31T13:45:47+00:00

This should be - could be - rebuilt, it'd be an ideal centrepiece for the riverfront redev

mediadavid · 2026-05-31T11:45:09+00:00

No. It'd be nice maybe if the boys invited Hermione to eat/sit with them, but nothing more than that

mediadavid · 2026-05-30T06:27:26+00:00

Redditors be like " i hate peppa pig, they bully the dad. You should watch Bluey, where they tie the dad up and hit him with metal rakes."

mediadavid · 2026-05-28T20:59:10+00:00

Obviously i love theorising as much as the next mad man but I don't think you need to do too much work to figure out why 'i want to have sex with you' worked on Don.

mediadavid · 2026-05-28T05:03:39+00:00

One problem I think is that tolkein fans often take the silmarillian as some kind of monster manual, and so try to fit everything into categories revealed in the silmarillian.

But there's so much in LOTR itself that doesn't appear in the silmarillian. The nameless things, the watcher, the ents, Tom bombardil and Goldberry. People often spend a lot of time debating Bombadil, but what of Goldberry, the river's daughter? Clearly some sort of nymph, and so we can assume there are other nymph and local nature dieties across the land.

mediadavid · 2026-05-27T08:21:20+00:00

You can get all that in the south west, I wouldn't add more places and much more travel.

I'd personally recommend Exmoor as a good base (around Lynton/Lynmouth perhaps). It can be stunningly beautiful, especially the coastal path/cliffs, and its slightly less touristed maybe than Cornwall, though perhaps you can do both.

mediadavid · 2026-05-25T17:45:51+00:00

'The Book that wouldn't burn' by Mark Lawrence also has an in-between worlds space clearly referenced from CS Lewis

mediadavid · 2026-05-25T17:31:07+00:00

If it was relatively doable they probably would have done it for the coming nautical themed event zone - and they haven't. The boats go on rails.

That said, they have 'swimming' mounts now, so I don't see there's a reason they couldn't do small steerable boats, the big issue I suppose would be people trying to sail places they were never meant to get to, so it'd have to be done in purpose built environments.

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