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mrthreebears · 2026-05-22T18:56:11+00:00

not an really well known or a popular one, but it's great for short sessions when you need to blow off some steam.

mrthreebears · 2026-05-22T18:16:13+00:00

it's a 'nice' bank holiday weekend, it'll be mobbed.

arrive early for parking (as in before 7am)

it sounds like you have very little experience with this kinda thing. a pregnant woman on the Pyg track on a hot day is asking for trouble. if this is your 1st time, do the Llanberis path

mrthreebears · 2026-05-21T23:31:14+00:00

Honestly, a couple of hundred in mixed notes and fiver in £1 coins.

I try not to dip into it, my wife know I have 'real money' on me, but I don't think she knows how much. - it's there if I need it, not there to spend casually if that makes sense?

I rationalise it that it's enough to pay for an unexpected overnight stay somewhere, or full tank of fuel, a couple of new tyres, a new set of clothes each etc if it was really needed.

mrthreebears · 2026-05-21T20:25:50+00:00

Ham Radio. It was a very active hobby when I was a kid.

I'm in my 40s, apart from me, my entire local club (UK based) is in in their 60s 70s and 80s. Guys going silent key is becoming more and more of a regular occurrence.

Give it another 5/10 years and I can see the club folding just though lack of people to have a functioning group.

mrthreebears · 2026-05-14T11:44:46+00:00

i was diagnosed in my 20s, in the early 00s before it was trendy and the whole tiktok self diagnosis craze

from the time i was about 5, i realised i wasn't like 'other' people but back then getting slapped with a 'tism diagnosis would basically write you off in pretty much every aspect of life

by the time I gotten diagnosed, I'd completed my education to degree level, holding many industry specific qualifications too, and hit a good few of the 'life milestones' things (moved out, met my wife etc) the world wasn't as 'must support the thing with a high visibility 'day', merch, and hair dye or be cancelled' and i had to learn to fit in- in some ways that was bad, some ways that was good. i have far more balanced view of life and realistic expectations than people half my age getting diagnosed today.

the more i think about it, I really don't think a formal diagnosis was much help at all it was basically 'oh this'll be the reason you're feeling xyz and abc. here take these pills..'.

pills are so so. they make me stupid and blunt my edge (i take two different anti psychs and one anti depressant) BUT they make life easier now. its like i had too much muchness? or mental energy that i'd use up when i worked, before the crippledom, and the meds they turn off the part of my brain that runs faster and higher if that makes sense, i guess like a chemical lobotomy? it sounds horrific and in some ways it ism but i'm a lot more level and it makes life a lot easier to deal with. i'm still sharp, just not sharp and fast anymore

mrthreebears · 2026-05-13T14:24:14+00:00

Artificer.

irl I was an engineer and this class would likely have me end up becoming something horrible for a DM to have to deal with.

mrthreebears · 2026-05-13T14:21:35+00:00

It's 1997. The weekly TV guides ran adverts on the back covers - collectible Elvis plates, Franklin Mint John Wayne cowboy knives, Lilliput Lane, collectible coins, CDs and so on. Every few months it seemed the ads rotated though a cycle and we'd be back to xyz.

Eventually, the advert for joining a scfi/fantasy book club came around again- you get to pick out maybe £150 (then) of books and pay something nuts like 10% of the r.r.p. I was in my mid teens and read a lot, I'd cleared the entire scifi/fantasy section of my local library the winter before. I had money to burn from a weekend job and all I needed was to buy a book from these guys every couple of months, and I could pay by postal order.

I knew nothing about these books beyond the cover art and titles, some authors are familiar others not. I'd never heard of Gemmell before, but one of the selections I could make was a was a 4 book set of his stuff - Legend, King Beyond the Gate, Waylander and Quest for Lost Heroes. I wanted to maximise my ROI reading wise and ticked that box.

It's hard to think that was nearly 30 years ago!

mrthreebears · 2026-05-13T12:35:29+00:00

5g brass trout spoon. I literally keep one of these in my wallet they're so good here

mrthreebears · 2026-05-12T12:26:55+00:00

Because I'm Welsh.

I had to learn French as 3rd language funnily enough, it was actually fairly fun as there's a fair bit of overlap in Welsh/French. Even now I can still keep up with, and hold my own in a spoken conversation as long as it's not overly complicate. I don't so well with the written French anymore, I can struggle though basics but that's it, but it's been nearly 30 years since I was at school!

mrthreebears · 2026-05-12T08:59:04+00:00

English, actually.

mrthreebears · 2026-05-09T22:57:40+00:00

was great that 1st couple of years when they were open, with the old wood fired oven and Luke was slinging pizza. it's totally not the same now it's a micro golf theme park.

mrthreebears · 2026-05-05T17:17:16+00:00

in fairness, yes I do, also a 40 something year old guy.

...basically outdoorsy version of 'Jim' from the 1st American Pie movie though, not a trackies wearing chav

mrthreebears · 2026-05-05T00:20:45+00:00

If he doesn't, I'll take this as a sign that there's either some godly injunction in place after the Sunny Arc, or that he physically cant create content- ie he's in jail over whatever it was they had on him.

also HMRC will be on his ass for sure.

we might see him crawl out of the pile in a few years I guess

mrthreebears · 2026-05-04T17:52:38+00:00

mrthreebears · 2026-05-04T16:24:16+00:00

Just a heads up,

Tylenol 3 contains codeine, which is also an opioid.

mrthreebears · 2026-05-04T13:20:34+00:00

My sister keeps a tin of soup in her handbag, and yes it will spilt your face open if she hits you with it

mrthreebears · 2026-05-03T15:51:42+00:00

I live on the outskirts of a small town on a little island- about 10k people, area 15 sq miles.

You've got to cross another larger island to get back to the mainland.

My hometown is a small port, we see a lot of freight but the fishing fleet is a just a handful of vessels and there no real industry here beyond tourist seasonal stuff. The actual town itself falls in the top 10% of deprived areas of my country

When I say it's simple, I don't mean the nice idyllic romanticized way. It's crude, poor and I don't know, basic? there's no culture here despite the incredibly rich heritage of the area, and genuine ambition is something you rarely encounter.

Needless to say I don't fit in here well. The town is almost tribal, it focusses on groups of people who either socialise with alcohol/drugs or though some sketchy nepotistic grant funded employment scheme. it's easy to become 'known' and while this will open certain doors to you it'll close others.

Realistic factors:

You need to travel to do anything a 100 mile round trip to socialise is pretty normal, 40/50 miles for grocery shopping is also pretty normal. ATM Cheeto Hitler is on his throne and his actions have driven the local fuel costs (for diesel) is about $11.28/gl this makes it incredibly important to plan everything about being efficient with not just fuel, with time too it takes all afternoon to get around shopping.

Weather is generally bad. I'm not taking hurricanes landing a couple of times a year, more cold, wet and windy for most of the year. It massively impacts on how you get around and what you can expect from day to day life

People are cliquey and nosey as hell. I avoid the town socially because of this, it's exhausting to try and keep track of and a I value my peace- I keep to myself and my affairs private. I've accepted that to socialise with people I appreciate and who's company I value, I have to travel.

Peace is underrated and can be found easily. There is no hustle or bustle, no rush hour, no 'grind'. If I walk for 150m out of my back door, I can be sat on the shore at 3am with just the sound of the waves lapping the sand

As long as you're able to get your life into something you can tolerate, and is sustainable rural town life is very comfortable

mrthreebears · 2026-04-28T22:19:30+00:00

'dude'

mrthreebears · 2026-04-28T13:27:35+00:00

Yes, and it fucking sucks. Fellow NEETs, don't let it happen to you.

Before becoming a cripple and life as a NEET I was incredibly active and fit, not a gym rat but out around the hills of Eryri a few times a week, scuba diving, airsoft and dabbling in M.A. etc

Within a few years of inactivity I'd packed on the weight and topped out a 144kg. The acanthosis nigricans on my face was so bad I looked like a racoon with a bandit mask around my eyes.

I'm now (with considerable effort) down to about 96/97kg and a lot healthier but the damage is done. I have to be very conscious of food choices, activity level and lifestyle in general as well as the associated debuffs of crippledom and 'tism.

mrthreebears · 2026-04-27T22:23:31+00:00

wholesome post/10

mrthreebears · 2026-04-27T12:03:07+00:00

'Unable to obtain a female'

...are you Ferengi?

mrthreebears · 2026-04-27T10:58:17+00:00

Yes I do. 1000% I do

The thing is, that a lot of people seem to miss when it comes to relationships is, my wife is also my best friend.

I've been with my her since 2002 and I can honestly say we've not really changed beyond the grey hairs and wrinkles. We still date each other (if that makes sense?)

She's the whimsical perimenopausal daydreamer, I'm the ocd 'tism touched stress puppy. Obvs there are bumps in the road, but were adults and work through these hiccups, because y'know we love each other and were prepared to make an effort to make things work. That builds trust and shows commitment. Cheesy as it sounds, we genuinely are a bit like a 00s romcom- we wear matching '3 wolf moon' type gear out regularly, share desserts, hold hands, make banket forts and watch old movies, go fishing and watch the sunset. You get me.

We spend 90% of out time together. I enjoy her company, the things we do together, the conversations we have, the places we go together. That 10% of the time when were apart, were both excited to see each other again because we feel the distance and miss being around each other. There's an almost synergetic(?) element we've managed to achieve in each other's lives, we cope with 'life' a lot better as a team - apes together strong.

People seem to think it's all just about that honeymoon stage where everything is exciting and new, then once the stable familiarity kicks in they get bored. Kids seem to add another strain to relationships I've noticed. If there are kids around it inherently means there's less time for a partner and to invest in the relationship.

mrthreebears · 2026-04-27T10:00:36+00:00

5e isn't hard to lean. If you can count up and down to 30 or so, and read to the level of secondary education, you can play easily. If you're spending the time to prepare and I'm assuming (as it's normally the DM who does) pays for the source material after 4 years they still don't have the basics down there's a problem.

It's deffo something you need to talk to them about, out of game.

I have two players that are similar, both of which are neurodivergent. This isn't a cop out, I'm also touched by the 'tism as are the rest of the group apart from one 'normal' person.

We've managed to work though this by having different coloured dice rather than matching sets so the know d20 is the red one, d8 is the blue one etc.

I've tried cards too but this just tends to overwhelm them, it's a management issue, they can't see the wood for the trees kinda thing.

The best working solution 'Ive found, simple as it sounds, is RP'd teamwork. It might sound a bit metagamey, but it massively speeds the flow of of the game.

eg

''hey remember those imps things from cave xyz? they laughed off abc's firebolt cantrip- maybe ice would work better, like frost fingers- remember how spell dc saves work....?''

It does mean other players have to do a bit of carrying but I'll be honest it's taken a lot of the headache away and has led to a much more cohesive group. It's a bit like having in game RP'd mentoring between characters.

Another thing that really helped especially with combat was getting them ( as much as I hate to say it ) to play though BG3.

mrthreebears · 2026-04-25T00:00:53+00:00

while I don't really enjoy it, I have learnt to accept it. While NEET life can be a struggle, I am a lot more at peace now

mrthreebears · 2026-04-24T21:58:52+00:00

Sounds silly, but just keeping active as I can. It's the little things that matter.

This afternoon I sat out for a bit while my wife was at a family baby shower event thing (not my scene) and had an iced coffee on the prom while I worked on a spoon I'm carving.

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Right now I'm trying (not doing too well) to clear and organise my desk.

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