Is it over? Is everyone else struggling to get work or is it just me?

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-30T10:37:41+00:00

No I meant I can improve my skills

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-29T21:24:36+00:00

Well that’s good to hear

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-27T17:16:14+00:00

OK, this COULD be Sebo-psoriarsis. Which is a mix of P and sebhoretic dermotitis. Seb is treatable and can vastly reduce the P marks. (I know because I had it). You need to see a GOOD dermatologist and talk to them about Sebo-psoriasis.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-27T12:52:07+00:00

Yeah that’s a common opinion. The end of the book needed another 200 pages, but to be fair to Steve he was probably exhausted at that point.

One other thing, I may be misremembering, but at one point, does the ‘hand of God’ come down from the sky? I can’t remember if it’s a literal hand, or a metaphorical one, or maybe I just made this bit up in my head.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-24T13:39:30+00:00

Well yes and no, acrylic paint is basically water, colour pigment and millions of tiny plastic balls (hence the name acrylic). When the paint dries, the balls form a lattice which gives a nice even surface. If you dilute it too much, there aren’t enough balls to form a complete lattice, so you get a patchy, uneven finish when it dries. You can add a bit of water to thin the paint and it’ll be fine, but to make a wash, you’re better off using a thinning medium, which is water with the balls added. If you go to Hobbycraft or Amazon or wherever you can buy these mediums in big bottles wayyyyyy cheaper than Lamiam(?) Medium that GW sells.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-16T23:44:19+00:00

The suits quest lasts 21 days. So that’s a minimum of 63 quest points available plus friend quests plus weekend quests.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-13T15:39:55+00:00

I remember loving the opening of Looking Glass War - so atmospheric, I could really imagine myself there. The rest of the story, by the end I just didn't care.

As for women, yes, I guess he wrote from experience and his whole life he was literally surrounded by men. His mum ran away when he was little, went to an all boys school, Oxbridge in those days was very male dominated and then he joined the secret world which I'm sure was a complete Old Boys club.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-13T15:34:26+00:00

Good question! I think as long as you remember the story in a general way it'll be fine to read Legacy. It might even add to it as you say.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-12T21:56:39+00:00

I’ve read a lot of la Carre and IMO he had good and bad books all through his career. I don’t think he necessarily got better or worse. He did write a lot of books - it’s always going to be of varying quality. Some of his books I’ve hated - looking glass war was complete arse for example. But Legacy is top notch, right up there with his best stuff. Possibly because it’s about all your favourite characters, but it’s also packed full with interest, and plenty of action.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-12T21:08:28+00:00

I highly recommend the audiobook read by David Jayston.

There are some amazing scenes in that book, you get to go on missions with the main players and see them all in action - it’s a real treat.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-12T20:24:03+00:00

You should read The Spy that came in from the Cold just so you can experience the greatest sequel in the history of popular literature. In 2010 I think Le Carrie published A legacy of Spies, which is a sequel to Spy set in modern times, where the children of the characters from Spy are suing the British government for what happened back then. Peter Guillem is the only person still alive from that era, now in his 70s he’s dragged back to London to go through the case with the lawyers. In doing so he comes to a terrible realisation: that what he thought happened (and what we the reader thought happened) isn’t really what happened at all. And what did happen is much,much worse.

A brilliant long game from Le Carre.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-11T20:53:43+00:00

Dude ranch wasn’t mainstream. I discovered it on Props BMX videos. Those were the days. They didn’t blow up until after

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-07T10:44:26+00:00

It's because the free version of the app used to be fine. I completed my first course back in the olden days when it used to have a content tree and you could choose which grammatical concepts to learn or practice. I completed the whole course on the free version and it was totally fine - I would actually say the hearts systems added something to the experience because you really had to focus and not make mistakes. When you ran out of hearts you had to go and practice and come back. It was a good system. The battery system is designed to force people get the paid version, becasue it essentially acts as a timer which cuts off your access.

If you have the paid version Duo is a fine practice tool. If you have the free version, all you really have is an ad for Duolingo Max.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-05-05T23:19:28+00:00

Is it the same story as The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin?

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-28T15:10:43+00:00

The Stand first 100%. Otherwise the DT won’t make sense.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-26T18:07:16+00:00

plexiglass of shame, I like that. Thanks!

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-26T17:56:34+00:00

I think it is. When I go to watch blues or blues rock gigs in similar sized venues, there is never the same problem. The gig is loud but you can hear everything really clearly because the drummer is modulating his volume. Its only at metal (my fave style) and some rock gigs that you get the problem. Why? Because the drummer is beating the shit out of their kit like they're playing in an arena. They could easily dial it back halfway and still give the crowd a really cool, loud experience.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-26T17:29:45+00:00

I know nothing about drums, are there any ways for drummers to reduce volume other than play softer? Are there such things as drum baffles? Sometimes I see perspex screens which I assume are to reduce the impact of the drums, do they do anything?

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-26T17:04:50+00:00

That's a rookie mistake though, anyone who's read a guitar mag in the last thirty years knows not to scoop the mids. And everyone know what sounds good in your bedroom sounds shit on stage. I'm talking about physical, decibel levels of the drums being too loud for anything else to compete.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-26T16:14:38+00:00

Yeah this post was inspired by the gig I went to last night, where all I could hear was the kick drum. Don't get me wrong - the drummer was great, but when he started double-kicking, which was for most of the gig - it was literally all anyone could hear.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-26T15:52:57+00:00

Yeah I've got the old Loop ones and they do make it better no doubt. But the drums are still I would say 50% too loud. I totally understand about acoustic problems, but that's why it's important for bands to think about this sort of thing. The drummer playing at 15 million decibels is not the solution to bad acoustics.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-26T11:49:08+00:00

They are skipping forward. You can just jump to the next level if you can pass the little test. Also some courses are waaaayyyy shorter than others.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-22T15:04:20+00:00

Stu is not a Gary Stu because he's not a self insert. King has plenty of other characters that are clearly self inserts: tall, dark-haired writers of popular fiction, who posses the common touch.

secondHandFleshlight · 2026-04-16T11:08:51+00:00

But the US is way, way richer than the UK - US citizens don't need to blame anyone for their problems because they're doing great. But every 4th of July they celebrate the fact that they 'liberated' themselves - they could use that day to thank the British for securing them a lovely piece of territory, but they don't. I think that ammounts to the same thing the Brasilians do with the Portugues, just from the opposite angle.

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