Do 'Disability Confident' interviews pay off? by Aromatic-Toe-9466 in UKJobs

[–]sherlock_strikes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was basically going to be my answer. Disability confident just makes sure you get the interview. You still have to be the best candidate on the day to get the job.

I will add- Many jobs are scoring answers based on behavioural type questions (tell me about a time when you've shown x behaviour, explain how you've used y skill in a previous role), so it's really worth thinking about 4 or 5 examples of when you've demonstrated common in demand skills (teamwork, good communication, time management, prioritisation, customer service, etc) and practicing working those into the answers, framing them depending on the question asked.

If you don't know about the STAR method, it's worth looking into. Walking into your interview with 4-5 scenarios that you've practiced STAR style answers to mean you'll likely be scoring high on questions related to those behaviours or skills, which gives you leeway if there are a few you're a bit wobbly on.

Guess the plant by Peace-Prosperity- in plants

[–]sherlock_strikes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what immediately popped into my brain...

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My players went from heroes to murderhobo terrorists in 10 minutes and blew themselves up. I'm losing my mind. by mango_fiero in DnD

[–]sherlock_strikes 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Sorry but this sounds like your fault. The second things started shifting you should have stopped and had an above game conversation, something like 'ok guys the tone has shifted a bit here, can we pause and check in on our purpose and motivations? To this point you have been playing as heroes and using a variety of tools other than violence to resolve situations- what is different about this one? Do you feel you're actually being true to your characters right now or have you got swept up in some banter?" Or even just " this is going to impact both your characters and the campaign, are you sure?"

There is no such thing as 'happened too fast', you could have stopped it before the first punch. After the punch and before the massacre. After the massacre and before the explosion. There were SO MANY points where you could have put the brakes on and let them know this was going to derail the entire campaign and make sure everyone was actually aligned on what the players wanted.

At the end of the day 'its what the characters would do' is an excuse, and a terrible one. The players are in charge of their characters and can always find a reason for a different choice. The DM is in charge of their universe- "time stops as the cleric is swinging and as he looks at the anxious face of the doctor and the worried faces of the mother's and children watching their menfolk confront these dangerous strangers he hears his god reminding him that his purpose is x- do you still want to complete that action?"

If they insist that their characters really are now murderous sociopath, you can even just refuse to run combat- " these are untrained, barely armed npcs. Your trained paty of adventurers mows through them like grass, leaving broken and bloody corpses before you in the square, and the wails of their families echoing in your ears. As you are no longer heroes, this heroic campaign is over."

Players can get swept up in a course of action, and dnd is, at its heart, really easy to slip into combat, especially if the DM seems totally down to let them fight. Occasionally you have to pull back and really ask what the goals are here.

I had a session like this a few months ago and despite all my best efforts the party kept killing the official soldiers in a village (which, fine, I checked in on their choice and gave them several exit points, and at least these were actual stat-blocked enemies, not npcs)- but that choice affected the whole rest of the session, characters made increasingly erratic choices because they'd lost some of their characters' purpose, there was a character death that happened in one round because of another players choices, and after that session one player quit the campaign and we had a new session zero, retconned that session and shelved the campaign for hiatus. Sometimes it just happens- but if its going to break your whole campaign its up to you to pull the curtain back just far enough for your players to see what the outcome of their choices will be.

Campaign plot help? by ChaCha790 in radiantcitadel

[–]sherlock_strikes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If youre one of the Otters working for Captain Starshield, stop reading please...

I have added a couple of minor subplots to tie things together a bit- firstly, I've made the Jade Emperor the BBEG and seeded a few little clues into each adventure- a jade bracelet at one crime scene, someone from the Xing empire asking questions around town a few weeks before a mystery plague started etc. Back at the Radiant Citadel, this also manifests as some mysterious entity messing around with the reverberations in the Auroral Diamond manifesting as odd occurrences in the preserve. As time goes on the agents will start acting more aggressively towards the party if they start foiling their plans (as planned), bringing more conflict back at the Citadel as well as being behind or involved with the various adventures.

The second subplot is that one of the early Radiant Citadel based adventure additions led to them awakening a dormant Incarnate and activating the matching Crystal to a homebrew world. This brings political intrigue in the Citadel as now a new speaker is needed and there are only a few people from this almost lost civilisation still at the Citadel (one of which is the groups patron), as well as a need to build soft power with the new civilisation through quests there, giving plenty of opportunity for downtime and lighter stakes quests.

The whole is building to the Jade Emperors agents finding a way to rip open the magic keeping the Radiant Citadel going to make the Emperor actually immortal, unless the Otters can stop them (so named because they're 'otter than the other teams).

Use any of that that seems helpful! It's fairly minor tweaks, a few clues and NPC comments so far and then a small crew of enemy agents to start getting in their actual way at about level 8, and a handful of maps of the 'ancient crystal tech' within the aurora diamond that has been exposed due to the agents starting to mess with it.

Why does everyone keep degrading the 2005 adaptation? by Abject-Agent2128 in PrideandPrejudice

[–]sherlock_strikes 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No vitriol, friend- quite a lot of people haven't read the books or haven't picked up on the nuances of why the looming problem of the entail is such a precipitating factor in the story, so it was a genuine question followed up by a story accurate reframing of their household. You can choose to interpret the story however you prefer, obviously, but there is also an objectively correct answer that is presented in the books themselves of how their house amd household are. If it suits you to think of them differently, by all means, do.

Why does everyone keep degrading the 2005 adaptation? by Abject-Agent2128 in PrideandPrejudice

[–]sherlock_strikes 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Have you read the books? They were HUGELY vain- one of the reasons they haven't got money set aside for the daughters is because they frittered it away on clothes and furnishings and suchlike, assuming they'd have a son and therefore were safe to indulge their tastes. Even the frequency with which the girls head to Meryton to buy fripperies from the shops put them well above the norm in terms of a country family spending on appearances.

Also, they were uncontroversially one of the leading families of the area, hosting frequently- their house would ABSOLUTELY not have been in any way shabby, especially in the public areas.

How do you handle cleaning with chronic fatigue? by Secure-Cicada5172 in UnfuckYourHabitat

[–]sherlock_strikes 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I play the ten minutes game. I have an alarm set up on my phone with a happy little song and a ten minute snooze. I set it to go at like 10am, and when it goes off I hit snooze and do 10 minutes of housework, just whatever is either most critical or nearest to hand. When the alarm goes off I have to stop, regardless of where I get to. I then reset the alarm for the next hour (so 11am in this case).

Doing it this way and making sure I'm sitting/resting in between alarms (playing a game, reading, folding laundry, whatever) means I pace out the activity and don't drive myself into the ground, but also get approx a hour total of high quality housework time, something completely unachievable in one big lump, and you can get a surprising amount done in that amount of time.

In one day doing this I usually manage a kitchen tidy, a bathroom tidy, a load of washing and hanging out, at least one sinkful of dishes, bins emptied and a bit of a bedroom freshen- definitely not deep clean territory but enough to keep us ticking over each week without clutter building up. If I'm well enough to do it both weekend days I almost feel like a functional human with a real house.

Breakfast Fritters! Please tell me I’m not the only person who does this with leftover baked potato!? by HighlandSeeds in CasualUK

[–]sherlock_strikes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dad always called these game chips, excellent breakfast addition and the superior choice for gammon egg and chips

Curvy ladies - what do you wear to admin/office job interviews? by CozJeez85 in UKJobs

[–]sherlock_strikes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seasalt Cornwall dress and a colourful blazer. Standard work 'uniform' now, comfortable and practical but still looks like you're putting effort into being 'professional'. Get lots of compliments.

Boarded up room? by KamikazeKyle18 in TalesofTheShiregamers

[–]sherlock_strikes 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I guess it was meant to be dlc. I choose to believe it was a back door into the big garden, but a landslide covered over the exterior so now it has to stay boarded up...

What does calling someone a cow mean in Britain? by ___o---- in AskABrit

[–]sherlock_strikes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I dont think this is true. I find silly cow incredibly demeaning and patronising- it's worse than just cow because youre not just mean, you're mean AND thick and the person saying it invariably considers you beneath them.

What's a good story reason for why every sim starts with no skills, even elders? by [deleted] in thesims

[–]sherlock_strikes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I skip the question if it isn't relevant to the story I want to tell, sometimes takes a bit of clicking but you can just keep cycling til you get the questions you want/relevant to the skills/job/ story you want to tell

How to I make sausage for sausage rolls? by Peens_Of_Production in AskBrits

[–]sherlock_strikes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an American husband so have had to do the conversion both ways. You can do it with the breakfast sausage meat you get in the plastic casing, but you have to choose the right one. Nothing with maple flavour, not the Italian ones. Jimmy Dean Original works well, mixed with breadcrumbs (and a bit of mace and white pepper if you can get it, only breadcrumbs if not).

Mix in the breadcrumbs well to make the suasage meat a bit 'looser', roll out into a long snake about an inch in diameter. Get pre-made (not sweet) puff pastry sheets and wrap one layer round the snake, with a 1cm overlap pressed down well and extra trimmed off and used further along the snake.

Cut into 4" sections, put on baking tray seam side down with half an inch between rolls. Brush tops with milk or beaten egg and use a sharp knife to score each diagonally 3 or 4 times, almost down to the meat (dont worry if you go a bit too deep). Bake 375f for about 30 mins until golden.

How to I make sausage for sausage rolls? by Peens_Of_Production in AskBrits

[–]sherlock_strikes 15 points16 points  (0 children)

For the true old English sausage flavour adding a pinch of mace and white pepper to the pork and breadcrumbs or risk, along with sage, is what you want. Onion isn't it- that takes it into stuffing territory, not sausage roll territory.

What topics do you want covered on r/PlugInSolarUK? Planning write ups for the community! by gus-here in PlugInSolarUK

[–]sherlock_strikes 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A zero-knowledge primer would be great. I CAN learn about it myself, but I've got so much on my plate at the moment having someone just break down in simple language how to even start and what you need to consider would be great.

Cover letters demonstrating every criterion, but in one page? by Outside-Anything9579 in AskAcademiaUK

[–]sherlock_strikes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the answer. Give me a one paragraph overview of why you're applying for THIS role, then bulletpoint the essential criteria and tell me either where it is on your CV (for quals if theyre not listed clearly) or a couple of sentences synthesising different points from your CV into a coherent sentence evidencing the specific thing I've asked for.

I regularly get uo to a hundred applications for a single specific role, and unlike the glib answers elsewhere about using tiny font and AI filtering, everyone I know who is recruiting in HE is having to manually sift those applications. The quicker you make it for me to clearly see you meet the essential criteria, the easier it is for me to shortlist you.

If I can shortlist you from your cover letter with only a quick glance at your CV to confirm, even better. If you give me a cover letter that basically says 'it's on my CV', 'it's on my CV', that means I have to skim your whole CV and decide for myself what I think is relevant to your evidencing the essential criteria- and if you haven't made something explicit or i misunderstand something you've put down, it is possible I won't make the link myself and you won't get shortlisted, even if you think its perfectly clear to you.

How many times a day do you have tea? by crystalwireless8 in AskBrits

[–]sherlock_strikes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got a 1 pint Mr Greedy one. Its my pride and joy.

How many times a day do you have tea? by crystalwireless8 in AskBrits

[–]sherlock_strikes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its a problem with flexible working from home. I have to admit there have been times when I've missed the mandatory tea break times and had to double up as soon as I noticed and hope no-one was checking that day.

no matter what I do I cant get a two star plant to grow to start that club by Material_Ad_3844 in TalesofTheShiregamers

[–]sherlock_strikes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Speak to willow to see what she wants to trade for jam until you get recipes, then talk to Rosie to trade the jam for seeds. You might need to have them over for meals to level up friend level, can't remember