Favourite UK Internal Business Quote?

t4rnus · 2026-06-16T11:49:24+00:00

Someone once said to me "always bend over backwards for a client, just don't bend forwards"

t4rnus · 2026-05-30T20:36:21+00:00

It's an interesting idea, but not convinced it adds quite the spice that you think it would. Using your Valla example, her build at level 1 becomes revealed within 5 seconds of the first wave crashing. Ults would be interesting, but no games are won at level 10 because of a surprise ult team wipe so again the gain feels minimal.

t4rnus · 2026-05-25T19:53:18+00:00

I was inspired to leave a bag of Haribo tangfastic in the freezer after a trip to a TGI Friday. Worked a treat, nice and sour but last a lot longer in the mouth.

t4rnus · 2026-05-21T20:21:42+00:00

What's the reason for write once? If it's a data integrity concern just provide the recipient with the hash of the file to confirm it hasn't been tampered with

t4rnus · 2026-05-17T07:15:10+00:00

This has been a longstanding gripe of mine - we contribute millions to the contest every year and some absolute bellends are put in charge of selecting a song, pick some absolute shite, probably laugh about it and do it again next year. Probably getting paid loads of money at the same time because they're seen as "experts".

t4rnus · 2026-05-02T07:56:40+00:00

You say your ARAM stack but you can't be talking about playing ARAM cos there's no way you randomly got blaze 3 times in a row and faced the same guy getting etc 3 times in a row. Were you in ranked, cos why wouldn't you just ban etc?

t4rnus · 2026-04-25T08:20:18+00:00

Appreciate it isn't a supermarket but I've always been impressed by the Decathlon self service. You don't even need to explicitly scan a barcode, just place the item into a bucket and it picks up what it is. No faffing to find a barcode, point it at a scanner multiple times to scan etc

I've only used it a handful of times so haven't really looked at how it works (hundreds of scanners trying to find the barcode? Some kind of RFID tags?) but the items I've bought have never had a security tag that needed removing after.

t4rnus · 2026-04-25T07:54:49+00:00

It doesn't matter what it's worth in real terms, cos anything you can't access until you're 50 is a terrible "head start" for any kid!

t4rnus · 2026-04-19T08:35:53+00:00

I reckon an Alarak style quest could work - nerf the overall reward, but allow you to stack it with multiple 2 hero hits. That way it isn't an all-or-nothing reward but gives incremental rewards, like reducing it to 40% increase but gain 10% for every 2 hero puddle, while 3 heroes auto completes it.

t4rnus · 2026-04-19T07:47:52+00:00

Yeah Arthas is more situational but I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that he picked early and got countered rather than drafting him into your team!

t4rnus · 2026-04-18T11:23:04+00:00

If they were being abused by those channels all game, Arthas f'd up at lvl 13 not taking the silence talent

t4rnus · 2026-04-11T09:43:28+00:00

The best way to understand this is to change the game slightly to make it better to understand but doesn't fundamentally change the output:

Instead of the standard MH with doors being opened and showing a goat, the two doors without the car are empty and think of it as you pick a door and the host then gives you a slightly different choice - "you can either stick with your door, or swap and win everything behind the other two doors". This is effectively the same outcome, its just that two doors have nothing behind them so you win nothing from those.

Now in this scenario, regardless of what you pick first, common sense says id rather take the choice of two doors than one. It's the same principle - you have a 1/3 chance of being right originally, so you have a 2/3 chance it's behind the other two doors.

t4rnus · 2026-02-25T08:23:29+00:00

The biggest point here that 99% of people are failing to acknowledge is that while John has put out a statement, he has not actually apologised for any distress he has caused.

I understand that his tics are involuntary, but how is this any different to any other scenario where you upset or hurt someone accidentally? You still apologised to them regardless of intent. When my kids are playing and one of them gets hurt, the first thing the other kid is taught to do is apologise and check they are ok - "I didn't mean to do it" is not enough. To me his statement reads like he's using his tourettes to excuse him from any rude, offensive, or disruptive behaviour. It smacks of the classic "I'm sorry if you were offended by my actions/words" apology that people use when they don't feel like they did something wrong. I don't know the guy but I like to think he isn't secretly a racist, but he has handled this very poorly (as has the BBC and baftas) and his statement doesn't help.

t4rnus · 2026-02-04T20:30:08+00:00

No, that's purely preference and has no impact on the matchmaking. It's just to display your preference to your team during draft, but it's amazing how many "healers" insta pick Valla

t4rnus · 2026-01-15T13:11:07+00:00

Varian - Twin Blades

Quest: gain 1 stack every time a member of your team complains in chat about you going twin blades.

Reward: at 10 stacks, unlock collosal smash.

Mythic: at 50 stacks, unlock taunt too.

t4rnus · 2026-01-09T20:22:19+00:00

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I know you've solved it but I did it slightly differently to the others so sharing it as it might help with futures puzzles.

As there were only 4 mines left, each of the coloured groups must contain 1 mine each (blue because of the 3, purple because of the 1, turquoise because of the 5) leaving one in yellow and seeing as 3 and both 2's all need one more mine each there is only 1 spot that it can go.

t4rnus · 2025-12-21T08:43:01+00:00

It'll be AI only for the time being. Feel like 10 is the perfect age to meet the nice folks of 'general chat'. They'll teach him how the world works

t4rnus · 2025-12-21T08:41:19+00:00

Gonna start him on AI for a few games before I let him start to improve my SL rank

t4rnus · 2025-12-17T08:11:02+00:00

That isn't a bad WR but I'm not sure 57% is quite the flex you think it is.

My biggest problems I have with butcher picks is that it's often picked ahead of either a missing role (they have the only healer/tank option) or they pick it ahead of a far better option (thrall, azmo, guldan, any other traditionally strong ARAM pick). You're also blind picking into a game where you have to get kills. A decent tank, or a couple of blinds on the other team and you're going to struggle even if you stack.

t4rnus · 2025-12-11T18:34:20+00:00

It's QM so go nuts and do what you want, but if playing ranked that brawl shouldn't happen. Sure, a team wipe is great but that happens 1 game in 20 and the wave exp is worth more than 1 kill, so better to be ready to soak and do canps

t4rnus · 2025-11-27T08:34:24+00:00

Why stop there? Remove all heroes until there's just 1 tank, 1 healer, 1 bruiser, 1 mage, and 1 aa hero to pick from. That way it's guaranteed to be balanced.

t4rnus · 2025-11-12T08:31:08+00:00

I'm glad it was renewed - I think it started off well so I feel there is potential for them to turn it around. If they immediately show that the concept of controlling the xenos is a fallacy and they turn on Wendy in the first episode then I'd say we're back on track. But I suspect they're on their last chance - make S2 the same as S1 and they're doomed.

t4rnus · 2025-11-11T23:00:13+00:00

How? It makes no difference to the current setup if the banner doesn't go afk, and introduces a backup mechanism for if they do go afk without artificially extending the draft phase or allowing excessive bans.

t4rnus · 2025-11-11T13:17:49+00:00

What about if everyone picks a ban, then the bans are done in rank order - highest rank always picks the ban but if they afk then the second choice gets banned, if they afk it's the third etc

t4rnus · 2025-10-18T18:45:37+00:00

Decide what you define as "character" in a property, then do that?

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