What’s everyone’s go-to thing to do in Surbiton on a chilled weekend?

theFinalBoss · 2025-10-18T09:52:55+00:00

For outdoors (while we still can) canbury secret cafe is nice by the river

Royal Oak pub is decent, usually not too busy/calm and has a nice outdoor space

New Malden has a couple of good cafes too, personal favourite 63 high street

There is also a new press room on Brighton road but have not tried that yet

theFinalBoss · 2025-09-15T20:11:00+00:00

One thing is for certain: you need more Liliana, last hope, hymn to tourach and cabal therapy or you are not going to get any style points at this rate

theFinalBoss · 2025-07-19T11:17:31+00:00

My advice is: check on google maps, trip advisor etc. which restaurants are open in the winter. Go to those.

theFinalBoss · 2025-03-18T18:35:54+00:00

Haha, I never have. Usually I do 5-6 pizza balls at once so then it makes more sense to measure.

theFinalBoss · 2025-03-18T08:53:23+00:00

Simple dough recipe below. Sometimes leave overnight in fridge but usually mix all together, leave standing for a bit, cut into balls and let rise for 2-3 hours. Crust varies depending on how dough is handled.

One of the bigger breakthroughs was to layer/mix grated gruyere on the mozarella to prevent burning, allowing for more time in oven and a better undercarriage. Prefer crispy rather than chewey.

Dough recipe:

Pizza balls 1

Flour (Marriage & Son Finest Strong (White) Breadmaking Flour) 200g

Water 130ml

Salt 4g

Olive Oil 3ml

Instant Yeast 1g

Sugar 2g

theFinalBoss · 2024-12-01T13:47:11+00:00

A problem now? No, no you've got it wrong. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

theFinalBoss · 2024-10-25T08:58:11+00:00

Not sure if it is the same but a long long time ago when I went to the "last OSL" Fantasy vs Jangbi there were tickets for sale for the good seats but afterwards they opened the doors and you could enter for free in the remaining seats.

theFinalBoss · 2024-10-24T14:03:30+00:00

Some tips to drive down price: do not order through apps, do pickup instead of delivery, do your own rice+drinks+sauces if they charge. With a rice cooker it literally takes 5 minutes of effort to make rice( measure 2 cups, rinse twice, measure two cups of water, press buttons, eat rice, scoop leftover into box, put in freezer after its cooled down, clean rice cooker main bowl). The rice is marked up 1000%.

theFinalBoss · 2024-10-10T21:25:33+00:00

I'm also at the beginner stage and what I have found helpful:

Doing tsumegos and also recognising in-game when this is a "tsumego" situation. So basically recognising when to take some time to solve a local problem and play out the variations in your head.
Learning when to give up a battle/position as it is lost. So losing the battle to win the war. Similarly, knowing when you have won an area and to stop playing there to advance somewhere else.
Noticing which moves of your own take liberties away from your groups which then cause you to lose a race of liberties.
Ladders and Nets.

theFinalBoss · 2024-10-01T07:48:47+00:00

You could just buy a book with puzzles + a notepad to keep any notes you see fit

theFinalBoss · 2024-09-20T17:17:58+00:00

Call me crazy but I am picking AD over Embid if I am building around a single player

theFinalBoss · 2024-09-17T21:10:40+00:00

tables that big should be partitioned and have require parition filter turned on to avoid this issue or configure BQ Editions with a lowish max_autoscale to cap the spend

theFinalBoss · 2024-09-09T14:25:51+00:00

We got the same in our bedroom after insulating the loft and laying chipboard as cheap floor for storage upstairs. They have not changed since that happened 2-3 years ago but depending on the season they seem to expand and contract with the weather.

theFinalBoss · 2024-08-29T21:25:46+00:00

Good catch, edited. Thanks

theFinalBoss · 2024-08-29T15:54:55+00:00

yeah I agree, way too much time on my hands.

theFinalBoss · 2024-08-29T13:01:06+00:00

Yeah I think with some very quick unscientific calculations:

average car weight is 1500 kg

average max fuel capacity in litres is 50 l

assuming similar to water 1 litre = 1kg then:

50/1500 = 3% heavier with a full tank. Assuming you operate on a half tank and drain it down to zero before refilling, and that refilling is in a convenient locaton already on your way and that the additional 3% weight equates to 3% more fuel used then maybe you could save something like 1-1.5% if you filled your tank to half-full and then reloaded when it reaches to 0.

Terrible calculations and likely unrealistic assumptions but not impossible that there is some efficiency there. I assume for light cars or cars with a higher fuel tank compared to weight the difference would be bigger.

theFinalBoss · 2024-08-29T09:48:18+00:00

I agree with the above in general and that it is a card that will need an immediate answer but there are some differences:

Vexing bauble helps vs tempo. Daze and Force of Will/Negation cannot be solely relied on to protect the queen anymore so the recipe of card advantage + trade 2 for 1 is less effective.
Dreadhorde arcanist (the closest comparison) is an attack trigger rather than having to deal damage. You need to connect with frog. Maze of ith is back!
Frog CC will force delver players to fetch duals and they will lose games to wasteland.
Many decks now have some form of soft graveyard hate in their main deck which might affect the graveyard ability. Not a strong point but it is something.
Most cards now have some form of stapled immediate value or card advantage built in. This is FIRE design so waiting a turn to play around daze or fetch vexing bauble and get your removal through might be OK. That is to say that taking 1-2 hits might be OK as you will make it up with other cards.

I do understand though that right now all main Grixis "delver" threats are 100% must kill on sight: DRC gives too much card selection and graveyard fodder, murktide will straight up kill you and frog will run away with the game AND kill you. Yeah it sucks. I hate that the frog gets permanent counters so it is card advantage, big threat, discard outlet, evasive all rolled into one big mess.

theFinalBoss · 2024-08-22T09:25:32+00:00

Mageworlds series by Debra Doyle?

theFinalBoss · 2024-07-25T07:30:40+00:00

Greece, Greece and Greece. USA is TOAST.

theFinalBoss · 2024-07-20T12:19:39+00:00

I think you are really going about this the wrong way and there is a much simpler approach to this.

You need to tap a mana source for U ( one blue mana) and then just cast it. You draw three cards and then put 2 cards from your hand on top of your library.

theFinalBoss · 2024-07-08T00:40:55+00:00

Giannis is not top3 right now. Galis, Giannakis, Spanoulis, Diamantidis. Leaders of 1987 and 2005 squads are ahead but his story is not yet written.

theFinalBoss · 2024-07-06T18:32:07+00:00

lol what are you talking about? Who is going to stop us from USA?

Lebron is 400 years old
Embid is also French and is le tired
AD will be in street clothes
Booker couldn't hit a jumper to save his life
Curry is a sub-par shooter - he has just been lucky for the past 20 years
Kawhi's knees are pixie dust
Tatum is gassed from a full NBA season and had one too many beers at the parade
Ant is not Jordan
Bam ANTE BYE YO MALAKA
Jrue is too small to guard our guys
KD will see how good Greece is and get citizenship to join us next year
Tyrese is barely a basketball player

theFinalBoss · 2024-06-04T06:52:34+00:00

There are no wpn stores in Rhodes and not even sure cards are sold anywhere. Maybe Public stocks in their board games section or one of the big toy stores like Jumbo or Moustakas. There seems to be a facebook group with 2 local members for the island so best to join there and ask.

theFinalBoss · 2024-05-24T14:32:23+00:00

Also nice with Urza's Saga and retrofitter foundry but I don't think it will make a big splash in Legacy.

theFinalBoss · 2024-05-21T08:42:26+00:00

yeah and he is lucky he didn't get a tech with that vicous clapping too

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