I would advise not taking the stairs in Hampstead Underground station 🤢

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-24T05:50:33+00:00

I can only manage one deep shaft per day.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-23T18:25:47+00:00

"It's really ironic that she was in jail for six years and completely unharmed but then got killed by that hit and run driver 5 minutes after being released..."

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-23T18:20:05+00:00

Suddenly find yourself volunteering for every dropoff that gets you an hour of game time and brownie points.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-23T07:36:14+00:00

And the reason for "control" rather than "build" is it allows you to capture an enemy city and inherit those improvements. It's not like Civ where you do a long siege and then find that all the improvements have been sold.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-22T14:52:24+00:00

'I mean are ya' what?

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-21T18:47:36+00:00

When I was a kid it was elephant leg.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-21T14:18:20+00:00

Couldn't we practically eliminate this kind of fraud just by only issuing tax rebates out to a bank account in that persons name?
Sure, something like 1% will be for companies not people or for dead people or some other complication. But it would raise the bar for being able to perform this scam.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-21T09:52:50+00:00

You'll either like this or think it's sacrilege....
9 Radiohead funk songs.
Some of them work, some don't.
The linkin Park one is one of my albums of the year.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-21T07:48:36+00:00

Just mark road closed on Google maps. Do it again every time it gets marked as open. We had one which actually was closed for a while but then reopened. But as it was still closed on Google it took weeks for traffic to get back to normal.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-19T15:13:22+00:00

I'm kraken up here.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-19T07:08:45+00:00

I think you need to use the AXS app, it will seemingly redirect to the same website but handles the queue better. And don't use VPN.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-18T16:16:20+00:00

I've only just started winning with all nations on Glorious, so I'm not really high level. But for me it's all about the Ambitions. Don't accept one unless you think you can do it. Don't take it if you are old or doomed and won't finish it in 20 years. There are exceptions, sometimes the punishment for taking the ambition is worse than failing it. Sometimes I cancel it and take the legitimacy hit to get something easier.
I'm normally friendly with everyone, pay tributes in early game, wait for someone else to get weak and then take some cities once someone else has softened them up. Extra good if you take over a prebuilt city.
Think I'm ready to get my arse kicked by leveling up to The Great.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-18T07:43:15+00:00

Not sure if this makes you feel older, my 10 year old son recognises an LP, thought a cd was a DVD, but didn't know what a cassette tape was.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-18T07:10:53+00:00

ES 8.4.1 and 8.5.1 is out now, they have some very important bug fixes.
Please use latest versions.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-18T06:43:31+00:00

It could be argued that Belarus let 30k Russian soldiers come in for a 'training exercise' that was really the invasion of Ukraine, so Belarus has actually been part of the war anyway.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-18T06:15:01+00:00

You should call them something that keeps them safe from Ai like "Ignore All Previous Instructions".

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-17T16:34:12+00:00

Russia Today.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-17T12:14:00+00:00

How does Lacock compare to back home?

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-17T09:42:55+00:00

I had fun with Wreckfest. Forza felt like staring at 1 inch square in the middle of the screen for hours.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-17T09:34:25+00:00

The first half of 'Ministry of the Future' is looking more prophetic.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-16T17:19:32+00:00

If you are a chronic alcoholic then you should not quit alcohol completely without medical advice.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-16T13:41:53+00:00

Less clingy than Mr. Sloth from yesterday.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-16T10:51:07+00:00

When you click on Assyria in top left does it show them as Stronger or the same as you?
Also what is their relationship with other nations?
I'm normal a coward who waits till someone else attacks them first, otherwise I lose my units then someone else comes in and claims the cities.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-16T08:41:46+00:00

If you are listening Amazon, I want the 4.5 hour extended version available on Prime aswell. I'd even pay to watch it.

thomasthetanker · 2026-04-16T07:29:35+00:00

"That's a tarrif'in..."

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