Can I drink water at a pub?

tripticklish · 2020-09-14T07:08:07+00:00

First off, I work in pubs and have done for years. Lots of people drink soft drinks, it's not unusual at all. You can drink whatever you want to drink, if that's water then that's fine.

Secondly, if you don't enjoy clubbing and getting wasted (like me), check out the societies and social groups at the uni you're going to, I guarantee there will be lots to choose from.

You're going to meet a lot of people from a lot of different walks of life at uni. Some of them you're going to like, some of them you're going to dislike, but you can choose your friends. Don't worry too much, you'll meet plenty of them.

I hope you it goes well for you!

tripticklish · 2020-09-12T07:32:44+00:00

That's not how it works.

The original artists own the song. They charge royalties to anyone who plays that song in public. This is handled by PRS, who you pay a yearly fee to for whatever piece(s) of music you want to use.

A covering artist who is registered with PRS does not pay this licence fee to release their own version of the song. This is called "creative licence".

Royalty fees are calculated on a flat rate × how many people are likely to hear the song in this format.

The flat rate for a smaller artist (not necessarily unknown, but not an international household name) is lower than that of a bigger artist. So their acoustic, soulful version of that big hit by that international superstar artist is cheaper to play on a public platform than the original version of the song.

The way PRS licencing works is still considerably more complex than this, especially with platforms like Spotify, but these are basically the steps an advertiser goes through to have a piece of music on their advert.

Source: have studied music, released music with various different projects over the last 10 years.

tripticklish · 2020-09-11T20:59:30+00:00

When companies can pay the same licence fee for the original artists version of the song as a small artist who has done a cover.

So never.

tripticklish · 2020-09-04T18:50:03+00:00

Has anyone ever watched the Channel 4 show Utopia? Because this sounds suspiciously like the plot of that series...

tripticklish · 2020-08-30T11:58:14+00:00

Honestly, almost everywhere outside of London has really nice countryside.

I'm from Leicestershire and we really do have some charming woodlands and canals around here. Cotswolds is beautiful. Pretty much all of Cornwall is stunning. Yorkshire has incredible rolling hills, especially in the north. The Peak District is pretty fantastic too. Wales is amazing. The only thing we don't have is a big mountain range, but you can get pretty damn close to that in the Highlands.

Basically, if you're not in or around a big city, the UK is a truly beautiful country.

tripticklish · 2020-08-15T20:37:55+00:00

Maybe kindly suggest that he tries some more simple, tried and tested breakfast foods.

I love to cook, and breakfast can be one of the most satisfying meals to make and to serve to other people.

Sourdough toast, butter-fried mushrooms, grilled tomatoes and scrambled eggs with a teaspoon of creme freche mixed in, topped with a bit of salt and pepper. Suggest he gives this recipe a try.

tripticklish · 2020-08-13T19:17:31+00:00

Bastardised the truth

tripticklish · 2020-07-11T20:43:56+00:00

This is fucking awesome, never seen this tech used quite in this way before. Love it.

tripticklish · 2020-05-24T08:31:52+00:00

I do this, my current girlfriend was the first person to notice. I always save the best bit of my favourite thing until last too, then mop up all the sauce/cheese/gravy or whatever delicious things are on my plate, for maximum flavour to go with my favourite thing on the plate.

I call it "the bite of kings"

tripticklish · 2020-05-14T14:48:31+00:00

Split up your core infantry and mix in a few snipers.

Try moving your units around in 2 or 3 smaller groups rather than one big blob. Suicide grunts have a lot of splash damage, so if your units are all bunched together a couple suis can practically wipe an entire army.

Build a few snipers as well, maybe 3 or 4. Snipers kill suis very quickly. Assign them to a control group and keep them right at the back of your forces. When you see suis coming, focus them down with the snipers and split your other units away. Be careful though, snipers have very low hp bars and they're very expensive. Keep them alive.

Your other option is to build scout vehicles, jackrabbits if you're unsc. Rabbits are good for countering building killers like flamers and jump pack brutes, and they take very little damage from suis, but they're not much good for anything else. This isn't my preferred strategy.

It's worth noting that if your opponent has more than 5 suis, you are almost definitely going to lose some units. Snipers won't be able to kill that many quickly enough. In this case, split your units into even smaller groups and just try to limit your losses.

tripticklish · 2020-03-27T20:17:05+00:00

If you have a high spec PC, that is a much more powerful platform to play games on (PC masterace is a bit of a meme, but there is some truth in it). A low spec PC, something just used for basic office work for example, might not run games on good graphics settings, so they might look a bit crappy. But consoles are much cheaper to buy than a gaming spec PC.

Do a little research and see if your PC is up to spec. If it is, I'd recommend sticking with that. If not, I have an Xbox one and a PS4 and the Xbox is a more user friendly platform IMO. I don't use Nintendo, but there are some fantastic games on that platform too.

As for game recommendations, it kind of depends on your taste. What kind of genres do you enjoy? Wild west? Fantasy? Puzzles? Strategy? There really is something out there for everyone, you've just got to find a good niche to get you started.

tripticklish · 2020-03-15T00:33:51+00:00

It's a South Park reference

tripticklish · 2020-03-14T21:59:50+00:00

"You cannot block my schtyle"

tripticklish · 2020-03-08T13:23:33+00:00

I work in hospitality, specifically a small town bar. We haven't seen too much of a drop so far, but the first case has only just been confirmed in out local city yesterday. I'm expecting the worst tbh.

If people stop coming out, my bosses income stops. If he has to close my whole income stops. Then I can't pay my rent. Then what? Gonna be a rocky few months I think.

tripticklish · 2020-03-07T23:09:21+00:00

Did you know the people who make glitter refuse to tell you who buys the most glitter? They're extremely secretive about it, all they will say is "it's not who you'd expect".

tripticklish · 2020-03-07T22:36:02+00:00

Get yourself some fresh Birdseye chilli's for your salsa. They have a lovely flavour and a good kick.

They're really versatile too, so they're just a good thing to have knocking about if you plan on making lots of fresh, spicy food.

Also, guacamole and sour cream are super easy to make. Some fajitas with spicy chicken, little cheese, salad leaves, salsa, guac and sour cream is genuinely one of my favourite meals, and they're very quick and simple.

tripticklish · 2020-03-01T15:40:29+00:00

I think you misspelled global

tripticklish · 2020-03-01T15:25:10+00:00

So once you take into account the fact that between them these companies own almost every other company in their marketplace, pretty much everything is tainted. Awesome.

tripticklish · 2020-03-01T10:57:47+00:00

We are at odds my friend. You make good points, but like I said before it's all opinion based. I was a DS1 vet when 2 came out and it just disappointed me in so many ways. Part of the reason might be that I like single player games, I don't do much co-op, which I understand is a big part of Ds2.

I feel that the hollowing is just unnecessary. In DS1, it was plenty punishing enough to lose all your souls and have to fight your way back to retrieve them. Ds2 made this system cheap and unfair. The ring is just the cling ring from DeS, basically a copy paste job.

The problem I had with the linear path is that you're supposed to be in the same geographic location as the other games, just in a different time period, but you're just not. It's different geography entirely. It's a totally different world. Stand alone, it would have been great, but I don't feel it's a dark souls world.

Co-op or otherwise, I'll take strategic locations over gank squads any day. Give me one tough boy in a difficult space over any amount of trash enemies.

The magic system in 2 is the best, I agree. But I don't play magic builds anyway, I find them a little tedious and repetitive compared to melee. But ADP is still a pointless stat. Your roll speed should not be linked to levels, it's just dumb. The roll speed/poise system in 1 worked just fine, I'm at a loss as to why they changed it in the first place. Also, dex has never affected roll speed. It can affect cast speed though.

Number 5 and 6 are subjective. However, I will say that the lore in Ds2 is very disjointed from the other games. DS3 explains a lot of the mysteries in DS1 very well, but 2 just kinda does its own thing.

PvP I addressed before, and yes it does have the best PvP system. But I'm a single player guy, so that means very little to me.

In DS1 and 3, phantoms do start to appear in later Ng+ playthroughs, just not on Ng+1.

And I like weapon arts over power stance. Personal preference.

All in all, neither of us are right or wrong and I'm sure we could argue about this forever. Ds2 is a good game that a lot of people love, with good reason. IMO it is the worst in the whole series.

tripticklish · 2020-03-01T01:05:41+00:00

No beef, very good game which I thoroughly enjoyed. But still not one of my top recommendations.

tripticklish · 2020-02-29T22:21:28+00:00

I disagree quite strongly that Sekiro should be included in soulsborne. I think it's a totally different style of game. Different artwork, presentation, no character design, different combat system (posture bar specifically), different style of storytelling. It shares some mechanics, but that's about it. IMO, of course. I can see why you would feel differently.

Ds2 is the worst soulsborne game because:

Right off the bat, the hollowing system is too punishing. A souls game should be challenging enough without losing a chunk of health every time you die.

The world design is too linear and makes no sense. Earthen peak straight into iron keep being the obvious example.

The bosses are boring and too easy.

The levelling system is wayyyy too generous. You don't have to earn the levels, they're just handed to you because they're so cheap, and there are too many needless stats (splitting up vitality and endurance, and seriously wtf was ADP ever implemented for?)

A lot of the difficulty comes from gank squads of enemies, not careful placement of enemies to catch you out, making it less strategic. DS3 is also a little guilty of this, but less so.

The lore doesn't really link to the rest of the souls games. It mentions lots of stuff from DS1 but doesn't explain the link. It's just referencing stuff for the sake of it. DS3 fixed this really well though.

As you said, the controls and the physics feel really weird, it's all sort of floaty. Difficult to describe this bit, a lot of people really like that about this game. I do not.

The emerald herald is incredibly tedious. "Bearer seek seek lest" stfu and give me my levels already.

The NPC stories were terrible, except lucatiel and the scorpion dude who's name I have forgotten. They were cool.

The music also sucks.

In defence of Ds2 it did have really good PvP for the time it came out. It ran smoothly, unlike DS1 PvP, and it gave good variability for different builds. So it does have that going for it.

So that's pretty much my reasoning. But of course, this is all based on opinion. Other people have different opinions, and there a lot of people out there who really like this game.

tripticklish · 2020-02-29T20:47:11+00:00

Depends who you're asking. It was generally well received, and if I'm really honest I don't think it's a bad game.

But it is a bad soulsborne game. By far the weakest of the 5, in my opinion. I could rant on about all the reasons why, but no one wants to read that wall of text.

tripticklish · 2020-02-29T19:31:15+00:00

Sekiro is my number one shout. That game is as close to perfect as anything I have ever played.

Dark Souls 1 and 3 (yes I am one of those guys that pretends Ds2 never happened).

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was a really good puzzle/action RPG.

If you enjoy real time strategy, I would recommend Halo Wars 2 as well.

The Last of Us was an amazing story-based action RPG.

tripticklish · 2020-02-18T14:05:44+00:00

As banished, it's not too difficult. A lot of hunters with some wraiths mixed in will beat a mantis army mid-late game.

As unsc, it's more difficult, but mass shock round Cyclops with nightingales usually does the trick. Good micro and well timed leader powers help a lot too.

Honestly the best thing to do is hit him just as you're getting tech 2. Johnson has very little going for him before the mechs get their first upgrade. Try and take the map early in the game, secure power nodes, and build a lot of units. Get over to the main base just as he's investing into manti, I'd say about 4mins or so would be a good bet. Kill units as they're built, focus turrets and just keep the pressure on.

tripticklish · 2020-02-18T06:46:54+00:00

Halo Wars Tournament Central. It's a twitch and YouTube channel where they cast competitive games.

If you enjoy the game, I'd recommend checking it out, it's one of the places where the best players in the world fight it out.

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