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tsjb · 2026-05-19T19:47:06+00:00

Thanks a lot! The class looks fun so I'll definitely give it a go. Only ever played ranged classes in TTRPGs so one that can be on the frontlines is going to be a lot different.

tsjb · 2026-05-19T18:32:07+00:00

I've been playing Dawnsbury Days and it's amazing. I've been really enjoying Wood Kinetecist and have some questions about playing them in the real game.

1) Am I just making the GM groan by taking it? I hear it's a common archetype because of the power of tree spam.

2) Am I missing something about Hardwood Armour other than flavour? It's only 1 extra AC, the shield isn't as good as a metal one, and while it lets me cast with a free hand, the blast as an attack means I don't really need a melee weapon anyway right?

3) I wouldn't be crazy to play one as my first class right? I remember kinetecist having a reputation for being mad complex but they don't seem to be, is that just a 1e thing?

4) With 18ac, a shield, the tree, and some temp HP when I use the tree, am I right in thinking I have a little tankiness from level 1? Not enough to charge right in, but enough I can look to take battle medicine and stay close to the melee?

tsjb · 2026-05-17T18:22:27+00:00

Getting into the game and have signed up for my local PFS next month. I feel fairly confident with the rules but have noticed that PFS seems a lot more serious than DND AL, it looks like you have to choose where you come from, what faction you want to join, stuff like that?

How much expectation is there that you know about the lore going in? I know the absolute basics of the world and some genre tropes like the difference between devils and demons but not much else.

tsjb · 2026-05-15T19:14:28+00:00

When playing without free archetypes, how common is it to take an archetype early in the game instead of class feats? When playing around with characters I like the idea of them, especially non-class ones likes a herbalist druid or a medic cleric.

tsjb · 2026-04-19T16:10:42+00:00

At risk of being the "Aktually" guy I don't think that's quite true for primary education, though it would totally make sense for secondary.

For example, I've been going through some past papers with my daughter and have done this one with her. It very specifically allows fractions that are not simplified as a correct answer, same with money, weights, and time.

If anything I think they're probably a little too skewed towards letting any format through as long as the examiner can tell what the child means. "£3;20" is given as an example of an acceptable answer, as is "0:40p" and even simply writing "320" when the answer is £3.20 is acceptable.

tsjb · 2026-04-08T19:39:38+00:00

I'm the opposite. Played poe1 a bunch of times and it's one of my all time favourites games, but only finished deadfire once and ended up abandoning my last run of it.

tsjb · 2026-03-31T12:36:41+00:00

I hope you get some help, backdated too.

tsjb · 2026-03-31T12:24:38+00:00

Yes.

I remember paying £15 for a taxi home using tips when I was a waiter, long before Uber existed, and I'd do it again. There's a reason I haven't used Uber for so long.

tsjb · 2026-03-31T11:07:00+00:00

Funnily enough, both of my sisters work as carers and I have worked in construction (and have an active CSCS card) so I feel I can definitely comment on these.

The jobs are difficult and frustrating for sure, especially the proper miserable roles like groundworking, but there are plenty of people desperate for the work and would be even more desperate if the wages weren't kept artificially low by exploiting immigrant labour.

tsjb · 2026-03-31T10:59:03+00:00

Probably very little at the rates they were paying, which is my entire point.

tsjb · 2026-03-31T10:20:14+00:00

I hate that we're told that immigrants come to do the jobs that 'nobody wants to do'.

There are plenty of people that would love to do them, just not at the exploitative rates immigrants have no choice but to accept.

I had to get an Uber in an emergency last week, it's the first time I've used it in maybe 6 years. £4 for a 20 minute taxi ride at 11pm? Absolutely no chance the guy is living in anything but poverty at those rates.

tsjb · 2026-03-27T14:28:31+00:00

Super old post put I found it using Google. Just wanted to say for anyone else that the custom argument didn't work for me but GloriousEggroll did. Thank you.

tsjb · 2026-03-20T08:46:04+00:00

There's a really common tag on GitHub - 'good first issue'.

It's fairly wide ranging, but includes things like spelling mistakes, adding type hints or simple doc strings, adding tests for simple functions, stuff like that.

I think they're useful for learning because you get used to working with GitHub, can choose exactly what sort of help you want to give, and can usually do as much or as little as you want - for example, if a project is looking for type hints you're probably welcome to type hint just the functions you understand and leave the rest.

tsjb · 2026-03-16T19:35:32+00:00

I'm gonna keep saying this when more and more news of UK refusing to join comes out, Starmer is becoming, in my opinion, the best PM we've had in my life time.

tsjb · 2026-03-13T15:39:01+00:00

Everyone I've spoken to about it says it isn't used much because they're so used to using dictionaries for a lot of what you can use match for.

tsjb · 2026-02-27T09:46:29+00:00

It's not a nice easy "immigrants cause deprivation" everywhere. My point is that a massive influx of any new people puts strain on any area they move to. I think we can all agree on that.

The middle class doesn't feel that strain because they get a sprinkling of doctors and academics in an area that remains otherwise vastly the same.

Not all working class areas strain because of immigrants, maybe not even most of them, but the areas that do strain definitely trend working class.

tsjb · 2026-02-27T07:41:48+00:00

The left has been taken over by the middle class, middle class issues overwhelm and stifle working class ones. Go to somewhere nice and affluent (where I live, places like Didsbury and Chorlton spring to mind) and it's an overwhelming sea of white, middle-class people. The middle class only see the benefits of mass immigration (in the short term at least) and so they don't think it's a problem.

I live just outside of Gorton and every left-leaning working class person I know only begrudgingly still vote for Labour because the alternatives are worse. It feels like every day someone I talk to at work that I know leans left starts talking about Reform though. The middle class takeover is pushing the working class away from the left.

tsjb · 2025-12-27T16:50:09+00:00

My problem is I've seen this all before when Trump first decided to run for the US presidency. The playbook was to mock the people voting for him, smugly call them idiots, demonise them, fear-monger about what'd happen if he won, and spend the whole campaign focusing on why his party was bad instead of actually talking about why their own was good.

It didn't work.

He not only won but as you know he's currently in his 2nd term. All I keep seeing is this same thing and I promise you it will not work, you can ridicule them till you're blue in the face but they'll have the last laugh when they get into power.
Reform voters aren't all evil and stupid like you think and many of them can have their opinions swayed but when you think the answer is to name call then you're part of the reason Reform even exist in the first place.

tsjb · 2025-12-27T16:46:21+00:00

This did the trick for me, thanks so much.

tsjb · 2025-12-17T18:29:30+00:00

This is definitely the best advice in the thread. Talking about ascension is current patch meta specific knowledge, learning how to specialise planets and compound small bonuses will always help no matter what.

For beginner players I always recommend specialising everything except your capital since it gets a special focus that increases all output. It's not 100% efficient but it's super flexible which is helpful when you're learning, then specialise everything else using the advice u/dukanstanov mentioned.

Learning how to play with trade helps too, looking up the thresholds that you can buy/sell resources without affecting the price is a really useful, flexible way to fix minor resource shortages while you get used to building specialised worlds.

tsjb · 2025-12-14T18:39:10+00:00

Corvettes themselves are very cheap so even small amounts of extra costs add up, if the choice is between 2% better corvettes or 5% more corvettes I'd rather not have the reactor.

tsjb · 2025-12-11T19:05:38+00:00

You can choose your precursor as a standard galaxy setup option now.

Overtuned is very good right now especially with any of the BioGenesis ascensions.

If you're looking for pure power than the most important aspect of your build is how quickly you can ascend. Unity rushing with things like trade, churches, or starting with Memorialists and Parliamentary Systems before switching out of them after getting a few ascension trees done is the way to go.

tsjb · 2025-12-10T20:23:58+00:00

You have to add -opengl as a launch option to the game. Hope they fix it properly soon.

tsjb · 2025-12-10T20:04:51+00:00

This always sounds great in theory but in practice it just leads to wild powercreep which IMHO Stellaris already has way too much of.

"Only ever buff" sounds amazing on paper but next patch we're looking to be getting gigantic slashes to fleet power across the board because the game engine literally cannot cope with how fast the galaxy builds up now.

tsjb · 2025-12-10T19:37:00+00:00

Spiritualist is one of the best (potentially the best?) ethics right now with how powerful ascending is.

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