I have heard that before, but it’s not very reliable as certain housing developers put in pampas grass as part of their landscaping so following that rule there are whole housing estates that swing.

Without any stated opinion on justness or otherwise, the Sino Indian war of 62 should probably have some type of representation on the map.

He’s seen some of the Space Marine 2 footage and is worried that immigrants are deep striking over the border in drop pods with bolters.

That is very good

Just looked up strichtarn out of curiosity. Is it an effective pattern irl?

It doesn’t look like it would break up form or outline very well at all from photos.

Communism sucks - says the man holding a Kalashnikov with which he hopes to defend his life.

I mean if you want to do time fraud you pretty much just can. You can start tracking a task at 9am then immediately go to make a coffee and chat to a coworker until half 9 to run up the clock. You really don’t need a fancy tool for that.

However a tool to make data more digestible and readable shows a level of interest in presentation of data. I would be less concerned about that. Someone willfully doing time fraud wouldn’t advertise it.

Yeah the perfect block counter move is way better than the combos for being actually achievable - especially as a lower levelled character. I do really like the combos when you git gud and can pull them off they’re super satisfying. KCD is weird because it feels like it should be a pure player skill game like dark souls or something timing blocks and strikes, but it actually isn’t, its actually secretly like xcom or something where everything has percentage chance dependant on yours and your opponents levels and how accurately you hit the timing windows. So it can be super frustrating as a new player because you try to block / strike / combo and you can do everything correctly but because you’re playing a peasant boy fighting an experienced mercenary solider you don’t pull it off and get stomped - but the game doesn’t feed that back to you. It’s a bit off putting. Then later when you’re high leveled fighting a low level bandit you can lazily mash whatever button you want and miss the timing window by miles and you’ll still make mincemeat of your foes regardless.

Also yeah mace>>than sword for anyone in armour.

I super enjoyed it. My general advice is to train with Captain Bernard until you git gud. Both you personally learning the combat system but also Henry levelling up. Also my personal advice is to session herb picking (collect every marigold, nettle and belladonna, there is a good spot to find them in the fields half way between Neuhof and Rattay) and do loads of alchemy - it’s super dull but one you have infinite saviour schnapps and marigold decoctions you can make loads of money and have access to health and save points. Then you can take the game in a more exciting way as you can boss combat and take more risks. Otherwise just nothing else like KCD. Really immersive and fun game.

“Indestructible” ok.

I mean as the USA’s main peer adversary I am surprised to read that they don’t already consider themselves to be prepared for the possibility of military action against china today. Like what else are they doing? (Besides getting humiliated by the Houthis…)

Anti organising wreckers?

This game doesn’t let me immediately live out my fantasy of being a big man elite operator type and sorting out problems with a single bullet.

(Shooting a gun is a thing I could conceivably do in real life - unlike solving a situation with words or any other intelligent interaction, which is totally beyond me, as is taking advice/learning from a woman, all of whom I consider subhuman and beneath me)

Now this is

Good god that guy and those replies. My thoughts are truly:

Ok. I did say “Britishness as it is today”, I never mentioned the far past.

To be clear, not that I think the past was good in Britain either, it sucked then too, just differently.

In the course of human history the creation of Britain and the concept of Britishness as it is today was a mistake. We shouldn’t have done it folks. It’s bad. This list shows a deeply sick society and culture. You’re right to be alienated, it’s deeply alienating.

Britain was a mistake.

Just seen you don’t have access to a heating element - sorry! That makes much of the above void. Can you make use of an alcohol stove? Buy some denatured alcohol (meths, bio ethanol, methylated spirits etc) and a drinks can, with which you can make an alcohol stove that can be used to boil water and make other simple meals. But be very careful with alcohol stoves they burn with a very dim flame which can make it very hard to see, which can be very dangerous if you spill lit fuel. Take adequate precautions. Also usual notes about burning things - try not to do it indoors, make sure you have adequate ventilation, keep away from children, have plan for extinguishing the flame in an emergency etc.

Basic pop can stove

A safer version that should be more spill proof, I’ve made something similar using graphite felt from a welders blanket before.

YouTube link to a graphite stove burner.

Other than what you’ve mentioned. When I go hiking for long periods of time away from facilities I often go to these staples:

Breakfast: premix portions of dried milk powder and oats to use as instant porridge, add in some salt some sugar and some freeze dried raspberries for taste.

Lunch: a hard tack / cake thing made with flour, oats and suet flavoured with dried fruit. Keep forever and very energy dense and quite tasty.

Dinners: (other than dehydrated meals which are always good for expeditions) couscous. Bulgar wheat. Rice, pasta, noodles. Dried meats and fish. If you’ve got a dehydrator you can make things like dehydrated roast peppers or other veggies. Things like butternut squash, potatoes, onions etc don’t actually need refrigeration, just to be kept cool and dark. Also if you’re not travelling anything you can grow - herbs like parsley, chives etc add so much to a meal.

Snacks: flapjack, nuts, chocolate, dried fruit (dried mango is my all time favourite) fresh fruits etc.