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  • AKA: Aidan
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    My name's an homage to the grammatically incorrect Wat Tyler, who led the Peasant's Revolt a mere 640-odd years ago. The avatar is the Monty Python crew having a bit of a moan about Pedants like myself. My pedantry is keen, but unskilled I'm afraid.
    My principal hobby is rugby, from which I retired (hurt) just over a decade ago; though I still follow the game, and support both the grass roots level, and Bath in the English top flight. I seem to be a much better supporter than I ever was as a player. I'm a fan of historical fiction and comedy, with Terry Pratchett and Bernard Cornwell as my favourite authors.

    Beyond that.... I'm a chiropractor, and I work alongside Ali (massage therapist) as just the 2 of us in a small town that seems to spend half it's time under water since we moved here. We have 2 cats, 1 dog and 0 offspring are confirmed generation X-ers; and one of those lame-arse couples who got engaged a decade ago, but still haven't gotten around to actually getting married. My humour is generally inappropriate, but I enjoy bickering as well; so all's well that ends well.

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  1.    Which Tyler reacted to a post in a topic: Treatments for trans children and politics, world-wide
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  7. Which Tyler
    Thank you writing all of this. Great food for thought. Though I didn't know we were allowed informed and nuanced answers, not when knee-jerks are available
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  10.    Which Tyler reacted to a post in a topic: Watch, Watched, Watching: Anybody but Superman
  11.    Which Tyler reacted to a post in a topic: UK politics, Truss me, I really am that mental.
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    I've just checked - I earn approximately a 8th of the £90k listed above (with no expenses, and no outside payments for "consulting"); my credit rating is... not great. I'm also living through a cost of living crisis. I can get an unsecured £10k loan through my bank, online, and it says the money will be in my account in 2 hours. I'm not taking it just to check a theory, however.
  14. Which Tyler
    I'm sure I'm far from the only person surprised that it hasn't been illegal for at least 20 years.
  15. Which Tyler
    Anyone got any figures for food bank use in the same time? Closest I've got is 2022-23 (37% increase) which does coincide with the war in Ukraine
  16. Which Tyler
    But... that profiteering CREATED inflation
  17. Which Tyler
    5% not 50% It's an extra +1 on a d20 roll Also worth noting than an increase of 5% is the smallest possible increase in a d20 based system. If you you increases by smaller I crements, you need a completely different system
  18. Which Tyler
    Yeah, it's a good system, but would surely be too complicated for tabletop. My homebrew is that PCs have to take a full day of R&R to train, study, meditate etc somewhere safe where they can let their guard down. I also allow them to learn extra (non-ASI) feats, skills, languages etc - which requires a dedicated tutor and 3 days (so 24 hours of actual study) to reach half-proficiency. Some stuff I'll allow by spending a LOT of hours just playing about with stuff (reduced if they've a transferable skill). Essentially - levelling up is putting into practice what you've learned by doing stuff, and trying out something new. Learning something new requires either being taught, or teaching yourself through trial and error. Ultimately, to my AD&D attuned brain, PCs get powerful stupidly quickly, even with me artificially trying to slow them down. You can go from random schmuck on the street to olympian (level 5-6ish) in a week of game time; to superhero (level 10-12ish) by the end of your first month; and to god-killer in another month or two.
  19. Which Tyler
    Yeah, the power of the storm is the only one I can think of (beyond durability of future-tech). I'm pretty sure the Martian winds do get up to the speed suggested, but yeah, with way less density and therefore force applied. I'm not sure I'd call it a leap, so much as a stretch for dramatic (and narrative) purposes. Pretty sure Martian soil is fine for life. I am sure I remember it being a common criticism that was shot down by people who actually know about this stuff. Well beyond my personal understanding though. Absolutely agreed on the slingshot manoeuvre though - but that's a holding of the idiot ball rather than bad science.
  20.    Ran reacted to a post in a topic: Watch, Watched, Watching: Anybody but Superman
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    Council of Elrond is straight from the book. Out of interest - what leaps of science? I mean, yeah it's sci-fi, but the science is generally held up as being spot on (if theoretical). From what I recall, most of the stretches are about durability, rather than "wouldn't work in principle".
  22. Which Tyler
    That's a "no" then.
  23. Which Tyler
    Did anyone say that? Or just provide some context (and correction) to your post?
  24.    karaddin reacted to a post in a topic: UK Politics: Not even a Penny for a new Prime Minister
  25. Which Tyler
    Yeah, it took a bit of time to assemble the ETA, and different links for each peak and trough. Just linked the one graph to illustrate. The best I can find for the main 3 parties is this: https://www.tutor2u.net/politics/reference/participation-political-party-membership-in-the-uk Including this graph: https://tutor2u-net.imgix.net/subjects/politics/blogimages/pol-party-uk-membership-historic-trend.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&q=80&w=800
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    Isn't that almost exactly where the party membership was the day before Corbyn was nominated for party leadership? Of course, that doesn't make it a good thing (far from it); but I do wonder how many of the departures are "life long party members" and how many are "joined to vote for Corbyn" ETA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Labour_Party_membership_graph.svg Nope, fell off a cliff around the Falklands, stabilising at 250-300k; bump up to a peak of 405k for early Blair in 1997, before dropping back to circa 200k with the illegal wars. Generally holding steady just below 200k (with a drop to 150k for Milliband) until Corbyn (largely, the option of installing Corbyn) brings it up to a peak of 564k in 2017. Corbyn ejected from the party => drops down to 366k (NB, 366,604 is the figure quoted in your article - is more a loss of "just under 200k", not a drop to "just over 200k"). Yes, I'm sure they'd rather have the members, but not exactly a fatal blow, currently significantly above the average for the last 40 years. Context. It's a thing.
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  29. Which Tyler
    I have, repeatedly, and I like it - but that doesn't change how disturbing it was when I was 6. It's why I separated "most disturbing" from "disturbed me the most".
  30. Which Tyler
    Sorry, got caught as in "got caught in the public conscience" With very easily understood corporate sociopathy. People understand planes falling out of the sky = bad thing
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