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The most recent one I got absolutely floored me, but I got it at the same time as the regular winter flu shot and I also have to take a whole bunch of immunosuppressants so it was basically the worst possible scenario. Still, well worth it to not get covid. I'll take a couple of days of feeling sorry for myself over a hospital stay and potential death any day

JB is 100% inviting every sex worker and drug dealer they know

I think the Guard are one of the best options for a "your guys" faction too. GW default to Cadians, but you can use basically any historical aesthetic you want and it fits perfectly fine

Harlequins mate

• Look ridiculous
• Also look cool
• Fast high-risk high-reward play
• Their entire existence is a giant goof played on a chaos god
• It's probably actualy alright to live in their societies, relatively speaking
• Despite the above and the clown aesthetic, they're stll absolutely horrifying

they are a real faction and james workshop can't tell me otherwise

I do also quite like the craftworlders

It doesn't, but hyperons are theorised to exist more stably in neutron stars

I love how the bleeding edge of physics sounds so much like shitty improvised sci-fi. We smashed lead together so hard that it made hyperhelium. It's hyper because it has at least one strangeness.

Exactly what this actually means is beyond my level of physics knowledge. What I can understand is that they managed to make stuff that normally belongs in the heart of a neutron star and which disappears in less time than it takes for light itself to travel the length of my arm, except actually it's the goddamn antimatter version of that, and they were able to discern multiple different types of it at once. That's wild

I took a look just now and it seems like he is blonde in the portrait, but it's on the wall in Volcano Manor where all the lights are red anyway

I think Rykard is blonde in his pre-togethaaaa portrait, isn't he?

I'd say I get about a one in four win rate against my cat when I try to tap him on that head without him catching my hand. I've got a big reach advantage

This is just her before she became a ghost in a mannequin. As you can see she was so pale that when she went up the divine tower she just got sunburnt to a crisp

That's a good idea. Maybe there's an NPC with their own little camera drones that sneak about the city searching for good stuff, and when they find something they just put a public bounty on it for any drivers to go collect

On the one hand I wish I had the coding skills to make this, but on the other if I did have them I'd be wanting to make something for all of my favourite things instead

Yeah, at the end of the day I have something like a twenty to one weight advantage here. Yes it will hurt a lot every time the claws catch me, and they will catch me, but it will only hurt. The poor cat isn't faring so well once I land a kick or a punch

Pumas and lynxes both go after things that are outweigh them several times over, so I maybe wouldn't count myself safe if I were small enough to ride a domestic cat

Also anecdotally, having lived with pet cats most of my life, god damn they are fast and they're stacked with more knives than the average kitchen. I would not want to fight a cat that was bigger than me.

Yeah same, it is odd. I'd guess it was an accident

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To me it's essentially just the time we all ("we all" as in my friends and family) agree to set aside for each other. We'll make a fuss over spending time together, and the specifics of why it's at that time of year or why we call it Christmas or anything else don't matter so much to us. Most of us aren't Christians anyway.

The new year is arguably a bigger event in my area, but to be honest it's all just kind of the festive season. Do as little work as you can manage, see the people you like to see. That's what it's about.

If you don't have anyone that you would like to spend it with, you're perfectly allowed to cook yourself something nice, take the day easy, settle in with a good movie, some snacks, and something good to drink if you like alcohol. I normally spend Christmas with my family, but the one year when circumstances did compel me to spend it alone I did this and I had a lovely day.

Maybe if you feel up for it and want to get involved somehow, you could do some volunteering on the day - at least in my personal experience, it tends to be pretty easy going and have a pleasant atmosphere, and you can feel good about what you've done with the time too. Most places need a bit of help during Christmas, because the normal crew's schedules will be a bit off kilter. I've done a good few Christmas mornings.

If you are Christian, maybe you can engage with the religious side of it. Churches obviously have special services on the day, and they're usually the busiest of the year too. This is obviously only useful if you do follow some kind of Christianity or at least have some interest, but if you do fall into one of those groups then don't let nerves or a lack of other attendance stop you.

If you're not religious but live in a Christian (or culturally Christian-influenced) area, you can maybe even take advantage of the fact that everyone is busy. My Jewish ex and her family have a tradition of going out for Chinese food on Christmas day. Everything else is closed anyway, and the Jewish and Chinese communities are the largest non-Christian groups in their area, so they'd go to each other's businesses for the day

And at the end of the day, if what you personally feel you need most is to ignore it and make it as normal a day as possible, that's totally fine.

Okay, let's see what would fulfil this...

If we make it a post-cyberpunk setting with Mad Max scavenging influence, we can have half-scrapped cyberpunk vehicles racing through derelict cities. The neon lights still work most of the time, being run by automated systems that don't realise that none of the products they are advertising are being made any more. The wastes outside the city are harsh, but at least something grows there and the corporate law enforcement drones don't leave the city centre often, so people only return to the old metropolis to rip things out of it.

Your base is producing fuel. It's your lifeline in the wasteland - everyone needs it, you're good at making it. There's a lot of fancy tech in the city that you can salvage to turn towards automating this process. It also means that you can always run your vehicle. The better the fuel you make, the faster your car and the more components you can buy from other people in the wastes. You can improve your workshop too, if you want to tilt towards DIY instead of trading for upgrades.

The process of raiding the city is a dangerous one. You're hugely outgunned by the drones, so you have to consider your routes and be evasive. Drive from cover to cover, employ a little rocket-boost to dodge to the sides or zip across an open area. If you don't make it out, well maybe you did on foot without your car or maybe you just play as the next fearless driver to take the last one's place - either way, you start over again at your base, and you can try to recover what you gathered from the wreckage of the last run.

This stretching the definition of "racing" a bit, and if this game existed I'd definitely want the option to go actually just race through the city too, but I think that's the best idea I have for welding them all together

Even one of the biggest releases of this year was a DLC to Elden Ring, which means the actual game is still a few years old

That number is for doing it anually for 65 years. It lists roughly 18 billion per year for the cost.

But besides that, I think you are greatly underestimating the cost of the diamonds. Synthetic ones are way cheaper than natural ones, yes, but there's a lot of room between "natural diamond expensive" and "actually cheap". Going by these prices https://www.diamondtech.com/products/categories/diamond_powder_price_list.html

It's $2.5 million per tonne. I assume you could get a cheaper price per weight if you're buying five million tonnes of anything, but it's still two orders of magnitude more expensive than you are guessing

On the one hand something like 80% of China's population is lactose intolerant, but on the other that certainly never stopped any lactose intolerant people I know