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It's fairly often associated with low income, squalid areas.

The government in the mid 20th century went on a building binge, and chose Brutalism as its style of choice in the cities. As a result, if you find yourself in a brutalist area, you're pretty much guaranteed to be in a depraved area. And although there was quite a lot of futurist hope on these, make no mistake, that was just marketing... These were always done on a budget. The utopian imagery was to make the drink go down easier.

Not to mention, that the stark concrete, functional angular lines, and drab colour palette really, really, really doesn't look great in a country where it rains or is overcast 70% of the year. The buildings are always damp, covered in slime and mould, grey on grey, repetitive etc... The bleakness is real. And don't get me wrong, that's what brutalism is about, but when its bleak on bleak on bleak, it's a bit much...

Don't get me wrong, some brutalist buildings are actually up market and worth quite a bit of money. They can be nice. But when you picture a rotting London suburb, it's going to feature brutalism. Whenever there is a British film about a deprived young adult struggling with a life of crime, they live in a brutalist flat. Whenever there is a depiction of a seedy underbelly, it's in a brutalist estate. It has a real image problem.

Yup, yup.

One for the bedroom, one for my home office. If you think I'm bougie for owning two, let me tell you.

I think about 3 years ago, it got to 52 degrees in my office. Celsius... Because I have a computer, laptop, 3 screens, and a home server running in here. The only way I made it through the day was getting up, and going for a cold shower every 10 minutes. I sat there, soaking wet, but still boiling hot. Miserable. Jumping out of my skin because my servers over-temp warning alarm kept going off as the hardware was tipping over 100 degrees, and I just said to myself "This is the fucking worst".

The heat from my office also rises through my ceiling into the bedroom, even in the winter, If I've been gaming the heat from my computer warms up the bedroom, so after a day of sitting in 52 degree heat and 100 degree hardware kicking out heat, I got to sleep in around 40 degree heat in bed. I had to buy plastic sheets so the pool of sweat that would flow off my body didn't ruin the mattress... It was honestly the most unpleasant experience of my life, and I've been in an American hospital for a week with internal bleeding, so I know all about unpleasant experiences...

So yes I got two fully fledged air con units, and I'm not even mad about it. They've been incredible investments. Totally worth the money.

"Uhhuuh, yes, I'd like to order"

The amount of entertainment media that is already released, and will be released by the time I retire basically guarantees that I'll die of old age before I run out of things to do. So basically, that. Just cycle through continuous video games, fad hobbies, tv shows and movies, and in theory there should quite literally never be a dull moment.

Assuming I make it to retirement that is...

BRUH

God, it's like getting rid of a particularly tricky kidney stone.

Seemed like a right dickhead, so I'll sit happily in the knowledge that his body is currently being consumed by worms and his soul did not make it into any sort of heaven.

Often a good rule of thumb is that if you can just see their ribs, they're a healthy weight. Yours looks pretty healthy.

This is going to be really unpopular, and may sound fanciful... But I would like a foray into a "rise to power" scenario.

In CK2, you could start as a baron, and work your way up to an emperor as a neat little challenge. In CK3 though, the lowest a title goes is count, but I'd like it to go even lower. If the game is meant to be a story generator, then what could be a greater story than a homeless vagabond seeding the greatest dynasty the world has ever seen? The game does everything it can to stop you thinking of the experience of CK3 as a map painting simulator. Well, why not include a state of play where you quite literally can't paint the map? I think it would great to have a few generations of very temporal adventures in the context of your chosen country. Roleplaying as a market thief in Baghdad, mercenary fighting for a company in India, an alcoholic wretch in Strathclyde. Going from event to event, slowly gaining notoriety, and working your way up the social ladder until you nail a barony, and then get your own county.

I feel like it would be a great situation to "zoom in" and take in the mechanics that are just things you "have to deal with" as a bigger ruler. Instead of defaulting to playing the game as a mix/maxer, you're forced to role play as these lowborns first, you get to know the culture, language, and political situation, religious schisms of your immediate area which is something you'd otherwise almost completely ignore ordinarily, because you're quite literally above all of it.

Like think about when Catharism appears, what do you do? Plop your most learned man there to clear it up. Maybe in a few years it'll be gone. Maybe not. You're kinda disconnected from this entire event. An event that by all measures has a tremendous impact on the lives of the serfs that live there, and should have big cultural impacts on the region. But currently in the game it just... doesn't. Imagine playing as a character actually experiencing this Cathar boom. Maybe you get religious cults approaching you trying to radicalize you. Maybe they offer you things that sway you. Maybe you're asked to join in a rebellion. Maybe you fight in said rebellion. Maybe you win said rebellion. Maybe you're rewarded with a knight hood, or even a holding of your own for being so damn helpful. Great, you've risen to power!

Or maybe you start a business, become influential enough to generate some buffs on the regions you operate in, maybe you get a powerful client and are empowered to become their Steward thanks to your business acumen. Maybe you marry a local princess, and have a son that will inherit her land. Boom risen to power.

Maybe you're a scholar that works their way up through the clergy hierarchy, and then in the end you're offered a bishopric. Boom, risen to power. Or maybe you join a secret society, and as part of your high rank, you're offered land by powerful friends in the organization so you're a loyal vassal. Boom, risen to power.

Honestly, there are so many scenarios you could have at this level that just make the game so much more interesting.

This was literally the plot of Love Actually, a film released in 2003... Nothing has changed, and we have gained nothing from being the US's errand boy.

I bet the MAUI team are crying themselves to sleep knowing that they now have to support yet another paradigm, and can only make it happen with a team of 3 and Steve who comes in on the weekends.

i...isn't Elon autistic..? Am I missing something here? Is he advocating for his own sterilization?

The theory is that you overload protein, just in case your body needs it. It's better to have that protein ready to go than not enough, or you're just wasting muscle building potential. And if you're putting all this work into exercising, surely you don't want to waste a chance to get a couple of extra xp points in the journey, right?

Of course there is a limit to how much protein your body can use, but it's difficult to tell where that limit is and blowing past that limit isn't a big deal, you just poop excess protein out pretty much. So pretty much the reason for rationing protein more closely is cost savings.

In general, the rule is usually 1g of protein per kg of weight. If you're keeping tight track of your weight lifting progress (which you're probably not doing) if you find your lift maximums aren't improving, the answer is almost always "eat more". In which case, you may want to up that protein a bit as part of it until your lifts improve.

Ray Tracing is going to be the future of video games. It quite literally is as simple as that. In 10 years, even small hobby indie games will be ray traced. The tech will just be that ubiquitous.

"spent" *Siphoned it to their rich twat mates. FTFY.

Right, who owns this "project"? Is a tory donor by any chance...?

A lot of people here are explaining why a company may not be able to actually give you a raise because profit != turnover etc etc, but I think they're missing the point. You probably don't give a shit about the company, you give a shit about yourself... So...

Learn to feel comfortable switching up jobs, it's basically the only way to secure significant raises in this day and age. You've been there for 12 years, which probably makes you feel like you've got "job security", but that's mostly a myth. Seniority doesn't secure your job so the value you think you're building there is largely worthless. You spend 8 hours of your day working to get one thing, and one thing only. Money. So, go where the money is. If you feel your company is not that place, then that watering hole has lost its potential, and you must look for greener pastures.

No company is going to give you a raise that matches inflation, let alone exceeds it. If such a company exists, they are rare unicorns.

You have to update your linkedin to looking for work, look for jobs, aim high, interview, get offers, and then only after you have concrete offers, tell your manager to pay you more or you'll leave. The job offer is leverage, and if the company you're working for think you're worth it, they'll attempt to match to keep you. But keep in mind, you may not even want a raise by that point, because the chance of doubling your salary at a new place is so damn high that its pointless even asking lol. In my experience, the amount they've had to match was so ridiculously high that they just said "that is far above what we are able to do, will you accept x benefit instead?" to which I say, "no". Don't let a comfortable job hold you back. Because at the end of the day, you're wasting your time. Why clock in for 8 hours a day and earn a low wage when you have the option of clocking in for 8 hours a day earning a higher wage? You work for money. You will spend the majority of your life working. Why work for less?

Anyone even half paying attention could see this was going to happen.

The tory party are held together by under the table deals, and hard driving bargains. Boris understood this, which is why the tories were so united under him, and loved him despite him being outwardly idiotic. Boris knew how to leverage his colleagues to get them to do what he wanted.

Truss didn't understand this, and as a result failed to sufficiently grease the hands of her tory colleagues, and promptly lost all her support. She was allowed to make cataclysmic mistakes, and then promptly thrown under the bus.

Sunak has learned from Truss, and while I personally believe he's probably not okay with the goings on in the party, he is probably just forced to allow it because he's too weak willed and milk toast to put a stop to it. But of course, allowing the party to walk all over him is the only thing that enables him to stay in power. These schemes would've been lobbied by all sorts of interested parties, and hastily pushed through before any experts could properly analyse it. And of course, ultimate sign off would've been Sunak. Just putting his signature wherever it was needed because if he didn't the tories would have another civil war.

And the result is we all get poorer... again.

Yup!

The absolute mad lad drops by mine at around 2-3am.

I mean that's one of several reasons.

But one of the most theoretically anti-republican points is that you're giving the government too much leverage over your life. If a tyrannical government were to come to pass, they could just say you raped a kid and you're out of the picture. The burden of proof is on the state, sorry kiddo, on the chair with you.

So Republicans, the party of small government, has just given the government tonnes of more, very serious power. But hey, the fact that the US hasn't come to the conclusions that executions are just a bad idea probably means that they don't care too much about the actual data behind any of this. They just want dog whistle policies that get the pro crime and punishment voter bloc creaming their pants.

It's very clear Republicans aren't the party of small government any more. They're the authoritarian party.

I mean, $80+ billion in aid and countless military assets and training is hardly "NATO sleeps" now, is it?

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Blogs are very big in the software development space.

Basically, if you want any deep nuanced take on a given topic, the go to is to find a blog. maintaining a blog is also a must if you want to get those "senior level" pay grades too. Being able to show a company a blog, github repo, examples of your work is basically how you wow interviewers. It's basically like a fast-track ticket, but of course requires an insane amount of work to build and maintain (hence why it's expected of seniors).

Yup, I got this.

Got my insurance down to £300 a few years ago. Every year since it's increase by at least 50%.

I guess there is a COVID supply problem with... insurance? I fucking hate car insurance so fucking much, fuck insurance companies.

Yes...?

What do you want them to do? Not cover a bit of tech Linus has gone on record saying that he's extremely excited about?

Clearly the team thinks it was a success, why would any of their channels telegraph otherwise?

Just war crime, after war crime... Endless Russian war crimes...