u/JimmyRecard

Hi all. I got super annoyed that there's no per-stage .ics syncable WRC event calendar, so I put this together:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ak-42/028c68c76e2f93775f20a7c0eebb8501/raw/wrc-calendar.ics

It is a standard syncable .ics calendar, with every RallyTV broadcast listed as a separate event (not as an all-day event). The data is based on the RallyTV broadcast schedule from the event's RallyTV page, combined with the official event itinerary published on the event's page on wrc.com. The "first car due" time in the description is the first car due time from the itinerary, expressed as relative to the event start time.
So, if the event starts at 13:00 and the event description says "first car due: + 5 minutes" this means that the broadcast event starts at 13:00 and the first car is supposed to start the stage at 13:05.

I used it with the Estonia event this weekend, and it worked well.

Disclaimers:

• I make no guarantees regarding data accuracy, or fitness for any particular purpose. This is a personal thing. I'm doing this for myself. If my interest in WRC fades, I may stop updating it. Use it while it is there.
  You're free to use it any way you want; if there is any original work of authorship in this, it is licensed under CC0.

• This is parsed and generated using an LLM system. If you have strong convictions about not using LLMs, you shouldn't use this.
  While this is based on RallyTV and wrc.com data, the possibility of LLM hallucinations cannot be excluded.

• The schedule doesn't provide event length. So, the event duration are pure guesses, and may be complete nonsense.

• My plan is to update the full schedule approx. 7 days before the event begins. The full broadcast schedule isn't available far in advance. Before then, you will see only placeholders.

Hi folks. I hope this is allowed.

I have an existing build:

Type	Item
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler	DeepCool AG400 CPU Cooler
Motherboard	Gigabyte B650M DS3H mATX AM5 Motherboard
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
Video Card	Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 16 GB Video Card
Case	Fractal Design Pop Silent Black Solid ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply	Seasonic Focus GM 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
Monitor	Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ1A 27.0" 2560 x 1440 170 Hz Monitor

I'm generally happy with it, but I have some financial leeway right now, and want to make sure I can ride out the RAM-pocalypse.
Could you please suggest one salient upgrade to strike the balance of cost vs experience upgrade?

I've been toying between upgrading the CPU to Ryzen 7 7800X3D and upgrading the GPU to 9060 XT 9070 XT. Leaning towards the CPU because FSR4 is coming to RDNA2, and 9060 XT 9070 XT would push my power supply limits.

I mainly play single-player narrative games. Most recently, 007 First Light, Clair Obscur Expedition 33. Looking forward to the new Tomb Raider.
A bit of multiplayer when friends bully me into it.
This PC is Linux only. No Nvidia please.

I'm looking for 1440p 60fps at 100% resolution render scale without upscaling as a minimum, 90+ with upscaling. I prefer higher and stabler framerates over resolution. I don't mind upscaling usually (not easily distracted by upscaling artefacts), but I still like native frames where I can get them. I don't care about raytracing.

I don't have a hard budget. That doesn't mean that I'm looking to throw away money, but it does mean that I'll pay for what makes sense. I'm based in Czech Republic, you can use German/Austrian/other EU prices.

Thank you very much for any comments or suggestions.

EDIT: Apologies, my brain had a BSOD. I meant 9070 XT, not 9060 XT.

Hi. Over the last few years, I've had couple instances of financial/contract conflicts with few different parties where I thought I was in the right, but I had to take the L because I couldn't bear the cost of litigation. This has happened to me primarily due to shady landlords, but I also had a conflict with my employer where they should have paid me out within their policy, but due to the HR person misclassifying me, they refused to do anything and wouldn't listen.
For me this is even more acute because I live in Czechia, and my Czech is simply not good enough to wrangle over contract language, and tools like Google Translate can only take me so far.

To try to avoid this, I'm considering buying legal protection insurance. There are plans here in Czechia that cover up to 200 000 EUR in litigation costs for an amount I don't consider to be unreasonable.
When I research online, I don't see much. There are some red flags in the policy such as the insurer determining that there's a meaningful chance of winning before agreeing to cover the costs, and the insurer fully covering only the pre-approved lawyers, and if I choose to go with a different lawyer, they would only be covering a statutory minimum.

I'm not sure what to think. My experiences with insurance in general have been either extremely positive or extremely negative, and it seems to me difficult to ascertain prior to making a claim which bucket this insurance type and insurer industry falls into.

Any thoughts and experiences, positive or negative, would be highly appreciated.

Hi. I play this game in a group of six and occasionally eight, and we like it, but we have a stranger problem.

No matter how much effort I put into shuffling fairly, and even letting players draw their own envelopes, some of our players are repeatedly Hitler and fascist to the point where they refuse to play. One person has been Hitler three times in a row on the same night, followed by a fascist, while another person has played with us probably north of ten games and never been Hitler, and been fascist only once.

The always-Hitler player has told me they will no longer play unless I let them opt out of being Hitler (they don't mind it occasionally, but they find it stressful being Hitler repeatedly). To me, straight letting somebody opt out of being Hitler breaks the game, so I negotiated them down to a maximum of one Hitler per night.

To enable them to play, I am thinking of adding a homebrew rule where anyone who has been Hitler at least once during the play session, or a fascist at least twice during the session, can, but is not required to, cancel the round as long as they do it anytime before the first law goes down.

Has anyone faced this problem before? Does anyone have a better homebrew rule to let players opt out of being Hitler more than once a session without breaking the game itself?