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Is Hakeswill one of the best villains ever?

Started reading the series again, and at this point the mere mention of Hakeswills name gets my back up. He’s such a great shit. Always completely self serving, always doing horrific things to other people for his own gain, then completely getting away with it by sucking up to some officer who he has onside because he mailed their hated wife some anthrax then killed another English soldier in battle to pimp their wife out to him. Even in the TV series Pete Poselthwaite does a great job of being a shit.

Just wondered if everyone else shared my view.

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u/StonLenslow — 7 days ago

Looking to upgrade my GPU, what are my options in the £400-600 range?

Sup fellaz, I’m looking to upgrade my RX7600XT as it struggles a little with newer games, and I’m considering making the shift to 4K. I don’t really know a whole lot about what’s good on the (nice and inflated) market currently. I’m looking in the £400-£600 price range.

My current specs are

  • Ryzen 7 7700x cpu
  • 32GB ddr5
  • 2tb SSD
  • coolermaster 850w psu
  • rx7600 xt gpu
  • MSI b650 motherboard

I’ve got my eye on a rx7090 that’s about £500. Is this a good purchase do you think, or should I be looking elsewhere? Also, will I need to upgrade my PSU, as the 7090 appears to draw about twice the power of the 7600xt.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

EDIT: the overwhelming concensus is the 9070xt, so I think I’m gonna drop some dosh on that bad boy. Thanks for all your help!

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u/StonLenslow — 12 days ago

Does my Aloe have root rot?

Might be a silly question I know but I have absolutely no idea what constitutes a healthy aloe vera root, and google images is fairly inconclusive.

The plant has been slowly turning purple and curling up for a while now. I have watered it once in the last 2 months.

I’ve done my best to wash all the soil off the roots, but I can’t wash much more off without damaging them.

Could you kind people please assist me in identifying and treating? I’d be v grateful as have come oddly attached to it despite it doing its best to die the whole time I’ve had it.

Thanks!

u/StonLenslow — 14 days ago

Do throwing axes count as 1H or not?

I was hoping they do to get the slayer atk speed buff. Found an older post that said they don’t count, and thought ah well then. But also accidentally found a more recent post that said it had been changed now, but not what it had been changed to.

Are they 1H, 2H, or nothing at all? Pls do inform me. Thanks in advance.

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u/StonLenslow — 1 month ago

What’s your most fun class/build?

I don’t necessarily mean best, but just your silliest go-to character when you want to fuck up some rats.

For me slayer with 2 1h weapons (dual axes and 1h axe) for the atk speed buff.

You’ll take a million damage as you throw yourself into hordes and patrols, but it doesn’t matter because you have 1% perm HP and 99% temp HP.

Just curious what everyone else goes for.

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u/StonLenslow — 1 month ago

An ode to the crispy dwarf hammer sound FX

Don’t really have much point to this, just think it’s really satisfying to hear your cog hammer bonk rats on the head. I assume the WP/zealot hammer sounds are the same, but I’ve never actually tried them.

A little avant garde poem to accompany:

What’s that sound, I hear from the rafters?

Bonk

Why is that short not tall man shrieking with laughter?

Bonk

What left this pile of rat flesh behind?

Bonk

The sound of a hammer with regal design.

Bonk

Anyone who does so, I believe is a scammer

Bonk

He who chooses a sword, instead of the hammer

charged bonk

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u/StonLenslow — 1 month ago

Is Bardins Minigun seen as cheese?

Been maining outcast engineer recently. On a standard champ Chaos Wastes run I often end up with 500-700 ranged kills, most of which come from mowing down skaven hordes with the minigun.

I’m kinda curious whether other teammates see me using it and sigh internally, knowing that I’m gonna steal a lot of their kills. I just love going brr and watching 30 rats die in 3 seconds.

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u/StonLenslow — 1 month ago

A pleasant reminder that it’s a team game so try not to run ahead by yourself…

Pretty much what the title says really. Also pls try not to rage quit when you get assassined and no one’s around to help you because you’re 4 miles ahead.

I love it when you find a good team minded team. Team team team team team, I just like saying it. You probably think this is a picture of my family. No! It’s the A-Team.

This isn’t based on personal experience or anything…

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u/StonLenslow — 1 month ago

Please help me with my Aloe Vera. I cannot seem to make it live.

My partner bought me this last year. I planted it in cactus/succulent soil. I repotted it a couple months later into this pot. It has grown a fair way since then, and even sprouted a new shoot, but over the last few months it’s just been steadily dying as far as I can tell. In the last couple weeks the leaves have lost a lot of the gel and started to curl up. I assumed it was dehydrated so gave it a good watering and it’s done nothing.

I’ve tried watering it once a month, I’ve tried not watering it as long as I can take. The window it’s in gets light all day but no direct sunlight, the other window I’ve tried that gets some sunlight also didn’t help. I desperately want to keep this plant alive and healthy so could someone please tell me where I’m going wrong?

u/StonLenslow — 1 month ago
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Update on the pile of babies I posted yesterday

This made me a very happy man

u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago
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Just me chatting up some cute birds

Not sure why I wasn’t savaged by the parents for getting so close, but boy did I enjoy seeing a pile of goslings

u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago

Anyone else have trouble making it all the way through Chaos Wastes without disconnecting?

I’m just curious whether it’s my (admittedly shitty) internet connection, game bugs or I just get unlucky with hosts departing. I reckon in probably 3 out of every 5 CW matches, I lose connection to the host, or the game attempts to migrate hosts (it’s worked once ever for me). Once it happened halfway through me collecting the scroll at the end of the run and none of the scores counted.

I wouldn’t mind half as much if the game kept track of the scores etc, similar to how it tots up whatever points/coins etc you had when you lost. As it stands a good 50% of my CW runs end with me getting nothing because I disconnected one way or another.

If it’s because my internet is poor (15 mbp/s is a good day for me) then fair enough, it’s on me. Just wondered if anyone else has the same experience.

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u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago

Was just playing a chaos wastes match, on Pit of Reflections.

Was at the tail of my team. We round a corner, there’s no floor up ahead. My team goes on and walks along the invisible floor.

“Aha” said I, “this must be some Tzeench trickery, one of those ‘invisible floor’ things you see in games”.

I walk forward on the patch my teammates ran over.

I fall to my death.

The map hasn’t loaded in properly.

I am currently questioning how I’ve made it this far in life.

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u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago

Vermintide 2.

Been playing Bounty Hunter for a while now and fancied being a bit more frontline-y. Is there anything I should be looking to do other than crowd control and bonque? Having no ranged makes a fun difference, but somehow the F special feels quite underwhelming compared to the BH shot.

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u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago

Sup fellaz,

Started my first Dechala campaign yesterday (SFO, but I don’t think it makes too much difference to the campaign map), and I’m just not entirely sure how I should be going about it. I figure you want as many thrall camps as possible to build up thralls, but I don’t know if that’s correct or not.

Can someone give me a basic rundown of her currencies and why/what they do? Currently have her full starting province and am planning to work my way north to secure the eastern edge of the map. I’ve seen plenty of times she’s a beast in combat, but haven’t levelled her up much yet. Should I be getting more marauder armies to make use of the upkeep reduction?

Just want some tips ‘n’ tricks really. Let me have it.

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u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago

Just kind of a lil poll really. Personally when I see people spamming 1 1 1 1 1

In chat, I automatically vote for 2 just to spite them.

Was just curious if others did the same or not.

OR

Are the spammers geniuses who want map 2 but know they can make contrary fools like me vote for it by annoying me into not voting for 1??

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u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago
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Look at the cool squizzer! My partner sent me this this morning and it brings me great joy to watch.

u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago

Pretty Ronseal title really. I love the Leith books, all 3 of them. Dead men’s trousers? Never heard of it.

I rank them as

  1. Trainspotting
  2. Porno
  3. Skagboys (bit meandering at times but still good.

What do people think of Porno? Personally I think it’s great. Although I’ve never quite known what Welsh is on about when he mentions Nikki “crossing her arms in a shagging gesture”.

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u/StonLenslow — 2 months ago