u/wise_freelancer

As a Brit (born in England) I think this view doesn’t hold up to much close scrutiny if you compare English/British history with for example France, and quite possibly Spain or parts of Scandinavia.

France obviously has effectively a complete occupation by the Nazis partway through WWII, and more obvious external pressure on its governing arrangements throughout the 19th century. But there is a clear continuity of the concept of France and the French people going back as long as there has been an England, and it seems equally durable.

The interesting question is whether British/English conception of that national identity has a different character, and I’m inclined to say it does. England/Britain is an institutional identity, reinforced by the (semi-illusionary) continuity of the monarchy and parliament. Whereas France has a conception rooted more in the land and its people than the institutions that govern it. So the revolution is framed as a rupture, whereas the civil war in England is not.

This is exemplified by Churchill’s proposal to merge the UK and France during the invasion of France. To him it made sense, as while ever the institution of France exists France cannot fall. The French couldn’t conceive it that way as what mattered was the land, and when that fell, France was meaningfully gone.

This is a waaay more common experience than you might think and a definite thing in top maths departments.

Lots of students enjoy the problem solving and are good at a level maths. Uni maths (at least for the top unis) is really quite different and becomes very abstract very quickly, with less emphasis on the bit you and many others enjoyed.

So perhaps don’t think of this as a failure, but more discovering maths isn’t what you expected and not a good fit.

Transferring to a degree with more applied maths like Econ or Comp Sci often works out for students if they can.

Unis have to treat apps until Jan the same. That doesn’t mean they have to wait - admissions is predictable up to a point, they know what type of applications will fairly receive offers, so they can make those offers early.

The most competitive stuff is less predictable so do tend to go slower or wait, as you expect.

A lot of high fantasy series have a slightly weird ‘off’ book to start, which while usually good in their own terms don’t really fit the tone and style of the series in retrospect.

Wot kind of has three - book 4 really marks a shift into a much broader multi-character political fantasy epic, and 4-6 are really beloved by fans. If you’ve got through 3, I’d at least give 4 a go!

Unis really, really don’t prioritise early apps. You are not missing out by having to do extra hurdles. 90% of apps haven’t even applied yet anyway.

Those enemies at the festival are disguised watch knights, in fairness.

Your going to be disappointed…

It’s not just that scene. The opening is the misdirection to give you a plausible explanation other than the son.

But the son’s own scenes are all foreshadowing too. Leaned to throw instantly, meaningful talk with man hunter grandma. He has plot relevance and we certainly haven’t seen that yet.

He’s the miracle.

No, my point is not how does your ‘guardian’ know. If your theory is correct that can be explained I’m sure.

My point is if your ‘guardian’ is fake, how do the real guardians not know? There’s no way they (or Hal) wouldn’t know. So why would they allow it?

I ment set him up as in set him up in training, not in a double-cross way. Poor language choice.

If the guardians planned John then she must be a guardian or how did she get involved without them knowing.

If the guardians didn’t plan John then how did Hal not know that from talking with the real guardians.

Her not being a guardian just doesn’t fit.

But it doesn’t work.

If the real guardians know about John and set him up, how does the supposedly fake guardian end up being the one John interacts with? How is she interposing herself between John and the real guardians without them knowing.

She must be a guardian. Whether there’s more going on with the guardians remains to be seen and probably will turn out to be the case. But this theory looks weak ran.

I genuinely cannot grasp the overriding sentiment here being "no".

I too want this really badly, as I get very attached to characters and then have a hard time with decision paralysis on starting something new.

There is absolutely no reason not to give people this OPTION. If you don't like it, don't use it.

And the lore/headcanon explanations are mad - we're going to be bear people wielding primeval magic while watched by alien (human) gods. I think learning to be more rangery is hardly a stretch for a warrior in such a world.

FFXIV is exceptionally un-alt friendly, and I hope GW3 is nothing like it in that respect. But for those of us wanting one character, let us switch things up from time to time.

Oh, and all the magic is coming from skills this time it seems, so its a no-brainer that we should be able to pick up different signets and gain new professions.

You'd get nowhere in court without going to the OIA. The Uni would argue (rightly) that you did not exhaust the available non-legal routes to remedy and a court would say the issue was not ready for them to deal with.

There is no circumstances under which you will not repeat the exam at the scheduled time next year. Because there's no circumstances in which the uni could reasonably offer you said exam. What do you want? Them to produce a complete bespoke assessment just for you? Even if they did, they wouldn't have a cohort to moderate it against, which could be a worse position for you.

Getting financial compensation might be possible, particularly through the OIA. But trying to circumvent it will just make it easy for the uni to ignore you.

I was at first but I think there greater moral story isn’t is the badmiral wrong but is Kirk right? He goes to extreme lengths to prevent a massacre, using all his cunning to do so. Yes, he gets a family motivation but when I watched I saw an admiral motivated by his family’s death and a Kirk determined to save potentially innocent lives. It could have been personal for both of them, but I really don’t think it was.

As a character study of Kirk I found that very compelling.

I really hope they add rogue/assassin/thief in some form to the OG six.

It’s a core fantasy archetype and seems ready-made for the momentum focus. Less momentum into raw power of a warrior, more swift cutting style and ace positioning.

I doubt GW2’s thief focus on stolen skills makes it though, doesn’t feel like it would fit with what we’ve heard all that well.

I don’t know about wow (played very little and never at cap) but having played quite a lot of ffxiv, eso, gw2, swtor, lotro and a bit of most other mmos, meaningful play with more than 25ish players is suuuuper rare in most MMOs.

If GW2 didn’t exist they wouldn’t even be answering these questions yet - it’s just ANet needing to define where GW3 sits between the polar opposites of its predecessors.

As a long-time MMO player I am hyped. But more importantly, I recognise this might be the only way, and one of the last great chances, to revitalise MMOs by bringing in a meaningfully younger base.

And if they get to enjoy the wonder of MMOs on their own gameplay terms like tab-target veterans, I say good for them (and me, because I am hyped)

Wow I'm kind of surprised to hear of such a fail.

I logged in to Dragon's End the other night real late to try and nab a Jade Maw event for the necro collection. To my surprise there was a meta in progress with like 12 active players. I needed that too so thought "why not?", worst case is waste 10 mins on a failed pre-meta.

We did get some more people by the end but it was hardly full or at all organised. Still cleared it pretty smoothly. Such a fun surprise, given I had no expectation we would do it. That kind of experience also makes people less salty in general I think.

They consume oxygen at night when they aren’t photosynthesising. But the net effect is oxygen release

Find out if your unis student support team or students union offer help with SFE applications. That will hopefully make it less stressful for you, but also they can help make sure the uni understands you will be getting the loan but perhaps late. So you don’t get hounded to pay directly in the meantime.

You will not be the only one going through this - there a people who decided to go to uni and first applied last week. This will be fixable.

I have played a lot of mmos, gw2 more than most admittedly. It feels way more populated than any of the others by virtue of all the things people have said here.

There’s also basically no dead content. Even the outdated dungeons from launch get run, especially during rush events that happen periodically.

If population is your concern, don’t worry about it!

On that we can definitely agree!

Fair. But counterpoint - we’ve left a detectable footprint after that short 250 years, so even a relatively brief industrialised civilisation might be detectable. To not have that requires something exceptionally brief.

Now if we’re talking about intelligent species that don’t teach industrialisation, I agree the evidence we do have suggests it would be foolish to assume there were none before the Homo species we know of.

Sure, I guess. But it would have to have died in a minuscule window. Within a century of its beginning industrialisation had spread to other parts of Europe. The cataclysm would also have to have been global - if Britain vanished in 1790 industrialisation would be delayed, but I don’t think any serious historian would argue it wouldn’t have arisen elsewhere later (and not much later - the seeds of it are global, Britain just had the contingent circumstances for it to develop there first).

So is it possible? Of course. But the probability that such a civilisation existed and was then wiped out in a what, 100 year window? On geological timescales that seems vanishing small and it’s vastly more likely no such civilisation existed at all.

Crudely in these three cases, you are more likely to be satisfied with your experience and more likely to be employed at the end than at most Russell group unis. Which are not the worst reasons to pick a uni, if we’re honest.

Plus they likely all have higher entry standards (= better classmates?) than Sheffield and certainly Exeter.

Bath, Lancaster, Warwick and Loughborough are all roughly the same age I think

If such a thing is possible. Industrialisation didn’t happen in a small vacuum for us. Maybe it could but that’s not a template we’ve seen. They’d have to be individually far smarter than us to achieve that in likelihood.

So four are huge then :-)