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  • I have picked up HEMA historical European martial arts. It’s sword fighting. It’s super fun. Everyone at my club is a massive nerd as you might expect. It’s good exercise and genuinely fun. The down side is the kit is pretty expensive. At my club we have a newby joining session with a discounted attendance period which builds to a safety test before you really need to get safety kit which gives people a chance to try it before they spend hundreds on jackets and masks (and swords!).






  • My guess is detail and economy of scale. Airsoft guns commonly use the design of a really world gun either licensed or legally distanced so can be very close to reality in looks. Airsoft is also quite a popular hobby so many manufacturers are involved. You are also looking at an M4 variant which is the single most popular Airsoft gun in the world. There are literally hundreds of variants running from cheap manual springs to high pressure air tanks and costing thousands. Prop guns are more niche, they are detail orientated and don’t need to function the same way. Maybe they make a pop and eject a case from the side of the gun which is more complex to do mechanically than send a little plastic bb out the barrel. There are less people buying each type of prop gun though so it will cost comparably more per item even if it technically doesn’t do as much.




  • First off depression is a removed and will have made this whole thing harder on both of you. It sounds like you were moving forward and he felt like he was being left behind.

    Could you have done more? Maybe. I think people can pretty much always do more but doing more isn’t always the right thing to do.

    Generally relationships should have some give and take, not always equally split though that depends on the individuals. I’ve been in a position several times where I’m the only one making any effort to keep in touch with friends and it gets harder and harder to keep making the effort when you don’t get anything back. Eventually I stopped trying to maintain those friendships and now I just have them on social media and we never interact.

    People grow and change and sometimes, with distance especially, that can be enough to end a friendship.

    Try to remember the good times if nothing else.





  • We use the CAGE questions in the UK as a quick screening tool.

    Have you ever felt the need to Cut down on your alcohol intake? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking? Have you ever felt Guilty about drinking? Have you ever needed an Eye opener (drink first thing in the morning)?

    Yes to two or more indicates problem drinking and probably alcoholism.

    Other factors are drinking every day, drinking more than a few units in one go regularly, drinking to black out drunk, causing damage to yourself or others.



  • I loved Soma, so much existential angst.

    I love the big revelations and how they are done. It’s definitely a game which makes you think.

    I also love that they put in the no deaths mode so you can ignore the monsters which whilst cool I don’t think added much to the experience for me other than frustration trying to sneak past them.