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14 Jun, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I was running a Katanas and Trenchcoats game once, where the EPIC final showdown scene at an English Country House was delayed because the (Swedish) player party found a pub in the nearest village, in game, that did Sunday roasts.
ME: Okay you arrive in the village. It looks like the modern English sleepy village. Twee buildings. A gastro pub doing roasts.
SWEDE 1: Roasts?
SWEDE 2: Are they good roasts?
ME:
SWEDE 3: We shouldn't fight without lunch
ME:
SWEDE 2: Agreed
SWEDE 1: We stop for a roast dinner.
I mean, you basically just have to go along with it at that point. 😆
I made them roll to see if there was a free table, obviously.
Worth noting that in Katanas and Trenchcoats, the rule is that if someone rolls a nat 20 "something explodes".

Which would have made for an interesting Sunday lunch.

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14 Jun
That second Czech goal was what used to happen in FIFA 95 when you forgot you had goalkeepers set to manual.
Scotland: the only team you can deliberately score against by using the A button.
Right. Have whatsapped Steve Clarke. Told him to sit down and let me take this one. FIFA 95 was my e-Sports peak.

I've told him: get the players to shoot on the diagonal from the corner of the box. The Czech keeper won't have the right animations to be able to save it.
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Nature requires Scotland to be frustrating. Nature requires England to be disappointing.

These are absolutes.

Wales and NI get to pick which option they feel like at any given tournament.
Required half time listening.
And of course, required listening at half time in any England game:

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Brewdog delivering an absolute masterclass in how NOT to respond to accusations of a horrible workplace culture today.
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I learnt with startups and small-to-medium enterprises (tech or otherwise) a long time ago that if the founder is a bit of a dick, the workplace culture will be poisonous or exploitative.

Culture comes from the top.
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Simply that, when push comes to shove, their voices will always be overridden by the default dickishness from the top.
Productive narcissism is a very effective way of getting a new business off the ground, or turning round a critically failing one.

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It doesn't scale.
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Been doing voiceovers for @BattleguideVT again. This one was a particular gut punch to voice, knowing what happened next.

Final letter from Private Percy Huggins (aged 23) to his mother from the Western Front. Written December, 1914.

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Huggins was born a Hertfordshire lad (like me), in his case from Ware.

He was killed, on sentry duty, by a German sniper on Christmas Day 1914.

His mum, Agnes, kept the letter. The family still had it when @DanHillHistory was researching the Herts Regiment many years later.
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The only time a portrait of the queen is relevant is if we're talking about Dicky Attenborough throwing a whiskey glass at one then hating himself for it, in Guns at Batasi (1964).

A film about how the myth of Empire is poisonous to all it touches. Here:

It's a stonkingly good scene (thanks to Dicky) in an otherwise above average and quite heavy handed film.

He really captures the dissolution of a career army man discovering that everything he was taught to believe in was a convenient lie.

The original "are we the bad guys?"
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Bellisario's head canon when creating the character was that Sergeant Major Jonathan Higgins was Dicky Attenborough's character, after leaving the army.

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