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With some apologies to Grouse House I have been trying to think of ways to build a version of BotC, using only official characters, that would be upsetting to try to play^*.

In particular I've considered low/no information roles, roles that block information, roles that change roles, and roles that make it dangerous to do anything.

What I'm looking for is a perfectly valid script, on paper, but one that would make anyone who knows what's good & fun to recoil in horror at how terrible it is.

#####Townsfolk:

• Atheist
• [Alchemist](https://wiki.bloodontheclocktower.c

(I've marked this as a general question as this isn't Space Age specific)

I am trying to be lazy and automate the creation of requested items by using a Roboport, configured to "Read logistic network requests", connected to an Assembling machine (which outputs to a Storage or Passive provider chest), configured with both "Set recipe" and "Read ingredients", and a Requester chest, configured to "Set requests" and, for the most part, this works fine, which makes sense as it's all built in as part of the game.

Unfortunately I have found that when I request something that needs an ingredient that itself needs to be created, e.g. Uranium rounds magazine when there is no Firearm magazine or Pie

Several years ago (back in 2020, and s version 0.18.31) I played a 9 tile high "ribbon world" and took nearly 85 hours to launch a satellite.

I've just tried it under 1.1.110 and did it in 55 hours and 18 minutes. On the same seed, even. I am much happier at ripping out the things that aren't working and building back, better.

Obviously this is pathetically slow for people who are good at the game but damn it feels good to set a silly challenge and do well at it.

(And for the haters telling me to stop trying to make "ribbon world" a thing - you're probably right it'll not catch on

Dear Factorio Engineers,

You have successfully piloted your way through many worlds, building factories and launching rockets, and now you have been selected to see how viable existence would be on a "ribbon-world". Our scientists have selected one such planet, the co-ordinates are below, and this one has been chosen as it has no signs of alien life other than basic trees, and a good selection of resources near your landing site. We know there's no uranium on the planet but as you're not there to build a permanent habitat this shouldn't be an issue; your mission, should you choose to accept it, is simply to land and set about building enough of a base that you launch a satellite.

As soon a

I recently bought a two-up two-down with a very steep staircase that goes across the middle of the house. Because of the layout of the house there's no way to extend the stairs but, as it is, the stairs are quite awkward for me, and my very large feet, to use. I had hoped to get alternating stairs (aka "witches' stairs") but reading through the regulations it seems that's not possible.

Are there any options available to me?

TL;DR: Over the past 5 months I've lost 1/7 of my starting weight but I'm not seeing or feeling any changes.

= Background: =

I'm in my forties and I've always been fat. I've always been tall, and I've generally been fit enough that, whilst I wasn't going to win any races, I was able to play rugby and swim long distances. Through a combination of several terrible experiences all colliding at once throughout 2019 and 2020 my mental health took a nosedive and I ended up putting on even more weight and generally starting to struggle. When I left my job at the beginning of 2020 (which wasn't the wisest time to leave employment) I spent the best part of a year and a half doing nothing but sleepi

In November 2022 my new (less than 1 month old, less than 1000km ridden) motorcycle (Piaggio MP3 500) was vandalised in what appears to be a failed theft attempt overnight - the vehicle was chained and has a steering lock and handbrake.

I reported it to the police and my insurance company on the day after it had happened. There was nothing the police could do, other than give me a crime reference number.

My insurance company then took about a month to get one of their (outsourced) engineers out to assess the damage, who suggested to me in person it was possibly written off because of the damage. By the time the report came through the insurance company wanted it to go to a garage for a rep

And, honestly, I'm glad to see them!

I know some "proper bikers" look down on those who only venture out when it's fantastic weather, but those same sort look down on me because, even though I commute in Winter, what I ride isn't a real bike ^^(which ^^it ^^isn't, ^^it's ^^a ^^trike)

I was out yesterday evening and for the first time in a long time I got to see a load of motorcylists, and almost all of them shared a nod with me as we passed in opposite directions.

It's damned good to feel part of a community that shares very little, except that we get to travel without being in a cage.

So, whether you're just dusting off the gear, or have not stopped whilst it's been wet and windy weat

I have a huge stack of game boxes I don't use and, as I'm about to move, I am not sure what to do with them.

The excess boxes exist because:

1. They are a box for an expansion which has been incorporated into the main game.
2. They are a main game box which has been incorporated into an expansion box.
3. They are for a game that is much, much smaller than the original box and I've shrunk it down into a Really Useful Box to make it easier to transport (I ride a motorcycle so being able to take 10 games in a rucksack rather than 2 or 3 is quite nice).

I don't know if I should just put them out in recycling, cut them at their edges so they can lie flat, keep them as they are and just find a

This is my first time setting a cryptic so I wanted to make it easier to solve than to set so there's a few design choices to aid with that.

I've had help from archel_uk, jackhkeynes, go_and away_im_sleeping (who I know from various twitch crossword streamers and crossword discords) who have each helped tighten/re-write a clue each, so it should pass muster.

I'm incredibly happy with some of the clues, because they're delightfully fun, so I hope

You should head over to r/junimoji