Discussion Thread 🧭 Monday 16 March 2026
Submitted 4 weeks ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
One of us.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I have the front door open and I’m still sweating.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I’m on the couch under a throw rug.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I envy you
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I’m alternating between the oodie and a hoodie.
My Bermuda triangle of sweat (nose and upper lip) is very sweaty however lol
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
it’s sooo humid
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Stupid society. I feel like such a creep going next door and picking up the carton that got misdelivered. It’s MINE, I promise!!!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Tea leaf! ☝️
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
May as well make a show of it right? Tip toe over to it, furtive glances, the whole 9 yards lol
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Damn it, absolutely missed opportunity. Pretty sure the old guy across the way was watching.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I sent another care package to my friend. They have atypical pneumonia, I haven’t been able to see them and I’m a bit worried.
Sorting Melbcat’s stuff
I’ve returned Melbcat’s unused meds to the vet because someone else can use them. There was an entire box of medication in there that hadn’t been opened yet and the vet specifically asked for the return of the second bag of fluids if they didn’t get used. (There may be a shortage.) I’m still deciding whether to wash and donate the Aerokat. Still feeling absolutely shattered about losing her and am sleeping holding her urn at night the same way I used to hold her. It was so sudden which makes it really hard to accept. She was such a part of my life.
Black cat has returned
The black cat is back and was sulky about my disappearance. I caved and started patting him again so I’m back on the disinfection treadmill and fretting how to deal with it. Also finding dead birds which I hope was the heat spell and not him… one was a magpie and I hear a kookaburra I don’t want to get eaten. All of this would be so much easier if this cat didn’t have ringworm. There is one neighbour I might talk to about if anyone owns him. I did give the vet a found poster and am waiting on a cheapie chip scanner to see if he even has a microchip so it would be safer to take him to the vet. If he does have a chip and an owner I could possibly abduct him into the vet for their collection.
Life is so fucking hard. I’m desperately trying to fix something in my godforsaken life and unshittify my surroundings by a tiny amount but everything feels so painful and pointless.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
so many hugs
when things are easier thru all your hard work then I think you will enjoy life more , the pay off is in the future 😘
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I really hope so. Unfortunately I think when all the work is done I’ll just collapse into deep depression or incapacitated anxiety
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Worst movie ever watched?
For me: Rubber (2010), dir. Quentin Dupieux.
The premise: a rubber car tyre developed awareness and psychokinetic powers to kill people
The actual experience: Pretentious absurdist French shite.
Maybe some people like it, but I certainly did not. And yes, I will take any opportunity to shit on this film. I wasted 82 minutes of my life, twice, on this poop film
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Two that I can think of. Moulin Rouge. Didn’t get passed the first half hour. Don’t know what it’s about still to this day. And Mamma Mia. I did watch it all and then slapped myself.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Agree with you on Mama Mia. I think it was popular because of the abba songs, but take that away it’s a nothing much special.
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I liked Moulin Rouge but I watched it as a teen and had a massive crush on both Ewan, Nicole, and the guy that sings Roxanne 😂
Hard agree on Mamma Mia, and I love ABBA 😂
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Movie I have sat all the way through. Most bad movies I will stop watching.
Survive!
I saw this at the movies with my frenemy
it was so bad I laughed, she was really upset I laughed
true, the story was serious, but a serious story is different to a well made movie, which this was not
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
TIL about the Tarantino connection/reference. Awesome thank you.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Lol it has a rotten tomatoes rating of 8%
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Never heard of it but I clicked the link to see what made it serious. How bad must it have been if it ended up a comedy 😂
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I loved that movie lol.
I always read it as satire of a particular genre of film.
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I’m starting to think that perhaps the issue is me 😂😂😂
tone212_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Gotta be The Room, but what makes it so bad also makes it great.
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Oh my lord do I love watching The Room, it’s just so perfectly quotable!
“Anyway, how’s your sex life?” 😂 And that awkward scene where he fucks her dress? Or the sheets? So delightfully unhinged.
I actually read the book Greg wrote about how he met Tommy and how the movie got made, production etc, also delightfully unhinged. And the Disaster Artist movie was great too.
Can you tell I love The Room? 👀
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Autumn in New York - Richard Gere and Winona Ryder
Shlockfest about a younger woman falling in love with an older man, and then she gets sick (or is sick) and dies near the end of the movie.
Ended a relationship over that piece of shit.
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I haven’t seen that tbh, but the premise reminds me a little of City of Angels, with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage. That film makes me very, very angry
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I liked how dumb it was. Like at the start the guy lists a bunch of movies and includes JFK, then says ‘no one knows why those stories happened, they just did.’
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Omg you’ve seen it? I don’t think I’ve met another person who saw it too 😂 TBF that was pretty funny, I’ll give it that lol
SituationCake@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
It’s unfair that it’s effortless to make mess and takes 10 times as long to clean it up. Plus needs extra motivation.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
This is a perfect analogy of life
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Back to hospital :(
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
noo
sending effective healing vibes
the last lot doesn’t seem to have worked
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melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Complaining
I may have treated this ringworm inadequately and spread it to the sheets and my ankle. It could be irritation from the perfumed antifungal laundry rinse but with my immune system I’m not taking any chances. Treatment will recommence and endless hot wash and dry laundry continues. I don’t seem to be progressing at anything, my wrist hurts from slamming my hand into the wall, I spend every moment of every day feeling hollow and like I want to cry.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
before you do all that I think you should see a doctor about it, don’t take the chance
because it does not help to work so hard and have such anxiety when you can’t possibly be sure
and keep a pen and paper journal everyday but like a Japanese journal, write some positive observations, write about other people and things
and so many hugs 🫂
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I will but will probably just get it again unless I can sort the visiting cat. Which is not simple. But unfortunately I can’t bear to ignore
This time of my life is just really bad. I just want to go back to how it was.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I figured a good way to read books is to take them with me on the train, ( audible is only good for me when I listen to fiction ), but for that I need a bigger bag. Totoro bag has been taken out of retirement 🫠
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
good night
take care everyone, sweet dreams 😘
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Should put a wetsuit on or something, the air is basically all water now (I mean, molecularly it is, but it’s more now lol)
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
So icky!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Picked up Majora’s Mask again after the save game surgery and was up super late dealing with the esoteric puzzles of the temples again
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I’ve downloaded Diablo II and have started leveling a necromancer. I called him Old Mate.
I still have a soft spot for DIII because that was my first Diablo game and I got the box as a gift from a Xmas casual job I was doing (bauble painting at Knox City lol). We we’re right outside EB games, and my manager George bought it for me as my Xmas bonus. Fond memories ahhh
I’m loving DII, I’ve played before with my partner, but this is my solo run.
I’ve never played Majora’s Mask, or many Zelda games at all really. I did play the DS one that was a train? Spirit train? And Breath of the Wild.
Do you emulate it?
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I’m playing the recompiled version. People made a native PC version based on the Super Mario 64 source code leak from a few years back. It has improved framerate, widescreen support, and mods.
One great QOL improvement it comes with is your main masks and ocarina are mapped to the D-pad and you can skip the cutscene of putting the masks on. I think in the original they had to be part of your 3 item slots.
You can get it here, you still need a ROM file but they’re easily acquirable if you need one:
github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp/…/v1.2.2
There’s also recomp versions of Super Mario 64, Ocarina Of Time, Mariokart 64, and Banjo Kazooie that I know of. These recomp versions are the way to play these games now they exist.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Different game but also up super late playing cult of the lamb. 20 mins turns into 2 hours super easily.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
They’re like different types of getting hooked. Modern games make the gameplay loop so fluid you can just keep going. In old games you’re stuck looking for that one thing you need to do to get to progress the game
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Cult the lamb is on my list (when it’s on sale)
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
first
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Need to find cheaper SIMs for the three offspring. Currently on Optus through AussieBB at $25 / month each 😰 Loving AussieBB support but that’s expensive for kids’ phones. Anyone got any telco recommendations for / against for cheap mobile plans?
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Don’t do what I did: get a job, upgrade phone to a pixel, lose job, be stuck with $100 monthly bills for 3 years.
I have a few months left on my contract, and am honestly highly considering doing what my partner did and just getting a “dumb” phone. My only gripe is Nokia isn’t making dumb phones anymore, and my partner’s Telstra one is a shitty piece of plastic.
I’m sorry I don’t have any actual advice to give you lol
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m currently running a Pixel 4 with LineageOS; I’m hoping it lasts long enough to buy a Motorola with GrapheneOS.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
How long is a piece of string? I usually get 365 day plans with around 100gb of data for around $120. But I’m on wifi most places I go and tend to use about 20gb of mobile data annually.
kruetz@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Kogan Mobile. Goes on sale mid-year normally. I think I paid about 400 bucks for 42gb a month
bacon@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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Cheese & vegemite sanger please chef.
bacon@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
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Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Ooh some fisticuffs b/w tradies next door.
That’s exciting.
I going for the one in hi viz (nothing against tradies, just the yelling). They’re all very quiet now lol.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Did they take their shirts off? 😍
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
🤣🤣🤣