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- Comment on Anon watches youtube 3 days ago:
This is exactly the story behind Hot Ones and I disliked it from first view. Commenters like ‘OMG how does he get these guests. So glad he’s succeeding.’ Dude it’s literally a corporation.
Just a ‘late night show’ format for celebrities to sell their latest book/movie in gen Z format.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 weeks ago:
He hardly needs to try when he’ll be an irrevocable unmovable stain on the US ledgers of record and national reputation forever.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 weeks ago:
Deal if you send just half of him back.
Which half is dealers choice, and no need for a contiguous half. It can be half by volume.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 weeks ago:
The trade imbalance? With the US?
Take back your war on drugs, the war on terror, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, your insane tech broligarchy, rhe 2008 global financial crisis, your Evangelical hate brigades (actually you know what take back Mormons and Scientologists and 7th day adventists while youre at it), the GLOBAL trade disasters & inflation caused by Trump and his pissy tarrif wars, the global derailing of climate agreements again by Trump and his idiot Republican allies.
I’ll stop now because I could literally type all day the shit coming out of the US that has been causing immense damage to the rest of us.
What’s Australia’s shit?
Murdoch? He gave up Aussie citizenship and moved to the US in 1985, he’s spent the majority of his working career as an American living in America - we can at best take half ownership of him.
This handful of censorship wowsers taking down some rapey video games?
Mel Gibson?Enlighten me because I think the numbers of your “trade imbalance” don’t even come close to adding up.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 weeks ago:
He is from Australia originally, but he’s been a US naturalised citizen and lived there full-time since 1985, he gave up Australian citizenship 40 years ago.
No backsies.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 3 weeks ago:
If they wanted any games banned all they had to do was talk to the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) in Australia, where they’re based. Any of the games listed would have likely been added to the ‘Refused Classification’ list and thereby banned from sale and import in Australia. If they wanted them pulled from Steam or Itch entirely they could have talked to those platforms.
But they didn’t want to raise objections through appropriate preexisting channels, they wanted to push their Christian-based ideology on the whole world by going Karen on the social media of all the payment processors.
- Comment on Sabine Hossenfelder Has Started Openly Defending Proven Grifters 3 weeks ago:
I watch a fair bit of YouTube and definitely some scientific video content is consumed and always in my feed… Who is this person? Never heard of her.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 weeks ago:
I think that they meant to write something like:
I don’t think adultary means “sex while unmarried” I think it means “sex outside of your marriage”. Big difference.
- Comment on Documents contradict government's claims over $900m deal with Israeli weapons company 4 weeks ago:
‘Parliamentary Privelege’ mate, they lie often and it’s perfectly legal. Politicians can technically raise a complaint of ‘contempt of privelege’ if a lie is serious and caused “an improper interference with the free exercise by a House or a committee of its authority or functions, or with the free performance by a member of their duties as a member.” As some may argue this lie did. In our history it has happened exactly zero times (meaning, it’s toothless).
aph.gov.au/…/infosheet_5_-_parliamentary_privileg…
Making it illegal sounds great to me though, I don’t believe any reasonable person would say that you should be able to lie in order to “debate matters of importance freely” which is the current line of horseshit we are expected to believe. If we start asking loudly for it now - we might get a watered-down version in about 20 years give or take, if the federal ICAC is anything to go by.
More eloquent info: …com.au/…/should-lying-in-parliament-be-a-crime/
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 4 weeks ago:
That’s even less consumer friendly. If you purchase a game and it turns out to be shovelware that barely works and has a bunch of gamed reviews on the store page? Oh too bad sap, you got conned this is non-refundable.
Consumers had to fight for games that do refundable, I don’t think we should be quick to consider loopholes.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 4 weeks ago:
Halo 3 was peak.
I know some don’t like it because of some choices they creative team made that weren’t exact to the lore of the games, but I’ve been enjoying the Halo TV series. Had some moments that reminded me of the campaign and game series highlights. I’d say it’s worth a watch if you’re a fan - don’t be put off by the initial backlash.
- Comment on REVEALED: AUSTRALIA HAS EXPORTED F-35 FIGHTER JET PARTS DIRECTLY TO ISRAEL - Declassified Australia 5 weeks ago:
We have jet parts.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 5 weeks ago:
She’d be a zombie so you should care, as your next trip would be to the pharmacy to get some antiseptic creams.
- Comment on Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales 5 weeks ago:
Legislation sounds very positive for the environment. The article does say that shooting ranges are exempt as they have lead/bullet recovery systems in place and this legislation is more about protecting waterways and forests from being (further) polluted with lead shot. Military and police are excluded probably for the same reason as almost all their shooting is on-range.
The article doesn’t mention and I was hoping someone knows - what’s the common alternative metals used for rifle rounds and shotgun shells? Steel balls for shotguns?
Does it make a big difference to shooting/ballistics, as the alternatives would be less-dense than lead?
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 1 month ago:
I came looking for the meme pic, stayed for the story.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 month ago:
Didn’t confuse them with anyone, they put out a quarterly report as all publicly-traded companies do, and they’re on track to do over $2 billion in profit this year ($17b revenue).
What I didn’t go into depths to describe is that the vast majority of their money goes to big labels and several big artists they have less-favourable (to Spotify) contracts with, because those big labels and artists know they can pressure Spotify to get a bigger slice.
So, they continue to give most artists, especially small/new artists next to nothing, exploiting them.
Nothing I said is innacurate IMO.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 month ago:
How about just boycott it because it’s terrible for artists? It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
Spotify’s whole business model is exploitation.
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 1 month ago:
I know and I was waiting for someone to complain, even though it doesn’t affect the accuracy of the comment. You have won this bouquet of Dutch flowers: 💐
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 1 month ago:
Its pickled, not raw. Scandinavians have been pickling fish for a very long time and it’s worked out OK so far.
- Comment on PM breaks silence to back US military strikes on Iran 1 month ago:
The simple and truthful thing to say was that the US had no evidence of nuclear weapons being built and so we are unclear of any justification for this strike - or simply not comment on it if he doesn’t want to anger the US. Australia does not want to be dragged into another war of aggression to help America’s oil&gas and militarily-industrial industries.
But that was apparently too much to hope for.
Albo’s better than any Liberal party leader would be, but we can do much better.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 1 month ago:
Ahh yes, Wikipedia is wrong, books on aluminium and scientific naming are also wrong, evidence…? trust me bro. Once again you keep the parts from Wikipedia you like, but discard facts counter to your point.
What’s the point in engaging further, we’ve reached peak comedy. 👌
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 1 month ago:
Edited my comment for more clarity. But the etymology of the spelling is all in the Wikipedia article if you’d just read that small ‘spelling’ section instead of stopping when you feel you’ve read something that backs your point. It was 100% driven by American marketers, not “Brits changing their minds”.
[…] in 1892, Hall used the Aluminum spelling in his advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the Aluminium spelling in all the patents he filed between 1886 and 1903. It is unknown whether this spelling was introduced by mistake or intentionally, but Hall preferred aluminum since its introduction because it resembled platinum, the name of a prestigious metal.[141] By 1890, both spellings had been common in the United States, the -ium spelling being slightly more common; by 1895, the situation had reversed; by 1900, aluminum had become twice as common as aluminium; in the next decade, the -um spelling dominated American usage. In 1925, the American Chemical Society adopted this spelling.[135]
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 1 month ago:
The only reason it’s called ‘Aluminum’ in the US is that name was popularised in the Webster’s dictionary in the US as he took the name that marketers were using at the time (as they thought it sounded fancy like Platinum). Prior to that it was widely called ‘Aluminium’ in the US as well as the rest of the world - as it was the dominant name scientifically, and nobody else used it as it wasn’t widely commercially used.
This is all on Wikipedia, dunno why people feel the need to make up their own stories every single time this comes up, but it does make us laugh.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 1 month ago:
The English ‘stole’ words from the French in the same way half the European world ‘stole’ Roman roads, words, and customs.
They were colonised by the Normans you silly codswallop. The British retain French words because they were forced on them by the aristocracy a thousand years ago.
- Comment on Try it today! 1 month ago:
“I bet you could hold so many apples in these, step-gammy”
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 1 month ago:
Yeah i’ll remember the good times fondly for sure. In its peak it was a great time and I don’t regret the time spent one bit.
The puck added a fun dimension, being able to fairly effortlessly run it up walls or onto the roof (compared to the ball), and the wonderful semi-glitchy physics of pinch hits on the flat surface of a puck. Nothing like pinch-hitting it against another player’s vehicle and watching the puck rocket unstoppably across into the goal. “Calculated”.
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 1 month ago:
“NICE SHOT!”
“NICE SHOT!”
“GREAT PASS!”In their defense I don’t think they could have come up with any standard chat lines that wouldn’t be used sarcastically by toxic players.
If I was a dev if you spammed the lines 3 times in a row I’d change the third one to something to diffuse the hate, from a random selection of lines that are hard to take sarcastically. "I love you! ", “Wooo!”, etc
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 1 month ago:
Yeah agreed. Best time to get into most competition games is when they’re in their ‘growing playerbase’ phase with lots of new players, still room for casual players. Then they slowly get pushed out.
There’s room for modes that encourage casual fun though to keep that part of the playerbase active, which is what made Psyonix’s decisions so frustrating.
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 1 month ago:
TLDR: dunno if anyone wants to replicate it today, because the experience of early years Rocket League is completely gone now. So ‘they’ dont even have a reference point to replicate.
Psyonix fumbled RL so hard its not funny. I have 1500 hours on Steam since launch. In my experience, like with a lot of competitive online games, RL became more and more sweaty and toxic as time progressed - it’s already not the largest pool of players, and even when queuing casual matches you’re matchmade with similarly-skilled players - so once you’ve been playing for say 50 hours you find yourself in quite a few toxic matches with higher-skill players. But, there was thankfully a remedy - anyone wanting to chill simply used the fun modes (snow day, rumble, and hoops) and told anyone who was toxic in game to get bent. I had a crew of several dozen regulars that I’d befriended and we enjoyed hitting those modes because they were taken much less seriously than the standard 2v2 or 3v3 matches. Many many laughs had over the years I played. Then Psyonix retired those modes from the casual queue/playlist and made them competitive-only around 2019 - no reason cited. This pretty much quadrupled the queue times for those modes, and ensured the matches were higher stakes (rank points) and more toxic. Why?
This was not the first or last time Psyonix made decisions that the community at large hated. Every controversial change they made was met with a lot of pleading on the forums (and Reddit) with devs to reverse course, which they would hand wave with ‘we’ll take this feedback on board’ kind of responses, then as time ticked on we saw lootbox after lootbox/decal/season-pass/timed-exclusive-grind-drops/paid-cars hit the game… And dev focus started to become clear. Before you say ‘they had to pay for the game’, this was all before the game went F2P. It became obvious that dev priority was ways to make the game even more of a dopamine-to-wallet loop, and casual fun is not a priority, they wanted an e-sports scene. I guess the casual players fit none of those goals.
At that point my RL friends persisted gettinf together regularly for private matches (so we could still load the fun modes), but the ability to just load into the game and queue up some relaxed no-stakes silly car soccer (or hockey, or basketball) was long gone for experienced regulars - i can’t imagine it was easy for new players to get into the game at that point. Gg. Haven’t even had it installed for a few years now, and I read now they removed the ‘fun modes’ entirely from the ranked queue options now, so they just come back for seasonal events? Why??
Psyonix had a money printer and they broke it by trying to make the money print faster. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 month ago:
The Internet Archive. No need to reinvent the wheel. Have a discussion with them - set up a new project. Boom - everyone’s mods hosted in perpetuity by a free digital library.