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- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Friday 22 May 2026 1 week ago:
- Comment on Boomer comics 1 week ago:
Basically I think the Australia can be saved by the people voting but I don’t think the USA system can. We have some problem with gerrymandering in the lower and upper houses, voting is not exactly proportional because of that, but there are actually minor parties and independents sitting in parliament and holding the balance of power. Just this last week the governing Labor party is trying to pass budget and tax reform, which they can only do by getting the leftist Greens party to vote with them. This tax reform shifts taxation away from income and onto assets such as property and shares to make things more equitable.
We have our problems, sure, but an unchallenged head of state and a failing democracy is not one of them. If conservatives or centrists are in government here it’s because the Australian people voted for them, and every person’s vote counted via preference flows if their #1 choice didn’t make it in. If conservatives or centrists are in government in the USA it’s because there was literally nobody else to vote for.
You also vote for the party here, not the prime minister, and the party can throw out their prime minister any time they want. Or the governor general can fire them. Both of these things have actually happened in recent times. As far as I’m aware, Nixon after watergate was the only president to actually lose office and he resigned rather than getting thrown out.
- Comment on Boomer comics 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always voted as far left as I can
It’s so fucked that this is as far left as you can vote, first past the post is mental. Over here I can vote for the socialist alliance party or the animal justice party and actually have it count for something.
- Comment on Boomer comics 2 weeks ago:
As an Australian looking at the US political system, it is fucked in a way that voting can never fix. It simply isn’t a democracy in anything other than name.
Over here I can vote for someone other than the two major parties and my vote will actually count for something. In the USA you’re basically throwing your vote in the bin unless you vote for horrible party A or slightly less horrible party B.
- Comment on Watch: Jeffrey Combs Returns As Weyoun In ‘Star Trek Fleet Command’ Animated Short 3 months ago:
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I’m really enjoying Starfleet Academy but refuse to accept it as canon until Jeffrey Combs makes a guest appearance.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏆 Saturday 10 January 2026 4 months ago:
nice job
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 months ago:
No way it is as cheap as a q3. All valve have said is that they are aiming for < the price of a valve index full kit. uploadvr.com/valve-steam-frame-hands-on-impressio…
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 11 months ago:
In the case of KSP, mod authors themselves submit Pull Requests to update the index when they release a new mod or a new version of it.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 11 months ago:
A new website will suffer the same fate eventually. The best solution I’ve seen is CKAN for kerbal space program mods. Each mod just hosts its own releases for free on github or wherever they like, and the whole mod index is just another github repo.
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 11 months ago:
Dark Souls has a good tutorial because it lets you skip it? That’s your bar for a good tutorial?
Souls games are terrible at even explaining what the buttons do. Every blind lets play I’ve seen it is like 30 minutes before the player even discovers they have estus or what it is for.
- Comment on What are some good cooperative shooters? Hidden gems? 11 months ago:
I was a bit cheesed too, but it’s been umpteen billion years since then and you can grab l4d2 for about $2. It’s time to let go.
- Comment on i broke 1 year ago:
but doctor, i am pagliachi
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 year ago:
Obra dinn too
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 year ago:
OP asks for “nothing too hard” and you recommend spelunky, you absolute monster.
- Comment on Games suitable for a livestreaming relay event? 1 year ago:
There is no list. Nethackathon is for nethack. I’m asking for other suggestions which might work for their own, completely independent events.
Personally I can’t imagine a story based game being fun for this kind of event.
- Comment on Games suitable for a livestreaming relay event? 1 year ago:
Scheduling availability for people is way easier with set times, 2 hours each, rather than tying it into game progression.
You can’t really “lose” in elden ring, it’s just a steady slog towards the end, so it might be less interesting. All of our highlight reels are full of permadeaths and mishaps, “winning” barely even makes the cut. Terraria in hardcore mode could be interesting though.
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- Comment on The Talos Principle: Reawakened launches in April with a demo live 1 year ago:
The original was done in their in-house engine and was one of if not the very first commercial game using vulkan. It had a native linux version, hell, even the VR version supported linux natively.
This remake is UE5, windows only, and presumably directx only. It makes me sad.
- Comment on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater teases new announcement with countdown 1 year ago:
An announcement of an announcement of a game. Perhaps I shouldn’t have written this comment, instead I should have made an announcement that in 20 days I will announce the date at which I will write a comment in response to this announcement of an announcement.