joelfromaus
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone
- Comment on Whut 2 days ago:
Shaggy looking like he should be watching Better Homes and gardens while crocheting a blanket.
And I relate.
- Comment on Check yourself 1 week ago:
What came first; moths or lamps?
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 5 weeks ago:
My inner monologue even said “2 delta V… wait.”
- Comment on The Big Shigeru Miyamoto Interview: 'I See Nintendo as Like a Talent Agency and We Have Within Our Roster a Lot of Talented Characters' 1 month ago:
I see Nintendo as a law firm and they have within their roster a lot of talented lawyers.
- Comment on All the political mail I got this election 2 months ago:
Almost makes me want to move there.
- Comment on Labor made plenty of promises at the last election. Did they deliver? 2 months ago:
Not all heroes wear capes. Thankyou for your service.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 2 months ago:
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it but the movie Mimic had bugs that had grown to the size of a human and taken on a vaguely human form in order to hunt us.
The movie used the reasoning that the bugs had developed basic lungs which enabled them to grow past the limits of their usual breathing apparatus.
No point to make here, I just remember it being cool that they put a small amount of thought into why the bugs could grow to human proportions.
- Comment on glutezz 2 months ago:
“She obvs squats. Look but be subtle about it”:
- Comment on ‘Wicked’ Made $100M On PVOD, Says Universal Distribution Chief As Windows Debate Rages – CinemaCon 2 months ago:
Ah, good ol’ PVOD. Who’d ever forget PVOD, what a guy! or gal!
Anyway, completely unrelated but I once read that you should always use an acronym in full before abbreviation so that audiences who don’t know your jargon at least know the words you’re referencing.
It’s Premium Video On Demand according to my brief search btw.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 3 months ago:
I swear I was learning about extra X and Y in high school 20 years ago and that studies (at the time) were showing correlation between different traits displayed by effected people. Just that alone shows incredible gender fluidity.
So where we are, 20 years later, you’d think we’d have a better understanding within society but instead somehow it’s literally regressed since then.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 3 months ago:
If another service such as Matrix can built similar screen sharing into their applications then I’d be able to convince my friends to make the shift. As it stands there isn’t really a 1:1 equivalent.
- Comment on mystery, you say 3 months ago:
Bigbutt finna make me act up.
- Comment on Anon is confused 4 months ago:
I’ve currently been trying to get divorced for almost 12 months. My ex left me for someone else so you’d think it’d be an open and shut case but she’s also being belligerent within the legal process and drawing out the timeline.
I find it incredible how many hoops need jumping through in Australia just to not be legally bound to a cheating spouse.
- Comment on Coalition vows to match Labor's $8.5 billion Medicare [campaign] pledge 'dollar for dollar' 4 months ago:
Just like the NBN. Right? Hard pass. Nice to know they aren’t just opposed to it for no reason but at least we can be somewhat confident Labour won’t fumble the ball on purpose and then blame the whole premise.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 4 months ago:
Hahahahahaha and furthermore hahaha.
- Comment on horizontal boogie 4 months ago:
That got me too. Like, what?! Is corpo social media so sensitive that people can’t mention a scientific name for something now? Soon when joining Facebook it’ll give users a handy infographic of allowed words.
- Comment on Polling on treatment of asylum seekers. 4 months ago:
Unfortunately, I have the opposite experience. Living in rural Australia I often come across people who treat any non-white person as “other”.
A good example of this is an ex-coworker who refused to eat Indian food because she’s not a “curry muncher”. I pointed out that she likes butter chicken and that’s curry. She admitted that she did indeed like butter chicken but not curry.
That’s the logic we’re dealing with. It’s hostility driven by a lack of exposure to other cultures and people and the demonisation of those cultures and people in media.
- Comment on Spyware firm cuts Italy access after alleged targeting of activists - reports 4 months ago:
What is the world coming to when we can’t even trust spyware 😞
- Comment on No rules!! 4 months ago:
My progression path through most video games.
- Comment on Shein, AliExpress, Temu: More than 85% of products from Chinese platforms fail to meet EU regulations regarding health and safety 5 months ago:
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you! Well, maybe not that shocked.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X’s algorithm pushes “too much negativity" while reports suggest the platform will suppress "criticism of the government" and "attacks against powerful people and institutions" 5 months ago:
I was wondering who the hell this Grok person was. I was thinking about what an unfortunate name for a person! No surprise that it’s actually a product and [probably] directly named by an immature billionaire edgelord.
To be clear, I know he didn’t invent the name. But if someone’s parents named them ‘Grok’ I’d understand if they went for a name change.
- Comment on "Free" Speech Absolutist™ 5 months ago:
It’s one of those things where, while I’m sick of hearing about his bullshit, I need to know if he does something that directly affects me. E.g. if he started doing a similar thing in my country as the stuff he’s trying with Britain at the moment then I’d write to a couple of representatives to let them know they’ll lose mine and many other votes if they side with the dopey billionaire muppet.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 5 months ago:
It’s weird, Australian schools didn’t teach them either… does the rest of the world exist, perhaps?
- Comment on Anon's strict mom 5 months ago:
On the internet? In 2025? Surely not.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 5 months ago:
I read it as “better help uhh therapist” because of the stupid ass self censorship. I’m not blaming the user for doing it, just annoyed for natural real world language getting hamstrung to satisfy advertisers. How long until “tisk tisk tisk! You can’t say ‘ahh’, that’s a naughty word!”?
- Comment on GET REKT 6 months ago:
“Somehow, the murder hornets have returned.”
- Comment on Gnorts 6 months ago:
I believe it was “!su evas ,su pleh ,namdam a si poolF“
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 7 months ago:
Grrmany
- Comment on sad spinosarus 7 months ago:
To shreds you say?
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 7 months ago:
HAHA So True!
