joelfromaus
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone
- Comment on Aussie Insults 1 week ago:
Not an insult but one of my favourites is when it’s raining; “wet enough to bog a duck.” Don’t know if it’s Aussie exclusive but always gets a chuckle out of me.
- Comment on Can One Nation turn its polling hype into seats in parliament? History shows it will struggle 1 week ago:
God I hope not. When I’ve seen them on TV news recently they have been getting glazed by the likes of channel 9 and 10.
- Comment on The Current Situation (Sorry Americans) 1 week ago:
I think this is the particular one I’m thinking of.
I probably shouldn’t have used the term “direct request” since, knowing Lemmy users, that’d be taken as Trump himself telling Albo himself instead of governmental agency pressure to Australian institutions etc.
Last week US agencies sent some of those Australian researchers what appears to be a global notice, asking them to justify their funding, as well as a questionnaire grilling them on a host of issues — including their links with China and the Trump administration’s edicts recognising only two sexes.
- Comment on The Current Situation (Sorry Americans) 1 week ago:
This is the crux of the issue in my opinion. I wouldn’t give a damn about US politics if they weren’t constantly messing with everyone else.
It wasn’t that long ago they were directly requesting to change within Australia to combat “woke”. Fuck off mate, at least some of your citizens voted to mess up your country but leave ours alone.
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- Comment on Video - She Was FIRED for Criticizing Israel — Then This Australian Journalist Fought Back and Won | Zeteo 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost mandatory in a media landscape that’s majority owned by a handful of people with interests in controlling public perception.
- Comment on Trump asks Australia, Albanese to join Gaza 'Board of Peace' 3 weeks ago:
So an unstable leader, who’s given himself a leadership role in this gang and slings around threats willie nilly, wants us to volunteer to be a captive and pay a ransom to do so. That’s wild. It’d be insane to accept. So odds are good that’s what’ll happen.
- Comment on Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around [cancellation of] author Randa Abdel-Fattah 4 weeks ago:
Full quote from the article:
“We also apologise to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah for how the decision was represented and reiterate this is not about identity or dissent but rather a continuing rapid shift in the national discourse around the breadth of freedom of expression in our nation following Australia’s worst terror attack in history.”
I don’t think it’s the apology that they think it is. Heavily paraphrasing: “it’s not about who you are or what you’ve done personally. It’s about your heritage and the dirty bloodline that represents after bad actors committed an atrocity.”
- Comment on Nerd update 2025 2 months ago:
Donated. Appreciate the great work!
- Comment on Outage Sunday Oct 26 3 months ago:
Cheers for all your work with the server!
- Comment on Never ask... 5 months ago:
HSP
Huge Sandwich Protector?
- Comment on Snow within 35km of five Australian capitals as Antarctic blast arrives 5 months ago:
Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and one other.
This comment brought you by the same people who organise entertainment tours.
(The other is the ever forgotten Adelaide.)
- Comment on How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with? 5 months ago:
Gesundheit.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 5 months ago:
Yep. This is the correct answer but that’s not what this thread is about; it’s a nostalgic circle jerk mixed with a sprinkling of “back in my day”.
Don’t get me wrong here, I like the suggestions in this thread but literally one of the suggestions being upvoted is how the game is planned to handle servers (quick join is random and then there will be a list of community servers).
I’m fine with the official servers being random join, as long as I can pick and choose a community server. Which to state again, is apparently planned.
I’m still waiting for reviews on release to make sure they hold true to their marketing though. Can’t trust shit from large studios.
- Comment on NSW government kills debate on protesters paying for police presence after exceeding cap 6 months ago:
If Mastercard could stop someone from jizzing on a coworker’s desk I bet they would! Luckily for the politicians that way inclined, they can keep glazing desktops… for now.
- Comment on NSW government kills debate on protesters paying for police presence after exceeding cap 6 months ago:
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- Comment on NSW government kills debate on protesters paying for police presence after exceeding cap 6 months ago:
Your opinion only matters if you have wealth!! /s
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 6 months ago:
Unironically, COD getting delisted would probably get mainstream media coverage and legitimate outrage from people who “don’t play video games” but actually do.
- Comment on Call to Power: How a Forgotten Civilization Spinoff Game Accurately Predicted the Future 6 months ago:
I still hold Call to Power as the best “Civilisation” game. I started playing the actual Civilisation games from Civ3 onwards and was pretty consistently disappointed because most of the ‘new and exciting features’ had already been in CtP and were often DLC in Civ. Kind of wish a modern CtP would get released.
- Comment on 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games 6 months ago:
One of the biggest controversies ant the start of all of this was Ubisoft pulling The Crew whilst pushing people to buy The Crew 2. Frankly it’s amazing we haven’t seen that more often with the near identical sequels such as the Madden, FIFA, F1 etc games.
No one’s forcing you to buy a remaster… unless they are because they revoke your right to play the original so it’s your only option.
Remasters and remakes will still happen but companies won’t have as much freedom to yoink a purchased product from your pocket years down the track in the name of some profit strategy.
- Comment on 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games 6 months ago:
But I want to resell it to the same person for further profit 👉👈🥺 - AAA Game Publishers
- Comment on What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves? 6 months ago:
Alternatively, when the console control scheme is tight and well made but the PC controls are ASDF + whatever random keys spread at opposite ends of the keyboard.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 7 months ago:
I’ve had 3 batteries replaced in three separate phones. The closest thing to an “issue” is they broke 2 of the phones, sounds bad right?! But wait, there’s more. Since it’s the phone manufacturer and quite obviously their fault they replaced them with brand new phones of the same model. No more scratches and such. Just had to restore them from backup.
Also had a brand new phone start doing weird shit. I took a video of it doing the weirdness and went into the store. They couldn’t fault it or replicate it in any way. Still replaced because I had proof and the dude was super chill about it.
Obviously, not everyone is going to receive the same service or see having a complete new phone over a replacement battery as a positive but from my experience I can’t fault Apples service so far.
- Comment on Whut 7 months ago:
Shaggy looking like he should be watching Better Homes and gardens while crocheting a blanket.
And I relate.
- Comment on Check yourself 7 months ago:
What came first; moths or lamps?
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 8 months 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' 8 months 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 9 months ago:
Almost makes me want to move there.
- Comment on Labor made plenty of promises at the last election. Did they deliver? 9 months ago:
Not all heroes wear capes. Thankyou for your service.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 9 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.
