Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on [META] New moderator, and changes to the comm 13 hours ago:
I like the name.
As for rules, I think something vague like requiring it to have some sort of specific relevance to Australia. Restricting it to anything reported by an Australian news outlet would be an easy rule to adjudicate in an unbiased way. Outside of that it would get trickier.
If you wanted it to be based in the type of content, maybe something like only news that relates to major Australian trading partners or multinational bodies we’re party to, or stories that relate to prominent conflicts we’ve been involved with or with an obvious domestic connection like disasters where our media has reported extensively on Australian citizens who were involved. But that would be very fuzzy and difficult to consistently moderate.
- Comment on The classic cycle 14 hours ago:
Well yeah, no wonder she leaves if your logical deduction skills are that poor. The conclusion obviously doesn’t follow from the premise, even though it’s completely true.
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 17 hours ago:
Age of Mythology: Retold. By far. It only came out in September and already it’s my 7th most-played Steam game of all time.
It was never in contention for the goty, by frankly I’m disappointed that it didn’t win its own category at least, because it is just so good. It delivers so perfectly on what it promised. It’s a remake that feels like how your nostalgia remembers the OG game, adding in excellent modern polish and exciting gameplay while keeping the core of what made the 2002 game so great.
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- Comment on A Game About Digging A Hole has you dig the stupidest biggest hole possible to find potential secrets 3 days ago:
Title made me think of Motherload. That was great back in the day. Cool to see it get a shout out in the article.
- Comment on Relevant advertising 🤪 4 days ago:
Honestly? Thank the gods.
- Comment on Relevant advertising 🤪 4 days ago:
It’s pretty strange… Love the username, though.
- Comment on Relevant advertising 🤪 4 days ago:
Just a friendly reminder that !fuckcars@lemmy.world exists.
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- Comment on Queensland children as young as 10 face life sentences for murder as tough new laws pass parliament 6 days ago:
Is this question serious?
- Comment on Queensland children as young as 10 face life sentences for murder as tough new laws pass parliament 1 week ago:
Fuck I hate that “mandate” bullshit. Yes, the LNP received a clear mandate in favour of this crap. The people of Queensland did vote for this.
But Labor voters absolutely did not vote for this. Labor MPs have a mandate to oppose it. They can’t, ultimately, stop it going through, but they can at least put up a show of resistance, and their voters would have expected them to do that. It’s a stain on them that they refused to do what they were elected to do.
- Comment on Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified As Phishing Site, Proving Masnick’s Impossibility Law Once Again 1 week ago:
Plus, delaying it in time means people who look at their front pages at different times are more likely to see one of them.
- Comment on Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. 1 week ago:
Ah, right. That’s very different from how the (male) Dahl character I know of is pronounced (at least in the audiobooks).
- Comment on Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. 1 week ago:
Oh is it a last name in this movie?
- Comment on Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. 1 week ago:
Oh! I didn’t realise! Cool!
- Comment on Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. 1 week ago:
In Battlestar Galactica? IIRC that’s a nickname, not her actual character’s name. I’ve not seen Riddick, but Dahl is an actual character’s given name in another series I’ve read, and there it’s a male name, so after reading the OP but before watching the video I assumed it was a male there too.
- Comment on Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. 1 week ago:
You can share YouTube links that start at a specific time.
Unfortunately not on mobile. At least not with the version of ReVanced I’ve got.
- Comment on Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. 1 week ago:
YouTube timeline showing most replayed section at 2:24.
Fuck that’s funny.
- Comment on ‘This is just a photo op’: anger greets Albanese as he tours Melbourne synagogue destroyed by arson 1 week ago:
nice day for tennis
I don’t understand that heckle.
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 1 week ago:
I agree with @OmanMkII@aussie.zone. More voices is great, but only if they’re actually engaging in good faith. Launching into an argument saying abortion is murder is prima facie bad faith, but I tried engaging with that user multiple times just in case they were just ill-informed, until it became absolutely clear they were not veering away from their predetermined script.
- Comment on Israeli Navy carries out large-scale operation to destroy Assad regime’s fleet 1 week ago:
What’s he said?
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 1 week ago:
Partly I think that will depend on whether exceptions are made publicly available via a list of something. (Certainly, it’ll be possible to get them via an RTI, but that’s not nearly the same exposure.) And also partly on how many exceptions are given. If we were one of 4 exceptions that would be very different from if we were one of 400.
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 1 week ago:
One thought I had was of trying to get an exemption for us. It’s a stretch, but if we all sent letters to our MPs and the relevant Minister explaining what we are and why we’re not really the intended audience (very small. Mostly adults anyway. Doesn’t use an algorithm designed to keep people addicted because it’s an open source community project.), just maybe we could get the Minister to declare an exemption for aussie.zone. It’s an outside chance, but possible—especially if anyone happens to be friendly with some Government MPs already. (I, unfortunately, am not…unless the next election results in a shock Greens majority 😅)
The only downside I can see of this approach is that it might put us “on the radar” of the government in some sense, though what that would mean in practice is probably nothing, it could be a concern to think about. I would only send such a letter of you wanted that kind of campaign.
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 1 week ago:
I don’t think Rottnest has NBN.
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 1 week ago:
Yeah even first cousins are actually not that bad, biologically speaking, if it’s only done for one (or probably even two?) generation.
- Comment on Labor minister hits back at Israeli PM drawing link between UN vote and synagogue burning 1 week ago:
The real people to blame for this are Israel themselves. By drawing a parallel between the nation of Israel and all Jews, Israel is giving permission in some people’s warped views to take out anger at Israel’s genocide on innocent Jewish people, and they are providing cover that makes it very hard to root out real antisemitism, because it’s easy to hide real antisemitism when most accusations of antisemitism are bullshit.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 week ago:
Umm, no, not really? King Louis maybe, but the Common Law system used across most former UK colonies traces a line back to before King Charles’ execution, and the Nuremberg Trials were set up by the Allies (which prominently includes the US and UK) and form an important basis of 21st century international law.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 2 weeks ago:
one of the principles of our legal system is that justice isn’t retroactive
There have been plenty of cases in history where this didn’t hold.
King Charles I of England. King Louis XVI of France (not to mention the rest of his far-less-culpable family). Many prominent Nazis post-WWII. When society collectively decides that someone’s actions were heinous enough and caused enough harm, at a certain point a law can be created and applied retroactively, often on the grounds that there was a clear violation of some greater principle that should be self-evident.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve definitely seen that many times from YouTubers.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 2 weeks ago:
When I was a teen, Rage played literally anything.
Anything? That’s one of my favourite recent pieces of Australian music. And not something I could see Rage playing. Though maybe I’m wrong.
