Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Labor's Ed Husic pushes for Israel sanctions 1 day ago:
Your whataboutism doesn’t excuse genocide.
- Comment on Australian PM Albanese says Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is ‘an outrage’ 2 days ago:
Then stop trading with them
- Comment on [Satire] The Liberal Party Is Actually GOOD... 2 days ago:
When I first watched this, I didn’t know it was satire. I was so close to just clicking away when suddenly at about 0:40 I was like…wait! Is this satire‽ And then at just after 0:50 it became irrefutably clear.
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- Comment on So which one? 3 days ago:
How is B different from H?
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 4 days ago:
Yeah, making it Master Luhan would still have fucking sucked, but at least it wouldn’t have involved fridging. Plus, it would have given Perrin the overall character development they wanted, without impacting his romantic character arc in such an incredibly destructive way.
To give the showrunners some benefit of the doubt, doing this could have gone some way to help explain Perrin’s overprotectivness.
- Comment on There's a spider in my bathroom 5 days ago:
I had a daddy longlegs in my bathroom for a while. My bathroom exhaust fan broke so the room would get super steamy, and I think the poor spider drowned, because it had clearly died in that spot, hanging from my ceiling.
I still feel a little sad about that spider-bro.
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 5 days ago:
Yeah, that’s exactly why I introduced my parents. I had to assure them it’s a political thriller with no Force or lightsabres, and I’m explaining necessary prerequisite knowledge as it comes up (like who Mon Mothma is). I’ve decided not to tell them about Rogue One, but only episodes III and IV.
- Comment on When Daniel Levy inevitably tries to fire Big Ange 5 days ago:
Ok so I just Googled “Big Ange” because I was still lost. Seems like he’s a former soccer player/current soccer coach? It woulda saved a lot of time if you’d just mentioned that after I asked. 🤦♂️
Or better yet, since unless I’ve gotten turned around somewhere I’m pretty sure both you and I, as well as the Community we’re commenting on, are on the Aussie instance, you could’ve used the term Australians prefer right off the bat rather than the more general term preferred in countries that don’t have other forms of football. I actually kinda got excited for a sec at the idea of Aussie rules being played overseas.
But back onto the topic: I’m actually genuinely not sure right now if that’s a photo of him. His Wikipedia photo looks pretty similar to this guy, but it also looks like it could easily be a genuine undoctored frame of the Jack Karlson arrest video. But I suppose that was the point?
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 5 days ago:
Oh that’s very interesting. Personally it never occurred to me as something to get upset by. Obviously the actor from 2002 is probably not going to be a great fit to continue playing the character in 2025.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Thursday 22nd May 2025 5 days ago:
We’re back tomorrow!
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 5 days ago:
I avoided all media about season 2 until after I had completely finished watching it and then went back and watched reviews etc. Seeing one reviewer who was watching week by week complain about gratuitous fanservice cameos that would turn out in later episodes to actually be core to the story was very amusing. This happened multiple times. To be fair to the reviewer, they didn’t say it was some terrible thing, and even at least once described it as being earnt, even if it was out of character for the show.
Spoiler: examples of the above
The reveal at the end of episode 3(?) that they were on Yavin IV, and the inclusion of Senator Organa (whose first episode was seemingly just a minor cameo before he becomes more important in later episodes) are the two that come to mind, but I think there was at least one more.
- Comment on When Daniel Levy inevitably tries to fire Big Ange 5 days ago:
??
- Comment on When Daniel Levy inevitably tries to fire Big Ange 5 days ago:
The Hunger Games setting? I’m afraid you’ve lost me.
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 5 days ago:
I just introduced my parents to it. My dad especially is really not in to fantasy media, but he’s absolutely hooked on it. They’re 6 episodes into season 1. It took until about the 3rd, maybe 4th episode to really get into the swing of things, but after that it’s easily the best live action Star Wars has ever been.
Fwiw personally I thought Rogue One was extremely overrated. I didn’t particularly care for any of the characters, and I thought some (especially the bizarre “I am one with the Force, the Force is with me” guy) were actively grating. IMO for a lot of the broader public, Rogue One’s popular reception rests entirely on the awesome final sequence with Vader, and to a lesser extent on some of the great action leading up to that.
- Comment on When Daniel Levy inevitably tries to fire Big Ange 5 days ago:
What like roller derby? Neat! I can’t say I actually know too much about that.
- Comment on When Daniel Levy inevitably tries to fire Big Ange 5 days ago:
People play football overseas? Or is it rugby?
- Comment on When Daniel Levy inevitably tries to fire Big Ange 5 days ago:
Are we supposed to know who those people are?
- Comment on I'm gay and I dunno what it means 6 days ago:
My read of the meme was that the similarity is the point. “You vs the girl he cheats with”, if one was significantly more attractive than the other would probably imply that it’s the woman’s fault for not being more attractive. But by showing them both basically the same, the message is “if he’s a cheater, he’s gonna cheat, no matter what you do. It’s on him.”
But maybe I’m putting too much thought into it.
- Comment on Peak flirting 6 days ago:
Fuck that was smooth.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
The Liberals only ever work with Labor in the Senate when Labor is trying to do undemocratic authoritarian shit like the social media age verification law or the pro-major-party campaign finance law.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
I’m on mobile right now, and unfortunately yeah, Jerboa doesn’t show it. But I was on desktop before and it shows it as “related posts” or something like that.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
Not senators, Members of Parliament. From the House of Representatives. It’s equivalent to Majority Leader in the US House of Representatives, Chancellor in Germany, etc. As long as you can command majority support on matters of confidence, you can become Prime Minister. That’s the most important thing the Liberal-National Coalition agreement did for them: the Nationals agreed to provide support for the Liberal leader as Prime Minister. It was similar to the Gillard Government, where Labor didn’t have a majority on their own, so they reached an agreement with the Greens and the 4 or 5 independents that they would support Labor on matters of confidence, in exchange for whatever was in their agreement.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
The ABC live blog gave an answer to this. The LNP will keep doing what it’s doing. Federal members will sit in whichever of the two party rooms they used to sit in, and the state and council LNP members will stay unified. The latter is pretty obvious, since the federal Coalition has always been separate from state ones. NSW and Victorian coalitions have come close to splitting before, and that wouldn’t have directly necessitated a split federally. They each have separate coalition agreements.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
Nah that’s the great thing about Lemmy, it seems you shared the same URL (let me guess, you first saw it on the ABC live blog and then went searching for a less ephemeral source to submit?), it automatically links the two posts. That’s how I found yours in !worldnews@lemmy.world.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
[Labor Treasurer] Jim Chalmers has described the Nationals split from the Coalition as a “nuclear meltdown” that is a “smoking ruin”.
Brilliant wordplay.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
This technically means that now the Opposition has 28 seats, and the crossbench has 27.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 1 week ago:
Does that mean 9 Nationals go to the HoR crossbench?
Technically, yes.
I don’t know what this means as far as pragmatic effects like voting on legislation
I expect the vast majority of the time, the Liberals and Nationals will vote together. But this opens up the possibility that on a few bills, they might split.
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- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 1 week ago:
Oh shit. There are a few, apparently. No, I was referring to lemmy.net.au.