Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 4 days ago:
Mini metro but with roads. I prefer the original, I’d have included it in my list, except that it came out several years later than the other games. The titles in that list are all from around 2008-2010, when that sort of game was the norm.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 4 days ago:
Unfortunately, Fieldrunners is one that loses its appeal once you have figured out how to reliably beat it on the hardest difficulty.
I’ve just remembered there was a pocket version of Civilization. That one got played so much!! And very re-playable.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 4 days ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 4 days ago:
Idempotent. It’s a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.
A real world picture to explain the concept:
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Push either of the buttons over and over and over. You’ll either turn the machine on/off, or do nothing.I’d been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 4 days ago:
Flight Control
Plants vs. Zombies
Peggle
Angry Birds (original one)
Fieldrunners
Asphalt 6
Jetpack Joyride
Doodle JumpI actually have a couple of these still installed. I think they all cost something like $1-$5 to install but that was it. No in app purchases, no ads etc. So nice.
- Comment on BHP agrees to settle some iron ore sales to China using RMB instead of USD 6 days ago:
I’m sure the fact that this happened less than two weeks after China suspended all Iron Ore trade specifically with BHP is pure coincidence.
- Comment on D-d-d-d-drop the base! 1 week ago:
And now you know the origin of the auspolitics community’s thumbnail.
- Comment on Radicalisation expert concerned WA sovereign citizen gun crackdown could be 'counterproductive' 1 week ago:
‘We don’t believe in the laws of Australia’
‘Taking our guns away is unlawful’Do they hear themselves?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
One might instead ask what happened to all the people who lived where our cities now stand?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on More sunscreens pulled from shelves over SPF concerns 2 weeks ago:
If your favourite brand comes in at 20+ instead of 50+, it’s fine to keep using it. I won’t say this is a beat-up, but they’re making out like you should throw your sunscreen out, when 20 odd years ago all sunscreens were 24+ and that was normal. Just be sure to re-apply it every two hours if you are in the sun a long time.
For most of the affected brands, this is more a potential issue with false advertising than public safety. Also noteworthy that most of the brands produced results from independent testing when approached for comment. The Cancer Council said they’re going to submit their affected products for another round of tests with another lab. So the brands are taking this seriously and most of them appear to be acting in good faith.
Most of Choice’s tests were performed on ten volunteers in line with Australian and international standards. Three tests were performed on five volunteers.
This is important to remember. We aren’t talking big sample sizes, here. It’s really important to shine a light on Sunscreens and be certain they are up to the task. But at the same time, don’t overreact.
Ultra Violette’s Lean Screen SPF50+ Mattifying Zinc Sunscreen, which costs $52 for 75 millilitres, and returned an SPF rating of four.
Ok, so this one is difficult to defend - I wouldn’t use it. 😂
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Friday 26 September 2025 3 weeks ago:
Ooh! That’s new (and awesome). It wasn’t when I left Melbourne. In fairness, it wasn’t $5 to Mandurah (where Spud’s train is going) when I left Melbourne, either.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Friday 26 September 2025 3 weeks ago:
Hahaha it’s funny how I see this view almost every day and take it for granted. Welcome to Perth. 😃
Don’t get too used to our weather, it might make you cross when you get back to Melbourne.
Try also not to think about how that train is doing the equivalent of Southern Cross to Geelong in a similar time for $5. - Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 3 weeks ago:
Costs aren’t actually that high when the nerd labour is free. Hosting costs were around $200/mo last time I looked. It’s really a @lodion@aussie.zone question, though.
- Comment on How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting? 3 weeks ago:
It’d be funny if he just didn’t bother meeting with the US president. Even better if he was in town doing stuff at the UN and then just not even trying to meet.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 3 weeks ago:
We’re pretty protective of our ~500ish regulars. We are not a large instance, but our users are very engaged. We don’t want them to be drowned out by a massive influx of new accounts utterly shifting the vibe of the site overnight.
It’s already a problem of us both being Perth-based: we’re weak on admin coverage first thing Eastern Time as that tends to be 3am-7am here. An explosion of users and an early morning incident is something it’s just easier to avoid.
At the end of the day, we’re a pair of nerdy full-time family guys doing this as a hobby. We aren’t interested in monetising this site or making it our jobs.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a steady two or so new accounts per day. Occasionally Reddit does something silly and we get a wave of them, but that hasn’t happened for a few months.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧢 Thursday 18 September 2025 4 weeks ago:
Heh. I think I must gloss over that community. Like, I see the posts and never tap on them. I don’t think I’ve ever commented in there.
I am not at all useful in such a community, I fear. 😞
- Comment on Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition technology, commissioner finds 4 weeks ago:
I have never understood what the logic of that was. Put the checkouts in the middle of the store so you might see something you like on the way out and go back through the checkout again?
It’d need to be some amazing deal for me to do that. And if it’s near the exit, that in theory means it’s near the entrance and I have probably already seen this deal.
- Comment on Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition technology, commissioner finds 4 weeks ago:
I spent a few years as a trainer and one of the induction training sessions I took every new starter through was the Australian Privacy Principals. Every single new starter regardless of their role in the business went through these.
I struggle to believe that anyone a management level in any medium-to-large organisation dealing with customers is not fully aware of these principals.
The data collected about you needs to be necessary for the business to provide services to you. You have the right to not provide any information if it isn’t required to provide their primary service. You have a right at any time to all the information a business has on you. These have all been breached. Potentially other principals.
- Comment on Australians too dependent on government, says Sussan Ley 4 weeks ago:
“It has become almost taboo in politics to suggest that not everyone is entitled to every government benefit,” she said, declaring “a time of dependency” has eroded “our national character”.
Still on about that whole “age of entitlement” thing?
While not naming specifics, she vowed to be “unrelenting” in cutting “low-value” government programs and promised to “help people off welfare and into self-reliance”.
Didn’t Mr Dutton make this same mistake? Promise to cut stuff but not name what he’d cut because he knew it’d be unpopular? It appears that Mr Dutton’s deputy thought this was a good plan. It isn’t. Tell us specifically what you want to cut. Particularly if you want more money to go to Defence. Tell us explicitly what you’d sacrifice to make that happen.
The overall vibe of her speech is that government subsidies are meant to be targeted and not applicable to all Australians. Which is a weird take for me. If you want us all to pay taxes, then we should all be entitled to the benefits we qualify for. Otherwise, what am I paying taxes for? I particularly liked the quote that “We are essentially running a peacetime economy on emergency fiscal settings. That is obviously not sustainable.” I can’t think of a better way to tell the electorate that you are out of touch with this cost of living crisis than this quote. You may not be feeling this fiscal emergency, but most Australians certainly are.
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- Comment on Hastie flags demotion or resignation should Liberals not abandon net zero 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think dropping this bloke would make them less electable.
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- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Wednesday 10 September 2025 5 weeks ago:
There are some essential criteria for a place to live:
- 3+ bedrooms
- 2+ bathrooms (there are four of us including a teenager)
- Inside the catchment of the high school.
With those points, there are presently two places in our suburb for $750/week. Moving is a lot of effort to save $2,600 in a year - assuming either place is comparable to our present (fairly nice) townhouse.
It honestly does appear to be the going rate for houses in Perth. Even going out of the school catchment doesn’t save much. The “cheap” suburbs with crime being a variable are still $550-$600/week. Which is what we were paying for a decent 4 bedroom home in the next suburb over only three years ago. Housing prices in Perth have gone bananas.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Wednesday 10 September 2025 5 weeks ago:
“Dear Nath & wifey,
In lines with 'jus coz policies, we’re increasing your rent to $800/week starting somedate soon.
lots of love,
Real estate agent on behalf of boomer landlord who has at least three other properties with us.”So much for the raise my wife just earned through her awesomeness. 😞
$41,600 per year in just rent. - Comment on Financial fallout of Woolworths, Coles underpayments could climb past $1 billion 5 weeks ago:
Good. They already pay a low wage for what their staff put up with, and apparently society have deemed these people are “essential”.
Well, bloody pay them their money, then.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥸 Wednesday 3 September 2025 1 month ago:
Seven whole hours? In a single night?
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I don’t understand, Bob. Your grandfather was an immigrant from Lebanon. My Grandma was an immigrant from England. I see no difference. I have no idea why you’d be sensitive on this topic.
Even if your platform is ‘Stop immigrants coming here’, you can be proud of your Middle Eastern heritage and maintain that the present cultural mix of Australians is a part of our new local culture now, while saying we lack the infrastructure to take more immigration at this time. You’d even have something of a case worth discussing, if that were your platform.
But by being all huffy about your middle eastern heritage and combining it with talking points about integration, you’re just being racist.
Accept that you aren’t 100% white. Accept that Australia is not 100% white. Accept that our white Aussie kids are going to marry non-white Aussie kids - this is already happening and is already “normal” (if there is such a word). Australia is not and has never been a “white” country.
- Comment on ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlight 1 month ago:
Of all the things going on in the country, the specific wording of a census question is right up there on my list. 😃
