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- Comment on 'Read the room': WA Greens reschedule Anzac Day dance party fundraiser 1 day ago:
On reddit’s military forum, there are stories there of some ANZAC day memorial services themselves were excluding modern veterans, claiming the day isn’t about them.
As the son of a Vietnam vet, and grandson of an OG Anzac, I say that’s the stupidest take I’ve ever heard. And I’ve heard people say Anzac day is dumb for glorifying war.
Imagine if WWII vets were excluded because they were never a part of the original Anzac campaign? It’s unfathomable. There has never been an exclusion of any veterans in the Anzac movement. Even post Vietnam when returning vets were unpopular, they were a part of Anzac marches.
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- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 days ago:
I agree with your first statement, but disagree with the rest. I am not their target market. I enjoy playing their games, but primarily because I am spending time with the kids as I do. Not many of their games are targeted to my demographic.
I disagree that they focus only on digital. Every single Nintendo game comes out on a physical chip. And sales on digital copies are rare and minor (30% off maybe). It is often cheaper to get a physical copy on sale cheaper than digital. And you can then sell it / buy it second-hand. I’ve read that with Switch 2, even the digital codes can be transferred to a new owner. Nintendo for all their faults have never forced you to lock in a digital library you can never resell.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 days ago:
I bought it second hand. Nintendo got $0 from the sale. In fact, two thirds of our physical games have been purchased second hand.
- Comment on Guardian Australia had a dream run. Has it lost its edge? 5 days ago:
I’ll start by saying the sauce is questionable. I don’t think they’re asking an objective question here.
That said, I’ve never really vibed with the Guardian’s writing style. It always feels like I’m reading the opposite of Newscorp’s propaganda - but it is still propaganda. I dislike being nudged to think a certain way, even if I’m being nudged in a direction I’d probably be inclined to go anyway. Actually, especially if it’s in a direction I’d be inclined to go. Did I come up with this position on my own? Or am I being helped along by some publication with an agenda?
Just give me the bare facts and let me form my own opinions, thanks.
I do love that Guardian Australia exists, however. I love that it has thrown a spanner into the Newscorp near-monopoly on journalism in Australia. I want to see it succeed and stay.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎮 Friday 11 April 2025 1 week ago:
Image. This bit of shrinkflation amounts to a 20% price rise. For what is already a luxury/occasional purchase.
Err, I’ll take the big one thanks, Aldi. And I probably won’t be buying this treat very often any longer.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👾 Wednesday 9 April 2025 1 week ago:
The dietician has taken ham and salami off my wife’s menu to address cholesterol. It should likely apply to me also, but I’m not organised enough to book things like “check ups” and dieticians. So I bought a large whole chook last weekend and we roasted it. It’s going into sandwiches this week (and will likely be a weekly thing for the foreseeable future) instead of ham/salami. So far, everyone likes the change. It works out far cheaper also: over 2kg of chook is about he prices of 500g of ham/salami.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ⭐ Tuesday 8 April 2025 1 week ago:
So I was the pied piper on the weekend and took a troop of kids to see the Minecraft Movie. It was an experience.
The movie itself was pretty typical middle-aged kids’ fare. Fairly awful dialogue and cliched characters. Jason Moama was a surprise, I thought Jack Black was the only famous star in it. I have a feeling that in the right role, Jason would have some wonderful comedy chops. This movie was not it. Stiffler’s Mum was funny, but all I could see was Stiffler’s Mum. I think the two female leads were great and a good foil for the Jack Black/Jason Moama antics. Pity the girls didn’t really have a lot to do in the plot.If I’d been watching it on Blu Ray or streaming, I might have turned it off. As a movie, it’s not great. However, watching it in a cinema on opening weekend in a room full of kids really made it wonderful. They were cheering at obvious fan-service references that I didn’t get. Screaming out at “Chucky Chicken!” and I can’t remember other bits. But you get the idea. The energy in the room was great.
So while I didn’t particularly love the movie, I loved the experience of watching it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥸 Monday 7 April 2025 1 week ago:
Amaze! Jazz hands!
- Comment on Vote Compass Australia 2025 - Australia Votes 1 week ago:
It’s fascinating how some of these questions are phrased.
Should Australia spend more or less on its military?
I have no idea what Australia spends on its military. I don’t know whether it’s too much or insufficient. I wouldn’t feel qualified to answer this question, so I abstained.
But abstaining from this question appears to have affected my compass result. There are a few I abstained from and I think that by doing so, it has put me a lot closer to center than is probably accurate.
I used to think of myself as fairly central. Only “central” has seemed to move over the past 20 years and while I don’t think I’ve changed all that much, I’m considered more left these days than I used to be.
- Comment on The Chaser's Election Bingo 2 weeks ago:
I love the free space. Some things are just a given.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Wednesday 2 April 2025 2 weeks ago:
His deteriorating health was big news when the second Top Gun movie came out and we found out he couldn’t actually speak any more.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Wednesday 2 April 2025 2 weeks ago:
Such an underrated film. Everyone in it is great.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Wednesday 2 April 2025 2 weeks ago:
Val Kilmer died.
We knew it was coming, but all the same this is a sad thing. - Comment on A lobby group representing Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Uber, and X has urged the US Government to take aim at Australian laws 2 weeks ago:
No. Read past the headline. While they don’t like it, Google is like the only US company actually complying with the Australian media code.
Getting lumped in with the others because you are a member of the same association is like me getting blamed for the actions of my local member of parliament because he represents me.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 2 weeks ago:
Take a look at Softmaker Office. It’s not free, but it’s loads cheaper than Microsoft. Home version is $50/year or $5/month. They have a free trial so you can have a play with it and see whether it’ll break your spreadsheet.
I’ve only used it a little (I have MS Office through work stuff), but I found it to be very usable.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 2 weeks ago:
About Catfishing?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 2 weeks ago:
Basic I know, but search for stuff you’re interested in. I get Aviation and Naval history, Some Marvel, whatever is going on at DashCams Australia, British Panel shows/Taskmaster and maybe some Star Wars/Trek stuff mostly.
What you don’t click on matters as much as what you do. Oh, I always mark Shorts as “Not Interested”, even if I would actually be interested. I despise short-form videos and would disable them entirely if I could. I can kill them for 30 days at a time on my iPad.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 2 weeks ago:
On paper, Wills is a blue-ribbon Labor seat - Bob Hawke’s old seat.
But a third of voters there went Green in 2022. He should be getting out and meeting people/listening to them. They can’t take this seat for granted any more. - Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 weeks ago:
My old dentist in Melbourne was Brunswick Family Dentist. Had my wisdom teeth yanked there. I would go back to them if I moved back to Melbourne, even if they were a trek to get to.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 weeks ago:
The Valkyrie!
- Comment on E-bike rider killed in collision with police car 3 weeks ago:
The big take-away from this article for me is that police vehicles in NSW don’t all have dashcams. I just thought those had been standard issue for at least 10 years.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐀🐁🐇🐈🐕 Wednesday 26th March 2025 3 weeks ago:
This is the closest feature request I have found, you could probably filter on username if/when that feature is implemented.
If that isn’t quite what you are after, that GitHub is the place to make your request.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐀🐁🐇🐈🐕 Wednesday 26th March 2025 3 weeks ago:
Dumb question, but why not just block them?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐀🐁🐇🐈🐕 Wednesday 26th March 2025 3 weeks ago:
I killed my Facebook account in 2010. Then about 3 years ago, I tried to sign up a new, mostly anonymous account to use for marketplace and got denied.
Weird - but I didn’t care enough to pursue it. I just stick with Gumtree. - Comment on Should Australia increase its defence spending? We asked 5 experts 3 weeks ago:
TL;DR: all the experts say “yes”.
I don’t have a strong opinion on the topic, but my non-expert opinion is “probably not”. It would have been outright “no” before reading this article, but some of those arguments were actually persuasive.
It isn’t that I want a weak military, it’s that I see so many priorities the government can be spending on and defense still isn’t at the top of that list for me.
- Comment on Issues 23/3/25 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably Nicole. She’s mad that she can’t spam us any longer.
- Comment on Discussion Thread: 🌞 Saturday, 22 March 2025 3 weeks ago:
Lately there’s been this thing of making romance novels out of Fantasy. You get into it as a fantasy setup, and BAM! all about which character will shack up with whom.
It’s become so big that Good Reads now has a “Romantasy” section of its book awards.
- Comment on Discussion Thread: Monday, 17 March 2025 4 weeks ago:
That means centrelink is not competent.
I am not changing my comment, except maybe to broaden it from “company” to “organisation”. 😃
- Comment on Discussion Thread: Monday, 17 March 2025 4 weeks ago:
It’s weird, I’ve got an overall positive view on the CFMEU as my dad was involved in the union as a rep (BLF) on several sites as I grew up. He faced consequences from employers for taking on this role, but it was an important one. In the 70’s/80’s, the construction industry was a terribly unsafe place to work and my dad contributed to a lot of safety changes that have since become industry standards and policies. He’s proud of the work he did for the union and I’m proud of him for what he sacrificed to keep his coworkers alive.
To see what the union has become is hurtful, but I still see them as an overall force for good in the world.
