thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 6 hours ago:
Hyper-palatability, and convenience are the two factors that fill in the blanks.
An individual person can be a rational, thinking actor - but when we are discussing macro-modelling, we begin to fall towards the mean/median of whatever takes the least amount of work to trick our brains to release the most happy chemicals.
Again, I say this as someone who has been on a ketogenic diet for over 7 years now - because I know I am someone hyper-susceptible to sugar addiction, it only took the slightest nudge (tired, tipsy, stressed) to push me towards the lazier, less healthy option - even knowing the long-term implications.
- Comment on Minimum and award wages to rise 3.5 per cent from July 6 hours ago:
In Australia we have a general minimum wage, that is indexed to inflation once a year.
In addition to this, certain industries (e.g. agriculture) have a higher minimum wage amount that we call the award rate. These are also indexed to inflation, so that they always stay a certain amount over base.
Think of it as Minimum Wage+
- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 6 hours ago:
Marketing definitely plays a part, don’t get me wrong - but unhealthy food is cheap, and we are still in a cost of living crisis here in Australia.
These foods are pumped to the gills with simple starches, sugars and fats to make them hyper-palatable - short-circuiting our brain impulses, leading to addiction - and play havoc with our leptin/ghrelin hormones levels leaving us hungry shortly thereafter, leading to over-eating.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 17 hours ago:
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit”.
An absolute masterpiece in terms of blending and transitioning between live action and animation; plus the whole Disney/Warner Bros character crossovers… just 👌🏼
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 17 hours ago:
Bonus Points for the Undertaker’s (uncredited?) cameo appearance: ^you’re a dead man, Ramsey!^
…oh, and extra credit for birthing the “I wAs FrOzEn ToDaY!!” meme too!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🔮 Saturday 31 May 2025 3 days ago:
Just got home from the gym, and going to head back for another session in the morning - all because I’m stubborn and want to prove the wife wrong…
…she definitely knows how to push my buttons, heaven help me if she ever decides to use those powers for evil! 😅
The in-laws are heading back overseas in a month, so we are going to lose their babysitting services shortly, so I’m trying to get in as much exercise as I can!
Any tips to stay on track and motivated to work out from home once they leave?
- Comment on EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN 3 days ago:
I don’t want the current iteration of EA to succeed; but I do want them to return to help nurture quality releases of Command and Conquer, Mass Effect, Dead Space, Burn Out, Need for Speed, Road Rash, Theme X, Sim City and about a dozen other dormant (or mismanaged) franchises.
Could I get similar experiences from other publishers and developers? Absolutely — but I’d much rather we as gamers have a broader choice in the future of our hobby, rather than continually whittling down our options as quality developers get swallowed up and spat out by the current industrial machine.
- Comment on EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN 4 days ago:
Realistically yes, you are correct.
I’m sure we all (at least those old enough) to remember that Boycott Modern Warfare II Steam group screenshot.
Idealistically, imagine that for every release - instead of giving EA that $80 dollars, 10% of gamers put that money towards a share instead.
So that would work out to be ~$200m in lost upfront sales, and up to $540m in lost recurring spend (microtransactions, battle passes etc.).
That would only be enough for gamers to own 0.5% of the company after the first year, but keeping this up for multiple years could have a downward pressure on EA’s stock price long-term as they miss their financial forecasts - increasing gamer’s buying power on shares.
Within a few years, these “Gamers United” would begin to have sufficient stake to influence board decisions (for the better).
The best part being that, the entire time, EA would continue to pay dividends to them (currently at a rate of ~$3.10 per share, per year), while they still technically own that money - almost like a corporate savings account.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Machiavelli, Ley is definitely not.
The problem is that the Nats smelled in the water, and pushed to dissolve the previous Coalition agreement to one that favours them - or at the very least gives equal standing to both parties due to the current seat count.
In order to truly rebuild the Liberals, she needed to go off alone and rebuild the ‘wets’ side of the party - the gays and plays, basically - the ones that were peeled off by the Teals, due to the party’s hard right shift over the past decade.
At some point in the future 2-3 election cycles down the track when the Liberals rebuilt their identity they could arguably re-enter a coalition with the Nats from a position of power. Doing so now, is just tying an albatross around their neck.
More power to them, let a thousand blossoms bloom - I say. Never interrupt your opponent while they’re making a mistake!
- Comment on EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN 5 days ago:
I really wish gamers could unite in a way that they buy out sufficient ownership stakes in these terrible publishers that they force them to treat development studios better, and not push out half-finished slop filled to the brim with predatory monetisation.
EA, Konami, Ubisoft would all be ripe for a renaissance if that were to pass.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 5 days ago:
I’m going to hold out for Cyberpunk 2222, personally.
- Comment on Developer Interview: my Q&A with The RomM Project 5 days ago:
So is the main benefit to this that you could host your totally legitimate back-ups on a NAS, and access them from any on-network device?
If so, can you share save states this way?
- Comment on (・∀・) 5 days ago:
Which is why in Australia, when we tell someone to eat shit - it’s actually because we care about their digestive health!
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 6 days ago:
So the gaming equivalent of ‘chasing the dragon’? That tracks!
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 6 days ago:
I’d take SMW over SMB3, but I can’t really fault anything else in this list! 😅
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 week ago:
Unfortunately JNCO went out of business 7 years ago; shame, really - it could have made for a great moonshot stock bet! 😅
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 1 week ago:
I know the whole “Year of Linux” is a worn-out meme by now; but things are a joke, until their not - best case in point would be AMD CPUs pre-Ryzen compared to now.
Steam Deck sales may not compare favourably to Switch / Console sales - it’s hard to say as Valve are privately owned and under no obligation to publish numbers. But all of a sudden, we can add a not insignificant portion of Windows handheld users to the mix (not 100%, but not 0% either).
Microsoft clearly sees this as an emerging risk, which is why they’re partnering to create an Xbox-branded handheld.
In terms of online representation - it’s also a case of chicken and egg. Online games don’t support Linux due to anti-cheat implementations, so online gamers don’t use Linux. Plenty of single-player offline experiences exist for us!
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 1 week ago:
I know, right?!
I just hope that there’s enough movement in the market to not just push more developers to support Linux as a platform, but to disincentivise them from punishing players through lack of anti-cheat / incompatible DRM.
Also, low-key hyped for the (hopefully) eventual Steam Deck 2 once the market has re-aligned to a ‘new normal’ and Valve can once again push the envelope further!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Wednesday 21 May 2025 1 week ago:
It’s cold as balls this morning - for the 3rd day in a row! 🥶🎾
Where is the global warming that this climate change promised us? I was expecting Mai tais…
Tap for spoiler
(Obvious sarcasm, climate change is real)
- Comment on We gonna fight 2 weeks ago:
Political ideology is a spectrum, and I feel that Leftists tend to be as hostile towards those they deem ‘not as left’ as them, just as much as they are towards Fascists, Neo-Cons and their ilk.
It’s basically the no true Scotsman fallacy manifest.
- Comment on Victoria’s planning reforms could help solve the housing crisis. But they are under threat 2 weeks ago:
We definitely do need denser housing in the inner suburbs, but with the questionable build quality of post-2000 properties, we probably need a significant overhaul of building standards and requirements first and foremost.
Heating/cooling should not be so expensive and futile, given our relatively mild climate. Proper insulation, double/triple laminate glass, awnings over north & west-facing windows etc.
Additionally, many new developments are built and billed as ‘luxury’ - pricing out a lot of potential buyers, and builds rarely have the appropriate number of rooms for young families.
Lastly, accessibility concerns usually mean that new developments beyond 2 stories usually require an elevator - so in order to make the build cost effective, the designer ultimately needs to become 5-6 stories tall; infuriating NIMBYs who may otherwise tolerate a 3-4 storey tall build.
There are a lot of problems that need to be tackled, but they need to be tackled - both from a Federal (against financial incentives towards property hoarding and speculation), and State (building adequate levels of appropriate stock).
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 2 weeks ago:
They are still hiring, according to their website - so unlikely they’ve been shut down.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 3 weeks ago:
Just keep Grove Street Games as far away from this as possible.
No one wants to see them butcher another entry in this series with their lazy, AI-upscale slop.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 weeks ago:
See - that’s the problem with me writing comments at midnight right before bed, I don’t communicate as clearly as I think! 😅
What I was wishing for, was a product that looked like an MD remote (similar to the RM-MC35ELK ideally), which could wirelessly connect to a smartphone, allowing for tactile media control, and the use of higher impedance wired headphones/in-ear monitors.
Because currently having to use wireless earbuds means I have to randomly squeeze the earpiece stems an arbitrary amount of times to change tracks, and good flipping luck trying to change the volume or switch albums otherwise without having to remove your phone from my pocket.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t been able to find something quite like it available already - so I do wonder if there would be enough demand to kickstart a Bluetooth/wireless DAC/receiver remote to bring back that tactical functionality…
But anyway - thanks for the heads up! I’ll check it out in the morning and see if I can connect my N910 and NH1.
Come to think of it, I hope I can find the correct cables, and that they still work… wish me luck!
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 weeks ago:
I would legitimately switch back to one of my old MD players in an heartbeat if I had access to a decent software to load music on. Those little wired remotes with LCD screens were when technology peaked, IMO.
Any recommendations for an alternative to SonicStage (or whatever Sony’s proprietary crapola from back in the day was called)?
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 weeks ago:
The act of ‘burning’ an optic disc was to write data onto a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray. It was called that because a laser would literally burn the information into the disc.
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 3 weeks ago:
The moment you named the subtitle (Allied Assault), you hit the nail on the head!
WOW, I never realised that the series began on the PS1 - or that Allied Assault was the THIRD entry in the series! I guess I’ll have to add both PS1 entries to my hunt list.
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if this had the same campaign as the PC release (ah, the good ol’ days where games on different platforms could be completely different); but both Medal of Honor and the very first Call of Duty were formative FPS experiences for me.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
That is very true, but the Venn Diagram overlap between Gamers^TM^ and ‘Nintendo gamers’ is a rapidly shrinking area.
