BlueSquid0741
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- Comment on Supermarkets are collecting soft plastics again, as recycling trial expands 1 day ago:
Was redcycle ever effective? I don’t know much about it, wasn’t available near us. Did they make much impact on soft plastic waste?
I’m in country VIC, if they put this in the woolworths that just opened here, I’ll do it. Always interested in reducing soft plastic into landfill.
- Comment on Women go from homeless to 'tiny home' owners with a once-in-a-lifetime deal 3 weeks ago:
The system is set up to knock people down, for sure.
- Comment on Solar car teams chase ‘dreams of a more sustainable future’ in gruelling 3,000km race across Australian outback 3 weeks ago:
No mention of the Halle Berry/Jim Belushi classic, Race The Sun
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Also the sorcerer boss you fight towards the end of Act 2 in D2 is the sorcerer from D1.
The lore was really nicely done between these two games.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
But think about the Diablo lore instead. It’s stated that she is a rogue, and in fact she becomes corrupted and is the rogue boss Blood Raven that you fight in the cemetery in Diablo 2.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
The rogue group is different to the amazons. That’s why in D2 you start in the rogues camp, and if you’ve picked Amazon then Kashya will say something like “I didn’t expect to see an Amazon come here”.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve loaded it up on my steam deck and got too the title screen… Far Cry 2 with redux mod
I really loved far cry 3, so I hoped this will be a good time. But some stuff going on with my daughter and I didn’t have time for this.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s a great game. I always enjoy playing. I only recently found out people think this game is janky and plays poorly! so ymmv I guess.
I reckon each era you can finish in 30 - 45 minutes, repeat 5 times.
Use emulator save states and you can break it up pretty easily.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
EVO The Search For Eden
- Comment on Josh Taylor: Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands 5 weeks ago:
Do we want a Shadowrun future? This is how we end up with a Shadowrun future.
- Comment on What are your favourite and go-to gaming websites? 1 month ago:
Gaming on Linux - for news
Hardcore Gaming 101 - when I want to go does a rabbit hole of game series history and trivia
- Comment on Sonic SMS Remake 1 month ago:
Cool remake. I played it as Ray I think, because I played the sms version to death so it was a nice touch to bring new characters in.
- Comment on Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard 1 month ago:
Lack of recyclability shits me. Especially when something that used to be packaged in cardboard is suddenly being sold in plastic.
Also, most plastic bottles are recyclable. Plastic bottles used for juice, flavoured milks, and water from the fridge section, recycle that shit! But not if it’s Ice Break. Those big chunky Ice Break bottles that seem no-brainer recyclable are clearly marked as non-recyclable.
- Comment on ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse 1 month ago:
We’re not going to make, are we? ‘People’, I mean.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I couldn’t say. I only played a couple rounds of it when it first released so I couldn’t work out if anything was new.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I played some 20 Minutes Till Midnight. I like it, but not a lot to say about it.
I kind of feel like I want to give Bioshock Infinite a go soon.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I started a playground of homm3 on the weekend. First time since in about 20 years. But I only lasted about 20 minutes and fell asleep.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 1 month ago:
We buy our wood from a guy who delivers it in a mix, some smaller, split pieces and some larger. So need to split probably 3/4 with a block splitter.
The larger pieces are good for an open fire, but ours is closed.
- Comment on Spectrum Holobyte’s 1988 DOS Tetris: the first official release—the start of a global obsession 1 month ago:
Seems like almost nobody has checked out Digital Eclipses Tetris Forever collection, which has a lot of this info too, with pictures and videos, as well as letting you play most known releases of Tetris.
- Comment on Old School Rally scratched our ‘90s arcade racing itch... then promptly disappeared 1 month ago:
There are options. #DRIVE Rally and Parking Garage Rally Circuit are the ones that come to mind.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 1 month ago:
Walking through a carpark and there was, I think a Silverado. The edge of the front bonnet was at shoulder height.
How do these people check their oil? Get up on a ladder every time?
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 1 month ago:
I think maybe people don’t know about the arcade game.
- Comment on The mane attraction: how many lions are in Australia and how well are they regulated? 2 months ago:
My grandma lives in Silverdale, a short walk from Warragamba dam.
There used to be an amusement park there with caged lions. I remember it vaguely from when I was about 5 years old I guess.
But it shutdown and they just left the lions there, fenced into the bushland between the dam and Silverdale. Growing up we’d stay with her every school holidays, and you could hear them roar every so often.
Those bushlands don’t exist anymore. It’s another shitty housing development now.
- Comment on I'm impressed by Rambo III for DOS 2 months ago:
If I’m playing Sega, I’m not wasting my time on Rambo iii, but if I’m running through some dos games of absolutely give it a shot.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese names his top 10 Australian songs of all time – and there’s one big surprise 2 months ago:
It’s a terrible article that leans into shaming of listening habits if your favourite songs don’t include artists from a diverse range of backgrounds.
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 2 months ago:
Do a lot of people log in to search engines?
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 2 months ago:
Portrait of Ruin is a direct sequel to Bloodlines/New Generation as well.
Order of Ecclesia is the only ds game that doesn’t rely on touch screen gimmicks too, and it’s so much better for it. Portraits of Ruin is still playable at least without touchscreen, but some of the bonus modes, like playing as the sisters require it. Dawn of Sorrow sadly was absolutely gimped by touchscreen crap, but a romhack is available to remove it.
Unfortunate turn of art style in the DS era too. They lean heavily into a crisp anime style compared to the earlier look of Symphony and the gba titles which were anime inspired but had a very fitting gothic painting style.
- Comment on Summer Sale 2025 on GOG 2 months ago:
Terraria is there for a few bucks and might be my most played game of all time.
Heroes of Might and Magic 2, 3, 5. These have have given me so much good time since I was a kid gamer.
Some of that good 2010s stuff is on heavy discount. Tomb Raider, Arkham City, Mad Max, Deus Ex HR, Alan Wake.
A bunch of classics are a couple dollars each. like Rollercoaster Tycoon, Blood, Fallout, Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis, Crusader No Regret, Anachronox, Jedi Knight DF2 (comes with mysteries of the sith), Classic X com series.
- Comment on One million Australians missing specialist doctor appointments due to cost, report finds 2 months ago:
I used to go to the dentist for annual check ups. Now I have been since 2021. That kind of thing has become a luxury that “one day I’ll have money for it again”.
- Comment on Going back to the roots. 3 months ago:
With Radical Dreamers so you don’t need to patch a snes rom for that either.