BlueSquid0741
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- Comment on We need faster speed limits in Australia - and I'm not saying that because I'm a hoon | Opinion - Car News 4 days ago:
Absolutely. I spent the last 4 years commuting 2 1/2 - 3 hours every day on the freeway.
I count my lucky stars that I’m still alive.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Borderlands 1 was great. Phasewalk is easily the best skill.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I just finished Ys 2 (in the Ys Chronicles version) and going to move on Ys -The Oath In Felghana soon.
The only Ys have I played when I was young was Ys 3 -Wanderers From Ys, and I loved it, so it will be cool to see what Oath changes up.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
This one came out, I want to say, around the time of Pillars of Eternity, Divinity Original Sin, Tyranny, Wasteland 2.
Which were all a similar style like that, but Pathfinder was the only one that didn’t get a positive reception. I remember clearly wondering “What does this one do wrong?”
- Comment on Happy new year friendos 3 weeks ago:
I got my LSL, it gets paid out pro-rata. I wouldn’t have been able to make the decision as easily without that for sure.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 4 weeks ago:
I just installed MGS5 and Ground Zeros. Having never played a Metal Gear game, so I might hate it but I want to try.
- Comment on Happy new year friendos 4 weeks ago:
Safety/OHS. I just finished as Melbourne Airport Senior safety adviser. I’ve also done safety in warehouse, transport/logistics, retail supply chain and store operations, aged care facilities.
I love it, but I really want seeing how burned out I was getting. This is the first time since 2010 that I’ve been away from working for more than just a couple of weeks.
- Comment on Happy new year friendos 4 weeks ago:
Big one for me, finding a new job. I quit mine 5 weeks ago, just short of 9 years.
- Comment on New Years Eve 2024 4 weeks ago:
Thank you! Happy new year to you too
- Comment on New Years Eve 2024 4 weeks ago:
The pub here doesn’t open during the week, so no party/noise coming from over that way.
We sat on the verandah for a bit but the mozzies were biting.
Just watched a little bit of tv but my partner can’t keep her eyes open any longer, so we’re tapping out. Not that we’re missing anything out here in the country.
Last night one of my girls was up 6 or 7 times through the night until I eventually went to sleep on her floor. Hoping I get to sleep tonight!
- Comment on What are your most played games? 5 weeks ago:
Terraria
Grim Dawn
Skyrim
Stardew
Borderlands
But this is just steam, doesn’t include all the time I’ve spent running the shadows (Shadowrun on Sega).
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 weeks ago:
Ys 1 & 2 Chronicles. I always liked the idea of Ys as a series, but couldn’t get into it, now I’m forcing myself.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 weeks ago:
My two favourites as well. I never made it far in Torchlight 2 though, once I started getting further in; Grim Dawn came along.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
Bleh. But in the end I don’t expect anything good out of the AAA industry. I goes it’s an exception nowadays whether as gave like this can be good. And I mean, it’s not like I was gonna play it anyway.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
Haha. No, those games give me no frame of reference. But that kind of tells me everything I need to know anyway!
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
Why is that? I played Origins on ps3 but I’ve never played any of the sequels, so I have no idea.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 1 month ago:
What about “heavy handed” makes you think I thought this was a good idea?
- Comment on An unwritten 'country code' is putting Rob's life at risk on the road, and all he's doing is turning right 1 month ago:
I live in an area in regional Victoria where you’ll get behind one of these guys for a 5-10km stretch.
And I grew up in regional NSW where it could be more like 15-20km.
If you’re on the asphalt you overtake if you can see it’s safe to do so as usual, or if the operator can clearly gesture to you, unmistakably, with a hand signal that it’s safe to go around.
I’ve never heard of the right turn signal thing.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 1 month ago:
Have mega corporations like Facebook/meta and Twitter/x been held accountable? Because they’ve resulted in kids killing themselves or developing psychological disorders.
What I’m not seeing is the backlash against those.
Fuck our useless government. Incompetent like most. But I’m so sick of the corpos getting a little bit of outrage and then not only do people move on in short order, but they keep using their platform and generating profit for them.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 2 months ago:
Too many kids die over this shit. The corpos have had, what, 15 years (?) to sort this shit out.
So now we see the heavy handed government regulation coming along. That’s what happens.
- Comment on Bi-weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
I’m fairly sure when you load it up with that dlc active, it warns you that it will be significantly more difficult.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 2 months ago:
Bendigo, mate. This is the Australia group. I know what it was like, my wife was pregnant and on the front lines of COVID response at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 2 months ago:
Implying doctors or the nurses providing the vaccines withheld information around side effects?
I don’t believe that for a moment.
I was given detailed information when getting these vaccines.
And a discussion with my wife who was a nurse at one of the vaccination centres, covering themselves regarding potential side effects was the priority.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 2 months ago:
Ridiculous. All vaccines can have side effects, of course there were going to be people who had adverse responses to the COVID vaccines. Disbelieving people about this is an absolute joke.
- Comment on D008: New pocket-friendly gaming handheld presented with Nintendo 64 and PS1 emulation chops 2 months ago:
And likely this doesn’t either. It’s probably “technically playable”.
- Comment on As a word of caution for those buying physical used games on Bluray, check the disc for holes. 2 months ago:
Send the disc to activision and tell them you need a replacement for this damaged disc. Just to see how it plays out at least.
- Comment on Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series? 2 months ago:
My thoughts on the series:
I used to play the DOS version of NFS1, and it was a blast at the time, but it’s outshined as new games came along.
NFS2se - I only had the demo, but it looked amazing showing off the 3dfx cards. If you play this one, it’s so janky. Absolutely horrendous driving physics, and looking back it was all flash over gameplay.
NFS3 Hit Pursuit. My friend got this for Windows as a “send in a coupon get a free game” deal. So much fun, we spent hours and hours with this.
NFS Porsche 2000. I loved it. I played it so much and for years and years it was my favourite racer.
NFS Underground- my brother had a hacked OG Xbox, so he rented the game and copied it to the hdd. We played this like crazy. I was 18 and just finishing high school if I remember correctly, also my gf had just moved away to the city, so I wasn’t having a good time. This game was a great distraction and super fun.
NFS Underground 2. I played it for a few hours only. I’d moved away from home and was a poor student, so I pirated it. I didn’t like the open world concept so I didn’t play it much.
NFS Hot Pursuit 2010. I got this on PS3 when it was released. I had a lot of fun with it. My partner has the remaster on her Switch, and it’s still a good time.
That’s all I’ve played in the series, and for me the winner was Porsche 2000.
- Comment on The country is done for 2 months ago:
It’s fine. Outside of visiting the United States I never hear anyone say zee. Even the American guys at work say zed.
We explained to our 4 year old, when she was 2, why she might hear zee on tv. She gets it and goes “it’s zed!” when she hears those shows. This is a nothing problem.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 2 months ago:
Telling us how resilient we are isn’t cutting it?
- Comment on Acting more Australian to foreigners for a laugh only to realise I'm being less Australian than I would be with other Australians. 2 months ago:
I grew up in rural NSW and I’ve been called British, New Zealand, American, South African. 🤨
I felt better when I visited friends in the US and ran into some mates from Perth who’d been there a few months and they said “it’s so good to hear an Australian voice again”.
And one of their new US friends heard me talking and were like “oh my God another Australian!”
So it seems to be just people in Melbourne and Sydney can’t pick my accent.