BlueSquid0741
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- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Peter Dutton for Dickson 4 hours ago:
What are the chances Dutton loses his seat
- Comment on In a difficult year being unemployed, I learned what success really means | Sunil Badami 2 days ago:
I’ve been unemployed since November. It was a time that should have been really happy, and it was for a while, but mostly it’s been the exact kind of stress described by Sunil here.
I start a new job tomorrow morning, it’s only a few months contract, but it’s something.
- Comment on Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds 3 days ago:
In the end, Tacos was the only thing I liked using Quorn for, I think because even with beef mince tacos I would spice it with so much cumin and paprika.
But it was really good for tacos.
When I used it for bolognese, just awful.
- Comment on Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds 3 days ago:
Just putting an opinion out there, I don’t know how widely liked it is. Quorn was not a good alternative (I say this purely based on personal taste).
Started eating it in 2010, but haven’t touched it since 2019 with all the other alternatives that you can easily get now.
Coles branded seitan was really our favourite but they discontinued it.
Anyway, the amount of stuff I always had to add to Quorn to make it taste alright… what a time.
But yeah, I’m a meat eating guy and my partner is vegetarian, but for a while now I’ve been mixing it up with fake meats to try and eat less red meat.
- Comment on Does Anyone Else Find the Sega Genesis' Sound Annoying? 1 week ago:
I love it. Even GEMS stuff people always complain about - Chakan has some of my favourite vgm ever.
To me, the SNES was terrible sounding. Awful muffled music, or some really good composition but then the SNES puts so much reverb on it that’s all you could hear. It’s not all bad, but mostly. Especially the Final Fantasy games sounded very nice.
- Comment on Stop Skeletons from Fighting got 16 Player Faceball working on Gameboy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t care about faceball 2000 but I want to see Uncle Derek, so I will absolutely watch it
- Comment on Choking during sex: many young people mistakenly believe it can be done safely, our study shows 2 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking christ.
- Comment on Mid game review: Life is Strange 2 (2018) PS5 2 weeks ago:
I want a fan of the first one, but I really liked Before The Storm.
This one I didn’t quite like as much, but I thought it was really good. And I think your review is spot on too.
- Comment on Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke? 2 weeks ago:
Dr Light
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen it cited that the sovcit movement exists in 26 countries
- Comment on Pre-ablo: Diablo prerelease demo patched for modern systems 1 month ago:
But you can’t but an early build of Diablo that was basically a “snapshot of the entire game 4 months prior to release”.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 1 month ago:
The original Transport Tycoon was distributed as shareware, would have been 95 or 96 when I was playing it off a shareware disc.
Not sure if TTD got a shareware release too, but i got that one as a retail boxed version.
But for 94 or 95 if you didn’t have a shareware version then your game was pretty much doomed.
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 1 month ago:
I urge people to keep a handheld radio on their shelf with a couple of good batteries in it. Just a speaker and an analogue tuner.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 1 month ago:
I think this question just fried my brain. I don’t even know where to start.
Most played shareware of all time though was probably Transport Tycoon.
- Comment on The toothbrush is all I've ever been able to see (Friday the 13th, NES, 1989) 1 month ago:
Friday the 13th you go around camp Crystal lake, trying to find children in cabins before Jason gets them. Occasionally you have to fight him as in the picture, or on a 2d plane if you run into him outside the cabins.
Elm Street you run around the neighbourhood going into different houses, I think the goal is trying to find pieces of Freddy so you can destroy him, but I’ve not played it as much so can’t really remember very well.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 1 month ago:
Mega Drive 1 and 2, they both looked awesome
- Comment on 1 month ago:
What kind of projector did you use?
- Comment on ‘The world’s changed – Australia needs to keep up’: Foxtel’s Patrick Delany rails against broadcasting law 1 month ago:
I can’t believe nothing was done about the gambling advertising. It’s gotten ridiculously out of hand, almost comically so.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Pokémon Soul Silver on melon DS with my daughter.
Just started Tony Hawk 1+2 remake last night. I had THPS2 on pc, but I don’t have any nostalgia for the first have and those stages are bumming me out. I’m thinking I should just skip it and play the THPS2 sections.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 month ago:
It’s maybe not so bad, but I spent ridiculous hours in POD, playing every track and in reverse, and with every car, and split screen multiplayer.
I’ve never been able to get it to work with dgVoodoo, so the 3dfx crispness isn’t there. And I think it’s limited to 800x600 (but I remember it being somewhat prone to crashes above 640x480, this was about 10 years ago though). I also had a lot of audio popping which I couldn’t figure out what was wrong.
It was such a great looking game to show off the Glide graphics on a 15” svga monitor, but for me it didn’t scale well on a 24 - 27” hi res screen.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 month ago:
It’s on my wish list.
Along with some of the other throwback racers/rally games recently, I wish some dev who idolised Rally Championship was giving them a go. They all seem to want to target Sega Rally with a bit of Colin McRae sprinkled in. Which is still good, I love rally wherever I can get it.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 month ago:
Road Rash and Skitchin are great. The Ayrton Senna games too, but I played those on Master System.
Network Q RAC Rally Championship on DOS is as good as it gets. Not the sequel International Rally Championship, which is far worse.
POD on Windows 9x. It has not held up and doesn’t look so good no matter how you get it working now. But if you played it back then those memories will live inside you forever.
Badlands on Commodore 64.
Moto Roader 2 on PC Engine.
NFS Porsche Unleashed/2000 (whatever they called it in your region) is the best NFS game.
- Comment on You know what Mega Man needs? A gun and the face of a middle-aged smoker. 2 months ago:
1987
- Comment on Who's making older games so expensive? 2 months ago:
You can make many backup copies of your rom collection. Not so with old discs that are not reading, or carts suffering from bitrot or physical damage.
With retro gaming; emulation IS the way forward. Physical media is more of a display piece for nostalgia maniacs, or an investment for speculators.
- Comment on Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic 2 months ago:
2 and 3 are both the best, and still going hard with fheroes2 and vcmi if anyone hasn’t chomped into them in a while.
- Comment on We need faster speed limits in Australia - and I'm not saying that because I'm a hoon | Opinion - Car News 2 months 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 months ago:
Borderlands 1 was great. Phasewalk is easily the best skill.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months 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 months 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 months 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.