BlueSquid0741

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women go from homeless to 'tiny home' owners with a once-in-a-lifetime deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No mention of the Halle Berry/Jim Belushi classic, Race The Sun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not going to make, are we? ‘People’, I mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With Radical Dreamers so you don’t need to patch a snes rom for that either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aboriginal community shaken by second death in Australian police custody⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s a discussion in bad taste. I don’t really know how to explain more because this should be obvious already why people wouldn’t like seeing it.

  I can present a report on an extremely low LTIFR right after a workplace fatality and watch as I never get to present data in that room again.

  Turning around and saying “but it’s factual!” isn’t going to get a “you’re right. Good job mate”