thatKamGuy
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- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 6 hours ago:
As a non-Trekkie, I found it enjoyable enough… ditto with Discovery (at least the first season).
I just picked those two because they were literally my introduction to Star Trek TV series, and I know both are quite divisive in the community…
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 6 hours ago:
I think that was the one that started in an ice zone, if I remember correctly? I literally couldn’t get past it because I find that aesthetic quite boring…
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 12 hours ago:
Understood; starting with Picard and Discovery first!
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 14 hours ago:
I played the hell out of the first Borderlands (including New Game+ across all expansions), but promptly bounced off 2 & Pre-Sequel because it literally just felt like more of the same and I was already sated.
BL3 and now BL4 are literally just more of the same, but with ever increasingly more egregious monetisation.
- Comment on Social media platforms will not be required to prove accuracy of under-16 bans 1 day ago:
Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are your best bets currently - they’re not perfect, and who knows for how much longer…
- Comment on Social media platforms will not be required to prove accuracy of under-16 bans 1 day ago:
I wonder how long it will be until we run out of sane countries we could VPN into, in order to avoid all of this nonsense.
- Comment on Yoshi and the Mysterious Book - Announcement Trailer 4 days ago:
Not the Yoshi’s Island 2 we deserved, but the Yoshi’s Island 2 we needed.
Still won’t give Nintendo a cent of my money, so I look forward to emulating this at some point in the not too distant future.
- Comment on Terry Irving awarded $130,000 after decades fighting for justice over five years of wrongful imprisonment 5 days ago:
IKR, it’s such a disrespectfully low sum!
The absolute floor that should have been awarded ought to be the equivalent of 5yrs of minimum wage for 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, including overtime, weekend and public holiday penalty rates, indexed to inflation for ever year since his incarceration.
…and even then, I would still be frustrated that it was only minimum wage!
- Comment on Terry Irving awarded $130,000 after decades fighting for justice over five years of wrongful imprisonment 5 days ago:
I mean, you wouldn’t be looking your best either if you had to spend five years falsely imprisoned and then decades more fighting for vindication.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 1 week ago:
If you can’t impress them with your skills, intimidate them with your weaponry!
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 1 week ago:
Good luck, God speed, and remember:
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 1 week ago:
All good, I’m currently lodging a patent on lodging patents for a system for summoning a character.
See you in court, Nintendo!
P.S.: I’m also lodging a patent for a system of pirating every single game on a Nintendo platform (past, present and future), however I will be opening that one up to the public once granted.
- Comment on New NAPLAN results demand better deal for public schools 1 week ago:
Our kid is due to enter primary school in a few years time, and the debate in our household is whether we can afford private, vs. moving to a catchment for a Top-50 ranked public school school, vs. using that money towards private tuition.
But it all feels like we’re just putting a lot more pressure on this generation to perform and succeed than what we had growing up. Surely that’s going to do more damage to them in the long term than any funding shortfall?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I’m ok with there being a conversation on this topic, even if the arguments devolve to ‘waaah’ vs. ‘git gud’.
Ultimately though, I agree that a small dev team shouldn’t have to focus on a game-mode outside their vision - and any such demand for an easy-mode or other additions can and should be left up to mod makers.
It’s a single-player game, so in the end how the individual user wants to play is how they should be able to play.
- Comment on ‘A fundamental part of growing up’: Why Aussie kids can’t swim any more 1 week ago:
Good question, actually!
I was educated through Catholic institutions in inner-Melbourne, and vividly remember taking swim classes in primary school. I’m sure they handed out some form of certificate of completion, but those would have probably been just a Xerox copy and nothing accredited or formal.
Similar to you, most of my ability to swim came from summers at the local public pool or beaches.
We also had the same competitive swim carnivals in high-school; and it was just taken at face value that every student could swim (and they could).
We also had some swim-focused PE classes if I remember correctly, but I could also be confusing them with swim club as it was so long ago.
Long story short, I don’t actually know how they actually track this metric either - but it does seem a bit wishy-washy, ‘ey?
- Comment on Caged eggs to stay on supermarket shelves until 2030 as Coles abandons pledge 1 week ago:
- Comment on @jack_toohey on why the housing crisis is not caused by migration 1 week ago:
Numbers can lie, or at the very least obfuscate the truth. Consider the following, as an example:
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Families are having fewer children, so the average number of people per home has dropped (eg. from 4/home to 3/home). That would mean we need 33% more homes just to account for the same population.
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New housing stock may not meet needs; a tonne of studio, 1 bedroom inner city apartments may not be suitable for the above families, so demand for existing stock just increases.
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- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
Activision/Blizzard have frequently had game launches where their servers were unavailable due to demand.
But that’s probably more due to terrible network infrastructure, than overwhelming demand!
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 week ago:
Can’t; you are objectively correct.
- Comment on Australian film and TV industry calling on content quotas to revitalise struggling local scene 2 weeks ago:
I will admit that I don’t know of about half of those shows, but: Round the Twist!!! Thanks for unlocking that memory 😁
Might as well add Lift-Off, The Ferals and Feral TV, along with Blinky Bill. Clearly we were spoilt for choice in the ‘90s…
As an aside, it does feel like the local music industry has gone much the same way?
- Comment on Australian film and TV industry calling on content quotas to revitalise struggling local scene 2 weeks ago:
Maybe a few more conditions, mainly towards scripted content, so we don’t just end up with a glut of locally produced game shows, reality TV and panel shows.
We are more than capable of producing world-class content, even if my sleep-deprived parent brain can only think of The Wiggles and Blue right now…
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
In theory, hardware like this is designed to function as a solar sink, utilising surplus production during peak hours when storage devices (batteries, dams, etc.) are fully charged.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
I thought they’d absolutely love objects without flared bases - keeps them employ, and entertained!
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 2 weeks ago:
As a bit of a thought exercise, I went through every mainline GTA game using that website to get an idea of each title’s respective headcount:
- GTA : 86 people (DOS)
- GTA2 : 170 professional roles (Windows)
- GTA3 : 185 professional roles (PS2)
- GTA:VC : 688 professional roles (PS2)
- GTA:SA : 780 people (PS2)
- GTA4 : 1,333 professional roles (PS3)
- GTA5 : 3,686 professional roles (X360)
So while the general headcount growth over time tends to track, as each generation of platform requires more and more people to churn out higher fidelity content, I can’t help but wonder what portion of that headcount is just there to churn out micro transaction and Games-as-a-Service garbage.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get how/why it’s still profitable for them to keep working on it - but I’m in full support.
It’s not to dissimilar to Minecraft in a number of ways, in a sense - there’s not really any drive to do anything in particular, it’s ultimately up to the player to do what they feel like.
It’s a literal sandbox, rather than a narrative experience. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, that’s perfectly fine!
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 2 weeks ago:
According to the Diablo IV credits, over 9,500 people worked on that title in some capacity:
- Comment on PS5 may get more price increases in the US, analyst warns 3 weeks ago:
…and so it fucking should; the more pain average Americans feel, the better - honestly.
We are less than 8 months into this administration, and they are already doing their damnedest to rat-fuck the elections in an effort to fully seize power for at least a generation and remake the nation in their own twisted vision.
The last chance left to stop this takeover is the 2026 midterms, and the GOP are already pulling out all of the stops to stop that from happening:
- Gerrymandering the absolute shit out of Texas
- Closing polling booths in locations likely to vote against the GOP
- Imposing voter identification laws to further disenfranchise ‘undesirables’
- Rail against mail-in ballots to further suppress turnout
Hopefully the dam breaks and inflation well and truly begins to run away - so that the majority of the population feel the impact of this President’s policies to their wallets, and vote out his lapdogs and lackeys.
If not, then the nation and its people are truly lost and more expensive consoles are going to be the least of your worries.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
The actual history of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is actually needlessly complicated - primarily due to a (somewhat) successful sabotage attempt by our Conservative government in the early 2010s.
But basically, every single new home is built with Fiber to the Home, and every single metropolitan and suburban home either has Fiber to the Home (or Premises), or at the very least Fiber to the Curb through a remediation process to replace the Conservative-implemented Fiber to the Node boondoggle.
We also have a number of neighbourhoods stuck with HFC (again due to Conservstice sabotage) which while still delivering 100+ Mbit connections - are a bit of a technical dead end and will need to be remediated at some point in the future.
Basically, nbnCo serves as a national broadband wholesaler providing high speed connectivity (100, 250, 500, Gigabit) to something like >95% of the population.
The most remote communities are also serviced either through a fixed wireless option or satellite.
Basically though, unlike the US we don’t have a significant number of people still on dial-up and haven’t had so for a very long time.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
Heck, even opting for median age over the mean would work in this case!
- Comment on Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve 3 weeks ago:
Until a viable alternative is introduced to replace the defunct RedCycle program - best we can do is try to try to minimise - ie. only get the biggest bags of products (or try and make your own at home), or whenever possible get the ones in hard clamshells.
But yes, it’s depressing to see just how much plastic waste we produce currently - especially knowing what we know now about microplastics - compared to the 90s and earlier.
