jonesy
@jonesy@aussie.zone
- Comment on Netanyahu doubles down on Albanese attack despite Australian Jewish group urging calm 4 days ago:
I’m glad Albo is standing his ground.
- Comment on Legendary film critic David Stratton dies peacefully aged 85 1 week ago:
The loss of an Aussie institution. I have memories of David and Margaret and their movie reviews when I was growing up.
- Comment on Waypoint Writers Quit Over Removal Of Articles Related To New Steam Policy 5 weeks ago:
Vice really is garbage.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
I don’t know man, I thought he was insufferable then, and after watching this rundown I stand by original opinion of him being an insufferable little gremlin.
- Comment on Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists 1 month ago:
Ah, the most dangerous game of all.
- Comment on Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists 1 month ago:
As the US descends into fascist hellscape this is what members of the Democrats are concerned about? I would trust our commercial kangaroo harvesters to humanely shoot kangaroos far more than the cowboys out there hunting deer and other game in the US.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
I blocked this guy from my YouTube suggestions last year after getting heaps of his videos recommended to me, and in every one he comes across as an insufferable know-it-all.
- Comment on I designed and made a thing! 2 months ago:
ABS generally requires additional additives for UV resistance, and plain ABS will degrade relatively quickly in full sun.
There’s a section in this study on the change in mechanical properties of ABS resins in simulated weather environments …wide-net.org/…/abs-yellowing-etc-CIB9222.pdf
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 3 months ago:
Sonarr has a calendar that shows you airing days of shows you track if you already use that for managing your library
- Comment on Thanks 3 months ago:
Damn, a Monster meme, nice.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 3 months ago:
100%, I think people getting frustrated over the time between GTA 5 and GTA 6 don’t appreciate the time it takes to build a game on this scale. Rockstar definitely deserve credit for the worlds they build and their focus on delivering an exceptional game.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 3 months ago:
Sorry if I came across as nasty, my disdain is entirely with Rockstar and T2. After GTAIV, and the exceptional story and DLC we got many of us were excited to see what DLC was in store for GTAV. To have Rockstar to walk back the planned DLC in favour pushing shark cards and micro-transactions in GTA Online left many of us feeling pretty betrayed at the time.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 3 months ago:
Sensible business decisions definitely make the best games.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 3 months ago:
You mean aside from abandoning RDR Online, cancelling GTA V singleplayer DLC in favour of GTA Online shark cards, intentionally delaying the PC release of GTA V to maximise the number of people who would buy the game more than once because of FOMO, absolute dog shit support and punishing their community by crushing the modding community? I’m not sure.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 months ago:
Welcome to enshittification.
- Submitted 4 months ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned. 4 months ago:
- Comment on Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader 5 months ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v_kTNIYsFnQ You can form your own opinion from this clip.
- Comment on 3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain 6 months ago:
Link was down but this release from NTI has similar info: www.nti-group.com/home/information/…/3dbenchy/
- Comment on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance 6 months ago:
I don’t know, man, I was just making a dumb joke. The article is here: theverge.com/…/google-chromecast-line-discontinue…
- Comment on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance 6 months ago:
How long until individuals start getting listed on killedbygoogle.com
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 9 months ago:
I’m not certain if it’s still the case, but the announcement earlier this year stated the upgrades were being undertaken with no increase to wholesale costs: …com.au/…/nbn-plans-to-accelerate-highest-speed-t…
That’s also not to say that the retailers don’t increase their pricing independent of the wholesale pricing.
- NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025www.nbnco.com.au ↗Submitted 9 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Comment on The Agony And Ecstasy Of The BP6 Dual-CPU Motherboard | Cathode Ray Dude 10 months ago:
Legend of a board, I still have mine in a cupboard.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 10 months ago:
Personally if there’s no technical reason for a game to be exclusive, then I just want that game to be freely available for people to buy on their platform of choice that has the features they want, or supports their values. Personally, I would prefer to see a GOG release over Steam, as I highly value that they allow me to actually download and own my game installers, they have done amazing work making older games playable and accessible on modern systems.
There’s no technical reason for Alan Wake 2 to be an Epic exclusive, it’s simply that Remedy got a financial incentive up front from Epic to release that way. This isn’t Epic trying to compete with other game platforms, but rather betting that by being the only platform to offer the game will be sufficient to attract players.
This has all played out before with other publishers pulling their games from Steam and releasing on their own platforms (Origin, uPlay etc), but both have vome.back as players will simply go and play something else rather than flock to another games.platfork.in which they have no investment. It’s something that even Sony has seen the light on and why we are now seeing historically console exclusive properties coming to PC like God of War and Last of Us.
Steam may be the biggest game in when it comes to games distribution, and monopolies are bad, but to advocate for Epic Games of all companies as an alternative is a weird position to take.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 10 months ago:
Apparently they’re not making enough profit on Epic to avoid taking a loan from Tencent.
Personally, I object to Epic using purchased exclusivity as a tool to gain market share, and refuse to capitulate to approach approach when there’s so many other games to play. If they truly.want to compete with Steam then actually make their marketplace competitive with more social and community features that Steam offers.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 10 months ago:
Another thing that would help is not releasing one of your most anticipated and subsequently well received games in recent memory exclusively on Epic. Still waiting for Alan Wake 2 to release on Steam or Gog guys…
