joelfromaus
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Australian Petition - Open for Signature Until **20 May 2024** 1 week ago:
I’m doing my part 👍
- Comment on India's Modi government operated 'nest of spies' in Australia before being disrupted by ASIO 2 weeks ago:
It’s even funnier when you look at the essay of an article. The bot did the equivalent of forming an opinion from the title.
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 3 weeks ago:
Signed! We need reform on how aging games are handled to protect ownership of paid products and the only way publishers will do that is if they’re forced to.
- Comment on Nerd Update 20/4/24 3 weeks ago:
“Get out ‘o me swap!”
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- Comment on Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later? 4 weeks ago:
All of the lemmy.world communities I follow are showing weird imo. All the posts still appear on my feed but with a single upvote and no comments.
It’s a bit of a shame because a lot of the more active communities I’m subscribed to are lemmy.world ones so it’s not as easy as finding alternatives.
- Comment on When historians are trying to credit the invention of generative AI, they may have to hunt down that one social media post that started the "use only auto-complete to finish this sentence" trend. 4 weeks ago:
The original LLM.
- Comment on rejuvination 4 weeks ago:
Drums. Drums in the deep. They are coming.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
Don’t forget Steam Link! It’s one of my favourite features. You’re not even really tethered to any particular device to play your games since so many devices support the app. I play games that are single-player “console” style games in my lounge room for comfort and Steam Link means I can use my very good PC instead of buying into yet another console generation.
- Comment on Calling things "fat" or "heavy" is fattist. We should all say "rotund" instead. 2 months ago:
And last night her and I were getting hot and rotund.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
It’s only eating out if it’s 69%, otherwise it’s just sparkling oral.
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 3 months ago:
No you don’t understand, this 9-to-5 job that’s slowly but surely wearing me down is just a stepping stone to my millions of $$. That’s why I keep voting for tax breaks for the rich; because I’ve just been temporarily down on my luck for 30 years. /s
- Comment on 'Dark day for Tasmania's harness racing': Long-awaited report makes findings of race fixing, animal abuse 3 months ago:
Whaaat. Jeez, no. I’m shocked, shocked to the core, this is my shocked face right now. Just wow, who could’ve thought.
- Comment on Man accused of sending 17 million scam texts in a week also allegedly had passport and licence details 3 months ago:
His wife met him outside court and as Mr Su picked up a small child, she demanded the media stop filming the child.
Real classy people. Hope they through the book at this guy, the amount of SMS phishing scams the last couple of years have been absolutely ridiculous.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 4 months ago:
“Cancel culture is running rampant!” - Peter Dutton discussing Peter Dutton, probably.
- Comment on If Skull and Bones came out and was a 10/10 what would your user review look like? 4 months ago:
Before I go into this I want to preface that I love Sea of Thieves (SoT) and it is almost definitely my most played game.
It’s funny that SoT is a culmination of pretty much all of the worst parts of gaming business culture lately and is still a great game. It’s a game as a service, has a cosmetic micro transaction store, premium currency, predatory micro transactions (change character appearance or ship name), released with bare bones features and constantly introducing bugs with every update. And yet it’s also one of the biggest success stories using all of those components. It wasn’t abandoned like some games as a service cash-grabs, the game has quadrupled in features and content, the cosmetics are (mostly) kept well on-brand for the universe and the team regularly communicates regarding both success and failures.
With all of that in mind; ever since I started playing SoT (a week after release RIP Day 1 eye patch) I’ve had a few mates, who’ve never played SoT, tell me it’s a shit game and that Skull and Bones will be a much better game in a
monthyearwhen it comes out.I’m always excited to see good games produced even when I’m not intending to play them but Skull and Bones certainly seems like it’ll be another cookie cutter POS game shat out to claim tax on the loss and shut down some time after. Thank goodness we have at least one good pirate game that’s still going strong.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 5 months ago:
I stopped using wired headphones before I had a device without a headphone jack.
I found the cord infuriating, always seemed to get caught or tangled on things, always making sensitive skin contact (like just beneath my jawline) where I was forever readjusting it and sometimes the cords lifted the headphone out of my ear.
Conversely, I’ve had three pairs of wireless headphones. First pair didn’t like getting christened in the washing machine, second pair is still going strong and third pair are AirPod Pros I bought before a flight for the noise cancellation which are also going strong. Maybe I’ve outsmarted the whole of Apple’s engineering/marketing department but I’ve never felt like the sets I’ve had are underperforming on battery life and have no reason to buy sets to replace the working ones I have. The small conveniences, like not being tethered to my phone and freedom from cords, have absolutely made the change to wireless worth it to me.
The biggest and most obvious downside against wireless headphones is compatibility and price.
- Comment on Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says 5 months ago:
Everytime I consider buying an EV I do some research and they always seem to have all of the bells and whistles. Then I get to price and it’s like $60,000+ and I can’t help but wonder how much cheaper it could be without all of the added features.
- Comment on i still cant get over how PG the Astral Lounge is. 5 months ago:
You mean dropping LSD in real life doesn’t just cause your vision to go wibbly-wobbly?
- Comment on i still cant get over how PG the Astral Lounge is. 5 months ago:
Naked, furry, terraphorph clowns?
- Comment on YSK: Pro Publica has a tool that lets you request documentation of why your health insurer denied your claim 5 months ago:
A message for Australians too unfortunately. The LNP (our right-wing party) made efforts within their time in power to coax people into using private insurance and punishing those who do not. And unfortunately even with the more centre-left party in power it doesn’t seem like the public system is getting much more love.
- Comment on Deep Rock Galactic: November Maintenance Update 5 months ago:
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!! ⛏️⛏️⛏️
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 6 months ago:
WH40K: Darktide. In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium I am so F-ed in the A.
- Comment on I'm not kidding when I say for the FIRST time I actually can grasp the size 7 months ago:
Hey, no need to be silly! I do wonder what it is in thousandths of an inch though. The true freedom unit!
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 7 months ago:
Sure am, iOS 17.0.3. Didn’t work on the 17 beta either nor in 16 or the 16 beta. Also doesn’t matter whether it’s coming from a Pixel or Samsung Galaxy.
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 7 months ago:
Doesn’t look like it does.
- Comment on Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core - Teaser Trailer 7 months ago:
FOR KARL!
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 7 months ago:
Sweet home %DEFAULT_CITY, where the skies are so %DEFAULT_COLOUR
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 listed for Nintendo Switch on ratings board’s website | VGC 7 months ago:
They’re reconfiguring the game as on on-rails shooter. /s
- Comment on Now that we've had SF for a bit, what do you think? Good, flawed, bad? 7 months ago:
I was pretty conflicted about the game. The story and world was a bit cookie-cutter but enjoyable. I really enjoyed the combat but I often had trouble finding… well, trouble. Then a friend spoiled the ending of the game and the NG+ stuff and (without spoiling) it was a lot like another game which was also pretty boring ending.
After having it spoiled the day after Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 released I decided to switch to that and (I need to stress this is my opinion!) but it’s a such a better game. Characters, world building, writing, combat. Just so much better, I even cried at the first major character death again!
Maybe I’ll go back to Starfield eventually but not for a while at least.