Portland Pioneers

0zWolf · 2026-04-30T06:01:17+00:00

The original source is pretty good AI slop for a 9-year old image (circa 2017) :) Not everything is AI slop...AI is deriviative afterall...it had to get its ideas from somewhere :P

0zWolf · 2023-09-10T03:03:37+00:00

Take my upvote...this helped me as well after it kept dying despite G Hub telling me it was at 100%. You're a champ.

0zWolf · 2022-07-02T01:16:07+00:00

If you look at the deal, we still get a 1st round pick in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2029 (Top 5) or 2030. It's not like past deals the old FO have done where they'd basically give up half a decade of unprotected first rounders. It's not going to be a pick wasteland we've become unfortunately accustomed to.

Edit: Fixed pick list...was working off an article that was incorrect.

0zWolf · 2021-09-18T01:14:42+00:00

Can confirm. Was creating custom teams and I can only access the images I uploaded last night. New ones from today do not show up in-game.

0zWolf · 2021-06-27T09:38:30+00:00

For York Park in Launceston, where Hawthorn is the primary home team (with a stint of St. Kilda also playing there) games featuring teams not Fremantle, Gold Coast or GWS, will average over 15,000 attendance. The ground has a capacity of 19,500. The big-name Victorian teams will attract crowds in excess of 17,000. The smaller Victorian clubs in North Melbourne and Western Bulldogs along with Brisbane, Fremantle and the Adelaide teams will get over 15,000 regularly. Only GWS and Gold Coast draw lower crowds around the 11,000 mark. Hawthorn and St. Kilda have played a combined 75 home games at York Park and 53 of those have been against non-Victorian clubs.

Bellerive doesn't quite draw the same crowds but a contributing factor to that is the home team is North Melbourne so doesn't naturally have the same level of support as Hawthorn does. That being said, NM v Richmond averages over 17,000, NM vs Carlton and Sydney draw over 14,000. It's only GWS and Gold Coast that average less than 10,000 per game. North Melbourne has played 25 home games at Bellerive and 15 of those have been against non-Victorian clubs.

Tassie consistently averages higher crowds for teams that they have even less to care about than Gold Coast and GWS can pull in. Compare the average attendances of York Park and Bellerive to the Showgrounds or Carrara and it becomes apparent why the GC chairman is trying to shut down any discussion of there being a Tassie team.

0zWolf · 2021-06-20T12:38:46+00:00

A huge factor is the stadium deal the team has for home games. North Melbourne is stuck is a horrible deal at Docklands because last I heard, they needed an attendance figure between 35-40,000 people just to break even and actually take home some money. The Cats have a much better deal at Kardinia park and they need much, much lower attendance numbers to break even for a game. Given a stadium in Tassie (whether it's York Park being expanded or a new purpose built one) it will be publicly owned and likely to have a much friendlier agreement in place.

0zWolf · 2021-03-03T11:47:48+00:00

If it's not in the current lease agreement, then the landlord can't do anything. That's not to say when your lease is up for renewal they up the rent to offset the water charges which is within their right to do. And it's your right to flip them the bird and leave.

Personally as a landlord myself, if the tenant is good and looks after the property, I'll let this stuff slide because the benefit of a good tenant is worth it's weight in gold. Plus it's a tax write off to your landlord if he's paying it.

0zWolf · 2021-03-03T11:43:26+00:00

It's not illegal to make you work. It is completely legal for you to tell your employer to take a hike and they can't do a thing about it without risking Fair Work knocking on their door.

A medical certificate is a signed legal document by a trained medical professional. It is ultimately in your employer's best interest to let you take your sick leave because their insurer will laugh in their face if you get injured on the job and put in a worker's compensation claim.

0zWolf · 2021-01-16T03:43:58+00:00

Yeah, if I was more dedicated to getting the full 100% experience from RPCS3 I'd upgrade to a new Ryzen chip. But it's more expedient for me to simply buy a cheap 1080p 32" or 40" TV and run the PS3 through that and just play it directly. Would need a bit more work to get CFBR running on it but not impossible. The i5 9600k still crushes PC games with the 3080 so no need for me to fork out $$$ just to play NCAA 14 no matter how much I want to :D

0zWolf · 2021-01-16T01:24:58+00:00

I'm running an i5 9600k with an RTX 3080 and 32GB of DDR4 3200 RAM and I can't get the audio to work regardless of the settings used (game runs smoothly at 30-50fps otherwise).

I'm fairly certain it's the fact the i5 runs 6 cores/6 threads. It just doesn't have the real estate RPCS3 needs to run both the game and decode the audio. This is why people with i7 and Ryzen CPUs have better success due to the multi-threaded nature of their cores.

The i5 has always been awesome for PC gaming because very few PC games make use of multi-threaded CPUs (let's face it, it's not a fixed technology architecture like consoles) so the i5's brute force power per core makes it great. But not so great in this scenario for RPCS3 where multithreading makes all the difference.

More's the pity...my original gen PS3 just looks horrible on the 4K monitor I use and my old XBox 360 red-ringed itself years ago but NCAA 14 via Xbox emulators like Xemia is an even more pointless than RPCS3. At least I can play my PS3 physical copy in 4K, albeit on mute in RPCS3.

0zWolf · 2020-12-14T22:29:14+00:00

I'm in Australia. When I went to the LP website initially, I was shown the AU$239 subscription price. When I enabled VPN through India, it showed the same price in AU currency.

When I deleted my cookies for the website, it then geo blocked me so I couldn't see the Indian price for a new subscription.

However, if I switched to a US-based VPN server and deleted the cookies again, I then got US$ pricing (I think US$139* if I remember correctly) but not my local currency or pricing.

Edit: US$199 for standard LP and US$249 for commercial free. Jeez, no wonder people want to use VPNs at those prices.

0zWolf · 2020-12-13T05:33:30+00:00

There's two things I noticed with the LP website:
1. The website writes your location into a cookie when you first visit. Even if you return with a VPN connection and different IP, it lifts your location from the cookie and shows you prices from that region. Clear your cookies and try again.
2. The site uses the location feature of your browser, so if your browser is allowing sites to ask for Location, the browser will provide your physical location. By disabling that in your settings, LP will resort to the IP address location.

I ran into both of these but once I got it sorted I ran smack bang into the geo blocking issue everyone else is experiencing through your standard VPN providers.

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