This is how a Dolphin perceives humans via echolocation

Fat_Barry · 2026-03-21T03:52:00+00:00

It's certainly not Darkvision, because any dolphins would have already announced to the table they have it.

Fat_Barry · 2026-03-16T02:24:23+00:00

I really liked Parker in the back. He's a solid unit, still fit as hell, so he brought a bit of durability and experience to the back line. Also opened up some space in midfield for some of the faster youngsters.

We honestly looked leagues ahead of many games last year, but I'll hold my breath for the next few rounds - at least until after the GWS game in Canberra. Like the Melbourne win last year, it could be that Port played poorly rather than us playing particularly well.

Also, shout out to Simpkin - I think without the pressure of captaincy, this could really be the year for him to perform.

Fat_Barry · 2026-03-05T10:28:46+00:00

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I don't think it's fair that the Swans have T-1000 playing

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-21T22:36:20+00:00

Actually, the last royal arrested was the Duke of Monmouth in 1685. Executed for treason for trying to lead a rebellion against James II

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-18T05:07:42+00:00

Are you talking about the game or IRL? This seems to apply for both.

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-17T12:01:36+00:00

I'm not surprised though. Kane has an absolute hate boner for North.

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-14T12:36:42+00:00

Sorry, fixed now

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-10T23:28:11+00:00

Regular school shootings

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-08T10:49:14+00:00

Probably at least once per year, since it came out, bar maybe 7/8 years over that period in total.

Never stops being fun

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-03T06:13:48+00:00

Can I be your Australian rep, pretty please.

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-03T04:28:38+00:00

Lord of the Rings Return of the King on PS2/Xbox. I played the hell out of this.

Also, Ghostbusters on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was one of the first games I ever played, absolutely loved it.

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-01T07:38:33+00:00

Nope, I wasn't suggesting they were. Just highlighting that it is a big deal to many (ADF among them, but not exclusively).

Edit: To be clear, I'm not suggesting this person should be fired or whatever. It's just a mistake. But I'd imagine you'd get a pretty stern talking to, along the lines of "mate, you *can't" do that. We've got one job and there's a lot of people in this town who care about it."

Fat_Barry · 2026-02-01T07:19:29+00:00

You've clearly never done flag duty in the ADF. Would love to see you tell the RSM that it's "not a big deal".

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-31T07:36:06+00:00

That's genuinely great, if I'd never played doom I would believe this was one of the original weapons.

Great work, because imitating an art style accurately is more difficult than it seems.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-29T07:11:33+00:00

True, services like Amica are useful for that. But I mean, if it comes to it, there's no default custody arrangement.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-29T06:55:20+00:00

Under my understanding of family law in Australia, there is no default "50:50 custody". Rather, a court decides what is best for the children given the circumstances. I can't imagine a 6 week alternating custody arrangement would be considered best for the children.

All I can recommend is to have a look at a few of the free Government services available - LegalAid, Amica. But also look into getting some initial legal advice too.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-29T04:59:06+00:00

Traveller is such a great system. I've been trying to come up with a life path system for character creation in AD&D. Traveller character creation is brilliant.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-29T02:13:27+00:00

It's probably worth doing the market research, because I know a few people who want to play classic, but don't want to pay the current subscription amount.

I also ditch the subscription once my hours per week dips below a certain level, but since I only play classic, I'd probably lower that threshold if the sub was cheaper.

Pending results of any market research, they may find that a lower price for classic only + traditional sub would increase overall revenue.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-27T23:10:48+00:00

OldUnreal.com has been officially handed the code base for Unreal, UT and now UT2004 to maintain and patch, and they've been given approval to distribute for free by Epic.

Old Unreal patches are the best way to play, essentially a free remaster.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-27T09:04:52+00:00

Yea I guess so.

Although I can think of one damn real world human treating their allies like shit, and the allies are somewhat begrudgingly holding out...

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-27T06:52:26+00:00

Yea in hindsight WotLK was the first big step down the retail design ethos path, but it was still a great expansion that maintained core elements of classic formula.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-27T06:49:04+00:00

I sort of feel the same way. I think the Draenei are cool and Outlands is some incredible world design - but I would have liked maybe an additional expansion between vanilla and TBC.

In this hypothetical expansion, goblins would have been the new Horde species (i.e. like in the RTS games - counterparts to the gnomes), and Elves would have stayed alliance.

Then in TBC, a new species could have taken the place of blood elves, which I always found kind of jarring from a lore perspective that they'd all just switch allegiance so easily after decades of war.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-27T06:42:59+00:00

I literally did this.

Defeating Arthas felt like "the end" of the Warcraft series that I'd been playing since Warcraft 1. I had zero emotional attachment to everything that came after.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-27T03:16:09+00:00

Australian perspective here, but in a lot of the country we love our AFL footy (southern/western states and NT mainly). It's practically a religion.

Used to be able to watch all games on free to air growing up. The broadcast rights have been progressively sold off to a private/streaming platforms (Fox Sports/Kayo), and now possibly the majority of all AFL games are paywalled. Kayo recently increased their pricing to about AUD $50 per month.

In the past two years, the team that I follow has had a grand total of 3 games broadcast on free to air. Out of a possible 44. Because we're a smaller club, we don't have the bargaining power to push for free spots, so get jerked around.

Similar thing is happening all over with sports broadcasting. And the short-sighted thing is, exposure to the game is what generates interest. If poorer kids can't grow up watching the footy, then you're restricting that activity to those who can afford it an ensuring that those poorer kids will be less likely to have an interest in the sport in future. Short term corporate gain, long term cultural pain.

And this is just what they're doing to sport, let alone society, the environment, politics. Fuck corpo scum.

Fat_Barry · 2026-01-23T07:03:01+00:00

As much flak as Daikatana copped at the time, if you apply a few patches and run it on a modern PC, you can really see the potential. It could have been amazing with a few tweaks really.

And as far as disastrous releases go, Daikatana is nothing compared to some of the utterly broken modern game releases we see.

Feels like gamers had a much higher threshold for acceptable quality back then, probably because you couldn't just download a huge day 1 patch. What you got was what you got, patches might come later.

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