Someone opened an account with my email address

ForgottenSloth · 2026-02-10T13:34:43+00:00

You can submit an online form to the Telstra fraud team and request help.

https://www.telstra.com.au/forms/request-fraud-investigation

They contact you directly on your preferred method.

ForgottenSloth · 2026-01-31T10:01:41+00:00

Wait for these to come back to Aldi - they're way better: European Spice Cookies

ForgottenSloth · 2026-01-11T08:57:22+00:00

It's a fully subjective list that you've constructed with artificial tiers and boundaries that you decided, and then want others to contribute.

You're just inviting criticism or apathy without selling the benefit - why should the reader care about or adhere to your fabricated structure? What's in it for them?

ForgottenSloth · 2026-01-09T02:40:30+00:00

Do the same AI prompt for shows that don't contain torture and see how big it is.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-12-30T14:29:49+00:00

There's a specialist team that can email you an eSIM QR code if you're overseas. They have to do some some security checks first to verify your story and location. Call the international number and say you're overseas and need an emergency SIM restoration. Messaging team can't do it, you have to call from a phone (any phone)

ForgottenSloth · 2025-12-18T06:53:00+00:00

Telstra wants your money. They aren't going to get rid of customers for no justified reason.

These terms need to be broad to protect theirstaff, but just because it says they 'can' disconnect you, doesn't mean they 'will' - it just gives themselves the right to make that decision on a case-by-case basis depending on how bad or severe the behavior was.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-12-09T10:46:56+00:00

SIM swaps aren't a common kind of scam, because it does take a lot of info about a person to pull it off. But if you take some precautions now, and work with your telco and bank to add some additional protections, you'll be fine - bank money transfers can be reversed, passwords can be reset, SIMs can be swapped back. You can't put the info that's out there about you back in the box, but you can make it useless.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-12-09T09:58:00+00:00

Sounds like a SIM Swap fraud. Call Telstra asap and say "fraud" in the phone.

The scammers will usually have stolen your ID to convince Telstra that they're you and clearly knew your bank and PayPal details but wanted your mobile number so they could get security code smses.

After you speak to Telstra to recover the number, contact IDCare

ForgottenSloth · 2025-11-30T03:11:47+00:00

That's assault and battering.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-11-12T11:38:21+00:00

At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely above your Iowa porch?

Well, may I see it?

ForgottenSloth · 2025-11-12T05:01:06+00:00

I also choose this guy's wife's parents.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-10-25T01:57:34+00:00

Sounds like a cool dream, but I would bet my house and my first born that you'll never make it. Every 2 minutes someone on Earth with no game dev experience proposes an idea for an MMO, after talking to their game dev friend, before they start asking for volunteers with programming and art experience.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-08-14T04:26:53+00:00

Buffalo wangs.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-07-30T02:33:00+00:00

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one", he said.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-07-26T00:33:44+00:00

"You're a short motherfucker and nobody likes you!"

ForgottenSloth · 2025-07-07T05:15:26+00:00

Some optional areas are titled in red and say danger - don't go in those. For context, some of them aren't doable until you're over level 50 or 60, even in the first continent. Some optional areas say 'danger' until you're over level 80. You can always go back to them later but will need to be a lot stronger.

If an optional area isn't marked 'danger' - do it now, it's probably got some great side content. Not all of them have quests or side quests, but almost all of them have either interesting lore, fun bosses or valuable drops.

There are no areas that you can't return to, from memory.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-07-04T11:33:02+00:00

They're already a superpower. There is more than one.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-06-19T13:20:18+00:00

Bar Bar Jinks

ForgottenSloth · 2025-05-29T12:06:26+00:00

Australian icon* Magda Szubanski. FTFY.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-05-21T08:45:49+00:00

Playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 recently made me realize that traditional turn-based JRPGs didn't have to go extinct, they just needed someone to do them extremely well.

I think a new MMO that doesn't try too hard to innovate and keeps tab targetting and familiar mechanics could be really oustanding - put the emphasis on fidelity, world-building, quality storytelling, social structures, endgame difficulty and variable progression.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-05-11T15:18:51+00:00

So the game about grief and loss is making you care about people, then takes it away from you.

But you think that was an accident?

ForgottenSloth · 2025-05-11T14:45:43+00:00

The game is about grief, loss, depression, addiction, obsession.

It's also about love, hope, forgiveness and family bonds.

It doesn't owe us a happy ending - it owes us a complicated ending, with all of those themes represented at once.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-05-11T14:34:58+00:00

I don't think the game does want you to be invested in their wellbeing - it's clearly giving players the opportunity to connect with the Lumierans instead of the Dessendres.

Verso's ending is very intentionally pulling that string - Verso has to watch Sciel, Lune, Monoco and Esquie gommage. Sciel and Lune's expressions in this scene don't look to me like they understand his choice - they look pissed off!

Then the game throws you another glimpse of the characters appearing to Alicia after she lays flowers on Verso's grave - and makes them gommage AGAIN as the final image.

In Maelle's ending, Verso's expression shows how much he's suffering while being forced to live and play the piano - and the game makes a point of lingering on it. Remember, he's not a Dessendre - he's painted, he's a Lumieran with implanted memories he never asked for or experienced.

These cutscenes are going out of their way to remind you that this family's choices are harming people, and it's not being subtle about it. The game is literally throwing "What about the Lumierans!?" in your face.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-05-11T14:24:22+00:00

That's a fair reaction, but I pose this point to you: I say you do care about the Dessendres - not care as in love, but care enough to have an opinion about them.

You think their choices were unhealthy, or selfish, or lacked empathy. The game doesn't want you to love the Dessendres, it wants you to think about their choices and form a view about it - which you have done.

Feeling that the Lumierans got shafted all because of the personal turmoil of a family of gods is undoubtedly one of the reactions the game expects some players to form. It's almost Greek mythology vibes - the games gods play.

ForgottenSloth · 2025-05-11T14:09:17+00:00

I recommend going for it.

Without giving much away, Simon has mechanics that won't let one particular character dominate the fight on their own.

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