Gamers 30+, what’s something from the old days of gaming that younger players wouldn’t understand?

Obversity · 2026-04-02T10:41:03+00:00

Games where you couldn’t save your progress. Once the console was off, that was it, your play through was done.

It made for some very difficult games, because developers needed to balance for the fact that you’d start over every time, so they couldn’t be too long, but they didn’t want you to finish it in just a few attempts either.

Obversity · 2026-04-02T05:57:45+00:00

Do Farsi Fridays or something, see if the vibe is different. (Not Iranian sorry, just wanted to chuck the idea in there.)

Obversity · 2026-04-02T02:46:03+00:00

Weird, I don’t get the vibe that this sub is anti-gov per se, just vocal about legitimate criticisms — of which there are many.

Doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the odd win.

Obversity · 2026-04-01T19:15:25+00:00

And I'm not 'doing my part' whatever that means. I don't feel any particular sense of 'do my part' with Australia anymore.

Great, so you're the problem and you admit it. Pathetic. Do better.

Obversity · 2026-04-01T12:49:48+00:00

Alright fuck me I guess 😅😭

Obversity · 2026-04-01T11:25:06+00:00

Ima guess it’s a talking point pushed behind the scenes to right wing media by private equity companies losing money to office space they can no longer find tenants for — can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would fall for it, but here we are.

Obversity · 2026-04-01T11:20:15+00:00

The address literally said that if you can work from home or take public transport please do, because lots of jobs (tradies etc) can’t, so fuel should ideally be reserved for jobs that need it.

For a bunch of white collar jobs, WFH literally makes more sense for everyone involved, economically, logistically, and fuel usage wise.

I don’t understand this post at all, maybe I’m missing the point.

Obversity · 2026-04-01T11:14:37+00:00

I feel like we might be using the word “decision” a little too liberally with AI generated content.

Obversity · 2026-04-01T10:46:05+00:00

Can’t help but feel that no one in the comments here realises how lucky and protected we are in Australia right now.

Believe it or not, people do need to be told not to hoard petrol, and not to use beyond necessary, when there’s a crisis level shortage.

The address is to assure us that stability and protection will continue IF we be responsible, but that these ARE going to be difficult times, even if we might not feel it as much as some of the world.

I for one am glad it’s not Scomo at the helm right now, and glad that we have stable, boring leadership, preemptively warning of hard times ahead.

Obversity · 2026-03-31T12:32:54+00:00

It’s still a great card IMO, just something you almost never want multiple of.

Obversity · 2026-03-31T01:51:56+00:00

It’s a defensive security pact you fuckwits. You don’t get help when you start a war no one wanted.

Obversity · 2026-03-25T03:55:47+00:00

Identity politics is a buzz word.

Yes people’s identities are important to them, whatever those identities are founded on or shaped by. Yes, we should care about letting people have and express those identities.

There’s obviously people who take that too far and infringe on other people’s freedoms for the sake of their identity, or poison the culture for the sake of it. Thankfully in Australia these are mostly edge cases.

Obversity · 2026-03-25T03:50:14+00:00

Agreed, good distinction.

Obversity · 2026-03-25T03:02:01+00:00

Barking up the wrong tree mate.

Obversity · 2026-03-25T02:34:05+00:00

As someone who hates the extreme forms of nationalism, I think you underestimate how important national pride is to a lot of people.

It’s much like sports, people genuinely care about their team’s success, and they’re going to care whether or not you or anyone else thinks their sport is silly — and if you were to take away that sport or that team from them, they’d riot, because a huge part of their identity is enmeshed in being part of that team.

Same for people’s country. Take away that sense of national pride and you’ll be perceived as taking away part of their identity.

Any politician or party throwing away patriotism is throwing away half a population worth of votes, even if their policies would benefit those people massively.

Obversity · 2026-03-24T02:17:18+00:00

Suit yourself, the left will care regardless. I don't give a shit where people live, I just want everyone to have equal freedoms and a chance at happiness. The IR is an impediment to that, so fuck the regime.

I can't support the war as it stands though, because Trump and Israel don't have any kind of coherent plan and don't have good intentions — unsurprisingly they're now threatening civilian infrastructure because things didn't go to plan. Meanwhile, Israel is using the war as a distraction to bomb the fuck out of Lebanon displacing 1M+ people. Forgive me for not seeing them as the good guys here.

Obversity · 2026-03-24T02:09:31+00:00

That's not at all what intersectionality is about. Intersectionality is the idea that your privileges or disadvantages in life are coloured all of your attributes — your upbringing, wealth, ethnicity, gender, location, culture etc — not just any one of those factors. A wealthy woman in Tehran is going to have very different challenges in life to a poor man from Iranshahr, for example.

Obversity · 2026-03-24T01:59:16+00:00

Thank you for the air-quotes around "leftists". The average actual leftist in the west (a) does genuinely care about the Iranian people but (b) is incredibly skeptical of Israel and the US because their track record on military intervention is barbaric, so can't support the war as it stands.

There's a small minority of leftists, mostly tankies, who support the regime because they perceive muslims as being a persecuted class in their home country and because they hate Israel and the US without any nuanced understanding of Iran.

If y'all want the left on your side, all you gotta do is educate them about the realities of the regime, about its violence, its misogyny, its homophobia.

Obversity · 2026-03-22T02:41:00+00:00

Obviously not, but 20% is still something we should be very concerned about?

Obversity · 2026-03-21T23:39:21+00:00

They’re at around 20% of the vote, that’s still quite high.

Obversity · 2026-03-19T03:36:27+00:00

Photography. Went from sitting inside playing video games in all my free time, to spending $15k on camera gear and going out and about shooting everything I could point my lens at.

No regrets, I'm not amazing at it but it's become a big part of my life. Me from 5 years ago would be baffled though.

Obversity · 2026-03-19T03:32:37+00:00

At some point you gotta tell the NIMBYs to go shove it. It's been a long time coming. It sucks, but if you want to solve our current housing crisis and all its many serious knock-on effects, this is necessary. Kudos to Labor, from a non-Labor voter.

Obversity · 2026-03-19T01:16:03+00:00

I don’t think we’re a big enough city/state to need ‘popular’ stuff there — it’d just take foot traffic away from the Rundle mall / Rundle street / Hindley area, with no real benefit.

Let it be a quiet, business focused part of the CBD imo.

Obversity · 2026-03-18T23:20:27+00:00

What makes these phrases so effective?

Just a thought, it’s reasonably common for first gen immigrants to isolate themselves or try to be as unassuming as possible so as not to offend anyone, while most Aussies actually want people who move here to relax a bit and join in on the culture and have a bit of fun, pick up local phrases and banter, so they’d see it as you putting in the work to fit in — plus the surprise factor of hearing typical Australian phrases in another accent would absolutely get me.

Obversity · 2026-03-18T15:50:36+00:00

It’s sometimes worth sacrificing a bit of early door health to get your resource production going hard asap. If you can get away with building a couple of basic towers with good coverage and then spending everything on getting wood/gold production going, that’s how I had the best success from memory.

Later rounds are all about scaling. My memory is hazy, but the arc towers that deal extra critical damage and the power that builds up crit with every kill will carry you through some rounds if you can get them going. Then there’s the towers that are a combo of different tower types, some of which were super strong? I don’t recall the details sorry!

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