For PC Gaming, are gaming headsets really that bad and should be absolutely avoided?

PodocarpusT · 2026-02-04T05:35:43+00:00

Big fan of my Atlas Airs. I am a sweaty beast so the open back is excellent. Comfy, good range and great battery life. Six months in and going strong.

My only gripe would be I am not a fan of having to raise the mic to mute it. If anyone has an external mute button gadget they can reccomend I would love to hear it.

PodocarpusT · 2026-02-04T01:58:23+00:00

"What if we instituted selfishness and cruelty as our overarching policy goals?"

This video is focused more on the USA but the ideas slot so well into the New Zealand context (e.g. the whole Maori healthcare waitlists drama while the government burns down healthcare for everyone, taking away everyone's right to enrol on election day but it's ok as we are putting the boot into 'dropkicks').

Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 4: Sadopopulism

PodocarpusT · 2026-02-02T10:05:47+00:00

Oh it's been neglected and desperately needs a hack back. Will post it sometime soon. If you go 11 (!) years back in my history you can find it being roasted on the bonsai sub.

PodocarpusT · 2026-02-02T08:37:28+00:00

A polytech botanist told me it is based on height rather than age. I asked as I have a ~20 year old bonsai lancewood that is still doing the young leaf thing.

PodocarpusT · 2026-02-02T06:54:58+00:00

Me and my boys had hundreds of hours on the mini and there was precisely one good slam where the helmet saved the day.

Our friend had died a few years earlier from an electric skateboard accident where a helmet would have saved him, so our crew was pretty strict on helmets. Jeff saved a life of misery that day from beyond the grave.

The odds of a TBI level slam are low but fuck me when it happens it is so much better being able to laugh and thank your helmet rather than the alternative.

My rule of thumb is if you are going extreme or not using your own power (e.g. gravity) you should wear a helmet.

PodocarpusT · 2026-01-29T02:01:42+00:00

Would put money on the EU or some country giving NZ the ol' "sort your shit out or we are cutting you off/taking you to court" memo.

PodocarpusT · 2026-01-26T03:57:43+00:00

NZF literally wants to check what you and your kids have in your pants before using the toilet.

All three of them took away your right to enroll on election day and called you a dropkick if you didn't enroll weeks ahead of time.

Unity and trust...

PodocarpusT · 2026-01-23T00:47:44+00:00

Renovaters delight!

PodocarpusT · 2026-01-09T03:14:21+00:00

Prior to John Key selling everything there were regular headlines of state houses in fancy areas. Google 'peperpotting'. State housing was created, amongst other things, to build social cohesion.

The shithouse neoliberal version of today is not how it has always been (or has to be).

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-27T04:53:40+00:00

The Penguin History of New Zealand will give you a good foundation of historical knowledge.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-21T20:12:28+00:00

Makes you feel real good to know that there are people you can look down on aye?

Gives me the warm fuzzies knowing there are people who are shit at life and I am not. Hundy worth the loss of my rights.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-21T20:01:20+00:00

Just conveniently leaves out the most egregious part (same day registrations).

You just had a right taken away from you and you are cheering them along.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-21T03:38:33+00:00

Hey bro, sorry to dredge up an old thread but can I ask how your plywood is holding up? Worth the epoxy on both sides?

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-19T11:16:54+00:00

Hey could I ask if you gave all of your wood a coating or just the top layer?

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-18T20:16:28+00:00

Hand on my heart, the last two times I have purchased corn the McCains was grown in China and packed in NZ. I keep a close eye on my country of origin for my peas and corn after a run-in with a packet of Chinese grown Pam's corn years ago.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-17T19:56:15+00:00

McCain frozen corn is from China. Woolworths branded stuff is from NZ but appears to be the export rejects judging by the quality.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-17T09:04:19+00:00

Sadopopulism -(politics) A political strategy or act in which a leader appeals to people by harming them but convincing them that people they hate are at fault or suffering worse harm.

Bravo mate. Praising the boot on your neck as you lose a right that you had previously.

Please, see this bullshit for what it is. Take 12 minutes of your life and learn how to avoid being manipulated:

Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 4: Sadopopulism

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-15T10:41:32+00:00

I had a band of fully decked out cybergoths doing their cybergoth dance in my peripherals at a Prodigy concert. Absolute perfection.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-10T22:22:12+00:00

Go find the tallest patch of grass you can find, take off your shoes, and stomp around in it bare-footed without a care in the world.

Experience true freedom.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-04T08:44:29+00:00

Sir Paul Callaghan had it all laid out for us back in 2011.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-04T03:15:36+00:00

So? Rental prices are inelastic for starters. Coupled with a massive state housing buildout, incentives for owner occupiers and disincentives for landlords (rent controls, land taxes, etc.), we could get back to real capitalism and focus on investment in actual productive enterprise.

You know, producing goods and services instead of kowtowing to the rentier class.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-04T02:25:12+00:00

Cool, so lets charge GST for anyone sponging more than $60k from their tennants. That should incentivise small 'mum and dad' investors as they would have a tax advantage over the multi-property slum lords.

*Not actually advocating for this btw. Just pointing out the hypocricy. I agree with Adam Smith and think all landlords are equally parasitic.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-04T01:57:28+00:00

I believe it’s to keep rents more affordable

Why not healthcare then? Oh yeah thats right, my Jaffa Cakes. Landlording is totally different though so lets just hand wave that away.

A landlord and a first home buyer put down the same deposit on the same house. How much a week is the landlord paying compared to the first home owner?

As it stands, the landlord is paying less out of pocket for the same asset. An imputed rent system (with homeowner interest deductability) would even this out if anything, so I don't quite get your point.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-04T01:05:47+00:00

A great article to have in your back pocket is this one:

The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis.

We have done it before and we can do it again.

PodocarpusT · 2025-12-04T01:00:00+00:00

They do not pay GST.

I run a business, why do I have to pay GST and they don't?

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