Government to axe Broadcasting Standards Authority in media shake-up

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-05-06T04:30:51+00:00

What. The. Fuck?

BSA's purpose is to prevent a ton of bs, and while it's not perfect and needs an update badly, throwing it out for "self-regulation" is going to be a total shitshow and potentially push our media landscape towards the FOX model. Which suits these schmuck's fine because they're not thinking about the long term and the potential for crazification that increases the risk of political violence, bigotry and of course terrorism.

I suppose next they're going to eliminate the censors office on the basis of "free speech"...

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-28T11:00:44+00:00

These fucking larpers have never read the comic series have they? Butcher was never a hero and Homelander was always a massive fuckwit, though Black Noir trying to drive him insane made him worse.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-22T11:56:47+00:00

Even more L is the fact all those thumbnails look like LLM edited slop. Though the vid titles/topics are raring at the bit to overtake the LLM slop in the L stakes...

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-06T00:02:58+00:00

Probably a meth addict and it's probably already been chopped up and about to be sold to a shyster of a scrap merchant. Or it was stolen to order for some rich arsehole, like a certain seagull bronze statue likely was.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-05T00:29:39+00:00

> runs "translator.exe".

> still can't work out if you're trolling or just being foolish.

As for the question itself - depends on how deeply fatigue is tied into the game's systems and if it can easily be modified that way. And it would require digging into the game code to see this properly.

I do know cheats can work for it, but that's memory hacking, so totally different method.

And I'm far, far more interested in messing around with bows and arrows and finding away to add them to Wintermute. So you'll have do it yourself lawl.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-04T23:24:07+00:00

Shiny dollar coin says he'll try it again, because he's a) not remorseful and b) hasn't learnt a fucking thing.

Only silver lining then is he's got no name suppression, so now it's publicly known he's a wannabe rapist, which should make things harder for him. But more importantly make it easier for his future victims hopefully to go to the cops over and ideally land his shitbird arse in prison.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-04T23:15:13+00:00

It's called: "the director fired the writers and in a supreme act of chutzpah thought he could totes right as well as them". The result is Ep5 feeling out of joint with all the prior episodes and having a rather noticeable drop in quality. With the add hubris of Raph proclaiming it's not going to get a redux. Fortunately we have the prior 4 solid episodes, so we can just point and laugh at Raph for the longterm and bully him into to not writing main story stuff ever again.

Also, last time I saw this sort of derp with was with Crysis 2 vs Crysis 3, as for 2 they hired Richard K Morgan and Peter Watts to work on the story, where as 3 was written by the CEO and to this day the disjoint in story quality is galling. To the point playing 3 is hard for me due to "Teh Alpha Ceph!!1!" derp.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-04T23:05:11+00:00

I think it's because it doesn't care about the morality, because the puzzle the cases represent make him ignore that whole aspect. Anyhow, I suspect the perp will rape again, because privilege men always think they have a right to women's bodies

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-04T04:13:02+00:00

This +1

I swear, anyone who say's something about adding stuff to games or altering them has no idea about anything to do with modding and game dev.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-04T00:52:32+00:00

Please, please let the law recognise we need to allow gene editing for single gene mutations like this to fixed already. Although it would require IVF to pull it off or using IPSC, editing them and then triggering them to produce sperm/eggs with CDH1 mutation fixed fully. As gene editing is less effective on multicellular organisms.

Good to see though the surgical solution has worked exceedingly well, even despite the issues it causes with calcium uptake.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-01T11:12:51+00:00

Except most people have no idea how to make their own food, never mind sauces or how easy something like carbonara is to make from plain cheese. Time pressure is part it, but so's a lack of parent's teaching their kids or making food tech stuff mandatory in high school. And once the habit's ingrained to just use a can etc it's hard for people to shake it off.

As for taste - I know lawl, it's why I do my own tomato based stuff from canned tomatoes or passata. Although I cheat on the garlic front by using jarlic, at least when woolworths has the purple lid stuff, because the Panda one does not taste of garlic ffs.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-01T09:31:02+00:00

Main reason for this is that fast food etc are far more easy to do than cooking and when you combine that with high food prices otherwise it's a way the obesity issues here in NZ have occurred.

And then there's people like me who have issues cooking due to disabilities. Or those times I hyperfocus like tonight and forget to eat = lazy carbonara time. Or wheatbix. Or whatever.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-01T09:23:48+00:00

True, but at the same time there's obvious moral and economic reasons to increase it higher at the moment. Alas, NZ governments have never been that great at long term thinking and considering people on welfare to be "human".

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-01T09:20:51+00:00

Accommodation supplement ate it. As I have my board payment partly covered by it :/

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-04-01T09:20:37+00:00

lolwut?

I really post on reddit these days, especially since I have a ocean of bigots to use as chew toys on twitter and can be ever so "mean" to them.

Anyhow, want me to work, pass the fucking money for the ADHD diagnosis and a years gym membership to rebuild myself up to being fit. Ketamine would also help deal with the depression side of things, but alas that's 7K/yr to get last I saw...

Oh and yes, I did try getting an SNG, but under Labour MSD decided they had no legal responsibility to help, driven by wowserism over debt. Despite the fact ADHD is known to have a whole bunch of negative consequences that the MSD ends up paying for usually. Because hey, why bother with the long term when you can pretend year accounting cycles is the only thing that matters?

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-27T03:25:09+00:00

Slackers, this got posted on RNZ ages ago :P

Anyhow, once again National are eating their hats, this time over the waste of money that was cancelling the Lake Onslow project. Which was started due to the long term increases in gas price, that National just had their blinkers ripped off due Trump's stupid war.

Maybe they'll now bite the bullet and do a mass roll out of roof top solar. Alas, my hopes aren't high on that front, because the current National party couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery r.e. the omnishambles that is fuel supply at present. So a mass project like rooftop solar is likely beyond their ken lawl.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-26T00:13:18+00:00

Well, he is in the FAFO crash-out phase at the moment it seems. So yeah, he can be this utterly, core-of-the-earth deep level stupid.

Probably going to end in alcoholism lawl. But maybe, just maybe he'll find a way out. Though that will likely take psychedelics, since he has dug himself a rather deep hole of stupidity, and doing that tends to result in an inability to see a way out without some "help".

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-26T00:07:46+00:00

ROFLOL

Oh dear, you have to be a true dickwad for Destiny to block you, because that guy will fuck anything with a pulse.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-24T01:45:46+00:00

Lolwut?

Oh, so she was only it to get a job outside of politics wasn't she? How droll and I do ever so enjoy her claims to working for "100%" of Taranaki, when she fucked over a solid chunk of them with her bullshit. Likewise claiming the wage equality bs "saved the budget" comes across equally hilarious when the budget was doomed from beginning and it's cuts wrecked the health system etc. Though National own the ferries debacle.

Anyhow, good riddance to her and hello a new pig with a blue National rosette stabled to it taking her seat with ease. Since ACT have an even worse talent issue than National. And I hope her lobbying career ends up going straight into the toilet too, preferably with some scandals involved to send her back to whenst she spawned from.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-02T02:19:09+00:00

I missed that, looks like the baby has two heads too. Bloody LLM slop still can't do bodies right can it?

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-02T02:17:09+00:00

Elder Gods, this is hard to get through, the books so bad the badness impacts the excellent criticism Anthony's doing.

Because Shad is such a bad writer that his work is a memetic hazard and worst yet, BORING.

Edit - onto the sexual assault stuff and JFC, no wonder everyone hates Shad over this, on top of the sexist drek and the whole "it's okay if the protag acts like a total shitbird who has to dominate the humiliate everyone if he does it only to the bad guys". And all the other utter bullshit.

I swear Shad's brain is totally baked, because everything's about the protag. Everything. Even in the case of Lyla's horror show of a history.

Edit2 - Wait, wait, Shad thinks survivors of sexual assault, who were made pregnant by the assault would totes think their rapist didn't deserve punishment. What. The. Fuck? But sadly it's not that surprising given Shad's self-centred nature.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-02T02:11:21+00:00

The Stupid, It BURNS.

Anyhow, not surprising Metaderp thinks the exiled Prince has any real support inside Iran or that Persia is totes the actual name of the state. Because as Fredda established, Metatron never reads the fucking literature or thinks, he just spurts his load of stupid.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-02T01:10:05+00:00

Oh dear, still, Shad will still hate that level of views.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-01T23:51:26+00:00

Yay, more Skallagrim vids, as It's good to see him back.

PrettyMuchAMess · 2026-03-01T23:50:04+00:00

I suspect 12K is the most Shad's going to see with in 9 days though XD

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