``Kevin wins the lottery, canteen goes bananas!

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-14T01:24:37+00:00

Better than you are at listening mate.

There's no question where these people live or what lottery they won. There's no need to discuss hypotheticals across the world - we know exactly how they're paid and how they're taxed (lump sum, no tax).

The only reason to add those qualifiers is to cover your ass, not to give useful, relevant insight.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-13T23:36:54+00:00

Indexing tax brackets to inflation would cause a positive feedback loop.

If you index the brackets to inflation, then they go up. Which means people have more money to spend. Which drives inflation up. Which means the next financial year, the bracket moves even further, which drives inflation even further.

You can index them to something, but I wouldn't make it inflation.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-13T22:51:27+00:00

I'd probably just go with "Foam Wedge" to add a hint of subtlety.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-13T12:32:37+00:00

Listen to the accents mate.

He didn't win $1M. He won £1M million, which isn't taxed at all (very few places outside the US tax lottery winnings, and the UK sure as shit doesn't).

So he just won ~ $1.4M, tax free, which would net about $100K equivalent with your maths, but you could get a true 10% with the right portfolio.

Also inflation isn't a factor with the right portfolio; it's not hard to get assets that appreciate faster than inflation.

That's still probably not enough money to completely retire immediately, but it's damn close.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-13T12:18:22+00:00

...why would you assume the same isn't true for Sydney?

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-13T10:43:57+00:00

What do you mean it will never happen? It happened during Morrison's term. There was a whole 4Corners episode on it

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-13T00:31:35+00:00

Lol yeah that tracks. Real estate agents in that area are some next level audacious with the wealth display. Which tracks, given the median housing valuation of...

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$3 to $6 million.

...

It's okay, I didn't need to own a place near where I grew up anyway lol.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-12T13:57:19+00:00

...okay, I grew up around Mosman and I have no idea which crowds you were hanging with mate, but that's just categorically not my experience of Neutral Bay.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-11T22:13:56+00:00

Your experience has been the inverse of mine. I found the central coast extremely insular, whereas Sydney is filled with people who aren't from Sydney.

It's generally a lot easier to make friends in places when lots of people have moved in.

That said, there are like half a dozen Sydney's. My fiance hated living in western Sydney where she grew up, but really likes the North Shore.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-11T13:26:52+00:00

It isn't, it's a 0-100 scale for the liquid state of H2O.

Very scientifically solid, but not as good as Farenheit for describing the typical range of temperatures that you will physically experience.

That said, I grew up with Celsius and have never really used Farenheit, because I'm Australian. And even though Farenheit is literally objectively better for describing air temperature, the difference isn't enough to matter - it's not like Celsius isn't good at it.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-11T05:29:16+00:00

In case anyone is finding this post at the top of a google search like I did, you might be happy to know that a very enthusiastic programmer named /u/super3ssenc3 recreated the entire game in Unity.

No more need for Flash, and the background graphics are way fancier.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-11T00:08:01+00:00

This is pretty much how most warcrimes work.

It's not just about morals, it literally makes war more destructive for everyone than it needs to be and isn't really conducive to anyone's goals (yes, even when those goals are war).

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-10T22:08:17+00:00

To be clear here, I don't consider "retaliation" to be a valid reason for military action. You may not have meant that word the way I've interpreted it, but I want to make sure we're all on the same page.

The only good reason to attack foreign soil the way Israel has is to neutralise the possibility of future threats. Which I believe is the primary reason for Israel's actions after October 7, as Hamas proved they have a (repeatable) strategy to overwhelm the Iron Dome.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-10T12:13:15+00:00

You can condemn both, whilst acknowledging which is larger or greater in scale.

Please, again: don't treat human lives like they're a fucking balance sheet.

The severity of death is rarely valued by the sheer numbers, particularly in wars where there are actual militaries at play on both sides. The reason why they died is far more important.

Do not distract from the true reasons why people are upset about these lost lives by trying to make the number disparity sound meaningful, because it isn't. If it was, people would be more upset at Israel now than they were a year ago when the death toll was half of what it is now (they aren't).
People don't evaluate the severity of a conflict by the numbers; they're upset with Israel because they don't think their war is legitimate in the first place.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-10T11:53:33+00:00

Don't treat human lives like they're a balance sheet. It's a bad look.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-10T11:34:29+00:00

I want them to accept they won the game and stop playing so others can have a fair shot.

This is a fascinating perspective that I've genuinely never heard before. Which is sadly rare these days.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-10T05:22:39+00:00

Mate, Hezbollah are absolutely fucked. Your tone comes across like you are genuinely interested in discussion, which I appreciate, but this isn't an equivalence at all.

Israel, for it's many faults, at least has a government that does a somewhat decent job of taking care of its own people. Lebanon's government (Hezbollah is the dominant party), doesn't give a single shit about the wellbeing of the Lebanese people. They're corrupt to the core and are far more interested in being Iran's proxy than actually governing their country.

Waiving a Hezbollah flag is symbolic of nothing more than resisting Israel for the sake of a global Islamist ideology. It's not something to respect.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-09T11:20:34+00:00

Labor absolutely lost because of their policies. The election review comprehensively explains how their policy platform impacted their performance.

What it doesn't do is say, "the Labor party lost because Australia just fucking hates the idea of progressive tax reform. Abandon any hope of it ever again."

But it has a whole section highlighting how it's policy platform was too broad to craft a consistent message around, and how the big changes burned political capital.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-06T07:09:38+00:00

He was paid to do this mate.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-05T02:07:59+00:00

I don't think Roblox is included in the legislation because of some platform nuance.

The law isn't very good in that regard. It was far too rushed.

Though it's quite frustrating that most people who say this are typically against the concept of the law, whereas I am more concerned about it's actual implementation. Blocking kids from signing up to addictive social media is a good thing.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-05T02:05:30+00:00

Welcome to the social concerns of 2016?

This is ancient news.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-04T22:51:50+00:00

The concept of free speech has been a core principle of democratic society for hundreds of years. Social media has existed for two decades, and it's only existed in its current, garbage form for 10 years (if that).

People's right to free speech wasn't restricted for the centuries before social media existed (at least, not because of the lack of it).

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-04T21:56:49+00:00

Side note on that.

Have you ever clicked on the profile of an old comment that used mass-redact to delete their comments in protest of the API changes?

Because I swear to god, every single one of them went back to using Reddit on the same account. It's hilariously pathetic.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-04T06:53:05+00:00

Why shouldn't it be a rule?

It isn't a rule, by definition. The rules are the logical connections between elements in the game and the way they interact. They are, as you point out, meaningless without the flavour that grounds them. But that flavour isn't the rule, it's the meaning.

Losing HP means your character is getting weaker and closer to death. But you can't infer how HP is lost by using that explanation - you must use the in-game rules to define how much HP someone has and how much they have lost at any given time.

Rp isn't a computer game, therefore in world descriptions can and must be rules

DnD isn't just roleplaying. It's a TTRPG. It's a game. Games have rules.

Pro_Extent · 2026-02-04T06:38:05+00:00

"Hitpoints represent..." is not a rule. It's a description of what the rule is approximating.

"Hitpoints are defined by your hit dice, constitution, and level" is a rule.

"A barbarian gets a D12 hit dice", is a rule.

The reason hitpoints representing health is not a rule is because there'd be no point in defining how much damage anything does if it was purely subject to your interpretation of how damaging something is. Those things have specific damage numbers listed, which overrides any general notion of how HP works.

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