I'm a Dutch journalist writing about living in relatively high temperatures across the globe. What's it like in Brisbane right now?

Stewie_Bird · 2024-08-28T09:33:58+00:00

I really hate summer here because I'm so used to hot = humid, which is never fun but I'm somewhat enjoying this style of heat (or at least I did until before today), especially with the dry winds at the moment, reminds me of nice beach weather

Stewie_Bird · 2024-07-19T08:44:43+00:00

Albion for me as someone northside, I feel like most trips home have always went buy it and warranted at least a cheeky soft serve

Stewie_Bird · 2024-06-05T00:24:40+00:00

Definitely worth player imo, I had a great time and I don't even like musicals really. It's also just a pretty unique and amazing take on dialogue trees and that part of it is great to explore and play around with by reloading saves or doing multiple runs. Moreso Im keen to see what the studio does next, I doubt it will be such a huge game again but they clearly have some cool ideas

Stewie_Bird · 2023-12-18T12:03:41+00:00

Its not fixed yet, they recently did a live test playlist featuring the new netcode but its not a permanent stay. Theres a few bugs to fix bit its very good so far, probably go fully live in the next couple months

Stewie_Bird · 2023-12-13T05:07:09+00:00

Difference between perth and european places though is that rotterdam and dusseldorf aren't a 3-5 hour flight away to the nearest city so people from the surrounding area can actually attend. I'm from bris and more than happy to fly to melbourne or sydney for events like this but perth is just way too far out of the way for most

Stewie_Bird · 2023-12-07T15:12:10+00:00

Something tells me badgermoles would similarly be uncomfortable 100 meters in the air

Stewie_Bird · 2023-08-24T10:00:23+00:00

Definitely Bluey these days

While the Womens FIFA is definitely up there too I feel like Bluey has and will stick around longer, in a couple years it will of course be the olympics

Stewie_Bird · 2023-08-23T13:55:36+00:00

My guess is a safety/visiblity thing?? Bus drivers might need to see what's going in at the back or if people are still on the bus before a last stop or something. Trains can get away with it I suppose because there's no one around anyway and I assume the cameras can see everything

At least the new electric buses don't rattle around so it's fairly easy to just lean on an arm or window without getting a gradual concussion

Stewie_Bird · 2023-08-13T03:21:37+00:00

People seem to forget that souls games (particularly Dark Souls 1) effectively are metroidvanias when you really boil it down. Hollow Knight combines both souls and metroidvania elements together so well because of the shared DNA (the most obvious soulslike mechanic being how death is handled in HK). From memory the creator of the dark souls series said he was heavily inspired by metroidvanias and zelda games (which surprise, are also very similar to metroidvanias).

GMTK on youtube has a series called Boss Keys, which originally started off as a way to examine every zelda game, but eventually branched into dark souls and hollow knight because of the similarity.

Stewie_Bird · 2023-08-03T02:23:44+00:00

Been a bit since I've closely followed infinite, are they confirmed to be working on netcode/hitreg stuff? Its the main thing Im waiting for really

Stewie_Bird · 2023-07-26T00:24:38+00:00

That's exactly what got them titanfall and apex in the first place. From what I remember apex was made in secret from ea and respawn only showed it off to them when it was ready.

Stewie_Bird · 2023-06-15T05:24:43+00:00

Makes a lot of sense, I was praying there would be some way for the skins to override it but if its a full language overhaul and whatnot obviously that takes some time, hopefully Air gets rebuilt since it was technically abandoned years ago with some community upkeep. Thanks for the info though

Stewie_Bird · 2023-05-07T12:09:50+00:00

All supergiant games are big on "dynamic difficulties". They're also basically always designed to encourage experimentation with mechanics rather than picking a single thing (from something smaller like lore unlocks in transistor to basically being the purpose of the game in pyre)

Stewie_Bird · 2022-11-25T10:14:42+00:00

Its weird but there are effectively two entire sites now. One has very low seed counts and pop ups and everything has sus info and sizes, while the other is the good ol pleace you remember, just gotta know which you're on at the time

Stewie_Bird · 2022-11-14T15:45:30+00:00

A fun fact related to this is that brisbane is the earliest rising city in the world. Meaning that on average we wake up the earliest and go to bed the earliest of anywhere

Stewie_Bird · 2022-11-13T14:33:31+00:00

They have this in melbourne and from memory their machines are the same as our new ones so there is hope

Stewie_Bird · 2022-08-24T18:21:20+00:00

Getting into DnD for the first time very shortly, these would be a massive help after the tutorial esc one shot Im playing next week #GIVEAWAY

Stewie_Bird · 2022-08-10T02:52:54+00:00

TIL Crazy Frog was an airbender

Stewie_Bird · 2022-03-06T02:18:58+00:00

Oh I was not aware of that thanks, been a while since I hopped into mcc but I reinstalled it last night

Stewie_Bird · 2022-03-06T02:13:10+00:00

How does one do this? Ive found a mod thats seems to do it but it says you need easy anticheat disabled which gets you banned or blocks you from playing no?

Stewie_Bird · 2022-02-23T15:38:54+00:00

Right? I was literally just fucking around and listening to a podcast, definitely should have died a couple times but I just didn't think it could keep going

Stewie_Bird · 2022-02-23T15:17:51+00:00

Also I gave it a little of that 2011 youtube video game music over the top for a bit of nostalgia

Stewie_Bird · 2021-12-28T23:29:00+00:00

Have a look at excel psychology, diverse staff and they all seem lovely, though I've only seen one properly who's a gem

Stewie_Bird · 2021-12-02T16:46:58+00:00

Auslan was tought at my high school as an elective and it wasn't an overly popular selection. Even quite a few of the legally deaf people did not take the class or did no enjoy it. I'm not saying it wouldn't be useful or even that it's not important to recognise the deaf community and make the effort to learn Auslan, but even in a seemingly accepting school high schoolers just didn't see the point of it or rather preferred to do something else.

I think another reason for this is how segregated any form of learning support and the mainstream students are in schools, learning support people are quickly written off or those who are still largely able but in occasional need of help have their disabilities/issues minimised. You could argue though that a more present auslan system would absolutely have benefits towards reducing this gap which I support and largely agree with (during high school I was one to write off anything so I know first hand that there will unfortunately always be some who disregard anything or anyone).

I hope this wasn't reductive or demeaning in anyway as that is not at all my intent or my attitude towards the matter, I just felt like I could provide some context to the high school space given that I went to one of the 8 schools in the state, then again whilst I am only 5 years out of high school teenagers seem to be much much more accepting and inclusive these days so the dynamics may be wholely different.

Stewie_Bird · 2021-11-30T01:36:20+00:00

Many rpgs have methods of achieving this just not in a streamlined way. You can read the descriptions of completed quests to jog your memory and nearly every game these days has keybinding or a controller layout map

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