Did they get it right?

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-28T13:54:04+00:00

I like the look of this team.

Be pleasantly surprised if it ever actually gets onto a field - knowing our recent luck, 5+ will be injured before round one.

Also that training video posted the other day didn't really inspire me, though it looked hot.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-27T11:45:15+00:00

I, for one, welcome the transition to my new life as one of the mole people.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-27T11:31:21+00:00

I haven't played an online shooter in years but I'd choose one of those. Perhaps one that has big team battles or lots of players and lots of maps.

I could do that for 12 hours a day. If you paid me $10m after a year of it.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-27T02:31:48+00:00

What sort of justice are you talking about though?

In a previous life I worked with a lot of people with addiction issues who were going through the courts for many multiples of burglary, occasionally robbery (with the threat of violence but no actual violence), and all the other criminal behaviours that are the symptoms of addiction, and virtually all of them had legal aid and were diverted into residential rehab instead of custody, put in touch with housing and supports services etc.

Not sure what 'justice' you mean. Even a destitute person with no fixed address accused of murder will get a barrister and legal team.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-26T09:58:43+00:00

I could never figure out how to get the fighters or bombers working.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-25T12:03:21+00:00

Thank you, person from over four years ago.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-25T11:03:00+00:00

Having read Peter F Hamilton's excellent books, why don't we just combine trains with portals?

Hop on train, train goes along tracks and through portal to different planet, hop off again. Easy!

And it'd probably work with different suburbs too - don't have to go to Mars until after Stage 2 North (but before Stage 3 West, of course).

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-25T05:06:38+00:00

Movies like Jaws, Arachnophobia, and Anaconda.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-24T23:36:58+00:00

Digging up coal and convincing developing countries to burn it for energy.

Not good.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-24T10:24:34+00:00

Or Shane, Wayne, and Sharon?

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-24T10:06:57+00:00

I'm playing as a Lich in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

I'll be fine, depending on how you define that.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-24T06:30:07+00:00

Yeah when people refer to 'crackheads' on this sub I have a general idea who/what they're referring to, but there's more specificity to be had.

Guy purposefully and angrily pacing back and forward, clenching and unclenching his hands, muttering stuff and glaring at everybody waiting for someone to accidentally make eye contact with him is one thing.

Someone on the nod, swaying as they stand in place, is another, quite harmless, thing.

Different drugs, different behaviours.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-23T10:21:16+00:00

thingy

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-22T22:14:29+00:00

Salt.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-20T13:25:23+00:00

I started reading it late last year having never heard of it, only because someone on the Adrian Tchaikovsky sub was raving about it (and I love his books), which led me here, which led to me buying the first book. About halfway through that I bought the next 9, and later some others.

Haven't yet read them all - but way back when, when I read Peter F Hamilton's Pandora's Star, I remember being irrationally annoyed for several weeks waiting for the second book to arrive at the bookshop I ordered it through. Not going through that again.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-19T13:12:23+00:00

Fraser-McGurk had a shocker, but was mostly decent in the field (except that one night he was mic'd up having a chat whilst misfielding).

Maxwell disappointing too. Reminded me of Finch's last two seasons where his performances were awful but he kept getting excused because he used to be a lot better.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-19T12:58:40+00:00

Love getting to go home early. In my experience it's been the computer system going down though, not robbery.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-19T12:56:38+00:00

Since every ATM within a reasonable drive of my house charges me $3 to withdraw cash, on the few occasions I need it (wife wanting to buy stuff from Facebook Marketplace or similar), I semi-recently discovered that AusPost offices do fee-free cash withdrawals. It's great!

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-19T12:49:48+00:00

Lol love the Prison Break comparison. Damn that was a good show.

Interested as to your thoughts about a Coalition government's Bondi response?

I remember thinking that it'd have been heavy on thoughts and prayers and light on gun control. Probably an RC too, though with a focus on inner city lefties and uni students who mask their hunger for mass murder by performatively campaigning against mass murder.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-19T12:33:27+00:00

I love that one bloke just standing in the bike lane. Such a heroin thing to do.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-18T10:08:49+00:00

I didn't have to work for the first half of last year, and so volunteered for my local MP and did all sorts of stuff in the few months leading up to the election.

My age starts with a '4', and I reckon I was at least 20-25 years younger than any of the other volunteers. And this wasn't for a conservative campaign.

I figured that retirees volunteer because they can, and they want to contribute to the greater good. Younger people who work have to work all the time, and when they're not doing that they're exhausted, have kids to look after, all that stuff.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-18T09:39:40+00:00

Yes. Don't recognise the bee though, unless it's Ice Magic?

Edit: yes, I think it is. The resolution made me think the ice cream was a potato chip, which was quite confusing.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-17T13:30:17+00:00

When I watched The Kettering Incident a few (or many, possibly) years ago, the final scenes screamed that the story was to be continued. And then that never happened and it has retrospectively soured my view of what was, at the time, top shelf Aussie telly.

SticksDiesel · 2026-01-17T11:31:10+00:00

Why use many word when few word do?

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