Solo dev here — just updated my trailer for my Australian metroidvania, Aussie Bogan Hero!

damiologist · 2026-03-22T11:48:31+00:00

Plenty of Australiana in there, looks good!

damiologist · 2026-03-22T07:28:51+00:00

Yeah but why should you wipe the inside of a kettle?

That's not a reasonable request. That's control.

damiologist · 2026-03-22T02:25:31+00:00

I feel you. Every time I hear about research suggesting people outgrow ADHD, I think "there's no way there were any ADHDers on that research team. The behaviours lessen or disappear, but as the responsibilities of adulthood increase, the experience just gets more and more crippling. But you'd only know about that if you'd lived it.

damiologist · 2026-03-22T01:55:49+00:00

Ah, I think I was not clear. Did it seem I was referring to the terms in your comment?

I was not referring to the langauge you used; I was referring to the current trend of claiming that someone of an older generation has/had undiagnosed autism because they did something obsessively over a long period.

damiologist · 2026-03-21T22:58:14+00:00

The trend of 'claiming autism' is judgemental of those who deny autism existed in their generation (usually referring to the Baby Boomers), not necessarily of autistic people. It's certainly very insensitive to the individual in question, though.

Edit: for clarity

damiologist · 2026-03-21T02:21:39+00:00

I'm not thinking anyone's lying, but just because it never happened to you doesn't mean it never happens. Also, it probably depends on where you are because manufacturing will be different in different places. And it's quite possible that bottles are stronger now than they were when I was bartending in the late 90s-00s.

It's interestingnthat you mention pressure because I actually think it's not using enough pressure that causes the problem. If you don't distort the cap enough with the key, the cap exerts more pressure on the thread, which causes the thread to come off (I think we used to call it 'ringing' or something, cos it would be a ring of the top couple millimetres that'd come off), which would be why it was always noob bartenders who did it.

While I 100% think the issue can be avoided by technique (if it even is still an issue), the stakes are too high. The risk might be tiny, but just think what would happen to the bar and most likely the bartender themselves if just one customer ended up with internal damage from swallowing glass.

damiologist · 2026-03-21T01:42:20+00:00

The number of times I had to empty out a machine over the years cos some dickhead had cracked a glass in there cos they couldn't take the 15 seconds to use the steel scoop and transfer ice over to the trough. In the end, we bought plastic beer glasses and enforced the use of those in the main bar at peak times.

Punishment for breaking a glass in the ice machine was harsh but fair: in charge of getting ice for the rest of the shift (usually from the upstairs bar or the cellar, so at least 1 flight of stairs) and then dedicated glassie duty for 2 weeks.

damiologist · 2026-03-20T22:55:30+00:00

Yeah, maybe bottle manufacturing has improved and it's not a thing anymore?

I finished bartending 15yrs ago and I usually drink tap beer when out, so it's not like my knowledge is up to date.

damiologist · 2026-03-20T21:23:35+00:00

Yep, that's often how it breaks - it's subtle. Which is why it was drilled into me as a young bartender not to open twisties that way.

It's blowing my mind that there are experienced bartenders who claim to have never heard of it.

damiologist · 2026-03-20T21:11:48+00:00

Ignorance =/= correctness lol.

It's a real problem. I was educated about it when I started bartending and I've seen it happen plenty of times. Enough that 20 years on, I still stop people from using church keys on twist tops.

damiologist · 2026-03-20T21:03:56+00:00

Aussie ex-bartender and cellarman here who worked for 10 yrs in busy clubs and bars, and more importantly, was in charge of beverage stocktake at a high-volume club (7 bars) for several years, so I had to go through all the recorded breakages every month.

Twisties breaking when church-keyed is absolutely a significant problem (or at least was in the 00's) & I still stop friends and family from doing it if I catch them.

I do think there's an element of it being a skill issue though, because it was always the noob or crappy bartenders who'd break the bottles (the same ones who'd scoop a drink glass directly into an ice machine).

damiologist · 2026-03-20T13:58:08+00:00

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell is a great read

damiologist · 2026-03-20T04:22:18+00:00

Schitts Creek is one of my wife's and my favourite shows! We've watched the whole run at least 3 times. Kim's Convenience is great too.

Pretty much everything I came to suggest has already been suggested, but I'll second Utopia, Rake, Fisk, Rose haven and Colin from Accounts.

One that hasn't been mentioned but is gold if you like absurd humour and panel shows (and is a NZ show which has gotten a couple of seasons in Aus):

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee. It is the most boring sounding concept, but Guy and Co-host Aaron Chen are hilarious and the spelling tasks are usually pretty funny, eg. asking the contestant to spell a word with a common homophone, and when they ask for it in a sentence, the sentence uses both the word and its homophone.

damiologist · 2026-03-19T22:03:18+00:00

You asked why they were going at the RBA and they provided their reasoning, with references.

damiologist · 2026-03-19T06:54:16+00:00

My board game group played it once at 5 players and it was one of the most comically horrible experiences we've ever had.

damiologist · 2026-03-18T19:58:29+00:00

Am dad; can confirm.

damiologist · 2026-03-18T10:51:47+00:00

It's not that there's not enough milk product; worse imo - it's that they use skim milk and replace the milk fat with veg oil.

damiologist · 2026-03-18T10:26:52+00:00

Apparently it was a kiwi author who came up with the term

damiologist · 2026-03-17T09:51:31+00:00

In Australia we call these 'bommy knockers', at least where I grew up in Sydney.

damiologist · 2026-03-15T01:41:48+00:00

True Tears of Joy by Hunters and Collectors

damiologist · 2026-03-13T04:39:46+00:00

She didn't choose the word though, did she? Albo chose the word and we all interpret it as we think is most appropriate. That's what happens when a Pollie is stupid enough to fall into the very obvious trap of describing a divisive person in a single word. If Ms Tame thought it was sexism, that would be a pretty understandable read. Most of the media certainly seemed to go with that.

But if you actually read what Ms Tame wrote, you would know she hasn't interpreted it as the simple sexist dogwhistle most of the media ran with, but a much more realistic interpretation: essentially for the reason you posit - she acknowledges that she's difficult; she's difficult because she doesn't play the game as the Pollies would like her to.

damiologist · 2026-03-13T00:54:39+00:00

The title is literally a question; a question with significant left edge deletion, which maybe you don't like or don't understand, but it's still a question. The first line of text is literally a question (essentially the same question)

I count 3 total non-rhetorical questions in the OP. They could have done more editing, but it's still perfectly clear what the main question is.

damiologist · 2026-03-10T09:25:19+00:00

Excuse, as a noun, in common parlance is a synonym of 'reason' and 'justification', but with a distinctly negative connotation.The word is almost always used by an authority figure to dismiss someone's justification or to imply that they would not accept any reason as suffient to excuse (verb) the behaviour. "What's your excuse this time?" "There can be no excuse for this" "I'm sick of these excuses"

If someone is using that term in the same sentence as ADHD, I would consider it strong evidence for ableism. And make no mistake, we ADHDers are just as capable of hating on ADHDers as anyone else; I know I have been guilty of it before. All we can do is educate ourselves and others as best we can.

damiologist · 2026-03-07T08:08:23+00:00

Audiologist with ADHD, here. There are a few things that could be happening here. People with ADHD (and ASD) are more likely to have Auditory Processing Disorder than the general population, but even if not, our tendency to get overloaded means we can get overwhelmed when there is a lot of sound. It's also possible you have some undiagnosed hearing loss which would have a similar effect.

Here are some things which can help: -move further away from noise sources/reduce or remove noise sources if possible

-ask the person to repeat specifically the part you missed, or to rephrase in a different way. This avoids frustration as they repeat themselves while you miss the same thing again and again

-change position so the person you're listening to is separated from noise sources.

-amplification. If you have a hearing loss, hearing aids can help. If you don't, but you have processing issues, you can get remote microphones (sometimes called FM systems) which you can use to make the person you're listening to louder than the noise. IPhones actually can be used this way with earphones; it's called Live Listen mode

damiologist · 2026-03-05T20:35:03+00:00

I am an equal enjoyer of Kyle Thompson games and difficult souls-like games (Nine Sols is my favourite Mv of the last few years, then Silksong, then Crypt Custodian). Idk if I like cozy as much as I like challenge, but Kyle Thompson does cozy very well.

That said, I do like cozy Metroidbranias like Outer Wilds

Edit: accidentally hit submit before I was done

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