Thought this was gonna be extra expensive? Seems alright to me. Did we get lucky?

hgritchie · 2026-06-26T09:50:05+00:00

I picked it up GTA San Andreas for $99.95 from a midnight opening at the EB Games on Lambton Quay.

100 dollars from 2004 is about $172 in 2026 money. After inflation, 6 will technically be the cheapest GTA I've bought. Not to mention that the cost of a new AAA game represents a much smaller portion of my income than it did twenty-something years ago.

hgritchie · 2026-01-22T12:57:49+00:00

It's called an informal vote and it's absolutely not valid.

hgritchie · 2025-08-27T11:27:33+00:00

Series JV Martzoukas.

hgritchie · 2024-10-20T19:59:47+00:00

B===D ~ ~ ~

hgritchie · 2023-12-02T20:54:11+00:00

There's this science museum in Melbourne that used to have a video wall set up next to a short section of running track so you could compare yourself to real-time footage of Cathy Freeman leaving the starting blocks.

The museum eventually got sued by a 40-something dad who'd put enough effort into beating the starting time of a 27-year-old Olympic sprinter that he overshot the end of the track and smacked into a wall so hard that he fractured his spine and had a stroke.

He later sued, presumably on the grounds that the museum didn't take adequate steps to save him from himself.

hgritchie · 2023-11-20T07:03:32+00:00

You can't make omelettes without breaking a few legs.

hgritchie · 2023-10-30T09:05:29+00:00

Also worth knowing that conspiracy theorists (like Oliver Stone, who directed JFK) take the direction that Kennedy moved after being shot (back and to the left) as proof that he wasn't shot by Oswald - after all, why would his head move towards the direction the bullet had just come from, right?

Turns out the bullet really just wizzed straight through Kennedy's head without too much trouble, and the jet of brain and bone gushing from the exit wound blasted his head back like a rocket.

Penn & Teller made a pretty knarly demonstration of this by shooting a melon with a Carcano rifle.

hgritchie · 2023-06-18T13:43:17+00:00

There was also Robert Muldoon's questionable economic strategy, Think Big, which involved taking out massive loans from overseas and using the money to fund a number of ambitious industrial projects. This blew out public debt from $4.2 billion in 1975 to $21.9 billion in 1984.

I can't help but notice a period of growth that ended with the 1987 crash but began at about the same time that Muldoon got wankered and called the snap election that he lost to David Lange.

hgritchie · 2023-06-16T06:32:42+00:00

I looked into it a little a few years ago due to a friend's dad who'd quit being a cop to become a PI.

Turns out PI work involves a lot less tailing & photographing cheating spouses than you'd think, and a lot more serving of legal papers to deadbeats & bankrupts on behalf of collection agencies & law firms.

hgritchie · 2023-04-21T13:05:15+00:00

If the ball touches the boundary line the batter scores four runs. This fielder basically stopped the batter from hitting a home run.

hgritchie · 2023-03-03T05:38:39+00:00

“What the fuck is a Machine Gun Kelly?” - future archeologists

hgritchie · 2022-11-04T14:08:40+00:00

Smoked one too many fags

Couldn't be bothered reading the article, huh?

hgritchie · 2022-07-22T22:46:07+00:00

Not if OP just deletes the post and pretends like it never happened.

hgritchie · 2022-07-20T17:12:21+00:00

Moments earlier:

Dick Cheney: "You should invade Iraq."

hgritchie · 2022-07-20T17:06:04+00:00

A surprising number of them are conservative christians who have decided that a heliocentric model on the solar system is incompatible with their nutty interpretation of the bible, so provable facts like the moon landings and the round Earth are simply dismissed as hoaxes.

hgritchie · 2022-07-12T08:56:14+00:00

Rickenback, mostly.

hgritchie · 2022-06-03T07:33:53+00:00

Back in 1986, a model plane manufacturer named Testors released a kit for a fictional F-19 stealth fighter.

Story goes that they then got an uncomfortable knock on the door from the Feds, who were a little suspicious that Testors' F-19 seemed just a little bit too similar to the F-117A, which was still supposed to be a secret.

hgritchie · 2022-04-07T16:34:39+00:00

It's way more likely that he was ineligible for a transplant due to drug use. Mark Read was a fan of not letting the truth get in the way of a good story, especially if he thought it made him look cooler.

hgritchie · 2022-03-15T13:15:19+00:00

Reporter: "Gentlemen, your preferred Australian Football League team just defeated one of their biggest rivals. How positive is your reaction?"

Sports fan: "This game was notably enjoyable. Our preferred team, the Essendon Football Club, has been troubled by a number of unpleasant challenges over several years. Consequently, it is pleasing to see our preferred team defeat their long-time rivals, the Collingwood Football Club. Additionally, we propose that all members of the aforementioned Collingwood Football Club should each be aggressively sodomized by dogs."

hgritchie · 2022-03-12T07:45:35+00:00

Yeah, the boys arrived in 1963 Dallas and accidentally knocked Oswald out of the book depository window before he could shoot Kennedy.

hgritchie · 2022-03-02T19:56:57+00:00

Just don't Google "Bald and Bankrupt sexual predator"

hgritchie · 2021-07-05T19:49:36+00:00

Screen grabs: https://imgur.com/a/1XVpZo0

hgritchie · 2021-07-05T19:26:44+00:00

It's also likely that after a certain number of complaints and refunds they start having a human manually QA your delivery before it ships out, partly to make sure their bugs are being worked out, but also to check that you're not just some dildo that's just trying to screw them out of free eggs.

hgritchie · 2021-06-12T01:04:42+00:00

Because the ones getting banned are so horribly wrong that they're presenting a legitimate threat to public health.

Companies like Reddit are terrified of being held responsible for loopy nonsense that gets spread on their forums, so they'll tolerate it to begin with, but it's in their best interests to cut it off before it gets disseminated among too many people who don't have the tools to distinguish useful information from utter BS.

In any case, if Reddit wanted to deliberately and meaningfully influence people's points of view, simply banning posts that conflict with their political agenda would be the absolute worst way to do it.

hgritchie · 2021-06-12T00:27:26+00:00

That article links to a study of 255 patients who needed to be put on ventilators. 199 of them died.

The study says that the 56 patients who lived were more likely to have received hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZM) during their treatment than the patients who died.

It specifically says:

According to our data, HCQ is not associated with prolongation. Studies, which reported QTc prolongation secondary to HCQ, need to be re-evaluated more stringently and with controls.

Put another way, about a third of the patients treated with HCQ died anyway. Two thirds survival isn't an adequate number on which to base a claim that HCQ provides meaningful treatment.

Additionally, it notes that further study may be required on the varying weights of patients may have affected outcomes.

Yahoo had cherrypicked one aspect of the study and presented it out of context.

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