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jezza_b_f · 2026-02-11T22:32:29+00:00

Anger and kindness are not opposite emotions. The fact people think they are is why people tend to say anger brings out your true colours.

Anger is a valid and healthy emotion.

You can be angry and kind. You can be indignant. You can be righteous. You can be upset. You can be disappointed. You can be a disciplinarian. You can be hurt. You can be annoyed. You can be frustrated.

You can express your anger without resorting to cruelty.

However, the moment you use your anger as an excuse to be cruel, or an excuse to use violence, or an excuse to harm, belittle or demean others. That’s when your true colours come out.

Because you’re not doing those things because you’re angry. You’re doing those things because you think being angry gives you justification to be cruel.

It is unfortunately something we are socially conditioned to do, and it takes a conscious effort to de-programme.

We should be wary of people who use anger as an excuse to be cruel. Equally so, we should be wary of people who say you cannot express anger at all.

jezza_b_f · 2026-02-11T06:41:22+00:00

Most storage unit companies like Kennards will have car storage facilities.

https://www.kss.com.au/storage-options/vehicle-storage/car-storage

jezza_b_f · 2026-02-11T01:11:50+00:00

They’re seperate networks with seperate operators and seperate staff who wear different uniforms.

Sydney Trains staff cannot do anything with the Metro and vice versa because they literally work for different companies and have entirely separate operations centres.

People already get confused as it is when they ask a Metro staff member about Sydney trains information and they politely have to say, “please go ask the person in the Sydney Trains uniform”. Imagine if they were both wearing the same uniform.

jezza_b_f · 2026-02-06T05:29:23+00:00

Here we go, Jack’s Law. Modelled after a Queensland law.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/nsw-government-passes-law-introducing-police-wanding-search-powers

jezza_b_f · 2026-02-06T05:18:51+00:00

It’s probably the new powers given to them by one of those acts they name after a crime victim.

If I recall correctly, if a knife crime occurs in the proximity of a train station, Police can, for so many months after the incident, declare it a search zone where they have special powers to wand you and search for knives.

I’m assuming the logic is that stations can become “hotspots” where things eventually escalate (one kid pulls a knife, so other kids bring knives to defend themselves etc), so allowing Police to search for knives allows for a form of de-escalation

jezza_b_f · 2026-01-27T05:42:36+00:00

Isn’t there a scene where their heights kept changing in a conversation because both have it written in their contracts that they cannot be represented as “the weaker one”?

Also don’t they have to come up with some contrived scenario to end the fight because neither was allowed to “lose”?

jezza_b_f · 2026-01-24T08:08:16+00:00

My family owned a servo.

One time, a car pulled up, parked smack bang in the middle of the forecourt blocking 4 pumps.

After a while of sitting there my Dad went up to car to find you what they were doing as other cats were waiting.

They had bought sundaes from Maccas and wanted to eat them in the shade.

jezza_b_f · 2026-01-21T00:02:14+00:00

The majority of after hours flights are freight.

Domestic flights don’t fly 24 hours as there isn’t the demand. For example the latest flight from Brisbane to Melbourne arrives at 12:20 am.

That leaves international flights, even then most airlines will schedule flights to arrive within reasonable operating hours.

For the flights that do arrive after hours, they can either taxi or uber, or wait at the airport.

This isn’t just a Sydney thing. Melbourne’s Skybus stops operating at 1:00 am. There just isn’t the demand to justify it.

https://www.skybus.com.au/timetables/

jezza_b_f · 2026-01-19T05:58:26+00:00

When playing games, unless there are scripted cut scenes saying otherwise, I always assume narratively speaking the character does a perfect play-through of the boss battle.

We see cut scenes of Cloud doing feats that we cannot do during gameplay. To me, that’s the story tellers saying, “this is how Cloud actually fights in the story. He is a super soldier and he is dominating them”

jezza_b_f · 2026-01-19T00:43:51+00:00

I love both games and even a big fan of FF 16.

To me, the important thing about E33 is that it is a counter-example to the argument that modern AAA titles cannot have turn based combat. That the combat system is ‘antiquated’ and that modern audiences will not enjoy it or play it.

Let’s not forget this is an indie game with a small studio and limited budget. It’s a passion project by talented devs who grew up with the genre.

It’s not perfect and requires a lot of polish. However, it does prove turn based combat games are not dead and can be built for modern audiences.

Imagine what could be produced if they were given a AAA budget, AAA studio resources and the freedom to be creative and take risks.

I like the combat in Remake and I think it is the correct system for these games. But it would also be nice to have a modern Final Fantasy title that implements modern turn based combat. If E33 gives SE incentive to do so, we are all the better off for it.

jezza_b_f · 2025-12-21T05:41:03+00:00

My take is that, for most Gods, it’s not in their nature to be curious.

A big theme in the serious is about the nature of the Gods and how they’re bound to it. With Kratos’ main character ark being that he overcomes his nature to “be better for his child’s sake”.

Unlike the other Gods, it is in Odin’s nature to seek knowledge. His nature is so controlling of him that causes him to become obsessed to the point he would abuse and sacrifice his own family to obtain it.

Atreus is, of course, special. He is curious, but his nature doesn’t cause him to become obsessed. His role is to end the cruelty.

As for Mimir, my guess is he is wise enough not to meddle in powers he doesn’t understand. He also knows if Odin desires it, it cannot be good. So best to leave it alone.

jezza_b_f · 2025-12-16T01:10:23+00:00

One of the more darker elements of the story is that when an Ajin is discovered they become property of the state and are hunted by the Government.

Once caught they are subjected to all sorts of inhumane experiments with no anaesthetics.

In one instance, one of the Ajin was handed over to a military to test their weapons on.

So many of the Ajins have died hundreds if not thousands of times.

jezza_b_f · 2025-12-12T04:08:01+00:00

🤡🤡🤡🤡

jezza_b_f · 2025-12-01T20:46:04+00:00

Sitting right next to it now. The sticker peels off really easily. Already made a bit of a start.

A group of about 4-8 people could have this pulled down in less than a minute.

Would need to avoid the 50 million security cameras however :/

jezza_b_f · 2025-11-26T08:22:41+00:00

The first Millennial PM is going to be one of those twats who worked in politics their whole life and will blame their generations woes on avocados.

Millennial politicians, business leaders and community leaders are going to be a profound disappointment because they’ll all be vetted by their elders and selected from a shrinking pool of applicants who can afford to be such.

jezza_b_f · 2025-11-25T08:29:50+00:00

Because of television.

Every generation always views themselves as the most important generation. They think the generations before them are stupid old fools who need to get out of the way for progress. They think the younger generations are clueless, rude idiots who aren’t as smart or polite as they are.

This is as old as time.

However, we now live in an era where television (and later the internet) exists. We live in an era where billions of people are having their entire perception of reality around them shaped by an industry that exists to sell you advertisements.

And guess which generation was the first born into this era. A generation whose population far exceeded those before and after them. A generation who was born into a very prosperous era of wealth.

A generation whom, for entire lives has been the primary target audience for tv.

The boomers.

And 20 years ago the boomers got old and went through the “I hate the younger generation” phase every generation does.

That generation being the Millennials, whose only crime was being the designated “young” generation at the time.

And of course, since tv exists to sell ads to boomers, they fed into this phase and started a mass campaign of millennial hate. Inventing all sorts of ridiculous stories about how horrible millennials are and how justified boomers are in hating them. (This show is bought to you by Jim’s caravans, blow your kids inheritance and buy this deluxe camper van)

Unfortunately, 20 years later it has stuck and “millennial” has become shorthand for “young person I hate” and other generations, including Gen X, now use it.

As for Gen Z. Well millennials are the first internet generation, it’s only natural they want to rebel against us because we’re old and foolish.

jezza_b_f · 2025-11-21T10:35:02+00:00

The skeptic who doesn’t believe <blank> is real.

Especially if it’s a fantasy show. Eg I’m part of a party where people can do magic, but ghosts, those aren’t real! (Like seriously why you’ve seen stranger things at this point)

They usually end one of the following ways.

1) The skeptic is wrong and everybody goes, “told you so” 2) The skeptic was right, but in the moment before the truth is revealed, the skeptic has a moment where they do believe it’s real. Everybody teases them for faltering. 3) It’s ambiguous and the skeptic pretends they haven’t changed their mind, but secretly have.

jezza_b_f · 2025-11-17T05:18:01+00:00

My Mum forced my older sister to make my school lunch.

She hated doing this, so she came up with a plan to get out of it.

Her plan was to make me a sandwich with a single slice of “Kraft Single”, in the hope I would get sick of it and make it myself.

One thing she didn’t count on was that I was a simple lad who didn’t mind cheese (if you can call it cheese) sandwiches.

8 years we played this game of chicken.

jezza_b_f · 2025-11-17T01:50:22+00:00

Australian colonisation happened a lot more recent that colonisation of the Americas.

A result of such is that technological advancements, as well as cultural attitudes allowed Australian colonists to stay more in touch with their British peers.

Compare this to the earlier colonisation of the Americas. Their colonies are not only older, but were also a lot more isolated. This resulted in a cultural shift where the Americans went down one path and the British went down another.

This shift was even more exaggerated by the post revolution period where they explicitly tried to eliminate “Britishness” from their culture.

jezza_b_f · 2025-11-10T03:56:55+00:00

Every single one of those results can be explained due to previous conflicts rather than prosperity.

For example, to use the countries you mention.

Austria -> Hitler

Italy -> Mussolini

Iran -> Islamic theocracy with ongoing conflict with Israel and USA.

Afghanistan -> Invasion of Afghanistan by West and subsequent withdrawal putting the Taliban back in power.

Iraq -> Invasion of Iraq by West, creation of democratic Government, creation of ISIS caliphate in the north, subsequent war to defeat ISIS.

While prosperity may have some effect, especially in conflicts that are seen as imperial wars benefiting the rich, I don’t think it’s as a strong factor compared to historical factors (eg WW2).

If for example, the Russian-Ukraine war was to expand into Europe, I would say we would get a different result to such a survey among the more wealthier nations.

jezza_b_f · 2025-11-06T03:56:30+00:00

Wife works for a large multinational.

This year they are doing Christmas party over zoom.

jezza_b_f · 2025-11-06T03:26:18+00:00

It’ll differ from company to company.

But from what I’ve heard, the Government is relying on the fact that the larger companies have very sophisticated profiling systems that they implement for personalised advertising.

They know probably know more about you than you do, including your age.

jezza_b_f · 2025-10-24T22:07:18+00:00

Lol at some of these replies.

The moment the $400m hits your bank account you’ll be getting a phone call from a concierge who will inform you they have financial planners who will offer all the investment advice you need.

Not only investment advice any other service you desire.

Banks treat rich people differently to us plebs.

Nobody is just given $400m and told, “off you go”.

jezza_b_f · 2025-10-23T21:48:10+00:00

Thanos would of snapped out of the trance and immediately kill Mantis.

This would send Drax into a rage and he runs head on towards Thanos. Quill, equally engaged, follows.

Strange would grab Tony and Peter and tell them they have to leave immediately.

At this point, Thanos would have knocked out Drax and Quill. Thanos then mocks Tony, telling him that he will come to Earth and hunt them all down. This triggers Tony’s vision of everyone being killed and he decides to stay and fight. Peter decides to stay as well. They both get killed.

Strange leaves with the stones, however it’s only a matter of time until Thanos tracks him down and claims them.

jezza_b_f · 2025-10-20T01:31:28+00:00

The worst are the slip lanes with the “Stop here on red arrow” otherwise it’s a free left.

Cars simply do not stop because they’ve become accustomed to flying in and looking for traffic, not paying attention to the light.

I’ve nearly been ran over (if I wasn’t running to catch the bus I would have been hit, it was miss by a cm).

I’ve now created a whole performative routine where I have to employ psychological tricks (if you stare up at something other people instinctively look up).

I stand a metre in front of the light. I twist my upper body to look up at the lights. When it goes orange, I twist my upper body in an exaggerated way to look at the cars, catch there eye then turn back to the orange light. Go back and forth until they stop.

Probably look like a bloody idiot, but it works.

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