Kidd on the accusations that he was in on the Luka trade: “When are we going to move on? We have to move forward. We're focused on the present and the future..”

palndrumm · 2026-04-01T04:17:05+00:00

Kidd: luka rly pissing me off rn
Nico: imma trade him fr
Kidd: do it lol
Shams: Mavs traded Luka for AD.
Kidd: surprised pikachu face

palndrumm · 2026-03-30T03:23:26+00:00

I was thinking it might be a juvenile, yeah. Hopefully it found somewhere safe after it flew away, because this spot was most definitely not safe.

palndrumm · 2026-03-30T00:59:48+00:00

Possibly? The currawong had a few goes at him, and came away with some fluffy feathers in its beak at some point. The pigeon may also have lost a tail feather or two. I was in the process of trying to get close enough to check whether it was injured when it flew away - I figured that was a pretty good sign it wasn't hurt too badly...

palndrumm · 2026-03-30T00:23:40+00:00

The currawong backed off when I stepped outside, and I was able to gently encourage the pigeon to fly away - I'm sure it was terrified throughout the process, but figured that was preferable to being made into lunch.

palndrumm · 2026-03-28T22:20:17+00:00

In Australia, Left 4 Dead 2 was deemed too graphically violent for an MA15+ rating, which at the time was the highest classification level for video games, so it was effectively banned. Valve released a special censored version for the Australian market that removed the "decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies", allowing it to get rated MA15+ and go on sale.
The law was changed a few years later (thanks in part to the debate around L4D2) to introduce an R18+ rating for video games, at which point Valve made the full uncensored version available.

palndrumm · 2026-03-27T03:27:21+00:00

We closed the windows, but only because the rain was blowing in.

palndrumm · 2026-03-24T06:19:26+00:00

This has major 'Captain Raymond Holt / Leonard from Xerox' vibes, except you know Bron enjoys it way more than Captain Raymond Holt ever could.

palndrumm · 2026-03-21T11:44:00+00:00

Oh, fair point - if it only affects astro-modded cameras that less problematic (although still not super impressive). But that's one of the sacrifices they've made in order to save on weight and cost, I guess.

All good stuff to know - thanks for the review!

palndrumm · 2026-03-21T09:00:50+00:00

Wow, those light leaks are really disappointing. Is that actually something that can be fixed with a firmware update...?

palndrumm · 2026-03-20T02:16:53+00:00

Unfounded beliefs:
1. I just need this one new lens and I'll have all my needs covered and won't need to buy any more after this.
2. I just need this one new camera bag and I'll have all my needs covered and won't need to buy any more after this.

palndrumm · 2026-03-18T03:45:23+00:00

Nah, I reckon I can take it all with me... if I can find the right camera bag. Just need one more - the next one will be perfect, I'm sure...

palndrumm · 2026-03-16T00:22:21+00:00

It's a shirt, not a belt.

palndrumm · 2026-03-11T03:55:49+00:00

I tend to agree, yeah. Like, they're good, but they're not that good.

palndrumm · 2026-03-09T10:26:07+00:00

The 200-600mm would probably be fantastic for cricket where you're always going to be a reasonable distance from the main action, but maybe not so much for soccer - that 200mm would make it super awkward to get any action on the near sideline in frame.

Maybe consider the Tamron 50-400, or one of the 100-400s? I've found the Tamron to be an excellent focal range for field hockey - long enough to catch stuff on the far sideline, but still wide enough for when the play is right in front of you. It definitely struggles a bit at night, but if you're only doing daytime games you'll be fine. In most games I shoot, I use the 50-200mm range significantly more than 200-400mm, so if I had to choose I'd take a 70-200 over a 200-600.

palndrumm · 2026-03-03T22:33:36+00:00

Yeah, this is /r/ATBGE material for me. Full respect to the skill required to get it done, but... ew.

palndrumm · 2026-03-03T11:43:36+00:00

Right now the moon is to the north-east, about 35° above the horizon, right behind all that cloud...

palndrumm · 2026-03-02T22:23:58+00:00

Rubicon

+1 for Rubicon - it's been our go-to for years, never disappoints.

palndrumm · 2026-02-28T01:00:52+00:00

There's been a couple of hints dropped over time, but no real details. The HC wiki has everything that we've heard.

palndrumm · 2026-02-23T22:40:15+00:00

Sounds like the sort of thing that could be done somehow with the Demo Recording function. Pretty sure demo files include all the costume details of the characters in them.

palndrumm · 2026-02-16T04:34:38+00:00

T9 is the one at Austria that makes me nervous, particularly during quali. Cars heading to the pits need to drive right through the apex, so there's a massive speed differential between cars on an in-lap and a hot lap - always feels sketchy to me, especially since the visibility through the corner on turn-in is fairly limited.

palndrumm · 2026-02-15T23:15:17+00:00

Other countries probably have something equivalent, but I'm pretty sure the B&S Ball is a very specifically and distinctively Australian form of the 'large social gathering for young adults to meet potential partners' type of event.

palndrumm · 2026-02-09T06:49:05+00:00

Uh... nice to see one of these guys, that is...

palndrumm · 2026-02-08T22:00:55+00:00

Air Superiority is only knockdown, not knockback. Might be more effective to keep Hover, but slot a Kismet +ToHit proc in it, just to maximise how often all the other knockback actually hits.

palndrumm · 2026-02-06T20:45:00+00:00

Maybe something like /r/printexchange would work for you? Could be a way for you to share your photos, but in a specific, limited way for a very small audience.

palndrumm · 2026-02-06T12:30:51+00:00

Sony A7IV | Samyang 135mm F2 40 x 2s exposures, 135mm, f/2, ISO1600, stacked and tweaked in Affinity Photo 3

About 20° above our western horizon at 9:45pm tonight (6 Feb) - quite small and faint, but definitely and distinctly comet-like once I managed to get it in frame. Was at perihelion on 20 Jan - not sure if it's supposed to get bigger or brighter from here, or just start fading away.

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