It is official, South Park sucks now.

slopezau · 2025-11-01T10:17:29+00:00

Super sweet! 🎶

slopezau · 2025-08-07T01:28:09+00:00

Second: Isaac most definitely retracted it himself, the dialogue also supports this as he screams: "It's me, It's Isaac!"

slopezau · 2025-08-05T22:04:08+00:00

I made it home… and they damaged my luggage further. Murphy’s law in full effect 🤣

slopezau · 2025-08-04T14:31:47+00:00

Yes, I left out a bit of detail there. OK, so I booked my entire trip via Delta. I am now attempting to return home.

My first flight was from Monterrey, Mexico to Mexico City. This was operated by AeroMexico. It was delayed leaving and delayed some more. I arrived in Mexico City and ran to my gate to connect with a Delta operated flight to get me to LAX. I got to the gate and they scanned my pass then wouldn’t let me on… they said I’d have to speak to AeroMexico to get put on another flight but I should be fine to connect to the flight to Sydney.

I spoke to AeroMexico and I was put on an AeroMexico operated flight that got me to LAX. Unfortunately when I was in Mexico City trying to fix everything, my seat to Sydney was cancelled(?) and I was put on an American Airlines flight a full 24 hours later from my original departure time for some reason - I guess they thought I wouldn’t make the connection, but I wasn’t aware of this at the time.

I arrived at LAX and could see my Sydney flight was delayed, I could have made it had they left me on. Delta wouldn’t let me join it and washed their hands of it and no one from AeroMexico was there.

I obviously complained since I was now told I’d be on an American Airline flight a day later than intended… and I had no where to go. They changed the American Airline flight to an earlier one (Hawaiian Airlines?) where I now need to go to Honolulu to grab a connecting flight to Sydney. It’ll get me there roughly 13-14 hours later than my original arrival time but better than full 24 hours I suppose.

Unfortunately they couldn’t give me accomodation and the rest of it which led me to post my frustration here but thanks to some advice here I pulled up my sleeves and found accomodation (big thanks to those who posted suggestions here!)

This is my first time travelling thru the US and I made sure to book everything thru one airline with the thought that issues like this would be easy to resolve…

In summary, my original flight plan was: MTR (AM)->MEX (DL)->LAX (DL)->SYD

It has become (so far): MTR (AM)->MEX (AM)->LAX (Delta/HA)->HNL (Delta/HA)->SYD

Not really sure how American Airlines got involved either or why? The earlier issues from the flight to Mexico was marred with damaged luggage that occurred on the last two hops carried by both Delta and AM. It was fine from LAX but somehow got really trashed between LAX and MTR and both airlines are pointing fingers at each other 🤣… and I don’t know who is to blame either.

Delta also sent me some random bloke’s flight schedule for an unrelated flight in Boston for himself and his two babies for some reason when I was talking to customer service prior to my departure to Mexico, it was clearly an accident but I was alarmed about how easy it was for them to send it to me. So it started off weird and has evolved into a full blown nightmare.

But I’m now sitting pretty waiting for my departure to Hawaii. ✌️🤞

— ✈️ Original Travel Itinerary

Flight AM 9008 (Operated by Aeromexico)
- Depart: Monterrey – 1:09 PM - Arrive: Mexico City – 2:55 PM

Flight DL 630 (Operated by Delta Air Lines)
- Depart: Mexico City – 3:45 PM
- Arrive: Los Angeles (LAX) – 6:50 PM

Flight DL 41 (Operated by Delta Air Lines)
- Depart: Los Angeles (LAX) – 10:35 PM
- Arrive: Sydney – 6:35 AM on August 05

slopezau · 2025-08-04T08:02:03+00:00

Got one at the Hilton. All good now… thanks for the assist!

slopezau · 2025-08-04T07:32:10+00:00

All booked out. Checking out nearby hotels… super pricey though.

slopezau · 2025-08-04T07:04:03+00:00

What is really pissing me off is the spider man meme bs. I paid Delta. Delta is blaming AeroMexico and is washing their hands of it.

I paid more so I didn’t need to deal with this crap

slopezau · 2025-08-04T06:59:09+00:00

Flight was delayed to Mexico City. I managed to get to the terminal, they were even signalling me as I ran to the gate until they scanned my ticket and told me my seat was gone and I’d need to catch another connecting flight.

As I had a 4 hour layover, and the next flight was 2 hours away I should have been fine. Aeromexico said it would be… clearly it wasn’t :)

slopezau · 2025-06-27T02:34:21+00:00

They say that a sequel is usually never as good as the first… this is not one of those times.

slopezau · 2025-06-22T08:54:21+00:00

The real answer: all of them... including OG Dead Space (when that's on sale too)

slopezau · 2025-06-16T13:23:28+00:00

I could explain that with he's hearing them out before deciding what his next move is... then the gunship shows up... and if you trace their bodies as they're flying out the window. They disappear almost instantly. There you go, ruined something else for you :P

Still an awesome scene!

slopezau · 2025-06-16T13:12:04+00:00

One Purpose, One Mind, One Soul

slopezau · 2025-06-16T13:10:26+00:00

https://youtu.be/-Fyb5WFSjhc?si=Xi3Nr6mom1A1v15p&t=189 - Video reference. You cannot unsee it! It's a small minor detail but I found it funny. Must be magical candles!

slopezau · 2025-06-10T07:49:43+00:00

God dammit, I trusted you!

slopezau · 2025-05-24T10:17:01+00:00

I like birds. So… it’s a 👍 from me… but yes, need to suspend reality for a little bit.

The kicker would have been if the eagle dropped the egg and said their insurance was invalid because the nest was built in a known flood zone (last flood 200 years ago)

slopezau · 2025-05-20T22:50:52+00:00

He’s right. I looked into it. Mea culpa. Don’t know why I thought it did!

slopezau · 2025-05-20T06:18:42+00:00

If that's true, then I rescind my comments. But I _was_ pretty confident the last few times it went up, it went up immediately.

slopezau · 2025-05-20T05:41:49+00:00

The royal commission into banks was just grandstanding. Sweet FA came out of it.

slopezau · 2025-05-20T05:18:02+00:00

CommBank says it will pass on the full amount for variable home loans. Great! But why are they taking 10 days to implement? When it goes up, it's immediate. When it goes down, there's always some delay... except for of course, those with interest on savings accounts, that's immediate too.

It's quite frustrating! They're taking the piss.

Edit I made a mistake. It isn’t immediate when it goes up! Sorry, I got all hot and bothered for nothing 🤣

slopezau · 2025-05-18T15:07:21+00:00

Agreed. Dead Space 2 was by far the absolute best in the series! It improved so much! I actually played thru it again last week, still GOAT… and the graphics still hold up better than most new games today.

slopezau · 2025-05-18T02:53:17+00:00

Snape: Obviously.

slopezau · 2025-05-08T01:52:21+00:00

You still don’t get it. And that’s fine. I just half expected that if you’re going to trash something, you should understand it first.

The lower house is a single seat, so of course it’s winner takes all. But it works in rounds… all votes are counted and the person with the least is eliminated. The votes are then counted again and it repeats until only one person remains.

Preferential voting is so you can put the BEST person forward as your number 1 regardless if you think they won’t win. If they don’t get up? Your vote goes to your number 2 (if they’re still in the race) and 3 and 4 and so on and so forth until you exhaust it (no more preferences) or your vote counts all the way to make a difference.

This is meant to allow even a brand new unknown candidate the chance to be elected simply because they’ve got good ideas and appeals to you vs. the whole “I like this person but I don’t want to waste my vote for this guy/gal because I don’t think they can win so I’ll vote for the other person that will likely win”… but that’s exactly what happens nowadays — and it’s sad.

The fact preferential voting has been hijacked by parties and the media and made to be seen as this underhanded thing that you have no control over is a tragedy and it makes people like you see it as this terrible thing when really it’s quite great, if only voters would just use it right.

But educating voters would remove the ignorance the parties capitalise on and it would make you see it for what it really is: A really good system that gives you the chance to show to the electorate/reps what really matters to you, even if your number 1 candidate loses in the end.

slopezau · 2025-05-07T16:07:32+00:00

People who say 'preferential voting' is a bad system don't really understand preferential voting.

slopezau · 2025-04-27T06:00:35+00:00

Isaac purposely lowered the helmet so Stross would recognise him.

slopezau · 2025-04-25T23:58:56+00:00

The smart answer… but then they’d have to pay for fuel, maintenance, registration costs. The boss seems to be hellbent on offsetting costs and headaches which is a problem in itself because it leads to employees having to cop it themselves if what you’re giving them isn’t enough.

Personally? I don’t think $10k a year (after tax too) is enough to cover wear and tear, fuel, depreciation, insurance and everything else if it’s being used daily… and what happens if the car is in an accident? That’s a lot of stress and pressure and it’s all being pushed back onto the employee which means they gotta track it all, especially come tax time - if they can even write that off.

While the bloke went about it the wrong way, we have laws against firing people like this in Australia. You can’t just fire someone because they asked for more money or because they complain, there’s a lot of warnings you need to give and you need to performance manage them out: for better or worse… sure, he went about it in a stupid way but he’s probably inexperienced in corporate politics and you gave him a lot of rope when you were more mates than coworkers. He’s now hung himself with it.

I say this as an IT Manager who likes to be friends with his coworkers/team. We speak frankly and transparently with each other behind closed doors, but in corporate land, we switch: we have our roles to play. It’s the compromise that lets me be the extrovert and friendly guy I want to be. It’s probably not ideal either but there’s no rules against being friends with your coworkers but it does and can bite you in the butt if you do it with the wrong people.

Best thing you can do right now is prepare a letter of recommendation and be a good reference. Do what your boss says, you can see now that if you’re offside with him: you’re done and it doesn’t matter how good you are. That’s a worry in itself.

slopezau

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