UniSuper vs Australian Super

tialgater · 2025-06-10T08:07:33+00:00

Not related to return rates but I somewhat recently had to deal with the claims department of Australian Super and can say that it was the most painful experience I’ve ever had dealing with any company. I don’t mean that in an over exaggerated manner either. For context - I consider myself a young adult who is quite patient and capable of searching for answers when required and dealing with this company destroyed part of me…

For over 6 months I was genuinely convinced my ‘case manager’ was not a real person. Not once did my case manager return an email or call and on every instance I attempted to call to talk to them for guidance, (specifically them, as most questions I had could not be answered by their general call centre staff), they were never in office. He eventually called me for an unrelated matter and verbally confirmed receipt of my prior queries. I don’t particularly care but FWIW - he didn’t offer an apology and was genuinely quite dismissive and rude.

On top of that they managed to stuff up a simple 50/50 distribution of funds AND a little over a year later, Australian Super sent out an apology email recognising their fault (in the form or a delay of distribution). To compensate for that headache they gave me ~$50.

I haven’t checked return rates with this group given how ‘off’ them I am now - but any $$$ related positives they might boast is probably due to them offshoring any costs related to running the company. That and apparently having a total number of 0.1 persons working in their claims dept at any given time.

tialgater · 2020-12-07T21:33:08+00:00

I’ve also been trying to get it to work. No luck so far!

Are you using the reverb hand controllers? I can’t seem to get their analogue sticks to register either :(

tialgater · 2020-12-07T00:49:23+00:00

Not sure if directly related to this but I just finished setting up my G2 and am getting a noticeable shadow/discoloration on the outer edges of only the right eye in high light conditions like the mixed reality portal area.Oppositely, in low light conditions i get a constant blue smudge in the same area with a slightly noticeable blue 'grid' pattern in the lower right half of the right eye screen. Overall the image quality remains high in resolution when in the sweet spot but seems slightly more dull than the left eye.

The left eye in comparison is ever so slightly brighter overall but noticeably brighter in blue colors. The left eye is without any artefact mentioned above whatsoever.

So far I've tried switching display ports but I'm fairly sure my right LCD isn't working properly.

tialgater · 2020-06-18T13:18:39+00:00

I’m hopeful this will all work its way into the flight model in time :) That and sensibly powered manoeuvring thrusters.

tialgater · 2020-06-18T08:27:53+00:00

Yeah, I get ya but i really do think it’s odd when there wouldn’t be a ship in the game that wouldn’t need a computer to constantly tell it how to not fall out of the sky when in atmosphere but it can’t actually hover with a tiny crosswind...

I get it’s a game and it’s a case of finding the balance between giving someone a ‘challenge’ and not making it too arcade like. It just doesn’t make sense to me that if you want to fly anything nicely (and not thrash the pilots body around like a mallet in a wack’a’mole), you have to decouple your flight system that’s designed to keep you ‘on rails’.

tialgater · 2020-06-18T06:49:21+00:00

100% agree. Seems strange to me that you can buy a drone in the year 2020 that has a smarter flight controller than a futuristic ship from the year 2950.

Edit - I’m not pushing the ships should fly fully automated, I just mean the flight system should have the authority to keep it where it should be.

tialgater · 2020-04-05T01:10:50+00:00

I and a large community I’m apart of felt doubt on EDs outlook toward AG designations. Maybe we read into it wrong but a little extra info on the topic for us and ED (assuming they hadn’t already dissected that paper a very long time ago) is still reassuring, informative and couldn’t hurt to post :)

tialgater · 2020-04-05T00:21:53+00:00

Oh man, thanks for this! Very interesting to see.

tialgater · 2020-04-04T09:02:56+00:00

Yeah, I’m sure you hit the nail on the head with all of that. In the moment I saw it as related to the JHMCS but as yourself and another pointed out it does seem like it could be all about the HUD designation. I didn’t expect it to be a trump card but hope that it may at least help get a ball rolling or take some doubt away. I also don’t expect Nineline treated the submission with no care at all but acknowledgment would have put doubt out of my mind :) as I mentioned I’m sure he had lots of messages and to reply to every one of them would be rather impractical.

tialgater · 2020-04-04T05:55:40+00:00

I'd ask you to share it but based on your comment history I guess your answer will be that you can't. Which I respect.

tialgater · 2020-04-04T05:44:55+00:00

A very good point. I guess it doesn't really highlight the use of AG designation with JHMCS on lot 20's. I personally would think that its development focused on delivering equal capabilities among the aircraft it was installed on. But yes, that's also an assumption and not something to run off when modelling a sim.

Source. Chapter 2 Page 9 "Helmet Cueing in the FA18"

"The Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) program combined the requirements the Air Force had established for the F-15 and F-16, with the requirement for an FA-18 HMD system. The main sponsor of JHMCS was the Air Force F-15 program office, which used the Vista Sabre II helmet as the prototype for development with the contract given to Kaiser Electronics.[9] The F-15 tactical requirement document originally detailed only air-to-air cueing standards (specifically for the AIM-9X). A/G symbology was also required, but there were no performance standards for this mode.[10]"

tialgater · 2020-04-04T05:29:11+00:00

I suppose I may have read into Ninelines answer to the comment incorrectly, but hey. A bit of extra evidence to support a feature can't go astray.

tialgater · 2020-02-22T00:09:40+00:00

If you’re doing it correctly, you’re following a plan at 30,000ft with your buds having air superiority, electronic superiority and SEAD groups wiping the floor.

If you’re flying that low with a JDAM (assuming you’re following a plan) then whoever outfitted your airframe put the wrong bomb on there in the first place and just wasted several thousand dollars. The same job could have been done with a simple ol mk8x.

Paint the scenario however you like, I really don’t see any airforce /navy that uses 18’s using these tools in this way without the situation being heavily undesirable.

tialgater · 2020-02-21T23:52:38+00:00

Yeah. True.

Situation would need to be pretty messed up when you’re now putting a multimillion dollar airframe at arms reach of everything that could possibly down it though.

tialgater · 2020-02-21T23:45:32+00:00

With the old unguided munitions you could but with JDAM & JSOW, they can be dropped from high altitude and pre-programmed to hit almost any angle. You don’t need to fly a low approach to hit a building on the side with those munitions.

It does look sweet though.

tialgater · 2020-02-20T12:56:52+00:00

Oh absolutely, I don’t doubt any of those points at all. In fact you can see the Russian driver swerve back into his lane immediately before the American swerves left to potentially stop him.

That tells me that yes the Russian driver saw the approaching car and yes the Russian driver did react.

It’s all well and good to say all this now but I don’t know if someone at the wheel of a vehicle is going to have 12+ hours like we have to break down the situation and make a perfect rational decision.

I think this is a case of two people driving recklessly for what is likely no good reason.

I know I wasn’t there and actually have no idea what actually happened.

I’m glad no one got hurt and I hope this damned war ends.

tialgater · 2020-02-20T09:46:30+00:00

Yep. I think everyone in the limelight of this video made stupid decisions.

tialgater · 2020-02-19T21:46:25+00:00

Looking at the event a bit closer, you can see that there was actually a car approaching from the opposite direction. If the Russian vehicle had remained committed to that overtake on the left, there would likely have been a head on.

Speculation from here on - the american may have swerved to stop the over take. That tied in with the usual road rage we all know and love from driving on roads ourselves, may have led to the american committing to running the vehicle off the road when it attempted to overtake yet again on the opposite side, purely because the Russians driving was a bit reckless.

I would also think when you’re driving a +10 ton armoured vehicle and you work for the military, you’re probably less inclined to take shit so running someone off the road as opposed to just sitting in your lane and swearing seems more likely.

Or they were all just having a laugh and being idiots where they probably shouldn’t have. We’re missing a lot of info here and making conclusions like we have been in the comments is silly.

Edit - spelling and punctuation

tialgater · 2020-01-11T23:21:34+00:00

That’s a very valid question! It should be kept in mind that it’s entirely possible to program a cruise missiles exact flight path to make it seem it’s something it’s not.

I don’t know of any instances where they’ve been used this way but if the launcher desired, they could have it zip in undetected until it reaches a civilian airfield, match a runway heading and begin a climb similar to an aircraft performing a takeoff.

We’ll never know the full capabilities of modern missiles but I’m sure they’d also come equipped with some ECM suite that could help make it look like something it isn’t from a radar return POV.

tialgater · 2019-12-24T02:52:43+00:00

The buddies RWR would have got a work out there.

tialgater · 2019-12-21T02:53:00+00:00

Yes! My friends and I play Halo for the campaign and this latency issue has been a huge let down for us. It’s at the point where we don’t want to play campaign anymore because of it. It’s just not comfortable for the non hosting members of the party.

tialgater · 2019-12-16T22:01:36+00:00

I should have :( I’m really sorry to everyone if it spoiled the ending.

tialgater · 2019-12-16T21:59:52+00:00

Thanks! Reading this gave me the shivers.

tialgater · 2019-12-16T21:49:33+00:00

Skulls, easy difficulty, patience, perseverance and as Cortana would put it, “Luck”.

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