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  • Been speaking to the old man about the shed he had built a few years ago. It was flooded in '19 because the neighbour's sprinkler system ran non stop for weeks. I had to climb over and turn it off because the council and yarra water were hopeless (this isn't the point though). It was a serious amount of water that made its way 2 doors down.

    Anyway he's in a little email argument with the other neighbour because he thinks it's that guys fault. The wall is disintegrating and the hydrometer is maxxed out.

    I genuinely believe it was the massive flooding event from the other neighbour right before 3 b2b la ninas that super saturated everything so it's a series of compounding events.

    In explaining this I said "the theory that holds the most water". Completely lost on him..

    So to all you bad pun people, I see you and you are appreciated. It's a tough crowd out there.

    • Slightly relevant and quite interesting imo. Google 'Wayne tank principle' if you want to read about legal interpretations of damage that has been caused by multiple different events, one event being covered by insurance, one excluded. How to determine liability?

  • Found out that a newer work colleague, who I haven't had much to do with before, is actually struggling a lot emotionally, and is insanely isolated with no idea how to navigate the situation. I had no idea and I felt awful that I had never checked in with her or realised what was going on amidst my own troubles.

    We had a very long chat that made me reflect on a lot of things I'd been through more recently, and how severe the impact of poor post-lockdown workplace team management can be on individuals, especially recent arrivals to the country. I know we all like to talk about the benefits of WFH but professional isolation really sucks arse.

  • Made my way down to the bellarine for a little escape.

    I will never get tired of distant surf pulverising the shore noise.

  • I join the Zoom and it's a political discussion. It's too early to hear this conservative knob rattle on about how bad Labor is.

    Pray for me

    (He just said 'aboriginies' omg 😭😭😭)

    • Aborigines is not too bad, it's old fashioned is all ( it could be much much worse )

    • It's just so fucking tragic hearing people try and suggest the liberals are better. I'm sorry you have to endure this crap.

  • Off to a bad start this morning. Really agitated and quite angry at the way a staff member spoke to me and patronized me.

    I'd heard rumors how some of them are quite nasty and I think I just encountered it for one of the first time from this people from a certain team.

    Anyway about to go outside. Going to take a deep breath and clear my mind while on my duty for an hour and enjoy the fresh smell of rain if it decides to fall.

    • It sucks that people can be so petty and 'highschool' in the workplace, I'm sorry you were on the receiving end of their immaturity.

      Sending you love and good vibes 💜💜💜

      • Thanks, still happens no matter the workplace and how old they are.

        I have to try and let it go though and let it not ruin my day.

        I might treat myself to something at the end of the day if I can find some doughnuts.

  • The PMs speech at the referendum date announcement (14 October btw) was excellent. I wonder who wrote it?

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    Apologies. Chef was chained by the Heatmonster.

  • 9:30pm, night time and it's still 37C.. I've wandered down the strip to Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville for a cocktail and a burger.

    I could show you the cocktail but maybe you'll like the inside of the Venetian casino more.

  • Haggles for dinner filled with Devon, cheese and mushrooms.

    Maybe I needed thicker bread to do this.

    Can’t wait to take a bite of these without burning myself.

  • This is the exact recording I just bought! This is just incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wDai9s4Hmc be sure to click for subtitles

    they used to pull barges by manpower, men in teams on the banks of canals
    🥺https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Volga_Boatmen#/media/File:Ilia_Efimovich_Repin_(1844-1930)_-_Volga_Boatmen_(1870-1873).jpg

    my heart really is with Russian people, I hope they can truly get rid of despots

    ( thank you for attending today's history lesson )

    • Russia has an amazingly rich cultural heritage. Which has been excluded from the west by the US. Most of the music I listen to comes from either russia or ukraine. The war is shit. But Russophobia is real. While people lap up any kind of crap from the US, I always remember more than half the people who voted, voted for trump not long ago. Russian people don't have that choice. They are gaslit and terrorised by criminals into having to live lives of poverty. I'm definitely all sunshine and lollipops today huh? I'll try and be more positive tomorrow.

      • hugs

      • I don't know if it's any consolation but less than half the voters voted for President Trump in 2016. Their democratic system is broken, but their politicians won't fix it because the broken system keeps them in power.

        Total votes for Donald Trump in 2016: 62,984,828 (46.1%)
        Total votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016: 65,383,514 (48.2%)

  • Sit.rep.: Sammi hopped off and the rain held off so I did a Coles dash. So that's done.
    Now on the couch with Zooki on my shoulder.

  • It's going to be funny by me saying this as I not only play games but I also write for an online publication about video games. But the fact that there are some games out there asking for more money just so you can... what, play 6 days earlier is asinine!

    Partner asked if I pre-loaded Starfield and I said yes, I'm so keen for this game of course, I'm going to preload it. But it's on Xbox Game Pass (PC) where it's "free"-ish (I mean I'm spending $10 a month so it's not entirely free but it's not like I'm shelling out $100 for a new game), found out that if you buy the deluxe version you can play the game this Friday instead of next Wednesday. Looked up the cost and it's $170 for the "deluxe" version, whereas the standard edition is $120. I am not shelling out $170 just to play a game 5 days earlier. But not only that, but Jesus Christ video games are expensive. I totally get the fact that their pricing hasn't really changed and that it used to be $80 in the 90s and that was expensive. But wages haven't really gone up, we're in a cost of living crisis, still dealing with the pandemic, etc. The fact that it's even an option to pay $170 to play a video game 5 days before it "officially" comes out is just... I cannot believe it, but it's not really shocking in the grand scheme of things.

    Just... ugh. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

    • And people will bite at that price just to play it a few days earlier.

      I don’t know if they’ll be allowed to stream it in those 5 days but that could equal a lot of money for them which they’ll make back in no time.

      I’ve already seen threads somewhere of people finding the cheapest option to upgrade to deluxe. I think it involves going to the Turkish regional store?

      I didn’t look too much into it as I was just scanning discussions.

      • I did find a way to upgrade to the deluxe version for $60 but I don't know if that is like if you've bought the base game? Because I'm playing it through Xbox Game Pass, so I haven't actually "bought" the game so to speak. I don't know.

    • It's why I left behind LoL, anything made by Acti-Blizz, EA, Ubisoft, etc. Too many microtransactions (and player toxicity) and these FOMO-inducing 'offers' and 'deals'.

      I find I have been a much happier time playing indie games, or CRPGs (bg3 now, but a huge fan of Obsidian, Paradox, and Larian). Moving away from the other devs/publishers I mentioned before has done wonders for my mental health and gaming motivation

      • Yeah I've stopped playing Activision-Blizzard stuff before the Hong Kong Protests but that sort of cemented it with the BlitzChung situation. And then the whole sexual assault that really drove it into the ground (really happy to hear OW2 is the lowest rated game, I mean I do feel bad for the devs but...). Since I've started reviewing games, I've actually enjoyed playing more indie games. I haven't been able to review a lot of the big triple A titles because they don't give out a lot of review codes, like Nintendo only gave out 2 codes for I think Sword and Shield, and that obviously went to IGN Aus and Press Start because they're the biggest online publications (which iunno, is weird that IGN has all these different location sites and you'll see on Metacritic like so many IGN reviews. I get it for countries that don't speak English, but do y'all really need an IGN, IGN Australia, IGN UK, it's unnecessary).

        But yeah, most of the games I've reviewed have been indies, some like big indies like Coffee Talk 2 and Blanc, and some smaller ones like Best Month Ever! and RE:Call. Though I have been able to do features on games from big studios, specifically Sony. Was able to sort of "review" but not a scored review of Spider-Man PS4 on PC, Ratchet and Clank and Sackboy. The only other triple A studio I can think of that I did a review for was Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires from Koei, but they're not like "Western" big.

        Also I'm so glad you can get BG3 working! I've finally finished act 2 after playing it for 80 hours. I had to go back to the start to save a character because the first mini boss of the final battle in act 2 was so freaking difficult. But man, the performance issues are bad.

    • The devs know there's plenty of rich people who need to have things before everyone else. I still haven't played cyberpunk as it would mean upgrading my graphics card, which still works great despite being a 690 and basically a vintage card now. But the fan crap before that game was insane. I remember speaking to loads of people who bought new systems for it. Then it dropped and the hype died after a month. They still have their insane systems they love of course.

      There are still quite a lot of new games which run perfectly on my 1280p monitor and look amazing. Sure, there's better experiences to be had I'm sure, but for someone who still plays minecraft most of all and isn't worried about when gta6 will drop why upgrade until the 690 tanks?

      • Man I was so keen for Cyberpunk, but then after a lot of the trans stuff came out, I got less and less excited. I did end up playing it (you can probably deduce how I got it) and like it was okay???? It ran fine on my computer, but yeah glitches galore. Nothing game breaking but yeah. You are honestly not missing out. I know that they're getting a new expansion soon, where they're going to update everything that'll be interesting.

        Yeah I don't have like the best specs, but my rig isn't dogshit. I just need an SSD because apparently all games now need that to run on (seriously, BG3's performance is so bad, yet the detect graphics will always put it on ultra).

  • Debating whether or not to do a Coles run, just nip up to the corner Foodworks for a couple of things or just put it off until tomorrow.
    It doesn't help that Sammi keeps clamping herself to my legs.

  • Listening to the Hunting Warhead podcast I'm so close to tears many times.

    • I just looked it up... urgh. I just couldn't. I have two close friends with DID and know casually a couple more. Plus all the women I've known with BPD as a result of childhood abuse. The less I know about this stuff the better, I just try and be the best friend I can to them I'm glad there are people out there trying to stop it. That the catholic church is trying to weasel their way out of admitting that were basically a worldwide pedo ring is something else I try not to think about too much. I'm a part of the me too group as well, but all my abuse was at the hands of gay men. It's still something we're still not talking about because no one wants to be seen as homophobic, but so many of them are absolute fucking pigs to women and trans people. We're supposed to be united under the queer umbrella but I keep hearing whispers about trans breaking away because we only really support each other. Hate to say it, but its mostly men. Not all men but too many.

      end rant, it's been a constant source of pain this year as abuse and cover ups ruined my music career.

    • It's a lot hey. It's one of the most in depth bits of reporting I've ever read or listened to around this subject. I still haven't made it through the last episode

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