Brett

Brett@aus.social

Now, we go save the world.He/him/comrade.Wests Tigers tragic, terminally Australian. I play games occasionally and sometimes write about things. Header is a screenshot from Mirror's Edge of Faith looking over the city from a rooftop, avatar was stolen from the internet somewhere and is an animated .gif of the Doof Warrior from Fury Road. As a cat.Current quote: "There's no hate like former love." - user victrix talking about Ultima 9.

Posts

Post #4311916
Seeing security guards at every entrance of shopping centres feels vaguely dystopian. #canberra
Post #4311915
In Jahream, Jerome and Jevon we trust. #WestsTigers
Post #4311914
Ok, that was hilarious in an office setting. #ausalert
Post #4311913
Big ups to #Tuggeranong drivers today - in traffic approaching the roundabout everyone moved to the sides and created a central path for a police car to pass through, German style. Well done everyone, I hope he was on some honourable business.
Post #4176377
Vale #billoddie it seems. I knew him best as a Goodie of course, but I also read Gone Birding with great enjoyment. The Goodies were part of a core memory for people of a certain age, and now only fuzzy chops is left.
Post #4079720
Not a good day for the Raider women today. #canberra
Post #3876993
Humble Bundle seem to have moved on from their mission statement a bit, but I have to say this collection of Tanith Lee books is very much my jam. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/tanith-lee-collection-daw-books-books #books #humblebundle
Post #3876992
This may be a bit Trek specific, but aliens will not have unique biology, they&#39;ll be slightly oddly shaped humans in different colours. Despite their technology elsewhere, though, they seem to have made remarkably little progress on women&#39;s* clothes. *Or the alien equivalent thereof. #SciFiRules #HashtagGames
Post #3876991
I was reminded that that Wests Tigers centre Namoe Gesa is sponsored by Pro Wrestling Australia, and I&#39;m always amazed by that. I also think sponsoring a player must be cheaper than I thought it must be, or the money in pro rasslin&#39; is better than I expected. #weststigers
Post #3876990
Jumping into my car (which has fully charged overnight thanks to a battery fuelled by the sun) and driving past middle class suburbia to go to work has made Gibson&#39;s quote about the future not being evenly distributed resonate like never before. #ev
Post #3779472
Know what I haven't done in a while? #mondayrandom10 #music As always, it's courtesy of Musicolet's shuffle function. 1. Loading - Limnetic Villains (who I think I found here on Mastodon) 2. For The West Coast Dark Ambient Bedroom Warriors - the Mountain Goats 3. hoax - Taylor Swift 4. The Jester - Johnny Roadkill 5. Don't Stop - Hilltop Hoods 6. The Little Drummer Boy - Christopher Lee 7. Only Girl (In The World) - Rhianna 8. Bash the Fash - Oi Polloi 9. Torture - Berlin...
Post #2479989
Are we still doing #mondayrandom10 ? It&#39;s pretty mainstream for me this time: 1. Virus of the Mind - Heather Nova 2. Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers 3. You and Me - Alice Cooper 4. Everything I&#39;m Not - the Veronicas 5. How It&#39;s Done - Huntr/x 6. Jump - Van Halen 7. no body, no crime - Taylor Swift feat. HAIM 8. Cloud busting - Kate Bush 9. Come As You Are - Nirvana 10. Fearless (Taylor&#39;s Version) - Taylor Swift #music
Post #2380980
I was randomly reminded today of my father&#39;s tales of the Six O&#39;Clock Swill, when drunken workers took advantage of different closing times for pubs between Albury and Wodonga years ago to get an extra half hours&#39;s drinking in. I Was Told the crash rate along those few miles was horrendous. #australia #lore
Post #2143177
A sad day yesterday- my hat got swapped out for the beanie. #canberra
Post #1805802
Just here with 17,000 of my closest friends. #WestsTigers #CampbelltownStadium
Post #1805801
Button Shy moving away from wallets to boxes makes a lot of sense for shelf presence in shops, but it feels like the end of an era. Would Sprawlopolis have the reputation it has if it was a boxed game, I wonder? #boardgames
Post #1805800
I wonder what all those people who thought Benji was out of his depth have to say now? #WestsTigers
Post #1805799
Today&#39;s Monday Random 10 is from the good folk at Musicolet&#39;s randomizer. 1. Baby Steps - Hilltop Hoods 2. It&#39;s Okay - Annika Jayne 3. Alejandro - Lady Gaga 4. See America Right - the Mountain Goats 5. The Divine Conspiracy - Epica 6. In The Warm Room - Kate Bush 7. Secret - the Veronicas 8. Cemetery Girl - Insane Clown Posse 9. Source Decay - the Mountain Goats 10. Jump - Van Halen An eclectic mix, but it actually feels right. #MondayRandom10
Post #1805798
One thing I will never not love about #Canberra is that this view is a ten minute walk from my door.
Post #1805795
The now: watching the cinematic masterpiece of Rambo III and wondering why Sly Stallone wasn&#39;t in contention for Secretary of War instead of Pete Hegseth.
Post #1260062
Sorry, I was out - what was #Albos big announcement? Are we at war? He&#39;s using his thumping election victory to introduce fully automated luxury gay space communism? #auspol
Post #1260060
Currently reading the #xkcd archives in hacker mode, as God intended. #webcomic
Post #1260059
#mondayrandom10 (a little late because I was watching Jahream Bula score tries.) 1. sunset - @SeaFury 2. In Summary - the Compromise 3. 1979 - Hilltop Hoods 4. Sideshow - Alice Cooper 5. Threshers Fuck Off - Oi Polloi 6. Blues in Dallas - the Mountain Goats 7. Lounge Act - Nirvana 8. The Boys of Summer - the Ataris 9. My Pachelbel Song - Debs and Errol 10. The City - Echo Slightly #music
Post #1260058
The hype is real (at Week 5, anyway): #WestsTigers
Post #1260056
I get that there are security concerns, and thirteen years of service is ... decent by modern standards I guess, but Amazon telling owners of functional devices that they are no longer welcome to give them money still feels like wild work. I need to check how old my Kindle is (not that it matters since apparently there&#39;s a doom coming), but it&#39;s a lot cheaper to continue to use it and load books from other sources than buy a new one, and if I do replace it it probably won&#...
Post #1260054
Nice to know a trillion dollar company will soon reach feature parity with a $5 stopwatch: https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-before-chatgpt-can-start-a-timer-2000743487
Post #1260052
I love hookers doing hooker stuff. #WestsTigers #apikoroisau
Post #1260051
Hey #canberra peeps - does anyone know if the NXTBUS SMS service still works, where you text the stop number to 0432131710 and they message back the next few buses that should arrive? It&#39;s still advertised at the stops, but I haven&#39;t used it successfully since the last timetable change.
Post #492973
Ok, this is provisionally cool even if it does use a LLM. As they carefully note, it evaluates how content is written, not whether it&#39;s true. https://ragecheck.com/ via @violetblue