[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Gotta chase that sweet, sweet live service money though.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

It's not really a debate about continuing to rely on fossil fuels. For context, in Australia the conservative coalition (for some reason) has an idealogical bee in its bonnet about investing more heavily in renewable energy sources, instead arguing that nuclear energy production is the way of the future.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 9 months ago

Does it want the hose again?

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago

A certain portion of the population seems to already deify anything Trump says.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago

Way too harsh there.

What if someone wants to be a cripple? Wouldn’t healing them ruin their self esteem?

Your earlier comment was not "what if someone wants to role-play a cripple?" If it was meant to mean that, I don't understand the relevance of healing hurting their self esteem. Whose self-esteem? The player's, or the character's?

The response made sense by querying why would a character want to be crippled, not why a player would find it interesting to do so.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago

Depends. What are you trying to achieve? The US has constitutional protection for freedom of speech, but it doesn't seem to prevent police aggressively breaking up protests they don't like.

There are other things I think are more of a priority. For example, I would rather have strong media laws that prevent the mega-rich from using the media as de facto cheerleaders for their political interests.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

American Officeworks

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Even if the Uluru Statement was 200 pages long and called for white slavery, it would still be misleading for Sky News to imply it has any relevance to what is actually being voted on in the Voice referendum. The wording of the proposed constitutional amendment is only about 4 paragraphs long, and has already been set by Parliament.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

My 5 year old believes that unicorns exist, they are just really good at hiding in the forest. I'm not going to tell them that it's not true.

The best I've been able to come up with is saying some people believe in god, some people don't. Some people believe in ghosts, some people don't. Everyone believes in different things, we can let them believe that without believing it ourselves.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

People won't stop just using social media.

We are discussing whether we should stop using social media via social media.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

The 25% casual loading is calculated to take in notice of termination and redundancy pay too. Lots of people resign and fewer are made redundant, so wouldn't get notice or redundancy pay anyway. That means in most circumstances, employees are better off in a pure money sense as casuals.

The big downside is if things are quiet at work you aren't guaranteed any hours. As you mention, that also creates a hurdle when applying for loans.

[-] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I still like those style of games. If you are looking for more of the same, I can recommend Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Same concept, but set in Shogun-era Japan. It's frequently on sale on Steam and GoG.

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