BadlyDrawnRhino

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

For context, the conservative party here in Aus is pushing hard for a transition to nuclear power, rather than renewables.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

At least here in Australia, we believe in the right for a select group of billionaires to make money off the land in the form of coal mining, and renewable energy threatens that right.

Now that the world is turning away from coal as much as possible, we're now pivoting to allow a select group of billionaires to make money off the land in the form of uranium mining, and renewable energy also threatens that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I never owned a NES, but had a SNES and my brother also borrowed his friend's Mega Drive (Genesis for those of you in the US) from time-to-time. All of us would blow the connectors on the cartridges, regardless of console. If anything went wrong with a game, the first step to troubleshoot was to take the cartridge out and give it a good blow.

It was never about how the console actually worked, a five year-old isn't going to logically think about that. It was all about a perceived performance increase by doing it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Nuclear isn't green energy though. It's greener than coal, but it still involves mining and the waste produced by the process isn't exactly environmentally friendly.

Nuclear is absolutely a viable option in other countries, but we have better alternatives in Australia. There are only a few reasons the Coalition has latched onto nuclear energy after decades of campaigning against; it still involves mining for their donors, it'll take awhile to rollout which means mining coal stays viable for longer, and it's another thing they can argue over with other parties, further prolonging the rollout of actual renewable energy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is that a slur? It has a racial component, sure, but I hardly think it is actually a racist comment, and definitely not a slur. And to label it as "racially motivated harassment" is laughable.

If this is actually what Kerr said, it's pretty indicative of the systemic issues that have been popping up in the UK for awhile now. They've been travelling further and further down the fascist highway since Brexit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

At least with Metallica, we could laugh at the irony of a band regularly releasing songs about anarchy crying about piracy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I assume they've seen companies talk about revenue vs profit, and think they can claim there's a difference between earnings and income.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

In a few years: "Grandpa, what the fuck is snow?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If it helps, there's very little that carries over between the two games. Without any spoilers, you lose your gear at the start of the BG2, most of which doesn't carry over anyway. You will start with the level you finished BG1 with, but BG2 boosts brand new characters to a certain level anyway. And I don't think the games track decisions made throughout like modern RPGs do.

That said, I played it years before Beamdog released that interlude DLC, so maybe things have changed in their Enhanced releases of the games.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Not available in Aus either, and other Kobo bundles have been. Probably a publisher issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I've been able to strip the Kobo DRM out of a couple of book bundles using Calibre. Haven't bought this one yet, but I'd assume there wouldn't be a problem.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (18 children)

The first tweet is almost satirical, so if it had stopped there I might have bought it being "taken out of context".

I'm curious to know what possible context would make those tweets okay.

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