Ok that picture is wonderful.

Let me guess: it did fine for a few years until everyone had tried it once?

Now I'm torn between wanting to get it once before it closes to see what it is like and just not because apparently it is crap.

On reddit's military forum, there are stories there of some ANZAC day memorial services themselves were excluding modern veterans, claiming the day isn't about them.

As the son of a Vietnam vet, and grandson of an OG Anzac, I say that's the stupidest take I've ever heard. And I've heard people say Anzac day is dumb for glorifying war.

Imagine if WWII vets were excluded because they were never a part of the original Anzac campaign? It's unfathomable. There has never been an exclusion of any veterans in the Anzac movement. Even post Vietnam when returning vets were unpopular, they were a part of Anzac marches (it was controversial at first because it was a very unpopular war).

I'm in a cast. This sucks. Only silver lining is I get tomorrow off. Imagine getting a 5-day medical certificate, but four of those days are public holidays already. 😢

I agree with your first statement, but disagree with the rest. I am not their target market. I enjoy playing their games, but primarily because I am spending time with the kids as I do. Not many of their games are targeted to my demographic.

I disagree that they focus only on digital. Every single Nintendo game comes out on a physical chip. And sales on digital copies are rare and minor (30% off maybe). It is often cheaper to get a physical copy on sale cheaper than digital. And you can then sell it / buy it second-hand. I've read that with Switch 2, even the digital codes can be transferred to a new owner. Nintendo for all their faults have never forced you to lock in a digital library you can never resell.

The problem is the standard apps are just that - standard. I can hop onto any Redhat, Debian or Solaris 10 box at work and use ls, cat etc.

If I went all-in on some bespoke alternatives on my special snowflake machine, I'd constantly be going nuts entering incorrect commands on remote machines and losing efficiency. Then, I'd go back to just using the standard commands everywhere.

I bought it second hand. Nintendo got $0 from the sale. In fact, two thirds of our physical games have been purchased second hand.

You might be surprised. I came to the Switch party super late when I bought my kid a switch Christmas 2023. He's all over Zelda now, has BotW, TotK and even Skyward Sword on his Switch. For him, these games are all from the last year. He turned 2 the year BotW was released.

It'll be the same story with Switch 2. Some kid who might not even be born yet will get a Switch 2 in 8-9 years and come across these games with all his school friends.

I doubt I'll go the Switch 2 path with the kids. I haven't seen a reason to upgrade, yet. I'm thinking of the Steam Deck - while the Nintendo had a fairly cheap entry point to get on the platform, I've spent enough on games to negate the difference between a Switch and a Steam Deck - where I already have a 500+ game library to play on it.

As art, the Kebab is not world shaking. But it is more than art, it's a piece of Perth. Ideally I'd like to see it restored. But if it has to be replaced, then it should be replaced by something that is/will be another part of Perth.

The 'I've got these statues in 12 countries on 5 continents' guy gets bragging rights, Perth gets to be a statistic in his story. I don't think this is a fair deal. The astronaut would be a part of that guy's story. Not Perth's.

You don't have to vote. You only need to get your name crossed off. You are then able to just leave if you really want.

And while those 'how to vote cards' (and their pushers) are annoying if you don't need or want them, they do help people get something close to their wishes down on the ballot.

I lived in Bilinga for five years of my childhood. So I know exactly where you are.

Err, I'll take the big one thanks, Aldi. And I probably won't be buying this treat very often any longer.

Some nerd like me will be affected by this one day and then script up something that emails them from 10,000 different email addresses that all bounce. Pollute their database.

It's hard to say whether we are having a moment, or if we are paying extra attention. Another name to keep an eye on: Luke Webber. He's only 13/14, but has taken out the 200m and 400m state records as well as taking out the 100m final (just didn't break the record doing it).

They don't do Nationals at his age, so he went and ran against kids a year older. Still won.

The dietician has taken ham and salami off my wife's menu to address cholesterol. It should likely apply to me also, but I'm not organised enough to book things like "check ups" and dieticians. So I bought a large whole chook last weekend and we roasted it. It's going into sandwiches this week (and will likely be a weekly thing for the foreseeable future) instead of ham/salami. So far, everyone likes the change. It works out far cheaper also: over 2kg of chook is about he prices of 500g of ham/salami.

So I was the pied piper on the weekend and took a troop of kids to see the Minecraft Movie. It was an experience.
The movie itself was pretty typical middle-aged kids' fare. Fairly awful dialogue and cliched characters. Jason Moama was a surprise, I thought Jack Black was the only famous star in it. I have a feeling that in the right role, Jason would have some wonderful comedy chops. This movie was not it. Stiffler's Mum was funny, but all I could see was Stiffler's Mum. I think the two female leads were great and a good foil for the Jack Black/Jason Moama antics. Pity the girls didn't really have a lot to do in the plot.

If I'd been watching it on Blu Ray or streaming, I might have turned it off. As a movie, it's not great. However, watching it in a cinema on opening weekend in a room full of kids really made it wonderful. They were cheering at obvious fan-service references that I didn't get. Screaming out at "Chucky Chicken!" and I can't remember other bits. But you get the idea. The energy in the room was great.

So while I didn't particularly love the movie, I loved the experience of watching it.

Amaze! Jazz hands!

It's fascinating how some of these questions are phrased.

Should Australia spend more or less on its military?

I have no idea what Australia spends on its military. I don't know whether it's too much or insufficient. I wouldn't feel qualified to answer this question, so I abstained.

But abstaining from this question appears to have affected my compass result. It appears to read it the same as "about the same". Which isn't what I said or meant. There are a few I abstained from and I think that by doing so, it has put me a lot closer to center than is probably accurate.

I used to think of myself as fairly central. Only "central" has seemed to move over the past 20 years and while I don't think I've changed all that much, I'm considered more left these days than I used to be.

Do we have this chart for just WA? Because it feels like we were well above average. It hit 40⁰ a week or so ago, and that whole week was 35⁰+.

Ha! A day later, I see the thing! It's real all right: