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EoinCannon: Aug 29, 2008; Grimey Drawer

But Mario and Luigi would have been so welcome in Federation era Australia...

# ? Apr 25, 2018 08:18

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# ? May 23, 2024 21:26

bigis: Jun 21, 2006

Valve denied my DayZ refund so I lodged an ACCC complaint. Hopefully the ACCC goes after them again soon.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 08:20

hawaiian_robot: Dec 5, 2006; And I'm happy just to sit here,
At a table with old friends.
And see which one of us can tell the biggest lies

L E S T . W E . F O R G E T .
(Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Age of Ultron...)

# ? Apr 25, 2018 08:34

hiddenmovement: Sep 29, 2011; "Most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife."

Idk why any of you dopes buy early access or pre order games like there's so many great older games out there that you haven't played but nope imma slap down 100$ on No Man's Sky

# ? Apr 25, 2018 08:46

Gridlocked: Aug 2, 2014; MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

bigis posted:

Each poo poo, Valve. I've submitted a refund request for DayZ, I wonder if I'll get my money back.

I actually pulled out the ACL on my Star Citizen purchase that I made way back when it was still something new and to be believed as a fancier multiplayer Wing Commander. They denied me twice saying they can't "offer you a refund at this time" and then "you are not entitled to a refund at this time" and then immediately went to "we will grant you a refund at our discretion" as soon as I went ACL and ACCC guys.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 08:54

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Gridlocked posted:

I actually pulled out the ACL on my Star Citizen purchase that I made way back when it was still something new and to be believed as a fancier multiplayer Wing Commander. They denied me twice saying they can't "offer you a refund at this time" and then "you are not entitled to a refund at this time" and then immediately went to "we will grant you a refund at our discretion" as soon as I went ACL and ACCC guys.

When you look into how difficult it is for Americans to do things as simple as cancelling an Xbox live subscription from Microsoft you realize how good strong consumer laws are.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 09:05

bigis: Jun 21, 2006

There�s no harm in buying early access games when you�re legally covered by the ACL.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 09:08

Gentleman Baller: Oct 13, 2013

Cartoon posted:

I'm torn. On the one hand anime is complete garbage fire poo poo but...

Mario is not anime, please enjoy the art for its profound, evocative message.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 09:39

Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

quote:

Australian War Memorial director Brendan Nelson believes military personnel who helped �stop the boats� under the Abbott government�s asylum-seeker crackdown should be honoured in the national memorial in Canberra.

Dr Nelson, who is working on a proposal for a $500 million expansion of the AWM, said personnel who protected the nation�s borders should have their story told along with the Diggers who fought in armed conflicts

# ? Apr 25, 2018 10:15

kirbysuperstar: Nov 11, 2012; Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Cartoon posted:

I'm torn. On the one hand anime is complete garbage fire poo poo but...

Notable anime hero Super Mario

# ? Apr 25, 2018 10:17

norp: Jan 20, 2004; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

Zenithe posted:

Good, the sooner this whole Anzac Day thing becomes a farce the sooner people can start treating it like a meaningless day off work

# ? Apr 25, 2018 10:21

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

DancingShade posted:

When you look into how difficult it is for Americans to do things as simple as cancelling an Xbox live subscription from Microsoft you realize how good strong consumer laws are.

I literally had to let a debit card expire to stop them here, it was impossible to find the magic STOP THIS button. Might have improved since, but gently caress them ever getting my cash again.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 10:23

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Zenithe posted:

Only if their honors are awarded by Knight Prince Phillip.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 10:40

norp: Jan 20, 2004; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

ewe2 posted:

I literally had to let a debit card expire to stop them here, it was impossible to find the magic STOP THIS button. Might have improved since, but gently caress them ever getting my cash again.

I stopped and started mine a number of times back when I had one in the early Xbox 360 days - sure you couldn't do it from the console but it was pretty easy to stop from Xbox.com

# ? Apr 25, 2018 10:47

hiddenmovement: Sep 29, 2011; "Most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife."

norp posted:

Good, the sooner this whole Anzac Day thing becomes a farce the sooner people can start treating it like a meaningless day off work

It'll be great when in 60 years time the whole asylum seeker thing is considered a massive stain on the national consciousness and there's a gilded memorial glorifying a national atrocity

# ? Apr 25, 2018 11:08

Whitlam: Aug 2, 2014; Some goons overreact. Go figure.

Zenithe posted:

Swear to God I read this as "Australian War criminal Brendan Nelson". That's some strong Pavlovian association right there. Afaik he wasn't even in the army.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 11:29

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

David Marr and the Anzac Day Spray:

quote:

This is not a museum. It�s what they call in the trade these days, an experience. If you want to explain slavery and civil rights in America or the battles on the western front, this is what you do. Walls light up. Old photographs fade into freshly filmed live action. Actors struggle and die. Orchestras play. Howitzers blaze away. Gas seeps through the floor.

A few glass cases hold mementos of battles fought round here. There are guns and badges and rusted weapons, some dug up on the site. My grandfather Jack�s war diaries are beautifully preserved here, one held together with a safety pin as it has been for a century.

But the Monash Centre is not for scholars. This is entertainment, cutting edge and thrilling in its way, but entertainment. Crowds will no doubt come. Tour operators are already rejigging their itineraries to fit an hour or so for their customers in this dazzling maze.

But war buffs should stay out in the battlefields. Devotees of the great general will learn nothing new about their hero here. True, war isn�t glorified. But there�s hardly a breath of politics in the exhibition. It�s all battles and no scandal.

That�s by design. That Australia was being torn apart by conscription campaigns isn�t explored. That old Keith Murdoch tried to have Monash sacked as an uppity Jew goes unmentioned. Dud generals who slaughtered their men hardly get a guernsey. Addressed only by implication is the great question of what this war was really all about.

But it�s getting late. In an hour or so the first figures will appear on the hill for what�s expected to be the biggest Anzac Day dawn service ever. Sniffer dogs are running through the press centre. French soldiers with heavy weapons are patrolling the grounds. The rain is holding off.

There is an Australian headstone that one or two may see as they leave in daylight or glimpse for a few seconds projected on the underground walls of the centre. It�s the grave of 24-year old Private WL Rae on which his parents paid to have inscribed: �Another life lost hearts broken for what.�

For what indeed.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 11:34

Periphery: Jul 27, 2003; ...

The Federal Government will ditch its plan to lift the Medicare levy from 2 per cent to 2.5 per cent. Treasurer Scott Morrison said the measure would ensure the NDIS was fully funded, and would have raised $8 billion over four years from July 2019.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 12:01

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Dropping the planned tax increase so they can cut income tax while they try to convince the Senate crossbench to cut corporate taxes

# ? Apr 25, 2018 12:15

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Lol labour�s defence spokesperson Gormless Drone Unit 23 has backed Brendan Nelson�s fuckwit shitbrained idiocy to build a memorial to our first line of defence in the war on human rights

# ? Apr 25, 2018 12:40

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Solemn Sloth posted:

Lol labour�s defence spokesperson Gormless Drone Unit 23 has backed Brendan Nelson�s fuckwit shitbrained idiocy to build a memorial to our first line of defence in the war on human rights

If that's the way we're going then I think we need to take it further and build a proud stone memorial to all the serco workers who staffed our offshore concentration camps.

In fact forget the Anzac part, make it national "gently caress off we're full" day.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 12:59

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

I hereby propose new legislation to make it legal to murder anyone who can't produce proof of citizenship on April 25th every year in any variety of methods suitable for a Purge movie.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 13:02

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

How they gonna tell their story when they don't talk about on water matters

hiddenmovement posted:

It'll be great when in 60 years time the whole asylum seeker thing is considered a massive stain on the national consciousness and there's a gilded memorial glorifying a national atrocity

Mr optimist over here with the giant smile and rainbow suspenders

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Apr 25, 2018

# ? Apr 25, 2018 13:13

gucci bane: Oct 27, 2008

Bet a million $ there�s more to the marles AWM story than what�s being presented atm

# ? Apr 25, 2018 13:15

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Morrison On Finding Other Means To Fund NDIS posted:

But Treasurer Scott Morrison will tell a business lunch today that the proposal has been scrapped, and the money will be sourced through additional unexpected revenue.

We are either going to privatise something or cut welfare Lmao.

# ? Apr 25, 2018 22:53

Zenithe: Feb 25, 2013; _{Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.}

It's all that extra income tax that they get from wage growth. Oh that didn't happen and we're also planning on cutting income taxes? :shrug:

# ? Apr 25, 2018 23:21

Ten Becquerels: Apr 17, 2012; My Little Tony: Leadership is Magic

Why the gently caress does The West Australian get so up in arms about sharks, I swear when I walk past the sandwich board at the newsagency there's a new shark headline at least once a week. Today it was 'VICTIMS BLAMED FOR SHARK ATTACK', which I like to imagine involved someone suggesting that those surfers knew what they were doing when they wore such skin-tight wetsuits, what did they expect going out onto the water dressed so enticingly seal-like?

# ? Apr 25, 2018 23:39

Cartoon: Jun 20, 2008; poop

Gentleman Baller posted:

Mario is not anime, please enjoy the art for its profound, evocative message.

kirbysuperstar posted:

Notable anime hero Super Mario

Trap sprung.

# ? Apr 26, 2018 01:30

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

Labor confirmed they won't raise the Medicare levy on rich people.

# ? Apr 26, 2018 01:46

The Before Times: Mar 8, 2014; Once upon a time, I would have thrown you halfway to the moon for a crack like that.

Anidav posted:

Labor confirmed they won't raise the Medicare levy on rich people.

hopefully they'll just raise income taxes instead :d:

# ? Apr 26, 2018 02:27

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

The Before Times posted:

hopefully they'll just execute them and seize their estates instead D

# ? Apr 26, 2018 03:12

Kafka Syrup: Apr 29, 2009

The Before Times posted:

hopefully they'll just raise income taxes instead D

They've already announced they want to lower income tax.

# ? Apr 26, 2018 03:12

Laserface: Dec 24, 2004

Ten Becquerels posted:

Why the gently caress does The West Australian get so up in arms about sharks, I swear when I walk past the sandwich board at the newsagency there's a new shark headline at least once a week. Today it was 'VICTIMS BLAMED FOR SHARK ATTACK', which I like to imagine involved someone suggesting that those surfers knew what they were doing when they wore such skin-tight wetsuits, what did they expect going out onto the water dressed so enticingly seal-like?

Im pretty sure a shark attack is one of the only times you can legitimately blame the victim, so the headline is correct.

# ? Apr 26, 2018 04:28

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Insert here that batshit oped in the relegraph about how we need to reclaim the sea

# ? Apr 26, 2018 04:32

Anidav: Feb 25, 2010; ahhh fuck its the rats again

The emergence of instant cash loan machines across parts of New South Wales has sparked fears about low-income families being potentially caught in a debt trap.

The machines, which look like ATMs, only require identification and bank details before users are approved for cash loans almost immediately.

Financial counsellors have expressed concern about the devices, which they say appear to be popping up in low socio-economic areas.

The instant loan machines, which appear to only exist in NSW, have emerged in parts of Wollongong, south-western Sydney, the Central Coast and Hunter regions.

The company that runs the devices states on its website that its machines "have been strategically positioned in local shopping areas to make things easy".

Loan amounts vary from $50 to $1,000, with limits increasing when users access the machine numerous times.

People have one to three months to pay the loan back.

Shop attendants at one tobacco store where a machine was located told the ABC the machines had proven popular, but noted a large proportion of users were from a low-income background.

Concern machines are targeting vulnerable people

NSW Financial Counsellors Association chairman Graham Smith said he was worried disadvantaged communities across NSW were being targeted.

He said the association had been notified about three of the machines alone at Cessnock in the Hunter region.

"There are two smoke shops, and in one shop there is one [machine], and in another shop there is two. Usually there is a queue out the door around Christmas time," Mr Smith said.

"Unfortunately I think these machines are targeting the most vulnerable in our community, people on benefits who are looking at a way of getting some quick cash that I don't think they can afford in the long run."

Mr Smith said people needed to exercise caution when it came to any quick loan schemes.

"It's an area of our society where people are struggling, and with electricity bills increasing, people have got less and less money, and going to one of these organisations and getting a loan can often be a deep financial trap," he said.

Need for greater protections, Labor says
Labor MPs in Wollongong and Newcastle have shared concerns about the instant loan machines appearing in their local communities, and want to see stronger protections for vulnerable people.

The machines are legal and are regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in the same way as other payday lenders.

Following a 2015 Commonwealth review of small amount credit contract laws, draft reforms were released in October that proposed imposing caps on payments that could be made.

But Opposition spokesman for regional services, Whitlam MP Stephen Jones, said a number of dissenting Coalition MPs had "scuttled any plan to have a Government-led initiative".

He warned if action was not taken, more instant loan machines would likely pop up in disadvantaged areas.

"We've seen with the spread of payday lending that these shops spring up all over the place where there's economic hardship," Mr Jones said.

"I think we need to have a good hard look at what is being done here to ensure that we don't make a bad situation worse."

A spokesman for the Assistant Minister to the Treasurer, Michael Sukkar, said the Government was considering submissions received on the draft laws, and it would push forward with legislation this year.

Any changes would take effect 12 months after the passage of new laws.

The company that owns the instant loan machines, Cash N Go, was contacted for comment.

# ? Apr 26, 2018 04:38