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  • khannie@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldTitle
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    9 days ago

    The Riva line were absolute bangers tbh. Mad props to the driver developers who were always playing catch-up on the hardware (mad props to the hardware designers implied) but always delivered the goods. I honestly hope they’re rich AF.


  • Another thing after talking to my wife is that there are a lot of large American families and children vie for the attention of others, which means having to speak up and over their siblings which sort of trains us to be that way.

    Mmmm, it’s a theory I suppose but I have a large family. Our dinner table is busy but not loud (except with raucous laughter which is semi frequently in fairness). Cross conversations go on all the time, it’s just the nature of lots of people at a table.

    My own experience with American tourists is that it’s a volume thing. Interestingly I don’t recall noticing it as much while visiting the states but definitely slightly louder than other cultures.

    Sounds like you won’t have any issue anyway.

    Good luck with the move! I’ve never heard anyone come back from Australia with a bad word to say about it and lots of my fellow countryfolk do a year there (including my sister and bestie).











  • The trouble with that is it can be very hard to actually prove for known scumbags. I live in a small country and they have a “criminal assets bureau” which can bring folks in massive houses with fancy cars and expensive watches to court and the burden of proof is lower.

    It basically boils down to “there’s no way this cunt can legally afford all this” then it gets seized.

    Before it was created you had criminal kingpins showing up to pick up their dole (social security) weekly while raking in massive money criminally.

    It’s not abused like that eminent domain thing in the US is though. There’s still court required.


  • Twice. Once for the launch of the GameCube which had a midnight launch. There was essentially no queue for that

    Second was in the run up to Christmas. We do one big present for each kid at some point and I had to queue for a very limited number of PS3’s in the country from about 3am. We knew there were some coming to a local store but it was very limited.

    Nearly got in a fisticuffs with an attempted queue skipper. Prick. He was behind me so it didn’t directly affect me and he kept saying as much and telling me to relax but fuck that for a game of soldiers. I wasn’t going to let him steal someone else’s further back.