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Zagorath

@ Zagorath @aussie.zone

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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

  • Crossherd #312 2026-01-14

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  • Crossherd #312🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩Time: 2:20crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

    I was going so well, apart from 1 down, 4 across, 7 across. Those left me completely lost. Eventually gave up and used a crossword solver which gave me the answer to 7 across, and I just guessed letters to get the final square.

  • Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there

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  • Don't let this story distract from the far more important news of Rockstar firing 33 employees for forming a union, making up a flimsy excuse after the fact, and getting a judge to deny interim relief to the fired workers.

  • Rockstar vs. Union: What Really Happened at Court? | People Make Games

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  • Geez on the evidence they've shared here, Rockstar has so obviously fucked up.

    The best piece of evidence in their favour is that employees discussed, in a space open to former employees and an external union representative, that the number of people allowed on leave at a time is heavily restricted because they need to be able to get 32 people together at once to test an online game feature. Rockstar claims this reveals information so sensitive their barrister wouldn't even read that part out in court, only in written submissions. The idea of "an online service that can support at least 32 users" is TOP SECRET and worth insta-firing 33 people with no hearing, according to Rockstar. As the video points out, it really feels like they've trawled through the evidence to find a post-hoc justification for the firings.

    It's what I wrote before learning the actual judgment.

    I am absolutely shocked that it went the way it did. Apparently interim relief is a very high burden, so this doesn't necessarily mean they don't have a decent chance of winning the substantive case. But still…without knowing the details not the applicable law, it certainly feels ridiculous given how blatantly terrible Rockstar's argument is.

    At least how it's framed in this and PMG's previous videos on the topic.

  • Rockstar vs. Union: What Really Happened at Court? | People Make Games

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  • This is Jehan Pages, the top developer behind GIMP, a free open source photo editor. Adobe executives hate Jehan. Because of his hard work, Adobe lost millions of dollars

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  • But FCP X is amazing. It's the one thing I really miss having a Mac for and it's so disappointing that nobody else has even attempted to replicate it. It's leaps and bounds ahead of everybody else. Calling it a "rebranded iMovie" shows either a complete lack of awareness of literally anything about it, or an incredible intellectual dishonesty that doesn't even seen to serve a practical purpose.

    It's also…not subscription based. Or wasn't in 2018 when I last had a Mac.

  • Ibis chicks are as ugly as I imagined...

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  • Aww, it's kinda cute, in a weird sort of way.

  • Circuits #821 2026-01-13

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  • Crossherd #311 2026-01-13

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  • Crossherd #311⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️Time: 0:42crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

  • Think about it

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  • Aww I still wanted to see yours!

  • Circuits #820 2026-01-12

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  • Crossherd #310 2026-01-12

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  • Oof, tough time today. Nice job sticking it out!

  • Crossherd #310 2026-01-12

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  • Crossherd #310⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩Time: 0:30🐐crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

  • Think about it

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  • Simple asexuals are mutants

    What about complex asexuals?

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Adelaide Festival board members, chair quit after author's cancellation from Writers' Week

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-11/fallout-amid-writers-week-cancellation-of-randa-abdel-fattah/106217646

  • We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages

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  • I do wonder if there might be a difference between the phonemes and the realisation, the way there was in German according to the German commenter.

    But also, even without that, stress undoubtedly changes the perception of the vowel (not nearly as much as in English, but certainly not nil), as does an r after a vowel.

  • We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages

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  • I took German in primary school (0.5 or 1.5 years, I forget which), Spanish and Korean in late primary school/early high school (3 years), French (5 years) and Vietnamese (1 year) in high school. Of these, I can hold a very basic conversation in French and have good enough grammar to put together fairly sophisticated sentences, very slowly, using a dictionary; and can read the Korean script (the same way someone who speaks Turkish but has literally never heard a word of the language can "read English" because their language uses the same script) and barely any more than that, in any of those languages.

    I blame the fact that I changed languages so much for my poor skill in all of them. (Though a lack of will or immersion certainly has a fair amount to do with it, too.)

  • We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages

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  • mercedes

    In English's defence, it's not an English word. It's a German company named after a Spanish name. And at least to my ear, the Spanish and German pronunciations also have 3 different Es. One helpful Redditor also provided an IPA guide to the German pronunciation, agreeing with my ears:

    mɛrˈtseːdɛs

    The "e" in the middle is long and stressed.

    Edit: I would also say, that most of the times it is even pronounced like this:

    məˈtseːdɛs

    But I can't even begin to justify the letter c sounding like /s/, /k/, and /ʃ/.

  • Circuits #819 2026-01-11

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  • Nice job!

  • Circuits #819 2026-01-11

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  • Crossherd #309 2026-01-11

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  • Crossherd #309🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩Time: 0:24🐐crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

  • Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited]

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  • I signed up for unlimited because it was a better deal than Coles, it still was when they bumped the limit up to $75

    I think that might have been the same time, or around the same time, they took away my 10% discount once per month on delivery and click & collect orders? It was just one more nail in the coffin for me.

  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone
    $2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays $20 for all island deliveries even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited

    Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge

    honey.nine.com.au /money/woolworths-delivery-new-additional-fee-for-sundays-public-holidays/3c592b68-144d-4ae3-a6ed-354a32932dd9
  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them?

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2026/jan/02/australias-red-and-yellow-beach-flags-can-dangerously-confuse-tourists-is-it-time-to-change-them
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    What to look for in building/buying a server?

  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    The UCI rule changes for 2026 you need to know about

    www.bikeradar.com /news/the-uci-rule-changes-for-2026-you-need-to-know-about
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Nextcloud AIO containers all stuck on "Starting" on Synology on first setup

  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it

    www.smh.com.au /national/nsw/it-took-years-to-come-up-with-a-plan-to-cut-road-deaths-and-just-11-days-to-kill-it-20251129-p5njg5.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    theconversation.com /australias-roads-are-full-of-giant-cars-and-everyone-pays-the-price-what-can-be-done-268212
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Coalition shamelessly uses tragedy for political gain

    www.smh.com.au /national/nsw/coalition-shamelessly-uses-tragedy-for-political-gain-20251217-p5nodb.html
  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Will Reddit's challenge to Australia's "social media ban" succeed? | Constitutional Clarion

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green

    antonygreen.com.au /comparing-greens-preferences-to-labor-2010-and-2025-compared/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    What's the advantages/disadvantages to hosting Nextcloud with Docker vs the Package Center on a Synology?

  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Kia and Dettol ads top complaints list for 2025

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-12-11/the-most-complained-about-ads-of-2025/106105394
  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban

  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Shiny beer cans and a crowd save party-loving pet parrot

    www.abc.net.au /news/rural/2025-12-03/party-loving-pet-alexandrine-parrot-reunited-after-storm/106093698
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone
    on freedom of information laws

    'Gone nowhere': Government criticised as progress fizzles on 'dangerous' reforms

    www.sbs.com.au /news/article/gone-nowhere-government-criticised-as-progress-fizzles-on-dangerous-reforms/u953o31me
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    Right faction stages walkout at Labor conference over CFMEU motion

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-11-30/qld-cfmeu-motion-labor-conference-brisbane/106083862
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone
    They do not require the government to assess climate impacts of fossil-fuel projects

    Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why

    theconversation.com /long-awaited-environment-laws-might-get-australia-sued-heres-why-270453
  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone

    E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h

    www.brisbanetimes.com.au /national/queensland/e-bike-definition-tightened-as-australia-mulls-sale-ban-20251125-p5ni4s.html
  • Australia @aussie.zone
    Zagorath @aussie.zone
    starting 1 December

    GPs [in Queensland] given ability to diagnose adults with ADHD in bid to cut wait times

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-11-15/qld-gps-to-diagnose-adhd-and-prescribe-medication/106013548