Highly recommend Revo. It does such a fantastic job and it’s great because it helps you clean out the left over files, so if you’re not as tech-savvy (or you are, you just don’t know how to or where to remove files/folders) it does a great job!

While I do rant about jobseeking, I do appreciate the job provider I’m with (since I’m still in the probation period of this job). Like a previous one I was in honestly made me suicidal because of the things I had to do. And while my current provider still sucks (I am disabled and find walking tough, but they expected people to come back into the office, I couldn’t even do like one week phone call, one week go in like I was doing), but they make me less suicidal. That and they do offer things to me, like vouchers for ubers to work and they’re covering 3 driving lessons (haven’t had a lesson since way before the pandemic).

So yeah, being on Jobseeker is such a poverty trap. It’s made to feel like hell on Earth.

One of the additional things that sucks is here in Australia if you’re unemployed and/or disabled you can sign up for Centrelink and do Job searching there. But it is just terrible, because not only do you have to look for a certain number of jobs (I think abled-bodied people can do 20 jobs per month, whereas I got to apply for 12 due to disability), but every 2 weeks you have to go in and spend maybe 10minutes or more traveling to the jobseeker place and tell them “no I haven’t heard back from anyone, yes I’ve applied for jobs, etc”.

On top of that, if you’re disabled you’ll get fucked over because you can’t work, you know you can’t work, but Centrelink refuses to put you on the National Disability Scheme because you’re not disabled enough (people who have missing limbs have been told that their missing limb will grow back, or you’ll grow out of it. Some disabilities aren’t even on it, like ADHD isn’t considered a disability and only “high functioning autism” is allowed). But you can be a part of the Disability Employment Scheme (DES) where you still have to apply for jobs, but not as much, but you get some benefits over being a regular Jobseeker.

Generally, the whole thing fucking stinks and I’m so thankful that I’m finally out of it. That and the fact that those receiving Jobseeker payments are being paid below the poverty line because the government refuses to put it up.

I just, ugh. Job seeking sucks, especially when businesses ask for 50million years of experience but it’s entry level. Or the fact to get experience you need to work in this field but to get in this field you need experience. Ugh.

Yeah I’ve been a uTorrent person for years, but I think two years ago or so I just went “fuck it!” Because the constant ads (and also horny af ads) were doing my head in. So highly recommend Qbittorrent.

Yeah I’ve never understood how people can see it as the best game of the series. It just always felt like I was building up to what 3 was going to be.

To be fair, I think the upgraded mechanics and the character storylines are neat as (and the fact that I can romance Garrus 😍😍😍), but yeah I’ve never really understood why it was seen as the best in the series.

Could be that that’s the first game a lot of people played? ME1 was my first game and it’ll always have a special place in my heart. I think people just muddy it up because of the Mako.

I heard that in their voices oh my God.

I listen to too much BtB.

I feel like most non-Americans understand that not everything is about them.

It’s the Americans that need to learn that not everything is about them. (Not saying that you don’t, but there’s way too many Americans I talk to who think that the world revolves around them).

Favourite game is Mass Effect 1, but I don’t think I have a pet peeve because a lot of them have been said before (love the Mako though, it’s just that the planets BioWare built are all fucking hills!)

But I think my pet peeve for Mass Effects 2 are 2 things.

1. The fact that there aren’t scars in 2. Unless you use mods, but I like having my Shep’s look battle-worn.
2. That BioWare made Shepard work with Cerberus. Like I get it in the idea of “the Alliance isn’t saving people, but Cerberus did”. But it feels so wrong especially if you played Mass Effects 1 where you can see the experiments Cerberus did on civilians. That and if you have the Sole Survivor background, it’s a real slap in the face.

I know that they did 2 for storyline purposes, but the fact that you can’t push back or anything makes 0 sense. And they also did it for people who never played 1. I just, ugh. It angers me. I love that 2 gave me my Garrus romance, but man, I just… yeah.

Yeah I’ve started to knit during battles because of how long it takes sometimes. Especially since my main character is a Barbarian, so she just smashes 2 times and then her turn is done.

Similar when I played her in my actual dnd campaign a few years ago.

I love MBMBaM but sometimes their episodes are such a hit or miss. I think it’s mostly the bits. I don’t mind the vampire one, but the perfume guy was too much.

If you’re interested in Russia, I’ve been listening to Sad Oligarchs, which is about the fact that a lot of Oligarchs are “killing themselves” when there’s no explanation for it. It’s been really interesting so far.

Love recommending podcasts!

• Like others have said, Behind the Bastards is great to find out about some of the worst people in history.
• In relation to that Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff is the opposite of Behind the Bastards. It’s about people who did cool stuff who became cool.
• Also in lieu of that, Bad Gays, it’s about bad gays in history. I think they’ve covered similar folks on BtB, but this is obviously from a queer perspective.
• Fad Camp and Maintenance Phase are great podcasts about dieting and wellness. Fad Camp is more about how damaging some of these diets can be, whereas Maintenance Phase is similar to You’re Wrong About (which I also recommend)
• The Weekly Planet are these two Australian guys who talk about movies, tv, comics and video games. They also have a YouTube channel called Me Sunday Movies where they’ll upload some of their podcasts. Like they have a running segment called “Caravan of Garbage” which is just sort of talking about a movie, tv show or game. Currently they’ve started going through the RoboCop movies.
• Also shameless plug, but Checkpoint is on the radio but they take their radio show and put it on a podcast. It’s a podcast about giving a 1up to diversity in video games. Most of us are from the LGBTQIA+ community and that’s where most of our perspectives come from, but it’s also just folks from any marginalised group. Lovely bunch of folks (if I do say so myself).

Uh yeah, I have some more, but like that’s politics or it’s writing related or spicyness in or out of the bedroom. But these are the ones I always recc.

Whoo another BtB listener!

Same. I mean I haven’t been to highschool in a little over ten years, so I can’t say what kids are using these days. But here in Australia, none of us really cares about what phone you have. Though I think most of us were Samsung users.

Welp, guess I’ve gotta finish the anime soon. I’m on the fourth season so haven’t got that long to go.

I like to make fried rice with spam. But recently I found out that spam is $6.30aud it was cheaper to buy diced bacon than spam. Like… it’s spam! Come on.

Yeah I stopped using Spotify when I got YouTube premium. Though I never paid for Spotify but still. Like what’s the point of listening to music with Spotify when I only have to pay less than $10 to get both YouTube benefits but also YouTube music.

I do miss Spotify wrapped, but YouTube’s wrapped isn’t so bad.

I find isometric top down games really difficult to enjoy personally.

But man I am enjoying TF out of BG3.

Sounds similar to what we did in Australia.

I know game journalists are memed on, but this is really disappointing. AI will eventually unravel and crap out because it’s regurgitating AI content.