• TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Feeling a bit snack-ey but wasnt impressed with any of the pantry offerings. Thought about cooking a quick cake or something but no packet mixes left. Then I remembered: I’m an adult and a semi-competent baker, I can just make something from scratch. Oat and choc chip muffins now in the overn.

    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I did banana choc chip muffins yesterday, but must’ve accidentally used a magical disappearing recipe. There are not that many left. Although a few did make it into the freezer for future snack emergencies.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    I watched Alien 3 last night and it’s a good movie. I think it suffered from two things: -All the production problems before and during the shoot -Being called Alien 3 and being the direct followup to Aliens

    It could have worked as its own movie or as an Alien spinoff. I think people were so upset about how it undoes the ending of Aliens that it coloured their opinion on the rest of the movie.

    One small nitpick though, and I can probably explain it; the Alien knew Ripley was carrying the Queen and that’s why it wouldn’t attack her. Why wouldn’t the Alien just plaster her to a wall up in the air ducts until the Queen hatched? It was probably wasn’t considered because the Alien was meant to be smaller than normal, having come from an animal. Production problems meant it kept changing size, and whilst the movie has a man sized Alien pulling people into air vents, that could have been part of the rewrites done during the shoot and wasn’t scoped into the larger story.

    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      The studio fucked around with Fincher so much that it affected the outcome of the product. We all know how good Fincher is and, personally I look past the interference and enjoy the movie on its own terms I guess.

      I have read the Cadigan/Gibson screenplay also and would love to see that on the big screen.

      I dunno if you’re still on Reddit, but, r/LV426 loves to talk about this stuff

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        I came across r/LV426 looking for the screenplay. I don’t really go on reddit anymore but I might sub anyway.

        I think it’s so funny they picked Fincher when they wanted the movie made as quickly as possible. He was less of a known quantity then but he’s up there with Kubrick in terms of how many takes he’s willing to do for a scene.

        I loved the very Fincher cam at the end of the Alien’s POV. It’s a great cheap way to get that feeling of terror without needed to have the Alien on screen like a trick Carpenter would have used in an early movie

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have a parcel which needs a signature (and won’t let me change that) coming between 12:10-2:10pm

    I have a dentist appointment from 1:30-2:30pm (I’ll be out 1-3pm)

    I reckon Mr postman Pat is gonna turn up about 10 minutes after I leave

    And my post office is very strict on only allowing pickup after 4 for some reason. Even if the message that it’s ready for pickup gets sent sooner, and I can literally see my parcel sitting there, they will not allow me to pick it up before 4

    🙃

    Edit: W E I R D. 5 minutes after posting this I got a notification from the camera somebody coming up the driveway. The usual chatty postman wasn’t at my door - a new lady I’ve never seen before was. She left both of them, including the signature one and by the time I opened the door was already on their electric bike thingy and halfway down my driveway. I hope chatty postman didn’t get sacked for being too slow, he was lovely

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Back to Melbs today. So glad to have that swim last night. It just hits differently when there’s no one there which is a bit risky. Which brings us to a rave choon.

    It dawns on you… You are potentially staring at, what could be… Finality 1 million and one ways to die.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Hey, I just woke up, and this is crazy
      But there’s a rave choon called Finality
      It has sick beats both, clear and hazy
      But it’s 6 minutes of F I N A L I TY

  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Work gave me a bag of lollies for R U Ok day and it’s mostly those hard lollies that shred your tongue to pieces.

    So ‘if you are ok, you won’t be’ is what they’re saying.

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

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  • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Went and picked up my medical cannabis from the post office today. Very odd, showing my ID, it all being legitimate instead of meeting someone in the corner of the pub. Haven’t had any in about 20 years. It is a trial to see if it helps with my chronic pain from all my climbing injuries. Also, the manual for the vaporiser gives detailed instructions of how to pack it… In 6 different languages …

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Does it come in a normal non descript cardboard box/grey satchel, or do they advertise what’s in it? Will they deliver it to your house if you ask them to leave it, or do you have to pick it up from the post office all the time?

      • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        It came to my place via overnight courier, but I wasn’t home. Was available for pickup at the PO working the hour

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Visited the expensive fancy supermarket because craving olive bread. Now have much less olive bread and a belly ache.

  • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    So… yesterday while getting some good ole IT support, I tell them I have no write access is because the folder is outside of the directory (that everyone thinks it is in). Emphatically told (x 3) nope, that should not affect my permissions. Then enjoyed a mansplain back to me about where the folder was located (I know, I detailed an email to a senior 2 months ago—who had no idea what I was talking about) and walked me through their cmd force update. It wasn’t particularly patronising, but it was like I wasn’t even heard.

    I mean I probably couldn’t IT help desk to save my life, but I can’t say it doesn’t hurt when I’ve done a little fun time hobbying with CLI.

    But hey, small wins. At least it was fixed this time. Not like I have been waiting for two months or anything.

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    A bit of light home defense jiu-jitsu wasn’t on my bingo card. Some persistent drunk dude convinced it was his house. Tried to barge in past me when I opened the gate he’d been rattling. Interested to see how the hernia surgery feels tomorrow, been two months now.