• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    11·
    24 days ago

    Ooh some fisticuffs b/w tradies next door.

    That’s exciting.

    I going for the one in hi viz (nothing against tradies, just the yelling). They’re all very quiet now lol.

  • SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
    10·
    24 days ago

    Stupid society. I feel like such a creep going next door and picking up the carton that got misdelivered. It’s MINE, I promise!!!

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    8·
    24 days ago

    I sent another care package to my friend. They have atypical pneumonia, I haven’t been able to see them and I’m a bit worried.

    Sorting Melbcat’s stuff

    I’ve returned Melbcat’s unused meds to the vet because someone else can use them. There was an entire box of medication in there that hadn’t been opened yet and the vet specifically asked for the return of the second bag of fluids if they didn’t get used. (There may be a shortage.) I’m still deciding whether to wash and donate the Aerokat.

    Still feeling absolutely shattered about losing her and am sleeping holding her urn at night the same way I used to hold her. It was so sudden which makes it really hard to accept. She was such a part of my life.

    Black cat has returned

    The black cat is back and was sulky about my disappearance. I caved and started patting him again so I’m back on the disinfection treadmill and fretting how to deal with it. Also finding dead birds which I hope was the heat spell and not him… one was a magpie and I hear a kookaburra I don’t want to get eaten. All of this would be so much easier if this cat didn’t have ringworm.

    There is one neighbour I might talk to about if anyone owns him. I did give the vet a found poster and am waiting on a cheapie chip scanner to see if he even has a microchip so it would be safer to take him to the vet. If he does have a chip and an owner I could possibly abduct him into the vet for their collection. The hissing though. I wish these vets were authorised to contact owners directly rather than send them to the pound with a collection deadline.

    Life is so fucking hard. I’m desperately trying to fix something in my godforsaken life and unshittify my surroundings by a tiny amount but everything feels so painful and pointless.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      4·
      24 days ago

      so many hugs

      when things are easier thru all your hard work then I think you will enjoy life more , the pay off is in the future 😘

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
        4·
        24 days ago

        I really hope so. Unfortunately I think when all the work is done I’ll just collapse into deep depression or incapacitated anxiety

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          3·
          24 days ago

          i get that sometimes

          it’s just echoes of people from the past who used to make me feel bad when I had good things going on my life

          so hard to get past that feeling

          I should be angry and tell them to go fuck themselves, ( in my mind ) I suppose,

          and focus on the praise and kisses I get from mr seagoon

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
    7·
    24 days ago

    It’s unfair that it’s effortless to make mess and takes 10 times as long to clean it up. Plus needs extra motivation.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    23 days ago

    Worst movie ever watched?

    For me: Rubber (2010), dir. Quentin Dupieux.

    The premise: a rubber car tyre developed awareness and psychokinetic powers to kill people

    The actual experience: Pretentious absurdist French shite.

    Maybe some people like it, but I certainly did not. And yes, I will take any opportunity to shit on this film. I wasted 82 minutes of my life, twice, on this poop film

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        23 days ago

        Oh my lord do I love watching The Room, it’s just so perfectly quotable!

        “Anyway, how’s your sex life?” 😂 And that awkward scene where he fucks her dress? Or the sheets? So delightfully unhinged.

        I actually read the book Greg wrote about how he met Tommy and how the movie got made, production etc, also delightfully unhinged. And the Disaster Artist movie was great too.

        Can you tell I love The Room? 👀

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      Autumn in New York - Richard Gere and Winona Ryder

      Shlockfest about a younger woman falling in love with an older man, and then she gets sick (or is sick) and dies near the end of the movie.

      Ended a relationship over that piece of shit.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        I haven’t seen that tbh, but the premise reminds me a little of City of Angels, with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage. That film makes me very, very angry

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          23 days ago

          You’re not missing out at all. It’s crap. My gf at the time got upset at me cause I didn’t the movie emotionally compelling (i might have clapped when Winona’s character died) and we shouldn’t see each other.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      4·
      23 days ago

      Movie I have sat all the way through. Most bad movies I will stop watching.

      Survive!

      I saw this at the movies with my frenemy

      it was so bad I laughed, she was really upset I laughed

      true, the story was serious, but a serious story is different to a well made movie, which this was not

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survive!_(film)

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      4·
      23 days ago

      Two that I can think of. Moulin Rouge. Didn’t get passed the first half hour. Don’t know what it’s about still to this day. And Mamma Mia. I did watch it all and then slapped myself.

      • SituationCake@aussie.zone
        5·
        23 days ago

        Agree with you on Mama Mia. I think it was popular because of the abba songs, but take that away it’s a nothing much special.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        23 days ago

        I liked Moulin Rouge but I watched it as a teen and had a massive crush on both Ewan, Nicole, and the guy that sings Roxanne 😂

        Hard agree on Mamma Mia, and I love ABBA 😂

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      3·
      23 days ago

      I liked how dumb it was. Like at the start the guy lists a bunch of movies and includes JFK, then says ‘no one knows why those stories happened, they just did.’

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        23 days ago

        Omg you’ve seen it? I don’t think I’ve met another person who saw it too 😂 TBF that was pretty funny, I’ll give it that lol

        • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
          4·
          23 days ago

          I have a Mubi subscription and have watched a bunch of weird stuff. I may have been more used to pretentious French expressionist cinema at the time too

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    6·
    23 days ago
    Complaining

    I may have treated this ringworm inadequately and spread it to the sheets and my ankle. It could be irritation from the perfumed antifungal laundry rinse but with my immune system I’m not taking any chances. Treatment will recommence and endless hot wash and dry laundry continues.

    I may have to wash the last two blankets that might still smell of Melbcat and stink them up with scent.

    I don’t seem to be progressing at anything, the house doesn’t look any cleaner, my wrist hurts from slamming my hand into the wall, I spend every moment of every day feeling hollow and like I want to cry.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      6·
      23 days ago

      before you do all that I think you should see a doctor about it, don’t take the chance

      because it does not help to work so hard and have such anxiety when you can’t possibly be sure

      and keep a pen and paper journal everyday but like a Japanese journal, write some positive observations, write about other people and things

      and so many hugs 🫂

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
        4·
        23 days ago

        I will but will probably just get it again unless I can sort the visiting cat. Which is not simple. But unfortunately I can’t bear to ignore 🫩

        This time of my life is just really bad. I just want to go back to how it was. Me and my girl.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    5·
    24 days ago

    I figured a good way to read books is to take them with me on the train, ( audible is only good for me when I listen to fiction ), but for that I need a bigger bag. Totoro bag has been taken out of retirement 🫠

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    4·
    24 days ago

    Picked up Majora’s Mask again after the save game surgery and was up super late dealing with the esoteric puzzles of the temples again

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      24 days ago

      I’ve downloaded Diablo II and have started leveling a necromancer. I called him Old Mate.

      I still have a soft spot for DIII because that was my first Diablo game and I got the box as a gift from a Xmas casual job I was doing (bauble painting at Knox City lol). We we’re right outside EB games, and my manager George bought it for me as my Xmas bonus. Fond memories ahhh

      I’m loving DII, I’ve played before with my partner, but this is my solo run.

      I’ve never played Majora’s Mask, or many Zelda games at all really. I did play the DS one that was a train? Spirit train? And Breath of the Wild.

      Do you emulate it?

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        3·
        24 days ago

        I’m playing the recompiled version. People made a native PC version based on the Super Mario 64 source code leak from a few years back. It has improved framerate, widescreen support, and mods.

        One great QOL improvement it comes with is your main masks and ocarina are mapped to the D-pad and you can skip the cutscene of putting the masks on. I think in the original they had to be part of your 3 item slots.

        You can get it here, you still need a ROM file but they’re easily acquirable if you need one:

        https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp/releases/tag/v1.2.2

        There’s also recomp versions of Super Mario 64, Ocarina Of Time, Mariokart 64, and Banjo Kazooie that I know of. These recomp versions are the way to play these games now they exist.

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        4·
        24 days ago

        They’re like different types of getting hooked. Modern games make the gameplay loop so fluid you can just keep going. In old games you’re stuck looking for that one thing you need to do to get to progress the game

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          24 days ago

          You’ll love it, it’s great! The best of both rogue-likes and town building/pop management.

          Plus it’s made by a Melbourne dev team, Massive Monster. I feel lucky I got to meet them at pax at a few years ago lol