If this were the case then “I fucked your dad” would be just as common an insult, with all the same connotations.

Australia uses kilopascals rather than PSI. Our standard is 500kPa which works out at around 72 PSI.

A 12m stainless steel pedestrian bridge that took 6 years to make and was subsequently “strengthened” to meet safety requirements. Not quite the same thing.

The whole thing is a storm in a teacup. I’m level 40 in the game and have not once felt the need to even LOOK at the MTX store. The game is complete; the MTX are there if you’re too lazy to be bothered using the in-game travel mechanics. Simple as that.

In Australia the checkout person does the bagging themselves, no second person required.

Yikes. Use Bazarr to extract the subs to external .srt files.

Yes but of course no one wants a clunky-ass 2kg ThinkPad with a 1080p screen. They want a Yoga or Surface Pro. I would like to see you install additional anything in one of those!

An E15 in my country costs $1200 with 8GB soldered-on RAM. Not sure if it has a second memory slot, although I would assume so. But the screen is crap and they weigh twice as much.

Also - who is buying enterprise equipment from Amazon?

I take it you don’t know much about enterprise IT. I guarantee most businesses are running 8-16GB as standard. Where I live an 8GB laptop costs $1400, the equivalent with 16GB costs $1900. And to get 32GB you’re looking at an additional $1600.

You’d read the labels of whatever the hell was within reach. Shampoo bottle, toilet cleaner bottle, soap, whatever.

I wish. The DJ would always talk over the start of the songs, and then start jabbering again before it ended.

American football is (semi-)frequently called gridiron in Australia. I’d say most people would know what sport you meant if you called it that.

We usually call soccer, soccer but soccer nerds and those with close English heritage will call it football to feel superior.

And if you read the other half of the sentence you quoted?

I’ve only played a little since the new patch but it seems a bit better but my (very mid) PC still struggles performance-wise.

And BG3 has some pretty gnarly performance issues.

Please share these articles you speak of. From developers with real world game dev experience. Without pointing me to some 2 hour rambling YouTube video.

And do you seriously think that someone with minimal modding knowledge can “fix” texture compression and the actual devs of the game hadn’t known or thought of doing so too? Say what you will about the Starfield producers and management but I absolutely 100% guarantee you if they chose not to use that feature, it was for very good reasons.

So long as you’re happy potentially getting the wrong answer over and over again.

Anyone spending money on a game to play on a deck is spending money in the “PC” games market.

I said it was a joke.

I also specified PC games, which is the only market Valve cares about, and in which Australia spends more money than Japan. Add in localisation and other impediments to getting into the Japanese market and no, it’s not obvious at all.

Valve were fined $3M a few years back for lying to consumers about their rights to refunds per Australian law so it is an ongoing joke that Gabe now hates Australia and refuses to sell the Deck here as punishment.

That said it isn’t an entirely business-led decision to not sell here. Australians spend more on PC gaming than Japan.

Pro consumer behaviour like refusing to sell the Deck in Australia because of our Consumer protection laws?