Notices by Si Fuller (si_fuller@aus.social)

@thanius Is that the one with the drunk butler?

It's funny though, I go most years without hearing the Wham song. I don't listen to commercial radio, but I do go to malls and workplaces.

@thanius Didn't we do that Last Christmas?

@thanius I do think Whitney's is better.

@thanius There’s songs like Black Betty and House of the Rising Sun that get covered fairly regularly, damn songs are older than my country.

"When small men cast long shadows, it means the sun is setting."

Yothu Yindi, Matjala. Great for a cruisy afternoon.

https://youtu.be/8vEntK3fwp8?si=S_XZNg6suJIpC1F0

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Warumpi Band, My Island Home.

One of my favourite songs, full stop. I get chills every time I hear it.

https://youtu.be/8vEntK3fwp8?si=S_XZNg6suJIpC1F0

Christine Anu, LRHD (Love Rules Hatred Dies). I haven't heard enough of her albums to be honest, but I always enjoy this one.

https://youtu.be/ql-mYGZlQrs?si=oRvJzT4qPyxjuExE

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Then for something completely different, Southeast Desert Metal, Desert Metal.

I don't know how well-known these guys are, but they definitely bring the 🤘

https://youtu.be/lL9tU8UFDHQ?si=R_loa9TdjPNb9QPQ
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I thought that since it's #NAIDOC week, I'd share some of my favourite music by indigenous performers. This is all stuff from my regular playlist on Tidal.

First, Archie Roach, Took The Children Away.

https://youtu.be/IL_DBNkkcSE?si=rXE496o1JsvRFYF-

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@futurebird You know how at the end of Raiders where you see the huge secure warehouse full of mystic artefacts? What if that's exactly what the hidden temples were, and there was some Biblical Indiana Jones who stole the Ark from an even older secure site. And some day, a 45th century Indiana Jones will rob the US warehouse and defy *its* security.

@thanius You've been peeing for 25 years? how much did you drink?

@NaClKnight @msfjarvis

Maths isn't my strength, but I'll try to explain.

Super Skrull copies all of the enemy cards' ongiong effects. The other player had Onslaught, so my card copied that. Then I put down my own Onslaught card, which I think was a copy gained from Morph or Mirage, so it wasn't even part of my deck.

So two Onslaughts doubling each other's effect, and Onslaught's Citadel doubling both of their effects, which doubled their effects on each other again. I think this would mean both cards were increasing effects by 16 times?

Then Iron Man doubled the score of the other cards. Except that was doubled 16 times, then 16 times again, then doubled by the Location.

Then Devil Dinosaur got +2 power for every card in my hand. But that +2 was multiplied 16 times, then 16 times again, then doubled, then this final score increased by however many times Iron Man now doubled the score.

I'll never manage to do it again, but I'm happy it happened once. #MarvelSnap can be wild.

@msfjarvis Once I got over 30 million points through those wacky cards. I'm pretty sure that's down to the app being a bit broken than actual mathematics, I haven't seen such crazy scores in months.

@msfjarvis Don't worry,, I normally have trouble getting past 20 points most of the time. This was a one-off fluke.

@thanius I don't think I know that one.

@thanius Oh, by the way, it's implied that the surviving human lands are in fact Sweden. There's signs in Swedish and such. So that's nice for the post-apocalyptic magic future.

@thanius I checked because you made me curious. But I still don't know. I do now know that Alva was voiced by an actual Swedish lady, Helena Mattsson (why are voice actors always so attractive? There's no need!). I also found out that the term I was troubled with, "Änden film", was most likely used because they couldn't exactly say "slut" in an American cartoon.

My Swedish may never be good enough for conversation, but at least when my son watches Adventure Time I can interpret what Alva's saying on the fly for him (she doesn't say much).

@thanius Huh, my friend has a big fat white Labrador named Kuma. After Kumamoto for some reason.