Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[bomberclifford]

You are assuming a locked rental rate of $250 a week for 25 years which is fundamentally flawed

And the price you payed for the house when you bought it is locked in, whereas with renting the value of the house you rent continues to rise as does your rent payments.

Rental increase is 5% per annum maximum.
Would be easy enough to factor this into the equation.

Plus the house you own has expenses such as rates, repairs, insurances and the like.
To be fair, this needs to be estimated and added to the mix.

 

[bomberclifford]

Especially given the overwhelming likelihood of a housing crash in the next 5-10 years.

Something that gets forgotten too often.
All investments run the risk of devaluing. All of them. Including property.

 

[Magpiespower]

Pretty sure edgie hijacked the RPM class at the gym this morning.

Instructor had a rock theme playlist.

So much goddamn AC/DC.

THUNDER!!!

 

[Doctor Feel]

Dylan8

 

[Doctor Feel]

I don't even know.

 

[charcolechaddy]

This sanspurs OKC game going punch for punch.

 

[finbarr]

Pretty sure edgie hijacked the RPM class at the gym this morning.

Instructor had a rock theme playlist.

So much goddamn AC/DC.

THUNDER!!!

Where is edgie? His incessant AC/DC posts would be a vast improvement on all this real estate babble.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Thoughts? They've obviously taken some liberties. Those tanks didn't move at all that fast, neither the bi-planes. Did lol at the first 20 seconds purely being about using trench clubs.

 

[Visenfest]

Thoughts? They've obviously taken some liberties. Those tanks didn't move at all that fast, neither the bi-planes. Did lol at the first 20 seconds purely being about using trench clubs.

Looks awesome. So glad someone is bucking the futuristic shooter trend.

 

[StuMan]

Thoughts? They've obviously taken some liberties. Those tanks didn't move at all that fast, neither the bi-planes. Did lol at the first 20 seconds purely being about using trench clubs.

I know it's just another reskin of Battlefield 4, but I'm genuinely interested in this. About time someone attempted WW1.
I don't mind the liberties they've taken, obviously to keep with Battlefield's pace.

Now just waiting for EA to **** it all up, or for your mate to let you know it's crap.
He was pretty spot on with Battlefront.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I know it's just another reskin of Battlefield 4, but I'm genuinely interested in this. About time someone attempted WW1.
I don't mind the liberties they've taken, obviously to keep with Battlefield's pace.

Now just waiting for EA to **** it all up, or for your mate to let you know it's crap.
He was pretty spot on with Battlefront.

He asked me if I had seen the trailer yet the other day and I hadn't. Now that I've seen it I'm asking him a bit about it. The issue with EA is they will release shit when it's not ready. The setting can be great but the game can still suck, see battlefront.

I'm not on the hype train yet, but it's good they are putting some focus on the singleplayer because if they get the SP right the Multi can often be much more polished.

 

[tangolikelama]

Thoughts? They've obviously taken some liberties. Those tanks didn't move at all that fast, neither the bi-planes. Did lol at the first 20 seconds purely being about using trench clubs.

Hnnng looks good. With this and the COD4 remake later in the year I'm looking forward to getting back into gaming after a few years. Inb4 they're both let downs.

 

[finbarr]

If there's one thing that'll stop me from buying a Four 'N Twenty Pie it's watching two boofheads like Jonathan Brown and Gordon Tallis munging into one and talking with their mouths full.

 

[CrimsonRaven]

Thoughts? They've obviously taken some liberties. Those tanks didn't move at all that fast, neither the bi-planes. Did lol at the first 20 seconds purely being about using trench clubs.

Really over real-world based shooters. Been done to death, even though I know WWI hasn't particularly been featured, all it really feels like is going from Far Cry 4 to Primal. Take away a few features and give you more melee weapons and call it progress.

Give me Battleborn or Overwatch any day.

Also Lawbreakers looks legit.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Really over real-world based shooters. Been done to death, even though I know WWI hasn't particularly been featured, all it really feels like is going from Far Cry 4 to Primal. Take away a few features and give you more melee weapons and call it progress.

Give me Battleborn or Overwatch any day.

Also Lawbreakers looks legit.

I'm the complete opposite, I can't stand stuff like lawbreakers.

 

[StuMan]

Meh. Give me old school arena shooters over any of that new stuff.
I still play UT2004.

 

[Prison bar Pete]

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That was the pinnacle of Roy & HG IMO - I've got it on video still!

 

[finbarr]

That was the pinnacle of Roy & HG IMO - I've got it on video still!

The pinnacle of Roy and HG was on radio in the late 80's-early 90's. Their brilliance never really made the transition from radio to television.

 

[raman]

The pinnacle of Roy and HG was on radio in the late 80's-early 90's. Their brilliance never really made the transition from radio to television.

Yes and no. Their earlier radio stuff may have been better but The Dream was deservedly their biggest hit. They were the absolutely perfect palette cleanser for the pomposity of the Sydney Olympics. Watched every night without fail, it was a thing of beauty.

 

[finbarr]

Yes and no. Their earlier radio stuff may have been better but The Dream was deservedly their biggest hit. They were the absolutely perfect palette cleanser for the pomposity of the Sydney Olympics. Watched every night without fail, it was a thing of beauty.

They're both at their best when everything is completely unscripted. That's what made their radio stuff so good.

 

[raman]

They're both at their best when everything is completely unscripted. That's what made their radio stuff so good.

No argument, but there's a lot to be said for context. The fact that channel 7 even allowed them to take the piss so much was a bit of a miracle, really.

 

[Prison bar Pete]

Yes and no. Their earlier radio stuff may have been better but The Dream was deservedly their biggest hit. They were the absolutely perfect palette cleanser for the pomposity of the Sydney Olympics. Watched every night without fail, it was a thing of beauty.

Yeah - should have qualified that as their pinnacle of TV stuff. Loved their JJJ radio show on Saturday afternoons - made those long up-to-14 hour shifts seem that little shorter!

 

[PAFC04]

Something that gets forgotten too often.
All investments run the risk of devaluing. All of them. Including property.

Even Money is devalued depending on currency you invest in...... there are only two currencies that are solid, Chinese Yuan and the Korean Won, none of which is controlled by the US Federal Reserve Bank, every other country is.... but I digress.

 

[finbarr]

No argument, but there's a lot to be said for context. The fact that channel 7 even allowed them to take the piss so much was a bit of a miracle, really.

The summer before last John Doyle filled in for Fran Kelly on Radio National breakfast and it was some of the best radio I've ever heard.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The pinnacle of Roy and HG was on radio in the late 80's-early 90's. Their brilliance never really made the transition from radio to television.

For me moving to Sydney in 1992 I reckon it went until the Super League war finished and the first season or two after the NRL was formed. I'm not sure if their league stuff translated as well to a non league audience. I enjoyed their league stuff when I was in SA, but I got a greater appreciation of it when I lived in a League dominated city and witnessed the stupidity of the off field stuff.

I thought their stuff at the Sydney Olympics - The Dream - and Fatso the fat arsed wombat etc was the closest they ever got to their radio stuff on TV.